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Life

Life: Science news of the year, 2008

Science News writers and editors looked back at the past year's stories and selected a handful as the year's most interesting and important in Life. Follow hotlinks to the full, original stories.

Life

Genes & Cells: Science news of the year, 2008

Science News writers and editors looked back at the past year's stories and selected a handful as the year's most interesting and important in Genes & Cells. Follow hotlinks to the full, original stories.

Humans

Science & Society: News of the year, 2008

Science News writers and editors looked back at the past year's stories and selected a handful as the year's most interesting and important in the interface of Science & Society. Follow hotlinks to the full, original stories.

Humans

Humans: Science news of the year, 2008

Science News writers and editors looked back at the past year's stories and selected a handful as the year's most interesting and important in Humans. Follow hotlinks to the full, original stories.

Space

Atom & Cosmos: Science news of the year, 2008

Science News writers and editors looked back at the past year's stories and selected a handful as the year's most interesting and important in Atom & Cosmos. Follow hotlinks to the full, original stories.

Humans

Taking trophy heads close to home

Members of the prehistoric Nasca culture in southern Peru took trophy heads from their own people rather than from foreigners captured in wars or raids, a new biochemical analysis suggests.

Earth

Corals, turfgrass and sediments offer stories of climate past and future

Science News reports from San Francisco at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union

Health & Medicine

Big Increase Coming for NIH — Maybe

The Obama administration hopes to do what lawmakers couldn't last year — give an extra $1 billion to NIH.

Health & Medicine

For preemies, less is more

Multiple courses of steroid treatment for mom could harm premature babies.

Health & Medicine

EPA should test demasculinizing pollutants collectively, NRC says

Cumulative effects of phthalates and related compounds likely larger than effects measured one chemical at a time, reports a National Research Council panel.

Climate

Holdren to Head White House Science

It appears that another physicist with Nobel ties is set to become the primary Obama adviser on science.

Life

Dinosaur day care dads

A new study shows some male dinosaurs may have been the primary caretakers of their young.