News

  1. Environment

    Dust components may promote obesity

    Fat dust bunnies may contain obesity-boosting chemicals.

    By Beth Mole
  2. Climate

    Desert dig uncovers caches of missing CO2

    Irrigation water may wash significant amounts of carbon into groundwater systems beneath Earth’s deserts, researchers propose.

    By Thomas Sumner
  3. Health & Medicine

    Ebola vaccine protects people in West Africa

    In Guinea trial, zero cases of Ebola occurred in people potentially exposed who received immediate shots of a new experimental vaccine.

    By Nathan Seppa
  4. Planetary Science

    New results from Philae lander offer first close-up of a comet

    Philae’s bouncy journey across comet 67P allowed it to check out two very different sites before taking a detailed look at both the inside and outside of the comet.