News

  1. Agriculture

    Rethinking Refuges? Drifting pollen may bring earlier pest resistance to bioengineered crops

    Pollen wafting from bioengineered corn to traditional varieties may be undermining the fight to keep pests from evolving resistance to pesticides.

    By Susan Milius
  2. Astronomy

    Back to the Beginning: Hubble’s infrared camera goes the distance

    Using the Hubble Space Telescope, researchers have identified 26 galaxies that may be the youngest and most distant known.

    By Ron Cowen

  3. Expanding the Code: Engineered bacteria are genetic rebels

    Researchers have created a bacterium that can incorporate artificial amino acids into their proteins.

    By Alexandra Goho

  4. Toddlers’ Supersize Mistakes: At times, children play with the impossible

    Toddlers will sometimes try to climb into a toy car or otherwise treat small objects as if they were large ones, possibly because their brains occasionally fail to integrate visual information about object size with object identity.