News

  1. Chemistry

    Dipping deeper into acid

    New experiments reveal how a molecule of acid dissolves in water.

    By Jessica Gorman
  2. Astronomy

    News flash: Earth still has only one moon

    An object discovered orbiting Earth in early September isn't a moon but something much more mundane—an upper stage of a rocket that was used in the Apollo 12 mission to the moon.

    By Ron Cowen

  3. Ah, my pretty, you’re…#&! a beetle pile!

    Hundreds of tiny, young blister beetles cluster into lumps resembling female bees and hitchhike on the male bees that they seduce.

    By Susan Milius
  4. Tech

    Civilians get better GPS

    President Clinton directed the Defense Department to stop degrading signals from 24 Global Positioning System satellites, allowing civilians to receive the same location-pinpointing accuracy long available to the U.S.