News

  1. Health & Medicine

    Compound might facilitate stroke recovery

    Animal study finds regrowth of brain cells with natural protein fragment.

    By Nathan Seppa
  2. Health & Medicine

    Coffee associated with lower stroke risk

    Study finds java drinkers 71 percent as likely to have had stroke as nondrinkers.

    By Nathan Seppa
  3. Health & Medicine

    Cooling stroke patients from the inside out

    A treatment that induces hypothermia proves safe in an early test.

    By Nathan Seppa
  4. Chemistry

    Naming an atomic heavyweight

    More than a decade after its debut in a German lab, element 112 is officially named copernicium.

    By Rachel Ehrenberg
  5. Ecosystems

    Sea of plastics

    Oceanographers are finding more patches of floating polymers, some up to 20 meters deep.