Tim Barribeau's posts

It's pretty hard to find a fossil of something that's completely squishy and tiny. Without bones or exoskeletons,…

A team of researchers from Harvard's Wyss Institute have created self-assembling 3D nanobricks out of DNA — essentia…

Many birds will use whatever they can get their beaks on to construct their nests — including cigarette butts. Now,…

Bed bugs are a major cause of paranoia, and the mere suggestion of an infestation can lead to mass panic. But with…

We've all heard tales of elderly friends and relatives who have fallen for financial scams. Pyramid schemes,…

Antarctica's Lake Vida has been sealed beneath the ice for 2,800 years. Its depths have become a concentrated briny…

Figuring out when humans first arrived in a location is surprisingly tricky. Sometimes, you find a nice chunk of…

The complex computer models we use to predict the weather be used to predict illness, too. According to a new paper,…

As any steampunk will gleefully tell you, the Victorian era was a period of incredible discovery, where scientific…

Wormholes — made by actual worms in wood, not gravitational forces in space — are a key to the past. These holes…

While they're perhaps less likely to take up paragliding or get an ill-advised tattoo, it appears that other…

As a kid, having older siblings is either wonderful or horrible, depending on the day of the week, phase of the…

We already have white noise, and now there an equivalent for smell. Scientists in Israel believe they've identified…

Well, it wasn't humans exactly. Probably our Homo heidelbergensis ancestors lashed the first sharpened rock to a…

While humans might not be making too much noise in the oceans, above ground it's a whole different story. In fact,…

Look, I'm all for biodiversity, but 750 legs? That's too damned many. First discovered in 1926, lllacme plenipes…

Stents have long been used in medicine for keeping blocked arteries open, along with various other tubes of the…

Much ink has been spilled over the rise of allergies over the last few decades, and one of the most popular theories…

Climate change could mean that your allergies are about to go into overdrive. A new study suggests that by 2040,…

When it comes to making decisions on the fly, we sacrifice accuracy for speed. It's true for humans, and it's true…