News

  1. Tech

    Software bugs cost big bucks

    An epidemic of software errors in industrial computer programs is costing the United States $60 billion per year.

    By Peter Weiss
  2. Health & Medicine

    Melanoma gene quickly reeled in

    Biologists have discovered a gene that may contribute to many cases of deadly skin cancer.

    By John Travis
  3. Astronomy

    X-ray observatory captures a rare supernova

    Astronomers have obtained the first portrait of X-ray emission from a rare, so-called Ic supernova.

    By Ron Cowen
  4. Health & Medicine

    Do-It-Yourself: Virus recreated from synthetic DNA

    In an experiment with implications for bioterrorism, scientists have used poliovirus' widely known genetic sequence to synthesize that virus from DNA and other chemicals.