All Stories by Lisa Grossman
- Life
Fruit flies turn on autopilot
High-speed video reveals the aerodynamics behind the insects’ maneuverability.
- Health & Medicine
Languages use different parts of brain
Different areas are active depending how the grammar of a sentence conveys meaning.
- Life
Elephant legs bend like ‘big human limb’
Mechanics suggests the creatures are more limber than thought and use all their legs to come to a four-way stop.
- Physics
Bar codes could be next to check out
New radio frequency tags would use nanotechnology to identify and track products.
- Physics
How to hide a bump with some logs
Physicists take a step toward true invisibility with a cloak that makes objects invisible from multiple points of view.
- Science & Society
Intel Science Talent Search spotlights America’s whiz kids
Top winner of the enduring high school science competition takes 2010 prize for work on a space navigation system.
- Chemistry
Pit vipers’ night vision explained
A new study finds the protein responsible for snakes’ sense of heat.
- Physics
For quantum computer, add a dash of disorder
Flawed crystals could help couple light to matter and may compete with more perfectly ordered materials.
- Space
Geophysicists push age of Earth’s magnetic field back 250 million years
South African rocks suggest that the earliest stages of life on Earth were protected from harmful solar radiation.
- Space
Spirit: ‘The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated’
The Mars rover makes a small, but promising, move.
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- Health & Medicine
Brain tells signs from pantomime
Different brain areas light up when deaf people use American Sign Language than when they gesture.
