News

  1. Astronomy

    Sun shines new life on Kepler space telescope

    NASA approved a proposal to bring the crippled Kepler spacecraft back to life, using sunlight as balance to help the telescope search for planets and more.

    By Christopher Crockett
  2. Psychology

    Recessions take a lasting toll on narcissism

    Coming of age in hard economic times makes people less likely to feel superior and entitled later in life.

    By Bruce Bower
  3. Neuroscience

    Life span lengthens when mice feel less pain

    When rodents are missing a sensory protein, their metabolism revs up and they live longer.

    By Laura Sanders
  4. Cosmology

    Dustup emerges over gravitational waves discovery

    While cosmologists wait for data from Planck satellite, some worry that BICEP2 data actually come from our galaxy.