News

  1. Health & Medicine

    Obesity surgery’s benefits extend to next generation

    Children born to women who have undergone weight-loss surgery are healthier than children born to moms who are severely obese, a study shows.

    By Nathan Seppa
  2. Earth

    Oh, rats — there go the snails

    A food fad among introduced rats has apparently crashed a once-thriving population of Hawaii’s famed endemic tree snails.

    By Susan Milius
  3. Animals

    Oops, missed that fossil iridescence

    Nanostructures on a preserved feather offer the first fossil evidence of bird colors not from pigments, a new study says.

    By Susan Milius
  4. Earth

    A trip to the garbage patch

    Scientists bring back samples from the oceanic garbage patch off the coast of California.