News
- Tech
Imaging technique offers look inside hearing loss
Two-photon microscopy visualizes hair cells in the inner ear, offering insights into processes leading to deafness.
- Humans
Origins of alcohol consumption traced to ape ancestor
Eating fermented fruit off the ground may have paved way for ability to digest ethanol.
By Erin Wayman - Earth
Blood levels of BPA become source of controversy
New data question whether human blood measurements of BPA reflect sample contamination or just exaggerated exposures.
By Janet Raloff - Earth
Aquatic predators affect carbon-storing plant life
Freshwater predator species can prevent the overgrazing of plants that suck up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
By Janet Raloff - Life
Bird, human tweets come from similar parts of the brain
Genetics study finds parallels in birdsong and language.
By Erin Wayman - Astronomy
Russia meteor virtually impossible to see coming
Current and planned efforts to track near-Earth objects focus on bigger quarry.
By Andrew Grant - Science & Society
Science News at the 2013 AAAS meeting
A round-up of Science News coverage of the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science held February 14–18, 2013 in Boston.
By Science News - Planetary Science
Meteor explodes over Russia
The object is unrelated to February 15 asteroid flyby, experts say.
By Andrew Grant - Space
Uncertainty at a grand scale
A test of Heisenberg’s principle, on a scale visible to the naked eye, may aid the search for gravitational waves.
By Andrew Grant - Health & Medicine
A surprise makes memories wobbly
Drug that interferes with recollection works only when people face the unexpected.
- Life
Antianxiety drugs affect fish, too
Perch swim more and eat faster when exposed to concentrations of an antianxiety medication found in rivers.
By Erin Wayman - Humans
Newborn babies walk the walk
Infants strut a runway wearing electrodes to show how the walking reflex works.