News
- Animals
Baited camera snaps first live giant squid
For the first time, researchers have photographed a living giant squid in the wild.
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Dutch elm fungus turns tree into lure
The fungus that causes Dutch elm disease makes an infected tree strengthen its odors, attracting beetles that carry the fungus on to the next tree.
- Health & Medicine
Vitamin C may treat cancer after all
Vitamin C may be an effective cancer fighter when taken intravenously in high doses.
- Anthropology
Wild gorillas take time for tool use
Gorillas that balance on walking sticks and trudge across makeshift bridges have provided the first evidence of tool use among these creatures in the wild.
- Earth
Fertility and Pollution: Dirty air, ozone linked to sperm troubles
Men develop lower sperm counts and produce more sperm with fragmented DNA when the air has higher levels of ozone and other pollutants.
- Computing
Untangling a Web: The Internet gets a new look
A new mathematical model of the Internet shows that it may not be as vulnerable to centralized attacks as previous research suggested.
- Humans
Nobel prizes: The power of original thinking
The 2005 Nobel prizes in the sciences honor a gutsy move, optical brilliance, and chemical crossovers.
- Planetary Science
Saturnian sponge
The first close-up portrait of Saturn's icy moon Hyperion reveals a spongy-looking surface unlike that of any other known moon.
- Materials Science
Heart of the Matter: Scanning scope digs deeper into microchips
Researchers have developed a noninvasive imaging technique that lets them see deep inside a microchip.
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Killer Findings: Scientists piece together 1918-flu virus
Two new studies shed light on the 1918-flu virus by wrapping up efforts to sequence its genome and reconstructing its genes into a living model.
- Archaeology
Q Marks the Spot: Recent find fingers long-sought Maya city
A hieroglyphic-covered stone panel discovered at an ancient Maya site in Guatemala last April adds weight to suspicions that the settlement was Site Q, an enigmatic city about which researchers have long speculated.
- Materials Science
Carbon nanotubes get nosy
Researchers have demonstrated that individual nanotubes, decorated with DNA, can rapidly detect a number of gases.
