News

  1. Life

    Pressure keeps cancer in check

    In lab experiments, physically confining malignant cells prevents runaway growth.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  2. Life

    Heart telltale

    Engineered cells that flash when they beat may offer a new way to test drugs for cardiac toxicity.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  3. Space

    Moon probes set for smashing end

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

    By Alexandra Witze
  4. Life

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

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

    By Susan Milius
  5. 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.