News

  1. 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
  2. Health & Medicine

    Cooling stroke patients from the inside out

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

    By Nathan Seppa
  3. 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
  4. Ecosystems

    Sea of plastics

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

    By Sid Perkins
  5. Life

    Ultraviolet freckles start fish fights

    Two damselfish species use short wavelengths to recognize rivals’ spots.