News

  1. Space

    The best next space missions

    The National Research Council issues recommendations for planetary science projects that NASA and NSF should fund starting in 2013.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Stretchy electronics aid heart surgery

    New balloon catheters may help cardiologists treat common cardiac problems.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Alpha wave may affect sleep quality

    A type of brain activity once considered diagnostic of wakefulness persists during slumber, and the more intense it is the more easily a person can be jolted awake.

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  4. Space

    Stellar wormholes may exist

    Tunnels through spacetime would connect pairs of stars, new simulations suggest.

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  5. Psychology

    A man lost in musical time

    A man who can’t feel music’s pulse or move in time to it provides initial clues to ‘beat deafness.’

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  6. Earth

    Low sperm counts linked to fetal effects

    Low male fertility may partly stem from chemical exposures in utero, an anatomical study suggests.

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  7. Space

    A bid to implode cosmic ray theory

    Streams of fast-moving particles aren’t fueled just by supernovas, a new study suggests.

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  8. Enzyme revives long-term memories

    Increasing levels of a natural substance in the brain helps rats remember old times.

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  9. Life

    Good gene type for cancer bad for stroke

    A DNA variant that helps prevent tumors may diminish the brain’s recovery after an interruption in blood supply.

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  10. Space

    Sun’s doldrums likely to last

    Despite a recent flare, solar physicists project low activity for up to a decade.

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  11. Life

    Hagfish may eat through their skin

    The odd dining habits of carrion-eating protovertebrates may be relevant to the evolutionary transition to land.

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  12. Humans

    Smelling a rat in a bag of chips

    A forensic scientist shares tales from a very special victims unit.

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