We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
These hands-on displays might be used to create more immersive video games, educational tools and museum exhibits.
Dubbed the “bone collector,” this caterpillar found on a Hawaiian island disguises itself while stalking spider webs for trapped insects to eat.
As thousands of bats launch nightly hunting, the cacophony of a dense crowd should stymie echolocation, a so-called “cocktail party nightmare.”
Some question whether the pups are really dire wolves, or just genetically tweaked gray wolves. But the technology could be used to help at-risk animals.
A phenomenon called liquefaction, which causes the ground to slump like quicksand, led to significant damage after the Myanmar earthquake. The risk of aftershock remains high.
Imaging wall-less plant cells every six minutes for 24 hours revealed how the cells build their protective barriers.
Many scientists say “subcritical” experiments and computer simulations make nuclear weapons testing unnecessary.
A dog's physical cues often take a back seat to environmental ones, skewing humans' perceptions, a small study suggests.
Brain activity in vocalizing budgerigar parrots showed a pattern that harkened to those found in the brains of people.
