News

  1. Psychology

    Newborns nurse long-term memories of smells

    Newborn babies readily link specific scents to breast-feeding and favor those smells as toddlers.

    By Bruce Bower
  2. Life

    Alligators breathe like birds

    Tricky measurements of flow reveal that air moves through the animal in one direction.

    By Lisa Grossman
  3. Climate

    Acidifying ocean may stifle phytoplankton

    Chemical changes in seawater make a key nutrient less available to these organisms.

    By Sid Perkins
  4. Life

    Soybean genome turns out to be soysoybeanbean

    The plant's newly sequenced genetic blueprint includes a surprising number of spare copies.

    By Susan Milius
  5. Space

    Supernova winds blow galaxies into shape

    A new simulation that combines supernova winds with the mysterious material known as cold dark matter almost perfectly accounts for the structure of dwarf galaxies in nearby reaches of the universe.