News

  1. Life

    News in brief: Counting project reveals forest’s bug diversity

    Some 25,000 species of arthropods live in Panamanian forest.

    By Susan Milius
  2. Life

    Early life forms may have been terrestrial

    A controversial theory suggests that at least some of the earliest widespread complex life forms lived on land.

    By Susan Milius
  3. Health & Medicine

    Zinc may help treat box jellyfish stings

    A zinc compound seems to counteract the deadly venom delivered by the sting of the Australian box jellyfish.

    By Nathan Seppa
  4. Astronomy

    Clutch of distant galaxies reveals the infant universe

    The Hubble telescope spies stars lighting up the cosmic dawn.