News

  1. Health & Medicine

    Low social status leads to off-kilter immune system

    Low social status tips immune system toward inflammation seen in chronic diseases, a monkey study shows.

    By Rachel Ehrenberg
  2. Archaeology

    Ancient cemetery provides peek into Philistines’ lives, health

    Burial site offers new look at Israelites’ mysterious enemies.

    By Bruce Bower
  3. Humans

    Oldest alphabet identified as Hebrew

    Contested study indicates ancient Israelites developed first alphabet from Egyptian hieroglyphics.

    By Bruce Bower
  4. Physics

    Whirlpools might have stirred up baby universe’s soup

    Vortices appear in the quark-gluon plasma produced in heavy-ion collisions.

    By Emily Conover
  5. Plants

    Tweaking how plants manage a crisis boosts photosynthesis

    Shortening plants’ recovery time after blasts of excessive light can boost crop growth.