News

  1. Animals

    To Bee He or She: Honeybees use novel sex-setting switch

    After more than a decade of work, an international team has found the main gene that separates the girls from the boys among honeybees.

    By Susan Milius
  2. Astronomy

    Black Hole Life Preserver: Don’t get sucked in without one

    By temporarily counteracting a black hole's tremendous tidal forces, a proposed black hole life preserver would slightly lengthen the life and shorten the agony of anyone exploring one of these gravitational beasts.

    By Ron Cowen
  3. Earth

    Long Ride West: Many western sediments came from Appalachians

    Much of the material in several thick layers of sandstone in the western United States originated in the Appalachians.