News

  1. Health & Medicine

    Psoriasis drugs show promise

    Two new drugs attack psoriasis by inhibiting interleukin-17, a focal player in the troublesome skin disease.

    By Nathan Seppa
  2. Humans

    New ancestor grasped at walking

    By 3.4 million years ago, two human relatives built differently for upright movement inhabited East Africa.

    By Bruce Bower
  3. Health & Medicine

    Slacker rat, worker rat

    Rodent work ethic, like people’s, comes in two types.

    By Laura Sanders
  4. Life

    Fossils show signs of earliest burrowing

    Worms’ seafloor tunneling more than a half-billion years ago could have stirred up evolutionary forces.

    By Devin Powell
  5. Earth

    Venice falling

    Compacting soil means the flood-prone city continues to sink.