News

  1. Life

    Hatcheries’ metal can disrupt steelhead magnetic sense

    Growing up in magnetic fields distorted by pipes and electronics confounds young fish’s inherited map sense.

    By Susan Milius
  2. Health & Medicine

    Early malnutrition may impair infants’ mix of gut microbes

    Babies’ gut microbiomes fail to fully recover even after fending off bouts with malnutrition.

    By Nathan Seppa
  3. Astronomy

    Rocky, overweight planet shakes up theories

    Kepler-10c is a rocky exoplanet 17 times as massive as Earth, and astronomers are puzzled as to how it formed.

    By Christopher Crockett
  4. Health & Medicine

    Health risks of e-cigarettes emerge

    Research uncovers a growing list of chemicals that end up in an e-cigarette user’s lungs, and one study finds that an e-cigarette’s vapors can increase the virulence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.