News

  1. Health & Medicine

    Bad kitty: Cat bites can cause nasty infections

    Three in 10 patients seeking treatment for hand bites were hospitalized, study finds.

    By Nathan Seppa
  2. Climate

    Strong winds may have waylaid global warming

    Gusts over the Pacific Ocean may have stashed heat underwater since 2001.

    By Beth Mole
  3. Climate

    Weather patterns over Southern Hemisphere have a regular pulse

    Variations in energy and rainfall over the Southern Hemisphere follow a pattern that repeats every 20 to 30 days.

    By Gabriel Popkin
  4. Genetics

    When flowers died out in Arctic, so did mammoths

    Genetic analysis finds vegetation change in the Arctic around same time as megafauna extinction.