News in Brief

Life

Life

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

Space

Atom & Cosmos

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

Humans

Humans

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

Chemistry

Molecules/Matter & Energy

Sticky graphene, dried-up coffee, a panda pregnancy test and more in this week’s news.

Earth

Earth/Environment

A killer methane belch, radon-siphoning trees, deep oil-spill science and more in this week’s news.

Life

Genes & Cells

Genes for butterfly wings and maintaining maleness, plus turtles meet their lizard relatives and more in this week’s news.

Health & Medicine

Body & Brain

Knights’ bodily burden, go-to-sleep nerve cells, rat empathy and more in this week’s news.

Health & Medicine

Body & Brain

The brain sleeps in shifts, plus thinking better with folate, how brains feel the beat and more in this week's news.

Life

Life

Slacker fish, carnivorous pitfalls, a dinosaur gap and more in this week’s news.

Space

Atom & Cosmos

Runaway planets, the return of Neptune and tricky antineutrinos in this week’s news.

Chemistry

Molecules/Matter & Energy

Shaking off snake venom, flexible display screens and krill-sniffing penguins in this week's news.

Earth

Earth/Environment

Tracking carbon dioxide, fingerprinting uranium and understanding phthalates in boys in this week's news.