News

  1. Animals

    Bees log flight distances, train with maps

    After decades of work, scientists crack two problems of how bees navigate: reading bee odometers and mapping training flights.

    By Susan Milius
  2. Astronomy

    Milky Way gets a new layer

    Astronomers propose that 150 billion corpses of sunlike stars may blanket the visible disk of the galaxy.

    By Ron Cowen

  3. Keys to expertise in the brain

    A brain region linked to face recognition may foster expertise at identifying items in any category a person strives to master.

    By Bruce Bower

  4. Dendrite decline in schizophrenia

    Cell connections in a part of the brain's frontal lobe appear to dwindle in people with schizophrenia.