News

  1. Health & Medicine

    Saving preemies’ vision

    A drug designed to fight cancer also may thwart aberrant blood vessel growth in the eyes of babies born preterm, a study finds.

    By Nathan Seppa
  2. Humans

    Ice Age cups crafted from crania

    An English cave serves up the oldest known vessels made from human skulls

    By Bruce Bower
  3. Humans

    Human ancestors have identity crisis

    Fossils heralded as the remains of 4- to 7-million-year-old hominids might actually come from apes.

    By Bruce Bower
  4. Space

    ‘Deep Impact’ comet revisited

    NASA takes pictures of Tempel 1 five years after shooting it with a probe.

    By Ron Cowen
  5. Life

    Carnivorous bladderworts suck up prey

    High-speed movies confirm that bug-eating plants are vacuum feeders.