Dr. Bortrum

Bell Labs researcher Arthur Ashkin, 96, wins Nobel Prize in Physics. Kepler's planet-hunting days are numbered. Asteroids the subject of past and current space missions.

The tiny fruit fly brain has been sliced and examine with electron microscopy in great detail.

Global warming might have been stopped? Hippos generate their own sunscreen - it's red.

A dozen more moons around Jupiter. An ice cube captures flight of a neutrino. Astronauts scatter debris on way to space station.

Peggy Whitson reflects on a Mars mission while the Curiosity rover keeps digging and sniffing away on Mars.

Bortrum falls and has some strange experiences involving nonexistent creatures and other items.

Bortrum's weather problems. Revisiting vultures, climate change, Neandertal art, Musk's roadster, etc. A new organ?

Light pollution masks hitherto unseen galaxies. Bortrum tries to do his taxes.

Food choices, nourishing offspring and sex among various beetle species.

Discover and Science top stories and s breakthrough. Neutron star merger the latter. Blending brains leads to clues as to why we're so smart.