News

  1. Genetics

    A 5,000-year-old mass grave harbors the oldest plague bacteria ever found

    DNA from an ancient strain of the plague-causing bacterium could help uncover the origins of the deadly disease.

    By Bruce Bower
  2. Health & Medicine

    Baboons survive 6 months after getting a pig heart transplant

    A team of German scientists used new methods to successfully transplant genetically modified and fully functioning pig hearts into baboons.

    By Jennifer Leman
  3. Particle Physics

    A controversial sighting of dark matter is looking even shakier

    Two dark matter experiments disagree despite using the same type of detector material.

    By Emily Conover
  4. Astronomy

    Astronomers find far-flung wind from a black hole in the universe’s first light

    The detection of black hole winds far from their host galaxy could reveal details of how galaxies and black holes grow up together.