Your Cat Thinks You're Cool We tend to see housecats as aloof and independent, mostly preferring to engage in their own kitty business. But that assumption may be littered with error. Because a new study finds that, given a choice, Fluffy would proba...
Spiders Gobble Gargantuan Numbers of Tiny Prey By now, you may have heard about a study that came out a couple of weeks ago about spiders. The study got a lot of attention because coverage of the research often focused on the idea that spiders could...
Aggressed-Upon Monkeys Take Revenge on Aggressor's Cronies Dont mess with a monkey. Because if you do, hes might take revengeon your family and friends. Thats according to a study of Japanese macaques, which shows that monkeys keep track of eachs oth...
Poorer Kids May Be Too Respectful at School Kids from different economic backgrounds behave differently in classrooms. For example, working class kids are less likely to ask for help from teachers than are their middle class counterparts. And when th...
Fecal Transplanters Fish Out Key Ingredient These days, antibiotics are no silver bullet. In fact, if you get them in the hospital, you may end up with an additional infection. Like the bug Clostridium difficile, or C. diffwhich infects more than 300...
Canada Geese Taking a Winter Staycation Over the last few decades, Canada geese have been wintering further and further north, which was interesting, because the winters have gotten a little more mild over the last few years, but still its pretty col...
Lion Conservation Challenges Giraffe Protection The giraffe is an icon of the African savannah. The lion is the top predator of the ecosystem. Both animals face uncertain futures, and both are subjects of intense, ongoing conservation work. Now a stu...
Killer Whale Culture Revealed By Mimicking Us Killer whales, also called orcas, are like dolphins and belugasthey all have a wide vocal repertoire. But orcas also have uniquedialects among different pods. Which suggests the animals can learn new and...
Holiday Cheer Leads to Birth-Rate Spike In the United States, theres a holiday that goes hand in hand with romance. So much so that nine months later, theres a spike in the number of babies born. Valentines day? Wrong! It seems that people in the U.S...
Woodpeckers Drum to their Own Tune Humans can recognize each other by voice alone. I sound different from other 60-Second Science reporters, for example. In fact, lots of non-human animals, of all types, use voices to distinguish familiar individuals...
Homebodies Economize on Energy Use 家庭节能有助于能源利用 The rise in technology, particularly for information and communication, is radically transforming lifestyles. For example, many people can now work from home and still be in almost...
Moon's Tug Doesn't Cause Big Quakes On March 27th, 1964, a huge earthquake struck the Prince William Sound, off the coast of Alaska. Out in the gulf of Alaska, the ocean bottom plunges, then heaves upward a full 50 feet, and a wave starts racing towa...
Worldwide Effort Says Together Science Can Collaboration in science across the world is the key to a better world in the future. Doesnt matter whether its drug resistance or climate change or social inequalities. All of these, I believe, can be broac...
Social Media Helps ID Belch Source If youve ever checked out the restaurant reviews on Yelp, you know that these little missives can tell you whether a bistro is overpriced or understaffed or just nothing to write home about. But they may also be abl...
Dark Fiber Networks Can Sense Seismicity When an earthquake hits or a volcano erupts, scientists traditionally record the shaking using a specially designed instrument called a seismometer. These sensors are extremely sensitive, but theyre also expen...
