News
- Physics
C’mon radio, let’s do the twist
Molding signals into spiral shape might expand airwaves’ capacity.
- Physics
No new physics — yet
The world's largest collider has failed to match odd results coming from its nearest rival.
- Health & Medicine
Chimp brains don’t shrink
Primate studies aim to find out why humans get dementia.
- Health & Medicine
Tossing, turning, forgetting
A new study in mice finds that sleep disturbance erodes memory.
- Space
Going where no Mars rover has gone before
NASA's next Mars mission, Curiosity, will land in the Red Planet's Gale Crater.
- Health & Medicine
‘Wave of death’ may not be a last gasp
A minute after decapitation, a rat's severed head shows signs of life.
- Psychology
Kids share, chimps stash
Divvying up goods comes easily to 3-year-old kids but not to adult chimps, a finding with evolutionary implications.
- Physics
Particle discovery fills a gap
The neutral xi-sub-b is the eighth of nine predicted family members to be found.
- Earth
Small volcanoes add up to cooler climate
Airborne particles sent skyward by eruptions since 2000 have counteracted the warming effects of increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide.
- Life
A tryst, then the power to resist
House mice in Europe got some of their tolerance for rodenticides from hybridizing with a completely different species
- Life
The lion eats tonight …
Attacks on humans peak after a full moon, when feline bellies tend to rumble.
- Health & Medicine
Something in the air may cause lung damage in troops
Unexplained breathing problems in soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan come from deposits that damage tiny passages in the lungs.
