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  1. Health & Medicine

    Norovirus vaccine shows early progress

    Individuals immunized against Norwalk virus and another norovirus experienced less vomiting and diarrhea than those who didn't receive shots.

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  2. Physics

    Proton-boron nuclear fusion returns to spotlight

    A technique can fuse nuclei without producing harmful neutrons, but it is far from being power plant–ready.

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  3. Science & Society

    2013 Nobels decades in the making

    Prizes show that discovery takes inspiration plus perspiration.

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  4. Particle Physics

    Higgs field prediction lands Nobel Prize in physics

    The famous particle’s detection last year confirmed the laureates’ 1964 proposal.

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  5. Animals

    Alpine swifts fly nonstop for more than six months

    During a journey of 200 days, the birds eat, rest and migrate without touching the ground.

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  6. Earth

    African dust once fertilized the Everglades

    Humans aren't the only source of nutrients for Florida’s wetlands. African dust may have fertilized the region thousands of years ago.

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  7. Life

    3-D printing builds bacterial metropolises

    By simulating biofilms, new 3-D printing technique may help researchers study antibiotic resistance.

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  8. Neuroscience

    Brainy videos

    A short film that uses humor and science to explain congenital anosmia has won the Society for Neuroscience’s 2013 Brain Awareness Video Contest.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    Medicine Nobel goes to cellular transport research

    Honor given to three scientists who discovered how machinery moves cargo around cells.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    Fractals can catch cancer

    Analyzing shapes of cell borders may prove useful in cancer diagnosis.

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  11. Astronomy

    Voyager’s view

    Though the 1970s-era space probe has finally slipped into an interstellar realm, in some senses it is still very much within the bounds of the solar system.

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  12. Tech

    Memory upgrade

    The demands of modern computing call for a seismic shift in data storage and retrieval.

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