News

  1. Health & Medicine

    Resveratrol’s anticancer benefits show up in low doses

    Small amounts of the compound found in red wine and grapes prove protective against colon cancer in mice fed a high-fat diet.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  2. Anthropology

    Remains of Jamestown leaders discovered

    Colonial-era graves reveal leading figures in founding of English America.

    By Bruce Bower
  3. Neuroscience

    Age affects brain’s response to anesthesia

    Anesthesia has different effects on young and old brains.

    By Laura Sanders
  4. Life

    Microbes’ role in truffle scents not trifling

    Truffles make their prized aroma with a little help from their microbes, chemists suggest.

    By Beth Mole
  5. Life

    Laser light made inside cells

    Microscopic beads and oil droplets become lasers when implanted into cells.