Michael Schirber

A patient with dream loss points way to where we imagine at night.

Gas from volcanoes may have helped create life's building blocks.

FAA study finds a menu of varieties for flight controllers to worry about.

New technologies tap garbage and human waste for an energy-hungry world.

Surprising results when ferrets watch The Matrix.

Nature uses the shimmering stuff to prevent flesh from rotting.

A throwback technology that predates the American Civil War could be updated for the new fight against terrorists.

Officials report an extraordinarily catastrophic year for humans at the hands of Nature.

This female fish hears better when she's ready to reproduce.

You only think you know whether Coke or Pepsi is best.

Most people don’t brag about the smallest fish they ever caught, but when it’s the shortest, lightest animal in the world with a backbone, well, that's a catch for scientists.

Who would have thought plants might prefer the city life.

The average IQ of the nation’s bridges may finally start to show some improvement.

A modest Academy Awards for math picks Maxwell, Newton, Einstein and 1+1.

Robotic etiquette was on display at the American Association for Artificial Intelligence meeting.

Researchers have inserted the insect’s light-shining compound into proteins, allowing them to non-invasively track biological mechanisms in living tissue.

The key to a quick recovery may be a spoonful of tender loving care -- at least for those who are socially inclined.

Runners and other athletes have long been told their muscles ache because they're full of lactic acid. But new research questions this locker-room wisdom.

Like an Ice Age version of Land of the Lost, a group of woolly mammoths survived mass extinctions on their own island hideaway.

Like Garry Kasparov, Roger Federer may one day have to compete against a massive supercomputer.

Swordfish can change their eye temperature to see better in different conditions.