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  1. Brain not required for antidepressant to act

    In brewer’s yeast, the drug sertraline distorts membranes and triggers a self-cannibalizing process.

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  2. Life

    Albatross forage with fractal-like flight

    New data offer support for a modified mathematical pattern in birds’ hunting behavior.

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  3. Life

    Bacteria, insects join forces against pesticide

    Microbes in gut, rather than genetic changes, allow insects to develop chemical resistance.

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  4. Earth

    Arctic sea emits methane

    Source of climate-warming gas remains uncertain, but might be microbes.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Rats avoiding mental workloads offer clues to lower motivation in depression

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  6. Psychology

    Two heads sometimes better than one

    Group decisions rise or fall based on what the most confident member knows or doesn’t know.

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  7. Astronomy

    Dark matter search turns up empty

    New calculations suggest dearth of invisible substance in solar neighborhood.

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  8. Science & Society

    The Science Life: Scientific method acting

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  9. Letters

    Happy 90th, Science News My father has generously given a subscription of Science News to me since I was small. In the ’60s I received a package in the mail each month containing science experiment materials and directions. So cool! We celebrated Dad’s 90th birthday in April. He was an aeronautic engineer; I’m an architect. […]

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  10. SN Online

    EARTH Horizontal motion makes a magnitude 8.6 quake less dangerous. Learn more in “Indonesian quake passes without major tsunami.” DELETED SCENES BLOG A video game puts birds into orbit. Read “The Newtonian physics (or not) of Angry Birds Space.” GENES & CELLS Altering gene activity may make chemotherapy more effective. See “Old cancer drugs offer […]

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  11. Science Future for May 5, 2012

    May 16 Test your mettle at science trivia night at Washington, D.C.’s Koshland Science Museum. Prizes go to the winning team. See bit.ly/SFtrivia May 19 The Orlando Science Center holds a Science of Wine event, with educational events and wines from around the world. More information at bit.ly/SFoscwine

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  12. Science Past from the issue of May 5, 1962

    CANCER CAUSE IN TOBACCO — “You might as well ask a person if he believes the earth is round as to ask him if he is one of those who believes cigarettes cause cancer,” Dr. Charles B. Huggins, director of the Ben May Laboratory for Cancer Research, University of Chicago, told SCIENCE SERVICE…. Sixty known […]

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