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A sparrow, a cardinal and a tufted titmouse wait for their turn on a bird feeder in Maryland.

Researchers listen, look for female birdsong

A sparrow, a cardinal and a tufted titmouse wait for their turn on a bird feeder in Maryland.

March 22, 2018, 6:05am Life

Only male birds sing. For years that was the assumption among amateur birdwatchers and ornithologists. Male birds are “the obvious ones,” says Lauryn Benedict, a biologist at the University of Northern Colorado. “They’re out there showing off, strutting their stuff.” Read story

A Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute researcher manipulates a prosthetic arm.

New, improved prosthetic hand creates a buzz

A Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute researcher manipulates a prosthetic arm.

March 22, 2018, 6:00am Life

Consider the welter of unconscious judgments and adjustments you make every time your hand reaches for an object — say, a glass of water. Eyes, muscles, brain and digits coordinate with to ensure the cup is reached, grasped around the middle, held gently but firmly, and drawn — upright to… Read story

FILE - In this March 6, 2017 file photo, Britain’s Professor Stephen Hawking is presented with his illuminated Freedom scroll by the Chamberlain of the City of London Peter Kane as he receives the Honorary Freedom of the City of London during a ceremony at the Guildhall in the City of London. Hawking, whose brilliant mind ranged across time and space though his body was paralyzed by disease, has died, a family spokesman said early Wednesday, March 14, 2018.

Lack of evidence put Hawking’s Nobel hopes in black hole

FILE - In this March 6, 2017 file photo, Britain’s Professor Stephen Hawking is presented with his illuminated Freedom scroll by the Chamberlain of the City of London Peter Kane as he receives the Honorary Freedom of the City of London during a ceremony at the Guildhall in the City of London. Hawking, whose brilliant mind ranged across time and space though his body was paralyzed by disease, has died, a family spokesman said early Wednesday, March 14, 2018.

March 18, 2018, 6:05am Life

Stephen Hawking won accolades from his peers for having one of the most brilliant minds in science, but he never got a Nobel Prize because no one has yet proven his ideas. Read story

These artifacts were found in Olorgesailie Basin. For hundreds of the thousands of years, people living there made and used large stone-cutting tools called handaxes, left. At right are more sophisticated tools, found in the same area, which were carefully crafted and more specialized than the large, all-purpose handaxes.

Stone tools clues to human behavior

These artifacts were found in Olorgesailie Basin. For hundreds of the thousands of years, people living there made and used large stone-cutting tools called handaxes, left. At right are more sophisticated tools, found in the same area, which were carefully crafted and more specialized than the large, all-purpose handaxes.

March 15, 2018, 8:45pm Nation & World

Stone tools and other items from ancient sites in Kenya give a glimpse at the emergence of some key human behaviors, perhaps including a building of relationships with distant neighbors, new research says. Read story

Melissa Fernandez, a freshman at FIU’s Biomedical Engineering Dept. is an intern on the coral restoration team at the Frost Museum of Science. The team is stress-testing coral in the Inventors Lab to make reefs more climate change resilient. The coral is exposed to high lights and high heat bleaching experiments in an effort to boost their thermal tolerance and give them a better chance of surviving rising ocean temperatures.

Scientists work in new lab to revive dying reefs

Melissa Fernandez, a freshman at FIU’s Biomedical Engineering Dept. is an intern on the coral restoration team at the Frost Museum of Science. The team is stress-testing coral in the Inventors Lab to make reefs more climate change resilient. The coral is exposed to high lights and high heat bleaching experiments in an effort to boost their thermal tolerance and give them a better chance of surviving rising ocean temperatures.

March 15, 2018, 6:05am Life

At a shiny new lab atop the new Frost Museum of Science, nine aquariums hold colonies of staghorn corals stressed to the edge of death. Read story

In diamonds, scientists find type of ice not known on Earth

March 15, 2018, 5:25am Life

Trapped in the rigid structure of diamonds formed deep in the Earth’s crust, scientists have discovered a form of water ice that was not previously known to occur naturally on our planet. Read story

On Wednesday, NASA said the spacecraft is headed toward a New Year’s Day 2019 encounter with a mysterious object nicknamed “Ultima Thule”, 1 billion miles beyond Pluto on the fringes of our solar system.

New nickname for Pluto-explorer’s next target: Ultima Thule

On Wednesday, NASA said the spacecraft is headed toward a New Year’s Day 2019 encounter with a mysterious object nicknamed “Ultima Thule”, 1 billion miles beyond Pluto on the fringes of our solar system.

March 14, 2018, 9:35am Life

There’s a new nickname for the icy world next up for the spacecraft that explored Pluto: Ultima Thule. Read story

Britain’s Professor Stephen Hawking delivers a keynote speech as he receives the Honorary Freedom of the City of London during a ceremony at the Guildhall in the City of London. Hawking, whose brilliant mind ranged across time and space though his body was paralyzed by disease, has died, a family spokesman said early Wednesday, March 14, 2018.

Stephen Hawking, best-known physicist of his time, has died

Britain’s Professor Stephen Hawking delivers a keynote speech as he receives the Honorary Freedom of the City of London during a ceremony at the Guildhall in the City of London. Hawking, whose brilliant mind ranged across time and space though his body was paralyzed by disease, has died, a family spokesman said early Wednesday, March 14, 2018.

March 14, 2018, 9:26am Life

Stephen Hawking, whose brilliant mind ranged across time and space though his body was paralyzed by disease, has died. He was 76. Read story

Tech Test: VAVA’s speaker, earphones bring you the music without any wires

March 11, 2018, 6:05am Business

I’ve been reviewing gadgets for a lot of years, and I used to be surprised by an unfamiliar brand name. Read story

FILE - This Oct. 26, 2016 file photo shows a Twitter sign outside of the company's headquarters in San Francisco. A new study published Thursday, March 8, 2018, in the journal Science shows that false information on the social media network travels six times faster than the truth and reaches far more people.

Study finds false stories travel way faster than the truth

FILE - This Oct. 26, 2016 file photo shows a Twitter sign outside of the company's headquarters in San Francisco. A new study published Thursday, March 8, 2018, in the journal Science shows that false information on the social media network travels six times faster than the truth and reaches far more people.

March 8, 2018, 11:26am Life

Twitter loves lies. A new study finds that false information on the social media network travels six times faster than the truth and reaches far more people. Read story