News in Brief

  1. Neuroscience

    Tinnitus causes widespread trouble

    People don’t just hear the phantom ringing of tinnitus in the part of the brain that processes sounds.

    By Laura Sanders
  2. Animals

    Finland’s brown bears on surprise fast track to recover diversity

    Brown bears in southern Finland show surprisingly fast improvements in genetic diversity and connections with other bears.

    By Susan Milius
  3. Physics

    An even more precise atomic clock

    An atomic clock described April 21 in Nature Communications is about three times as precise as its record-setting predecessor.

    By Andrew Grant
  4. Plants

    Bits of bacterial DNA naturally lurk inside sweet potatoes

    Samples of cultivated sweet potatoes worldwide carry DNA from Agrobacterium cousin of bacterium used for GMOs.