News

  1. Humans

    Google a bedbug today

    With no good technological solutions, entomologists call on the public to remain eternally vigilant against a resurgent foe.

    By Susan Milius
  2. Health & Medicine

    Giant rats detect tuberculosis

    Animals can be trained to sniff out TB in sputum samples, adding to accuracy of microscope test, a study from Tanzania shows.

    By Nathan Seppa
  3. Health & Medicine

    Childhood epilepsy that lasts into adulthood triples mortality

    The added risk occurs in patients whose seizures persist, a 40-year study in Finland shows.

    By Nathan Seppa
  4. Life

    Neandertal relative bred with humans

    Known only through DNA extracted from a scrap of bone, a Siberian hominid group suggests a much more complicated prehistory for Homo sapiens.