News

  1. Health & Medicine

    How a variation on Botox could be used to treat pain

    Drugs that incorporate modified botulinum toxin provide long-term pain relief, a study in mice finds.

    By Aimee Cunningham
  2. Animals

    New ‘Poké Ball’ robot catches deep-sea critters without harming them

    A machine that gently catches and releases animals underwater could help researchers take a more detailed census of the deep sea.

    By Maria Temming
  3. Paleontology

    An ancient swimming revolution in the oceans may have never happened

    Swimmers may not have suddenly dominated the oceans during the Devonian Period after all: New analyses suggest they took over much more gradually.

    By Carolyn Gramling
  4. Planetary Science

    Jupiter has 12 more moons than we knew about — and one is bizarre

    Astronomers found a dozen previously unknown moons of Jupiter, and one may be a remnant of a larger moon that was all but ground to dust.