News

  1. Physics

    Aluminum superatoms may split water

    Metal clusters could create hydrogen for fuel, simulations suggest.

    By Laura Sanders
  2. Health & Medicine

    Old drug may be first choice for childhood petit mal epilepsy

    Three-way trial shows ethosuximide edging out two newer choices.

    By Nathan Seppa
  3. Earth

    Earth knocked for a loop

    Chile’s February 27 temblor, tectonically linked to another giant quake 50 years ago, sped up the Earth’s rotation and tipped the planet’s axis.

    By Sid Perkins
  4. Chemistry

    Plasticizers kept from leaching out

    ‘Chemicals of concern’ may be made safer in new materials.

    By Rachel Ehrenberg
  5. Space

    Lopsided stellar disks help black holes guzzle gas

    Theorists have found a new recipe for feeding the supermassive centers of galaxies.