News

  1. Space

    Large Hadron Collider shuts down early for the winter

    CERN announces that needed repairs, plus high fuel costs, will delay the first planned collisions until next spring.

    By Ron Cowen
  2. Planetary Science

    Saturn’s rings may not be as young as they look

    Saturn's rings might be more massive, and thus older, than researchers had believed.

    By Ron Cowen
  3. Life

    Nanoparticles: size and charge matter

    Nanoparticles can be designed for targeted delivery of drugs or genes into the body. New work reveals details of how blood proteins respond to these particles.

    By Patrick Barry
  4. Health & Medicine

    This is the brain on age

    The activity of genes in men's brains begins to change sooner than it does in women's brains, a new study shows.