News

  1. Science & Society

    Students win big at Intel ISEF 2010

    Global high school science competition concludes with top prizes going to projects on cancer-fighting quantum dots, quantum computer algorithms and computer programming.

    By Laura Sanders
  2. Planetary Science

    Martian moon probably pretty porous

    Phobos may be a mass of rocky rubble, not a captured asteroid.

    By Sid Perkins
  3. Space

    Planets in nearby system are off-kilter, measurements show

    New observations shatter the notion that other planetary systems have the same flattened, disclike arrangement of orbits that rings the sun.

    By Ron Cowen
  4. Animals

    Fight or flee, it’s in the pee

    Researchers get a better understanding of how mice smell a rat, or a cat, and maybe even a snake.