News

  1. Neuroscience

    Gift-giving brain cells are lifeline to injured nerve cells

    After an injury, astrocytes give nerve cells a gift of mitochondria, mouse study suggests.

    By Laura Sanders
  2. Life

    Human eye spots single photons

    Human eyes are sensitive enough to detect individual particles of light.

    By Emily Conover
  3. Life

    Distinctions blur between wolf species

    Red and eastern wolves might be gray wolf/coyote blends instead of distinct species

    By Laurel Hamers
  4. Earth

    New scenario proposed for birth of Pacific Plate

    The Pacific tectonic plate formed at the junction of three other plates and above of the remains of a submerged plate, geophysicists propose.