News

  1. Humans

    For sight-reading music, practice doesn’t make perfect

    Individual memory differences may set upper limits on pianists’ sight-reading skill, regardless of their experience.

    By Bruce Bower
  2. Health & Medicine

    Genetic defect tied to autoimmune diseases

    Rare mutations in an enzyme lead to several different disorders.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  3. Space

    All flash, no crash

    New Hubble Space Telescope images confirm that Jupiter emerged unscathed from an impactor that created a fireball above the planet’s cloud tops on June 3. The new images indicate that the object exploded as a meteor in the planet’s upper atmosphere rather than plunging into the atmosphere

    By Ron Cowen
  4. Space

    Kepler craft reports apparent planetary bonanza

    New results from an orbiting telescope promise to more than double the number of known extrasolar planets.