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Big Bang ripples, ancient moss revived, and lab-made heart tissue

A Canada goose smashes into the cockpit of a small plane, highlighting the dangers of birdstrikes.

Take a peek into the shark tank where Boston University biologist Jelle Atema is testing how well the fish actually smell.

Bee virus spreads, blight-reistant potato, OCD in dogs

This week, Kerry Grens talks about a new study predicting Midwest earthquakes in the future, a new species of river dolphin, and the biomechanics of flying snakes.

Fruit flies are fixed to a silica fiber in this new technique to aid neuroscientists in performing laser surgery prior to neuroimaging.

Meet the scientists and study subjects behind research into how senses work together to form perceptions of the world.

New technology probes the functional unit of nervous transmission.

Nobel Laureate Christian de Duve discusses the impact of George Palade’s work on ribosomes.

An organization in Tanzania trains African giant pouched rats to detect landmines and tuberculosis.

December 2013's Scientist to Watch is also an accomplished painter.

New York University’s Jane Carlton talks about a project designed to characterize the microbiome of the Big Apple.

Surprising trends reveal themselves in this year's Salary Survey statistics.

Travel through the outer layers of a mouse brain thanks to array tomography and Stanford University's Stephen Smith.

Neurosurgeon Andres Lozano discusses deep-brain stimulation in this TEDx talk.

Karl Deisseroth and his team at Stanford University make mouse brains transparent to explore their inner workings.

The neuron-inspired art of erstwhile neuroscientist Greg Dunn

Massachusetts-based artist Danny Quirk uses latex body paint to bring anatomical structures to life.

University of Wisconsin researcher Barrett Klein’s robotic tungara frogs call to females.

See UCLA researchers Hongying Zhu and Aydogan Ozcan transform an ordinary cell phone into a mobile fluorescent microscope.