News

  1. Life

    Tracing molecules’ movement in nails may help fight fungus

    Tracking chemicals through the human nail may provide valuable insight for drug development.

    By Sarah Schwartz
  2. Physics

    Rogue waves don’t always appear unannounced

    Scientists may be able to forecast the arrival of anomalously large ocean swells, suggest scientists who analyzed the moments before rogue water waves and freak light flashes.

    By Andrew Grant
  3. Climate

    Global warming ‘hiatus’ just an artifact, study finds

    Skewed data may have caused the appearance of the recent global warming hiatus, new research suggests.

    By Thomas Sumner
  4. Neuroscience

    Female’s nose blocks scent of a male

    When a female mouse is in an infertile stage of her reproductive cycle, her nose cells don’t alert her brain to the presence of a potential mate.