News

  1. Health & Medicine

    Adopted protein might be MS culprit

    A protein called syncytin might play a role in causing degradation of the fatty myelin sheath that insulates nerves, damage that leads to multiple sclerosis.

    By Nathan Seppa
  2. Astronomy

    More space sugar

    Astronomers have found a second, colder source of the simple sugar glycoaldehyde in a dust and gas cloud 26,000 light-years from Earth.

    By Ron Cowen

  3. Pinpointing Poachers: Gene sleuths map illicit elephant kills

    A new, genetics-based technique for determining ivory's place of origin is geographically precise enough to aid forensic pursuit of African elephant poachers.

    By Ben Harder

  4. Two-Headed Memories: Collaboration gives recall lift to elderly

    Collaboration with a spouse improves the accuracy of older people's memories on tasks such as remembering items on a shopping list or identifying familiar landmarks on a local map.