News

  1. Math

    Numbers don’t add up for U.S. girls

    Culture may turn potentially high achievers away from math, new study suggests.

    By Davide Castelvecchi
  2. Life

    Parenthood: Male sharks need not apply

    A second case of a virgin shark birth suggests some female sharks may be able to reproduce without males.

    By Dina Fine Maron
  3. Life

    Climate warms, creatures head for the hills

    Unusual data let scientists test predictions that global warming drives species up slopes.

    By Susan Milius
  4. Life

    Community of one

    Scientists have discovered how a single bacterial species living in a gold mine in South Africa survives on its own.