News

  1. Tech

    Tractor beam

    Magnetic nanoparticles selectively bind to specific bacteria and can drag them out of a liquid.

    By Davide Castelvecchi
  2. Humans

    Strategies to improve teaching

    Incorporating emerging data on how kids learn and cement ideas could help schools teach science more effectively, a new report argues.

    By Janet Raloff
  3. Health & Medicine

    Putting tumors on pause

    Keeping benign breast tumors from progressing into a malignant cancer can be achieved in mice by reducing a signaling protein.

    By Patrick Barry
  4. Health & Medicine

    Diabetes drug shows new potential

    Exendin-4 (exenatide) might complement a drug called anti-CD3 monoclonal antibody in reversing type 1 diabetes, a study in mice shows.