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  1. BOOK REVIEW: The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? by Jared Diamond

    Review by Nathan Seppa.

    By Science News

  2. BOOK REVIEW: Heat: Adventures in the World’s Fiery Places by Bill Streever

    Review by Allison Bohac.

    By Science News
  3. Chemistry

    Disorder at Work

    Proteins without a definite shape can still take on important jobs.

    By Tanya Lewis
  4. Animals

    Dung beetles steer by the Milky Way

    The insects orient themselves using starlight, researchers find in planetarium experiments.

    By Susan Milius
  5. Humans

    Urban Eyes

    Too much time spent indoors may be behind a surge in nearsightedness.

    By Nathan Seppa
  6. Humans

    STS finalists bound for Washington

    Forty vie for top awards in 2013 Intel Science Talent Search.

    By Matt Crenson
  7. Life

    Group to Group

    Wild chimpanzees pick up ant-fishing behavior from a female immigrant.

    By Erin Wayman
  8. Health & Medicine

    Digestive juices implicated in shock

    A new study finds that blocking enzymes' effects beyond the gastrointestinal tract may be an effective treatment strategy.

    By Nathan Seppa
  9. Humans

    H5N1 influenza research moratorium ends

    Scientists lift self-imposed moratorium on research that would make avian flu transmissible among humans.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  10. Math

    Rules for computing classical probabilities might depend on quantum randomness

    By Tom Siegfried
  11. Life

    Starchy diet may have transformed wolves to dogs

    Gaining the ability to digest carbohydrates may have been an important step in domesticating dogs.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  12. Tech

    DNA stores poems, a photo and a speech

    The molecule swaps its biological role for a computational one, that of long-term data storage.

    By Rachel Ehrenberg