News

  1. Physics

    Watching the northern lights form

    Scientists may have solved the mystery of what triggers the events that spark the northern and southern lights.

    By Ashley Yeager
  2. Life

    Choose your own splicer

    Zinc-finger proteins can cut, splice or tweak a targeted gene, and a new “open source” method for making customized zinc-finger proteins aimed at specific genes will give scientists easier access to this powerful genetic tool.

    By Patrick Barry
  3. Plants

    Fugitives spread bumblebee diseases

    Pathogens hitchhike on commercial bees that escape from greenhouses. These escapees bring disease to wild bumblebees.

    By Susan Milius
  4. Health & Medicine

    New HIV inhibitor

    A new HIV drug can, when combined with other therapies, suppress even the most drug-resistant strains of the virus that causes AIDS, scientists report in two papers in the July 24 New England Journal of Medicine.