News

  1. Health & Medicine

    Hallucinated voices’ attitudes vary with culture

    Culture puts good or bad spin on voices heard by people with schizophrenia.

    By Bruce Bower
  2. Planetary Science

    Rosetta casts doubt on comets as Earth’s water providers

    Water in comet 67P’s thin, hazy atmosphere doesn’t chemically match Earth’s oceans, suggesting that asteroids, not comets, brought water to the planet.

    By Ashley Yeager
  3. Genetics

    New type of stem cells, fuzzy and flexible

    A new way to make stem cells produces fuzzy cells that appear as flexible as other types of stem cells, but are easier to grow in the lab and avoid ethical issues.

    By Rachel Ehrenberg
  4. Neuroscience

    Molecule impairs brain cells that fail in Alzheimer’s

    In mice, blocking a molecule on immune cells allowed them to mop up the type of protein buildup seen in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s.