News

  1. Health & Medicine

    Nobel Prize in medicine given for HIV, HPV discoveries

    Three Europeans recognized for linking viruses to AIDS, cervical cancer.

    By Nathan Seppa
  2. Physics

    Charging up fuel injection

    A new device uses an electric field to increase cars’ gas mileage.

    By Patrick Barry
  3. Humans

    Genetic link to dyslexia

    Scientists studying a large group of British children find a link between a DNA sequence that contains a gene involved in brain development and a range of reading problems, including dyslexia.

    By Bruce Bower
  4. Space

    No naked black holes

    In a simulated merger, astrophysicists tried to push the boundaries of two black holes into shedding their event horizons.