News

  1. Health & Medicine

    Breast milk may harbor cancer clues

    Analysis could provide a noninvasive means for testing risk in women, an early-stage study shows.

    By Nathan Seppa
  2. Humans

    Brain’s mirror system loves the robot

    Experiments that shed light on how the "monkey see, monkey do" part works may suggest why we feel sad for Wall-E.

    By Laura Sanders
  3. Health & Medicine

    Heart drug may fight prostate cancer

    Digitalis inhibits the common malignancy in lab tests, and long-term users are less likely to develop the disease, a study shows.

    By Nathan Seppa
  4. Life

    Worries grow over monarch butterflies

    Migrants overwintering in Mexico rebounded somewhat this past winter, but still trending downward.