News

  1. Astronomy

    Rumblings from a dead star

    The burned-out cinder left behind when a massive Milky Way star exploded recently underwent its own outburst.

    By Ron Cowen
  2. Tech

    A nanoprinter for cheaper diagnostics

    Using strands of DNA as movable type, scientists have created a miniaturized printing technique for mass-producing medical diagnostic chips.

    By Alexandra Goho
  3. Health & Medicine

    Stem cell shift may lead to infections, leukemia

    Aging of blood-producing stem cells could be responsible for the relatively high incidence of infections and myeloid leukemia in the elderly.

    By Christen Brownlee
  4. Animals

    He Clones, She Clones: Dad, mom ants as different species

    In the little fire ant, males and queens clone themselves, the closest science has gotten to declaring males and females as separate species.