News

  1. Health & Medicine

    Sleeping in on the weekend can’t make up for lost sleep

    Using the weekend to catch up on sleep is ineffective at making-up for lost sleep and offsetting the consequences to a person’s health.

    By Jeremy Rehm
  2. Health & Medicine

    Wireless patches can comfortably monitor sick babies’ health

    New skin sensors that wirelessly transmit health data could offer a less invasive way to keep tabs on newborns in the neonatal intensive care unit.

    By Maria Temming
  3. Neuroscience

    How singing mice belt out duets

    A precise timing system in the brain helps musical rodents from the cloud forests of Costa Rica sing to one another.

    By Laura Sanders
  4. Animals

    What spiders eating weird stuff tell us about complex Amazon food webs

    By documenting rare events of invertebrates eating small vertebrates, scientists are shedding new light on the Amazon rainforest’s intricate ecosystem.