News

  1. Health & Medicine

    Demanding careers may thwart Alzheimer’s

    People who spend many years in mentally taxing jobs are less likely to develop Alzheimer's disease than are people who do more-routine work.

    By Nathan Seppa
  2. Tech

    Neutrons may spotlight cancers

    Researchers have taken a first step toward developing neutron beams as a medical diagnostic tool that might provide earlier detection of cancers.

    By Peter Weiss
  3. Materials Science

    Sea urchin shell lights the way for optical material

    Using the porous skeleton of a sea urchin as a template, materials scientists have fabricated a photonic crystal.

    By Alexandra Goho
  4. Agriculture

    Bees increase coffee profits

    Scientists studying a Costa Rican coffee farm have estimated the monetary value of conserving nearby wooded habitat for the bees that pollinate coffee plants.