News

  1. Animals

    SOS: Call the ants

    Emergency ant workers bite at snares, dig and tug to free trapped sisters

    By Susan Milius
  2. Life

    Vegetarian spider

    The first known spider with a predominantly meatless diet nibbles trees.

    By Susan Milius
  3. Health & Medicine

    Bone-preserving drug passes tests in men, women

    New drug limits bone fractures in elderly women and men fighting prostate cancer

    By Nathan Seppa
  4. Health & Medicine

    Neurons play Simon Says

    A new study finds evidence for mirror neurons in people.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  5. Space

    Half the boom better than no boom at all

    The Large Hadron Collider will begin colliding protons at half of the designed energy this November, with plans to repair the faulty sections of the accelerator at the end of 2010.