News

  1. Archaeology

    Fire used regularly for cooking for 300,000 years

    Israeli cave yields a fireplace where Stone Age crowd may have cooked up social change.

    By Bruce Bower
  2. Life

    Big study raises worries about bees trading diseases

    Pathogens may jump from commercial colonies to the wild.

    By Susan Milius
  3. Earth

    Magma spends most of its existence as sludgy mush

    Volcanic magma may spend most of its time in a chunky state resembling cold porridge, a new study finds.

    By Gabriel Popkin
  4. Neuroscience

    White matter scaffold offers new view of the brain

    A new neural map of white matter connections may explain why some injuries are worse than others.