Author: Ferris Jabr
Maker Faire 2010: Raw Anatomy with Joy Reidenberg
A scientist explained what you can learn about the living from the dead at the New York City Maker Faire.
Can a Stroll in the Park Replace the Psychiatrist’s Couch?
A new generation of psychologists and therapists focus on the relationship between nature and mental health
Science News for the Week of 6.21.10
Engineered lungs, how touch influences thought, and behind the scenes of AMNH
Science News for the Week of 6.14.10
The largest dino graveyard, the oldest leather shoe, and the latest victims of the oil spill
Science News for the Week of 6.7.10
The first solar sail, phony wildlife photography, and the battle between the Internet and our brains
Science News for the Week of 5.31.10
Memory manipulation, the Falcon 9 rocket launch, and seabirds drowning in oil
Motion Capture Revolution
Researchers are creating a new generation of portable motion capture for the masses.
Memory’s Molecules: Learning the Brain’s Vocabulary
Scientists struggle to explain the mind in terms of the molecule
How Does a Venus Flytrap Work?
Digging up the secrets of a plant that senses, moves and digests without nerves, muscles or a stomach
An Interview with Jodie Holt, the Botanist Behind ‘Avatar’
Before ‘Avatar’ could hit the silver screen, it needed one plant scientist’s green thumbs up
Australian Meat Ants Enjoy Cane Toads à la Cat Food
Biologists use cat food to recruit omnivorous ants in their battle against invasive cane toads
What Do The Planets Sound Like?
Astronomer Greg Laughlin and composer Philip Glass try to hear the “music of the spheres” at the Rubin Museum’s latest Brainwave event
Puppy Tweets Unleashes Dogs on Twitter
Mattel’s new toy collar for dogs allows them to update their own Twitter accounts
The Immortal Woman Who Science Stole and History Tried to Forget
Rebecca Skloot’s new book reveals untold truths about one of medical science’s most important tools
![A giant flower beetle wears a backpack of electronic implants that allow researchers to wirelessly control its flight [Credit: Hirotaka Sato and Michel Maharbiz, University of California, Berkeley]](http://scienceline.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/BeetleBackpack2-160x90.jpg)
Bionic Bugs
The Defense Department’s attempts to merge insects and electronics are benefiting science more than the military
![University of Washington electrical engineers demonstrate a circuit that runs entirely off tree power [Credit: Dustin Schroeder, University of Washington]](http://scienceline.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/electric-trees-160x90.jpg)
The Shocking Truth: Trees are Electric
New circuits tap into electric currents generated by bigleaf maple trees
Did Tainted Cow’s Milk Kill Jane Austen?
Medical and literary experts debate English novelist Jane Austen’s fatal illness
![Pulses of yellow and blue light can be used to precisely control individual neurons in networks like these, which are growing from rat neural stem cells. [Credit: Wellcome Images]](http://scienceline.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/lightpulses-160x90.jpg)
Illuminating the Mind
How an experimental mind-control technology could hasten the coming of the Singularity.
