News

  1. Astronomy

    Super-Earths are not a good place for plate tectonics

    The intense pressures inside super-Earths make plate tectonics less likely, new research suggests.

    By Thomas Sumner
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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.