News

  1. Humans

    Top airports for spreading germs ID’d

    Major hubs with far-flung flights are most efficient at launching pandemics.

    By Rachel Ehrenberg
  2. Life

    Genome of a fruit besieged

    The banana genome has been unpeeled. The genetic makeup of Musa acuminata, a fertile banana species that gave rise to the seedless Cavendish and other clonal varieties people eat today, sheds light on the plant’s evolutionary history and ripening process. This information may also help researchers boost the crop’s resistance to fungal and viral pathogens […]

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  3. Health & Medicine

    News Briefs: Body & Brain

    How deaf people process other senses, a gene variant that protects against Alzheimer's, and special cells that wrap and feed neural extensions

    By Laura Sanders
  4. Health & Medicine

    Ecstasy may cause memory problems

    New users of club drug do worse than nonusers on one recall test.