News

  1. Anthropology

    Neandertals return at German cave site

    Researchers who tracked down the location of a German cave where the first Neandertal skeleton was discovered in 1856 have unearthed new Neandertal finds.

    By Bruce Bower
  2. Astronomy

    Magnetars: A missing link

    A rare group of ultradense stars may be magnetars, objects with the strongest magnetic fields known in the universe.

    By Ron Cowen
  3. Health & Medicine

    RNA interferes with cancer-cell growth

    To curb the growth of cancer cells, scientists are silencing genes by introducing small strands of RNA.

    By John Travis
  4. Physics

    Neon gives healthy glow to reactor

    Preferring neon to nicotine, magnetic-fusion reactors called tokamaks get a performance boost from puffs of the noble gas.