News

  1. Chemistry

    A new AI technique may aid violent crime forensics

    An AI tool trained on chemical signatures from corpse-eating insects may help determine time and place of death for victims of violent crimes.

    By Meghan Rosen
  2. Health & Medicine

    Cancer treatments may get a boost from mRNA COVID vaccines

    Cancer patients who got an mRNA COVID vaccine within a few months of their immunotherapy lived longer than those who did not, health records show.

    By Meghan Rosen
  3. Paleontology

    Nanotyrannus was not a teenaged T. rex

    A new Nanotyrannus fossil suggests the diminutive dino lived alongside T. rex in the late Cretaceous Period.

    By Carolyn Gramling
  4. Plants

    This flower smells like injured ants — and flies can’t resist it

    A type of Japanese dogbane releases a scent identical to wounded ants’ distress signal, drawing in scavenging flies that unwittingly pollinate it.