News

  1. Life

    Gene makes some pilots get rusty faster

    A common DNA variant affects the pace of age-related decline in performance on skilled tasks like flying a plane.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  2. Humans

    Early farmers’ fishy menu

    Northern Europeans retained a taste for aquatic foods after farmers arrived 6,000 years ago.

    By Bruce Bower
  3. Health & Medicine

    Measles cases up in U.S. and Canada

    Both countries report 2011 to be the worst year since the mid-1990s.

    By Nathan Seppa
  4. Life

    Cycads not ‘living fossils’

    Though ancient, today’s representatives of the plant group date back to a common ancestor that lived not all that long ago.