News

  1. The brain spreads its sights in the deaf

    Altered brain activity in deaf people may strengthen their peripheral vision.

    By Bruce Bower
  2. Health & Medicine

    Fighting cancer from the cabbage patch

    Extracts of foods belonging to the cabbage family can block the action of estrogen, a hormone that fuels many cancers.

    By Janet Raloff
  3. Health & Medicine

    Nerves in heart show damage in Parkinson’s

    Some patients with Parkinson's disease also have destruction of nerve terminals in the heart that affects blood pressure.

    By Nathan Seppa
  4. Materials Science

    Titanium makes move toward mainstream

    Inventors of a new process for producing titanium claim that their method can reduce the metal's cost to one-third its current price.