News

  1. Planetary Science

    Here’s how an asteroid impact would kill you

    Most deaths caused by an asteroid impact would result from shock waves and winds generated from the blast, rather than effects such as earthquakes and tsunamis, new simulations show.

    By Thomas Sumner
  2. Anthropology

    Water tubing accidents, table run-ins cause Neandertal-like injuries

    People’s injury patterns today can’t explain how Neandertals got so many head wounds.

    By Bruce Bower
  3. Chemistry

    Chemistry controlled on tiniest scale can create hollow nanoparticles

    Oxidizing tiny iron particles from the inside out reveals how oxidation works and could offer new vehicles for drugs or energy.

    By Laurel Hamers
  4. Health & Medicine

    Lungs enlist immune cells to fight infections in capillaries

    Immune cells in the lungs provide a rapid counterattack to bloodstream infections, a new study in mice finds.