News

  1. Animals

    How architecture can make ants better workers

    The right nest architecture can make harvester ants better at their job, new research shows.

    By Susan Milius
  2. Neuroscience

    Nets full of holes catch long-term memories

    Tough structures that swaddle nerve cells may store long-term memories.

    By Laura Sanders
  3. Animals

    DNA trail leads to new spot for dog domestication

    A new study suggests that dogs were first domesticated in Central Asia.

    By Chris Samoray
  4. Neuroscience

    Signs of Huntington’s show up in the brain in childhood

    Hints of Huntington’s disease show up in the brain long before symptoms do.

    By Laura Sanders
  5. Paleontology

    New evidence weakens case against climate in woolly mammoths’ death

    Hunters responsible for woolly mammoths’ extinction, suggests a chemical analysis of juveniles’ tusks.