News
- Paleontology
Neandertals, humans may have grown apart
A controversial fossil analysis finds that the skulls of Neandertals and humans grew in markedly different ways.
- Animals
Roach gals get less choosy as time goes by
As their first reproductive peak wanes, female cockroaches become more like male ones, willing to mate with any potential partner that moves.
- Paleontology
Study picks new site for dinosaur nostrils
A new analysis of fossils and living animals suggests that most dinosaurs' nostrils occurred at locations toward the tip of their snout rather than farther up on their face, a concept that may change scientists' views of the animals' physiology and behavior.
- Astronomy
Ground-based telescope detects star’s corona
Astronomers using a ground-based telescope have for the first time observed near-ultraviolet light from the corona of a star other than our sun.
- Health & Medicine
Surgery for epilepsy outshines medication
People with severe epilepsy who undergo brain surgery have markedly fewer disabling seizures during the following year than do those relying on medication.
- Chemistry
Researchers take an element off the table
Researchers have retracted their 1999 claim that they had created the heaviest member of the periodic table so far, element 118.
- Agriculture
Gene Makes Tomatoes Tolerate Salt
The world's first genetically engineered salt-tolerant tomato plant may help farmers utilize spoiled lands.
- Chemistry
Longest carbon-carbon bonds discovered
Researchers have found a type of carbon-carbon bond that's twice as long as the longest naturally occurring bond linking two carbon atoms.
- Chemistry
Carbon nanotubes show superconductivity
Researchers have made individual superconductive carbon nanotubes that are just 0.4 nanometer wide.
- Physics
Insects in the wind lead to less power
A previously puzzling pattern of power loss in wind turbines results from coatings of insects that were smashed by the blades during low winds.
- Physics
Turning magnetic resonance inside out
A new method of manipulating magnetic signals makes it possible to gather useful information about a chemical sample—or perhaps one day a person—without often-claustrophobic confinement inside a magnetic coil.
- Physics
Quantum queerness gets quick, compact
New ways to trap and cool atoms may hasten practical uses of strange ultracold atom clouds known as Bose-Einstein condensates.
