News
- Health & Medicine
Vitamin C could give chemo a boost
Injected into mice, the supplement helped anticancer drugs shrink tumors.
- Ecosystems
Amazon doesn’t actually go green in dry seasons
An optical illusion in satellite data made forests appear to grow faster.
- Health & Medicine
Overcoming peanut allergy requires maintenance for most
In small study, nearly all people who stopped eating the legumes daily later experienced an allergic reaction.
- Particle Physics
Single-pole magnet emerges in frozen concoction
An experiment has simulated the long-sought magnetic particle.
- Genetics
Monkeys born with edited genes
A DNA-snipping technique inspired by bacteria shows therapeutic promise.
- Cosmology
Slow, cold start to universe suggested
By allowing particle masses to change, a new theory suggests how the universe could have arisen without a Big Bang.
- Health & Medicine
Immunotherapy attacks aberrant cervical growth
The treatment might stop cancers before they arise.
- Humans
Neandertal hot spots highlighted in modern humans’ DNA
Mating with evolutionary cousins produced genetic trade-offs for Stone Age people.
- Life
A little acid or a tight squeeze can turn a cell stemlike
Stresses send mouse cells into primordial state capable of making any tissue.
- Neuroscience
Famous brain surgery patient H.M. retained a chunk of hippocampus
The patient's amnesia was probably due to the loss of other regions and neural connections.
- Health & Medicine
Nanopackaging biodegrades after delivering cancer drug
DNA binding creates potentially nontoxic tumor-targeting structures.
- Animals
Windows may kill up to 988 million birds a year in the United States
Single-family homes and low-rise buildings do much more damage than skyscrapers.
