News

  1. Life

    Vestigial no more

    Gene doppelgängers may help regulate their look-alikes.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Stopping platelets at the source

    An experimental treatment may prevent harmful clotting and less need for drugs that increase bleeding risk, a study in baboons shows.

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  3. Animals

    Climate change may favor couch-potato elk

    With drought and rising temperatures in Wyoming, migratory animals suffer while stay-at-home members of the same herd thrive

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  4. Life

    Baby’s first bacteria depend on birth route

    C-section newborns may harbor fewer helpful microbes than infants born vaginally.

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  5. Anthropology

    Lucy fossil gets jolted upright by Big Man

    Scientists have unearthed a 3.6-million-year-old partial hominid skeleton that may recast the iconic species as humanlike walkers.

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  6. Earth

    Even a newborn canyon is big in Texas

    A flood carved a surprisingly large gorge that may help understand features on Earth and Mars.

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  7. Space

    Wet past for Red Planet

    An ocean blanketed one-third of Mars about 3.5 billion years ago, a new study suggests.

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  8. Physics

    Physics in free fall

    Physicists drop supercold atoms down an elevator shaft to see what will happen.

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  9. Humans

    For sight-reading music, practice doesn’t make perfect

    Individual memory differences may set upper limits on pianists’ sight-reading skill, regardless of their experience.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    Genetic defect tied to autoimmune diseases

    Rare mutations in an enzyme lead to several different disorders.

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  11. Space

    All flash, no crash

    New Hubble Space Telescope images confirm that Jupiter emerged unscathed from an impactor that created a fireball above the planet’s cloud tops on June 3. The new images indicate that the object exploded as a meteor in the planet’s upper atmosphere rather than plunging into the atmosphere

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  12. Space

    Kepler craft reports apparent planetary bonanza

    New results from an orbiting telescope promise to more than double the number of known extrasolar planets.

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