News

  1. Space

    Moon probes set for smashing end

    NASA to guide gravity-seeking spacecraft into the side of a lunar cliff.

    By Alexandra Witze
  2. Life

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

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

    By Susan Milius
  3. 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
  4. 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.