News

  1. Astronomy

    Radiation from a baby star

    X-ray telescopes have captured the earliest and clearest view of the core of a gas cloud about to transform into a star.

    By Ron Cowen

  2. Master gene found for insect smell

    A single gene may oversee the sense of smell in a variety of insect species.

    By Christen Brownlee
  3. Anthropology

    Inside view of our wee, ancient cousins

    A tiny, humanlike species that inhabited an Indonesian island more than 20,000 years ago possessed a brain that shared some organizational features with Homo erectus, a large-brained human ancestor that thought in complex ways.

    By Bruce Bower

  4. Faces elicit strong emotions in autism

    Children with autism avoid eye contact because they experience uncomfortably intense emotional reactions when looking at faces.