News

  1. Life

    Buzzing bees protect plant leaves

    Honeybee air traffic can interrupt caterpillars' relentless munching.

    By Susan Milius
  2. Earth

    Warmer oceans would fuel more thunderstorms

    Satellite data reveal more thunderheads forming as tropical sea-surface temperatures rise.

    By Sid Perkins
  3. Humans

    Taking trophy heads close to home

    Members of the prehistoric Nasca culture in southern Peru took trophy heads from their own people rather than from foreigners captured in wars or raids, a new biochemical analysis suggests.

    By Bruce Bower
  4. Earth

    Corals, turfgrass and sediments offer stories of climate past and future

    Science News reports from San Francisco at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union

    By Sid Perkins
  5. Health & Medicine

    For preemies, less is more

    Multiple courses of steroid treatment for mom could harm premature babies.