News

  1. Archaeology

    A puzzling mix of artifacts raises questions about Homo sapiens' travels to China

    A reexamined Chinese site points to a cultural mix of Homo sapiens with Neandertals or Denisovans.

    By Bruce Bower
  2. Neuroscience

    Tiny treadmills show how fruit flies walk

    A method to force fruit flies to move shows the insects’ stepping behavior and holds clues to other animals’ brains and movement.

    By Laura Sanders
  3. Animals

    Hibernating bumblebee queens have a superpower: Surviving for days underwater

    After some bumblebee queens were accidentally submerged in water and survived, researchers found them to be surprisingly tolerant of flooding.

    By Darren Incorvaia
  4. Health & Medicine

    What can period blood reveal about a person’s health?

    The FDA recently approved a menstrual blood test for diabetes, the first diagnostic of any kind based on period blood.