News in Brief

  1. Animals

    Deep-sea worms drop acid to get dinner

    Bone-eating worms produce chemicals to dissolve and feed on skeletons.

    By Rachel Ehrenberg
  2. Tech

    Recreating the eye of the fly

    Inspired by insect vision, camera with 180 linked lenses captures panoramic views.

    By Rachel Ehrenberg
  3. Animals

    Fossil illuminates ancestry of swifts and hummingbirds

    Spectacularly preserved remains suggest that the two avian groups' predecessors got small before splitting and developing their flying chops.

    By Puneet Kollipara
  4. Space

    Snapshots reveal details of Saturn’s gigantic hurricane

    Storm dwarfs anything on Earth, with enormous eye and whipping winds.

    By Erin Wayman
  5. Space

    LHC detects asymmetry in particle’s decay

    While interesting, the imbalance in the decay of strange B mesons isn’t large enough to explain why matter predominates over antimatter in the universe.