Author: Anthony Mariano

Particle accelerators can make you healthy and wealthy.

The way we process faces means that symmetry is only part of the story.

James Doty just may embody the altruism he studies.

A 3D printout of the Plateosaurus vertebra placed next to the (mislabeled) field jacket that contains the original fossilRene Schilling et al. / Radiology In 1898, the American Museum of Natural History was presented with a golden opportunity along with a challenge almost as significant. Paleontologist Walter Granger had returned from a trip to the […]

Bees might hold the secret to a new kind of nighttime navigation.

Lake-effect snow clearly visible over the Great LakesNASA Last December, State University of New York, Oswego, meteorologist Scott Steiger led an expedition into a snowstorm. The team called themselves OWLeS—the Ontario Winter Lake-effect Systems. Researchers lofted weather balloons and tethered blimps into snowy clouds to gather temperature and humidity data. A trio of flatbed trucks […]

The full annual economic cost of naval piracy globally is estimated to be about $1.5 billion.

Around the world, people are living longer, healthier lives than ever before. One area this is most visible is in the number of centenarians, or people living to the age of 100. In 1840, there were 90 centenarians in the United States—one for every 189,000 people—according to United States Census Bureau records. Today, there are […]

Modern science and Chinese philosophy tell us similar stories about how we think.

How time travel might explain some of science’s biggest puzzles.