Michael Schirber

Study shows how learning creates biases in perception.

Special antenna structures decide friend or foe.

Female clones are faster and stronger than normal offspring.

Technique shown to work. Next up: Neanderthals. What about dinosaurs?

Bees can't talk, but they can sure shimmy. Radio tracking reveals an amazing form of communication that leads the hive to food.

Compounds found to close the door on virus replication.

A new experiment overturns previous studies that suggested water wasn't always what we thought.

Online map shows local shaking probability statewide.

The bizarre plates and spikes were a prehistoric version of peacock feathers, study finds.

History suggests a 20 to 70 percent chance of big temblor on the San Andreas.

Tiny flower springs open in a fraction of a second to spread its pollen.

Machines build copies of themselves, mimicking living organisms.

Radical design allows three wheels to become two as a toddler peddles faster.

Nuclear reactions produced in relatively low-tech apparatus.

Experts say a 115-year-old artifact should be retired in favor of a more precise standard.

ShakeMap, based on the San Francisco catastrophe, predicts localized intensities of an earthquake minutes after it occurs.

The microbes intrigue scientists who consider life on other planets.

Low levels of oxygen made for a sluggish recovery from the Great Dying 250 million years ago.

Three new species get highly political names.

Wood adhesives are based on tenacious grip of the mollusk.

Geographic isolation is not key to fish speciation in a new study.

Flies jump when laser triggers response in genetically modified brain.

Both big Indonesian quakes were upgraded after initial estimates.

New study finds changes in the planet's wobble are tied to glacial cycles.

Scientists don't yet know why no major tsunami was generated.