News

  1. Life

    Response to bacterial infection depends on time of day

    Mice that got Salmonella in the evening fared better than those given the microbe in the morning.

    By Meghan Rosen
  2. Plants

    Mosses frozen in time come back to life

    Buried under a glacier for hundreds of years, plants regrow in the lab.

    By Erin Wayman
  3. Animals

    How roaches developed disgust at first bite

    A change in taste cells makes glucose-baited traps repellent.

    By Susan Milius
  4. Life

    Tests show that deadly flu could spread among people

    Experiment shows that new influenza virus transmits through air between ferrets, a common experimental stand-in for humans.