News

  1. Health & Medicine

    Teen brains’ growing pains

    Testing captures substantial changes in some youths’ IQs and gray matter.

    By Laura Sanders
  2. Life

    Stopping a real-life ‘Contagion’

    An antibody treatment fends off the lethal Hendra virus in monkeys and may also work against the equally dangerous Nipah virus.

    By Nathan Seppa
  3. Space

    Critics take aim at fast neutrinos

    Lack of energy trail suggests faster-than-light finding was miscalculated.

    By Devin Powell
  4. Life

    No shortage of dangerous DNA

    Woman who lived until age 115 didn’t lack genes that predispose her to disease, but she may have had some that protected her.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  5. Physics

    Laser analysis betrays diamonds’ origins

    A new spectroscopy technique could be used to identify gemstones mined in war zones.