News

  1. Health & Medicine

    Brain trauma

    Cooling the body temperature of a child who has severe brain injury doesn’t seem to help recovery, but the jury is still out.

    By Nathan Seppa
  2. Space

    Potential future fireworks

    Already bright enough to be seen with the naked eye, the star epsilon Aurigae may be trembling at the brink of a powerful outburst.

    By Ron Cowen
  3. Chemistry

    Life before proteins

    Spheres of fat suggest a way that life on Earth could have gotten started.

    By Patrick Barry
  4. Earth

    Slip, Slide, Shake

    Analyses of GPS and seismic data about one of Antarctica’s largest and most dynamic glaciers provide new insights into the ice stream’s lurching march to the sea.