News

  1. Physics

    Entangled photons make better messengers

    Quantum effect allows light to carry information farther for computing and encryption

    By Lisa Grossman
  2. Paleontology

    Fungi thrived during mass extinction

    Fossil analyses hint that several species thrived during the world’s largest mass extinction.

    By Sid Perkins
  3. Space

    Moon crash delivers no obvious plume

    But the two impacts still yield data that could help in search for water

    By Ron Cowen
  4. Space

    Ice confirmed on an asteroid

    Reporting from the American Astronomical Society meeting in Puerto Rico, planetary scientists confirm, for the first time, the presence of frozen water on an asteroid.

    By Ron Cowen
  5. Life

    Circadian clockwork takes unexpected turns

    Some neurons in the brain’s master clock fall silent in the afternoon.