News

  1. Materials Science

    Gripping Tale: Metal oozes in nanotubes’ grasp

    Carbon nanotubes can squeeze substances inside them with such high pressures that even hard metals squish like putty.

    By Peter Weiss
  2. Animals

    Lobster Hygiene: Healthy animals quick to spot another’s ills

    Caribbean spiny lobsters will avoid sharing a den with another lobster that's coming down with a viral disease.

    By Susan Milius

  3. Big Oil, Tiny Barons: Microbes can unleash trapped petroleum

    Specialized microbes can lift trapped oil from wells long gone dry.

    By Christen Brownlee
  4. Health & Medicine

    For the Birds: New vaccines protect chickens from avian flu

    By piggybacking components of strains of avian-influenza virus onto an existing poultry vaccine, scientists have created experimental vaccines that can prevent bird flu in chickens.