News

  1. Life

    Emerging disease may wipe out common bat in the Northeast

    Hard-hit region could lose little brown myotis to white-nose syndrome within decades

    By Susan Milius
  2. Space

    All wet, or high and dry?

    The moon’s interior contains far less water than Earth’s, new studies of rocks collected by Apollo astronauts suggest.

    By Alexandra Witze
  3. Humans

    World of proteincraft

    Players compete to solve scientific puzzles in an online computer game.

    By Rachel Ehrenberg
  4. Life

    Sponge genes surprise

    Genome reveals that the first animals had a complex tool kit.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  5. Health & Medicine

    Violent dreams may predict illness in advance

    A sleep disorder can precede neurodegenerative disease by decades.