News
- Earth
Chile quake didn’t reduce risk
During the large 2010 tremor, faults ruptured mainly outside the area due for a big one, leaving the region vulnerable to future events.
- Humans
Amoebas in drinking water: a double threat
Analysis reveals widespread, hidden contamination by the sometimes lethal parasites.
- Health & Medicine
Prosthetics that feel
Re-creating a 'sense of touch' for prosthetic limbs may someday improve how people use them.
- Physics
Quantum pendulum trick explained
Physicists explain why an object swings faster when immersed in a special ultracold liquid.
- Life
Pneumonia drugs helped evolve a superbug
As told through DNA from historical samples, a deadly bacterium reveals how it developed the ability to evade antibiotics and a vaccine.
