News

  1. Neuroscience

    Cocaine addicts can’t kick other habits either

    Habitual users tend to get stuck in nondrug-related habits more easily, too, pointing to a potential strategy for treatment

    By Laurel Hamers
  2. Health & Medicine

    Mosquito spit can increase dengue severity

    By weakening blood vessels, mosquito saliva may make dengue fever more severe in some cases.

    By Amy McDermott
  3. Health & Medicine

    Zika infection late in pregnancy may be not so risky

    An early report out of Colombia finds no microcephaly in babies born to a group of pregnant women infected with Zika virus during the third trimester.

    By Meghan Rosen
  4. Physics

    Second gravitational wave signal detected

    LIGO has spotted a second set of ripples in the fabric of spacetime.