News
- Earth
Smog’s heavy impacts
Being overweight increases the risk that people will develop breathing difficulties after encountering smoggy air.
- Physics
Tiptoe acrobats get it just right
Physicists have found that a water-skating insect leaps off the water surface by applying just the right amount of force. With video.
- Humans
Web Special: Science News Wins Award for Sci-Tech Coverage
Each week, Science News distills "the latest trends and findings in the ever-expanding world of science into must-know information," according to the editors of the Utne Reader, which named Science News magazine winner of its 2007 Independent Press Award in the science and technology category.
- Humans
Web Special: Science News Wins Award for Sci-Tech Coverage
Each week, Science News distills "the latest trends and findings in the ever-expanding world of science into must-know information," according to the editors of the Utne Reader, which named Science News magazine winner of its 2007 Independent Press Awards in the science and technology category.
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Furry Math: Macaques can do sums like people in a hurry
Macaques and college students showed similarities in performance on a computer test of split-second arithmetic, suggesting a common inheritance of the ability to do approximate math without counting.
- Health & Medicine
Not Yet: CDC panel questions antidepressant gene test
A genetic test designed to tailor drug treatment for depression offers little clinical value, says a CDC panel.
- Health & Medicine
Unseen Risk: Lifestyle, physical problems may underlie psoriasis link to early mortality
Severe psoriasis knocks as many years off a person's expected life span as high blood pressure.
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Mean Streets: Kids’ verbal skills drop in bad neighborhoods
A long-term study of Chicago children and their families finds that kids living in the most disadvantaged neighborhoods display substantial declines in verbal ability as they get older, even if they move to a nicer community.
- Astronomy
Black Hole Bully: Galaxy blasts its smaller neighbor
A distant galaxy is shooting a deadly jet of radiation at a neighboring galaxy, astronomers have observed.
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Limiting Damage: Fragile X symptoms modulated in mice
Reducing activity of a gene in mice alleviates many of the symptoms of fragile X syndrome, a genetic defect that causes mental retardation in people.
- Earth
Portrait of a Meltdown: Many factors led to 2007’s record low in Arctic sea ice
A variety of climatological factors converged in a perfect storm that melted the Arctic Ocean's ice cover to a record low in 2007. It could be a harbinger of ice-poor summers for decades to come.
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New clue to Down syndrome, leukemia link
One-fifth of people with Down syndrome who also have acute lymphocytic leukemia harbor a mutation in their JAK2 gene.
