News

  1. Archaeology

    Tools with handles even more ancient

    An analysis of stone tools excavated at a Syrian site indicates that, around 70,000 years ago, Neandertals used a tarlike adhesive to affix sharpened items to handles.

    By Bruce Bower
  2. Health & Medicine

    Stronger role for a breast cancer drug

    Going beyond its original role as an add-on for chemotherapy, the breast cancer drug lapatinib, when taken with another kind of frontline drug, may find use for patients with the HER2-positive form of the cancer.

    By Nathan Seppa
  3. Life

    Study raises worries for zoo-born elephants

    Study of captive-born females finds big survival gap between zoo natives and elephants in native ranges.