News in Brief

  1. Body & Brain

    Hockey concussions take progressively longer to heal, plus rotavirus vaccines and declining stillbirths in this week’s news.

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  2. Life

    Life

    Colorful duck bills hint at sperm quality, plus dangerous jellies and throwback bees in this week’s news.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Experimental Biology 2011 conference

    Even larvae can love the blues, plus distemper’s roots, fat-busting blueberries and more meeting news.

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  4. Space

    Atom & Cosmos

    How to hunt for extraterrestrials, plus cosmic bursts, horseshoe orbits and more in this week’s news.

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  5. Anthropology

    American Association of Physical Anthropologists

    Hobbit dentistry, ancient footprints and navigating gibbons in news from the recent physical anthropology meeting.

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  6. Chemistry

    Molecules/Matter & Energy

    A quantum state is teleported, plus twisty light and foamy graphene in this week's news.

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  7. Earth

    Earth/Environment

    Breakfast may help get the lead out, plus burrowing trilobites and warmer truffles in this week's news

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Body & Brain

    A hidden herpes risk, the rapid effects of a high-fat diet, explaining seniors' early rising and more in this week's news.

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  9. Life

    Life

    Salamander's algal partners, tool-using capuchins, a beneficial bacterial infection and more in this week's news

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  10. Space

    Atom & Cosmos

    Life in black holes, energy from dark matter and other intriguing possibilities in this week's news

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  11. Science & Society

    Humans

    Western views of fat adopted around the world, a link between a messy environment and stereotypes, and more in this week's news

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  12. Chemistry

    Molecules/Matter & Energy

    3-D effects without the glasses, plus portable X-rays and linking qubits in this week’s news.

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