All Stories
- Life
Genes & Cells
Healing broken hearts, tracing Romani migration using genes, and how insulin irregularities may be linked to obesity.
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- Humans
Lines in the sand may have been made for walking
The ancient Nazca culture’s celebrated desert drawings include a labyrinth meant to be strolled, not seen.
- Planetary Science
Violent past revealed by map of moon’s interior
A gravity survey by twin orbiters reveals how much the lunar surface was pummeled by meteorite impacts early in its history.
- Health & Medicine
Drug breaks up Alzheimer’s-like deposits in mice
Recent failed trials of a similar approach in humans fuel skepticism that patients will benefit.
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- Humans
This snowbird is really going SOUTH
Many people of a certain age (like my folks) enjoy flying south to warmer climes when winter weather threatens. I’m also flying south this December — but not to warm up. As a guest of the National Science Foundation, I’ll be checking out summer in the really deep South: Antarctica. Temps expected at certain sites I’m scheduled to visit, such as the South Pole, threaten to surpass the worst that my hometown will encounter in the dead of winter.
- Space
LHC sees odd behavior in superhot particle soup
Coordinated motion in debris from lead-proton collisions may yield clues about quark-gluon plasma.
- Space
Extraterrestrial chorus heard in radiation belts
Van Allen probes capture sound of electromagnetic disturbances in Earth’s magnetosphere.
- Health & Medicine
Smoking hurts teen girls’ bones
Adolescents who use cigarettes seem to accumulate less bone mineral than those who don’t.
- Life
Contender for world’s oldest dinosaur identified
An African specimen suggests the lineage may have arisen 15 million years earlier than thought.
- Astronomy
Voyager crossing superhighway to solar system exit
The latest milestone in a 35-year journey may signal an impending passage to interstellar space.
