News

  1. Health & Medicine

    Stiff cellular environment links obesity to breast cancer

    Obesity may directly support tumor growth by making a cell’s surroundings stiffer.

    By Sarah Schwartz
  2. Animals

    Hummingbird tongues may work like micropumps

    Hummingbird tongues work as elastic micropumps instead of simple thin tubes, researchers say in latest round of a scientific debate.

    By Susan Milius
  3. Health & Medicine

    Teen e-cig users more likely to smoke tobacco

    E-cigarette use is linked to later tobacco use in teens.

    By Meghan Rosen
  4. Anthropology

    Bones revive a 7,000-year-old massacre

    Bones suggest Central Europe’s first farmers had an extremely violent streak.

    By Bruce Bower
  5. Microbes

    Bacteria in flowers may boost honeybees’ healthy gut microbes

    Honeybees may deliver doses of probiotics to the hive to help feed baby bees’ microbiome.