News

  1. Health & Medicine

    Using checklist reduces surgery complications

    Measure twice, cut once: Going over a checklist of procedures in the operating room before and after surgery lowers the complication rate and, in developing countries, saves lives, a study in eight hospitals shows.

    By Nathan Seppa
  2. Earth

    World’s windiest ocean locale

    News briefs from the American Meteorological Society annual meeting being held January 11–15 in Phoenix.

    By Sid Perkins
  3. Health & Medicine

    Omega-3 fatty acid is early boost for female preemies

    DHA given to newborns in the first weeks following birth improves brain development in girls, but not boys.

    By Nathan Seppa
  4. Health & Medicine

    Going nano to see viruses 3-D

    Nanoscale MRI-like machine images individual virus shapes; first step to seeing proteins in 3-D

    By Patrick Barry
  5. Life

    Dinosaur fossil reveals creature of a different feather

    Paleontologists have discovered a fossil partially covered with broad, unbranched filaments — a type of structure previously theorized to exist on primitive feathered dinosaurs but not found until now.