News

  1. Life

    Pterosaurs might have soared 10,000 miles nonstop

    Flight analysis suggests ancient reptiles were record setters.

    By Susan Milius
  2. Health & Medicine

    Mice robbed of darkness fatten up

    Time of day can affect calories' impact, a study shows.

    By Janet Raloff
  3. Chemistry

    Bacteria go electric

    Microbes that wire themselves up could turn waste into power.

    By Marissa Cevallos
  4. Health & Medicine

    How being deaf can enhance sight

    Hearing-specialized brain regions can adapt to processing visual input, cat experiments show.

    By Laura Sanders
  5. Science & Society

    2010 Nobels recognize potential of basic science to shape the world

    Prizes go to IVF, graphene and ‘carbon chemistry at its best’

    By Nathan Seppa, Laura Sanders and Rachel Ehrenberg
  6. Life

    One small step for a snail, one giant leap for snailkind

    Experiments suggest that gastropods shed their shells in one fell swoop during the evolutionary transition that created slugs.