Body posture affects how oral drugs absorbed by stomach

A common method of administering drugs is orally, by swallowing a pill or capsule. But oral…

Planet formation: ALMA detects gas in a circumplanetary disk

Scientists using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to study planet formation have made the first-ever…

Robot helps reveal how ants pass on knowledge

Scientists have developed a small robot to understand how ants teach one another. Click…

Networking for food: Bats communicate and work together for more efficient foraging

Social hunting strategies are already well documented in many animal species when prey is distributed in…

Drought increases microbe-laden dust landing in Sierras

Dust from all over the world is landing in the Sierra Nevada mountains carrying microbes that…

NASA scientists need your help finding clouds on Mars

NPR’s A Martínez talks to NASA scientist Armin Kleinboehl about the space agency’s Cloudspotting on Mars…

How NASA's Webb telescope gets its packed schedule

NPR’s Ari Shapiro speaks with Christine Chen of the Space Telescope Science Institute about choosing and…

In simulation of how water freezes, artificial intelligence breaks the ice

Combining artificial intelligence and quantum mechanics, researchers have simulated what happens at the molecular level when…

Seven-month-old babies already have a sense of symmetry

A collaborative study examined the spontaneous looking patterns of 7-month-old babies when presented with mosaic-like sequences…

Rotting fish help solve mystery of how soft tissue fossils form

New research has transformed scientists’ understanding of how spectacular fossils with delicate soft tissues form. …