Life

After two years, the curious and tragic death of a University of Chicago professor is explained in a manner worthy of an episode of 'House.'

An Illinois man discovered that the "girlfriend" that he spent $200,000 on over the span of two years was not a real woman at all, but an online scam.

Research from the City University of New York shows that there may be a link between what a person tastes and their overall mood.

At the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in Washington, Cornell University and Wake Forest University scientists showed off technology that could lead to printing skin tissue.

Researchers in Alaska believe that unlocking the secrets of hibernation could be the key for humans to travel through deep space.

New understandings of ecosystems bring network administration to bear on the problems of natural resources management. Through networks we seek the domestication not only of ourselves, but of nature itself.

Michelle Obama teams up with Walmart to fight obesity and bring down the cost of healthy food. But the problems of processed food emerged from yesterday's answers to questions of purity, safety, and health; will the future be any different? The latest in our series on the science and technology of food, co-produced with GOOD.

Jonah Lehrer asks what happens in the brain to give music the kind of unique, uncanny power that Ton Koopman's organ performance exudes in spades. Video and quotes after the jump.

Microbiologists have discovered a simple kind of farming in the simplest social organisms—cooperative amoeba.

Wasteful predation might not be a mistake for the occasionally post-coitally cannibalistic black widow spider. Instead, having extra food around may help put a skittish potential mate's fears to rest.