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  1. Health & Medicine

    Body & Brain

    Sour news for cranberries, libido-sapping drugs, the social brain and more in this week’s news

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  2. Life

    Dolphin may sense the body electric

    Organs on the species' snout help it detect faint fields, like those generated by prey.

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  3. Life

    Life

    Food-storing tayras, stay-at-home finch dads and ant sex scandals in this week's news.

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  4. Space

    Magnetic waves bake the sun’s corona

    New observations may explain why the sun’s outer atmosphere is so blazing hot.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Better transplants through centrifuging

    Removing some antibodies from the blood of kidney recipients can improve their long-term outlooks, a study finds.

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  6. Physics

    C’mon radio, let’s do the twist

    Molding signals into spiral shape might expand airwaves’ capacity.

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  7. Space

    Atom & Cosmos

    A solar sneeze, a superhot planet, the death of a comet and more in this week’s news.

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  8. Physics

    No new physics — yet

    The world's largest collider has failed to match odd results coming from its nearest rival.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    Chimp brains don’t shrink

    Primate studies aim to find out why humans get dementia.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    Tossing, turning, forgetting

    A new study in mice finds that sleep disturbance erodes memory.

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  11. Humans

    Humans

    Ancient root eaters, copycat games and facing danger together in this week’s news.

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  12. Quantum Physics

    New system offers way to defeat decryption by quantum computers

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