News

  1. Planetary Science

    Colliding moonlets

    New photos of collisions in one of Saturn’s rings provide a local lab for understanding the interactions that might shape young solar system formation.

    By Ashley Yeager
  2. Earth

    Lucky Shot

    Satellite catches pyroclastic flow in motion.

    By Sid Perkins
  3. Health & Medicine

    Bad synergy

    Hookworm and other parasite infections work in concert to heighten risk of anemia in children. The problem may be especially bad for school-aged children, whose learning ability is often compromised by anemia.

    By Nathan Seppa
  4. Life

    Zombie babysitters

    Wasp attack creates undead caterpillars that protect wasp young

    By Susan Milius
  5. Space

    Better view of the Milky Way

    New studies revise the structure of the Milky Way, exchanging the old map of a four-armed spiral galaxy for a two-arm version.