News

  1. Health & Medicine

    Proliferation protein goes rogue in lung cancer

    Rac1b might promote malignancy, could be a target for treatment.

    By Nathan Seppa
  2. Health & Medicine

    Memories clutter brain in amnesia

    Complex patterns slow down object recognition in patients with disorder.

    By Laura Sanders
  3. Earth

    Warming indicted for extreme weather

    Climate change can explain some 2011 departures from the norm.

    By Janet Raloff
  4. Astronomy

    Hubble spots fifth Pluto moon

    Space telescope’s discovery announced on Twitter.

    By Nadia Drake
  5. Space

    Moon patterns explained

    Electric fields enveloping magnetic bubbles may form mysterious lunar swirls.

    By Meghan Rosen
  6. Life

    Young flies cannibalize the plump

    An evolutionary biologist’s modest proposal shocks colleagues who thought they knew everything about their favorite laboratory organism.