Galleries

04.30.2012 Since graduating with his PhD in neuroscience last fall, Greg Dunn has continued to spend his days with neurons--big, golden ones 10,000 times the size of neurons in your brain.

by Sarah Zhang

04.24.2012 Technology is driving us toward 
an era of exhilarating freedom,
 economic opportunity, and the profound gift of health.

by Peter H. Diamandis 
and Steven Kotler; 
illustrations by Hank Osuna

04.18.2012 You might think the world would be better off without the bacteria that cause acne and strep throat. You'd be wrong.

by Virginia Hughes

04.10.2012 Santiago Ramon y Cajal, the father of modern neuroscience, first captured the elegant beauty of branching neurons in his simple ink drawings 100 years ago. These entries for the 2012 Art of Neuroscience competition in the Netherlands use modern imaging techniques to show how far our view into the brain has come.

by Sarah Zhang

04.03.2012 The animal kingdom boasts many an impressive form, from arching giraffe necks to spoon-shaped bird beaks to gigantic beetle claws. But evolution has worked on much smaller scales too, producing nanostructures that help animals climb, slither, camouflage, flirt, and thrive.

by Mara Grunbaum

03.14.2012 From windswept deserts to the ocean near Key Largo, some parts of our planet are surprisingly similar to other worlds.

by Raphael Rosen

12.20.2011

11.21.2011 Bird nests can be simple or elaborate, as small as a hazelnut, or enormous, weighing several tons. They can last a few weeks or a century, and can be isolated or one among a half million of similar nests.

by Meera Subramanian

02.14.2012 From "lesbian lizards" to sea stars, some animals can survive for quite a while without mating, thank you very much.

by Jennifer Welsh

10.12.2011 Scientists and engineers are working on machines to do the most difficult jobs in space: drill holes on the Moon, sail the seas of Titan, and bring back rocks from Mars.

by Andrew Grant