News in Brief

  1. Health & Medicine

    Officials raise Puerto Rico’s death toll from Hurricane Maria to nearly 3,000 people

    Nearly 3,000 Puerto Ricans died due to Hurricane Maria as of February 2018, according to a new report.

    By Aimee Cunningham
  2. Particle Physics

    An elusive Higgs boson decay has finally been spotted

    Two experiments at the Large Hadron Collider confirm that the Higgs boson decays into bottom quark pairs.

    By Emily Conover
  3. Animals

    Naked mole-rats eat the poop of their queen for parenting cues

    Hormones in the naked mole-rat queen’s poop turn subordinate nest-mates into surrogate parents.

    By Laurel Hamers
  4. Climate

    Chances of an Atlantic hurricane season busier than 2005’s are slim — for now

    The 28 named tropical storms that swirled through the Atlantic Ocean in 2005 is about as many as the region can produce in a year.