News

  1. Environment

    Oil-munching microbes cleaning up Gulf marshes faster than expected

    Microbes in some of Louisiana’s marshes are breaking down oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill faster than expected.

    By Beth Mole
  2. Neuroscience

    One path that fear takes in the brain discovered

    By hijacking a newly discovered pathway in mice’s brains, scientists inspire fear.

    By Laura Sanders
  3. Health & Medicine

    Switching off nerve cells eases asthma attacks

    A drug that numbs nerve cells in mice’s airways offers a new way to ease the effects of an asthma attack.

    By Meghan Rosen
  4. Health & Medicine

    New cancer drugs wake up sleeping killer T cells

    The immune system’s T cells, often evaded by tumors, might now resume the attack.