News
- Astronomy
The alien next door
Newly discovered planet is just 4.4 light-years distant.
By Nadia Drake - Environment
Elevated carbon dioxide may impair reasoning
Insufficient ventilation allows exhaled gas to build up indoors, diminishing decision-making abilities.
By Janet Raloff -
- Neuroscience
Teens can keep their cool to win rewards
An unexpected experimental result suggests adolescent impulsivity is not inevitable.
- Physics
Supersolidity loses its luster
Bizarre quantum state may not exist after all, new experiments suggest.
- Planetary Science
Scientists probe fresh Martian meteorite
Rock holds clues to Red Planet’s atmosphere and surface conditions.
By Tanya Lewis - Health & Medicine
Tomato compound might prevent some strokes
Men with high blood concentrations of lycopene are less vulnerable, a study finds.
By Nathan Seppa -
- Animals
Early arthropod had a fancy brain
A 520-million-year-old fossil of a segmented animal shows that sophisticated central nervous systems are surprisingly ancient.
By Erin Wayman - Chemistry
Depths hold clues to dearth of xenon in air
The gas doesn’t dissolve well in minerals deep inside Earth, a discovery that may explain why it’s also scarce in the atmosphere.
- Life
Research in cell communication system wins 2012 chemistry Nobel
G protein-coupled receptors relay messages from other cells and the environment into the cell's interior.
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