Feature

  1. Life

    Life Support

    Studies reveal the placenta’s crucial role in healthy pregnancies.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  2. Life

    View to a cell

    In 2013, Science News published a photo essay highlighting advances in microscopy that illuminate life within us, work that has now earned three researchers the 2014 Nobel Prize in chemistry.

    By Rachel Ehrenberg
  3. Psychology

    Closed Thinking

    Without scientific competition and open debate, much psychology research goes nowhere.

    By Bruce Bower
  4. Chemistry

    Sweet Confusion

    Does high fructose corn syrup deserve such a bad rap?

    By Laura Beil
  5. Earth

    Spinning the Core

    Laboratory dynamos attempt to generate magnetic fields the way planets and stars do.

    By Alexandra Witze
  6. Animals

    Evolutionary enigmas

    Comb jelly genetics suggest a radical redrawing of the tree of life.

    By Amy Maxmen
  7. Planetary Science

    Faint Young Sun

    Scientists struggle to understand how early Earth stayed warm enough for liquid water.

    By Erin Wayman
  8. Animals

    A Different Kind of Smart

    Animals’ cognitive shortcomings are as revealing as their genius.

    By Susan Milius
  9. Health & Medicine

    The Human Brainome Project

    Obama announces ambitious plan to develop new tools for exploring neural circuitry.

    By Puneet Kollipara
  10. Tech

    Ignition Failed

    How America’s latest attempt at fusion power fizzled.

    By Andrew Grant
  11. Health & Medicine

    Dose of Reality

    HPV is epidemic, which is odd since it is largely preventable.

    By Nathan Seppa
  12. Physics

    As Erebus Lives and Breathes

    The Antarctica volcano’s long-lived lava lake coughs up clues to the physiology of volcanoes .

    By Janet Raloff