News

  1. Humans

    Radio relief for Rwandans’ social conflicts

    Rwandans who listened to a yearlong radio soap opera developed increased tolerance for dissent, a greater sense of cooperation and more acceptance of marriage across ethnic lines.

    By Bruce Bower
  2. Earth

    Goo gives eels just the right buoyancy

    Scientists survey the specific gravity of 25 marine critters.

    By Rachel Ehrenberg
  3. Health & Medicine

    Scientists find a soup of suspects while probing milk’s link to cancer

    Latest studies focus on estrogens, androgens and IGF-1.

    By Janet Raloff
  4. Planetary Science

    Seeing the future hot spells

    Satellite data could help scientists better predict killer heat waves, such as the one that hit Europe in 2003.