News in Brief

Health & Medicine

Body & Brain

Fat joins suite of tastes, plus crossword vision, metastasis clues and more in this week’s news.

Tech

Social Networks

Power networks in Congress, Twitter’s crystal ball and iPhone contagion in news from an MIT workshop on information in social media.

Life

Life

Stressed-out bird moms, apes’ memories, stick-wielding parrots and more in this week’s news.

Space

Atom & Cosmos

NASA’s plans to sample an asteroid, good-bye to Spirit rover, Neptune’s spin and more in this week’s news.

Physics

Acoustical Society of America

A new way to cough, music for the deaf, toadfish sonic sabotage and more in meeting news.

Humans

Humans

Lewis and Clark’s gale encounter, nixing college lectures, divorce’s toll on kids and more in this week’s news

Chemistry

Molecules/Matter & Energy

Detecting gunshot residue, free-falling through sand and thinning blood magnetically in this week's news.

Earth

Earth/Environment

Flameproofing baby products, early tectonics, the future of tomatoes and more in this week's news.

Life

Genes & Cells

European scientists object to genetic testing, plus triggers for Alzheimer’s and asthma in this week’s news.

Humans

Association for Psychological Science meeting

News includes likeable look-alikes, seeing clearer through meditation and bouncing back from bad events.

Health & Medicine

Body & Brain

No link between viral suspect and chronic fatigue, plus reading minds, colored glasses for migraines and more in this week’s news.

Life

Life

Ancient weirdos roamed the seas longer than thought, plus clever turtle embryos and da Vinci patterns in trees in this week’s news.