News
- Health & Medicine
Human brain mapped in 3-D with high resolution
“BigBrain” model, the most detailed atlas yet, could improve brain scanning tools and neurosurgeons’ navigation.
- Life
Cabbage circadian clocks tick even after picking
Daily cycles in vegetables help ward off hungry caterpillars.
- Health & Medicine
Ebola thwarted in mice by drugs for infertility, cancer
Extensive search of existing medicines turns up two that seem to fend off deadly virus.
- Astronomy
Hubble finds hints of a planet oddly far-flung from its star
If confirmed, the dark gap in space debris will challenge astronomers' theories.
- Physics
Echoes create an interior map app
To record size and shape of a room, researchers use a speaker, five microphones and some math.
- Animals
Oysters may struggle to build shells as carbon dioxide rises
Ocean acidification could hamper larvae's growth.
- Physics
Simple invisibility cloaks hide toys, pets, people
Using everyday materials, two research teams conceal ordinary objects by guiding light around them.
- Health & Medicine
DSM-5 enters the diagnostic fray
Fifth edition of the widely used psychiatric manual focuses attention on how mental disorders should be defined.
- Life
Leprosy bacterium changed little in last millennium
Genome alterations probably not responsible for decline in disease prevalence.
- Life
Primitive fish could nod but not shake its head
Ancient fossils reveal surprises about early vertebrate necks, abdominal muscles.
- Chemistry
An eel’s glow could illuminate liver disease
Fluorescent protein binds to bilirubin, a compound the body must eliminate.
- Archaeology
Ancient Siberians may have rarely hunted mammoths
Occasional kills by Stone Age humans could not have driven creatures to extinction, researchers say.
