News

  1. Animals

    Birds with a criminal past hide food well

    Scrub jays that have stolen food from other bird's caches hide their own with extra care.

    By Susan Milius
  2. Health & Medicine

    Fragile X protein reveals its RNA partners

    The master gene behind fragile X syndrome—the most common inherited form of mental retardation—encodes a protein that binds to strands of messenger RNA.

    By John Travis
  3. Earth

    Ripples Spread Wide from Ground Zero

    Seismic vibrations produced by the collapse of the twin towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan were recorded by seismometers scattered across the Northeast, some more than 425 kilometers away.

    By Sid Perkins
  4. Earth

    Coral-killing army recruits human bugs

    The army of pathogens responsible for black band disease, which kills corals, contains some human bacteria that polluted waters carry out to sea.