News
- Health & Medicine
Breast milk may harbor cancer clues
Analysis could provide a noninvasive means for testing risk in women, an early-stage study shows.
- Humans
Brain’s mirror system loves the robot
Experiments that shed light on how the "monkey see, monkey do" part works may suggest why we feel sad for Wall-E.
- Health & Medicine
Heart drug may fight prostate cancer
Digitalis inhibits the common malignancy in lab tests, and long-term users are less likely to develop the disease, a study shows.
- Life
Worries grow over monarch butterflies
Migrants overwintering in Mexico rebounded somewhat this past winter, but still trending downward.
- Physics
Remodeling the standard model
Physicists could be on the verge of discovering a new elementary particle, studies at a U.S. accelerator suggest.
- Paleontology
Supersized superbunny
Fossils reveal a non-hopping giant rabbit that lived on the island of Minorca 5 million years ago.
- Humans
Rising seas made China’s ancient mariners
Ancient environmental changes produced a maritime culture that colonized Taiwan 5,000 years ago, archaeologists contend.
- Humans
Hidden dalliance revealed by X-rays
A high-tech analysis uncovers a 19th century painter’s do-over.
- Life
Great-grandpa’s genes gone, effects stay
Removing an obesity-preventing scrap of DNA from a mouse lineage doesn’t prevent descendants from reaping its slimming benefits for generations.
- Humans
Just breathing in Iraq can be hazardous
Poor air quality is an added danger for troops, testing indicates.
- Health & Medicine
New drug boosts hepatitis C treatments
An experimental medication has cleared a major hurdle and seems poised for FDA approval, two studies show.
- Space
First portraits of Mercury from orbit
MESSENGER spacecraft to capture more than 1,500 images in three days.
