News
- Earth
Africa’s bumper crop of dust
Seafloor sediments show that agriculture has greatly boosted airborne dust in the last two centuries.
- Psychology
Ancient hominids grabbed early northern exposure
Newly recovered stone tools indicate that hominids lived in chilly northwestern Europe more than 800,000 years ago.
- Health & Medicine
Protein regulator shows promise against addiction
Elevating levels of a tiny molecule in rats’ brains blunted the animals’ cocaine use.
- Computing
Machine versus manhole
Computer scientists take on one of New York’s weirder quality-of-life issues: which will be the next to explode?
- Life
Ocean acidification may make fish foolhardy
Rising carbon dioxide alters fish larvae’s sense of smell, which they use to avoid predators and find their way home.
