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  1. American Society for Microbiology meeting

    Cell phones may change your skin bacteria, plus greenhouse microbes and feather-eating bacteria in this week’s news.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Body & Brain

    Cancer treatment raises stroke risk, plus ankle-powered sprints, irregular heartbeats and more in this week’s news.

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  3. Physics

    What it means to ‘feel the noise’

    Scientists investigating the nexus between sound and touch suggest that the ear arose from skin.

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  4. Earth

    Hawaii heat source debated

    A pancake, not a plume, may fuel the island chain’s volcanoes.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Bacterial meningitis keeps falling

    Vaccination against a strep bacterium and other microbes has proved a potent deterrent over the past decade, a nationwide survey shows.