News

  1. Earth

    School buses spew pollution into young lungs

    Children riding on school buses inhale heavy doses of diesel fumes, and reducing these emissions could be a cost-effective means of improving their health, a new study suggests.

    By Ben Harder
  2. Anthropology

    Coasting to Asia in the Stone Age

    New genetic analyses of people from native island groups in Southeast Asia support the unconventional view that around 70,000 years ago, people living in Africa crossed the Red Sea and moved east along Asia's southern coast.

    By Bruce Bower
  3. Planetary Science

    Saturnian moonscape

    Planetary scientists have obtained their closest image yet of Epimetheus, one of Saturn's tiny moons.

    By Ron Cowen
  4. Health & Medicine

    Insulin may trigger type 1 diabetes

    Insulin itself may precipitate the body's autoimmune attack in people with type 1 diabetes.