News

  1. Animals

    Ticks had a taste for dinosaur blood

    A tick found trapped in amber is evidence the bloodsuckers preyed on feathered dinosaurs, a new study says.

    By Laurel Hamers
  2. Life

    Not all of a cell’s protein-making machines do the same job

    Ribosomes may switch up their components to specialize in building proteins.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  3. Astronomy

    Most complete map of Titan reveals connected seas and cookie-cutter lakes

    The latest map of Titan, based on all the data from the Cassini spacecraft, displays new details about the moon’s lakes and seas.

    By Lisa Grossman
  4. Physics

    Some high-temperature superconductors might not be so odd after all

    Unusual high-temperature superconductors might be explained by standard superconductivity theory.