Makers of nanowires may overcome the limits that loom for microchip fabrication. (p. 286)

Researchers are discovering that some plants get their nutrients by robbing nitrogen from the flesh of soil-dwelling insects. (p. 213)

Using tree-ring analysis, an international team of researchers has reconstructed the earliest record of annual climate variation. (p. 197)

After decades of research, several companies are about to release the first line of artificial blood products. (p. 206)

An international team of researchers has identified a protein that helps compounds in some vegetables prevent cancer. (p. 182)

Researchers have found that arsenic thwarts the action of glucocorticoid hormones, suggesting a possible explanation of how long-term exposure to the metal in drinking water could cause cancer, diabetes, and other chronic diseases. (p. 164)

Researchers believe they have found primitive feathers on the remains of Sinornithosaurus millenii, a 124-million-year-old raptor dinosaur from Liaoning, China.

Researchers have found a way to trick fat into generating cartilage. (p. 134)