News

  1. Health & Medicine

    New Task: Malaria drug might inhibit some cancers

    The antimalarial drug chloroquine may prevent some cancers.

    By Nathan Seppa
  2. Humans

    Science News wins independent press award

    The Editors of the Utne Reader have named Science News magazine a 2007 winner in its science and technology category.

    By Science News
  3. Humans

    Science Service Becomes Society for Science & the Public

    Science Service, founded in 1921 to provide better information to the public about scientific discoveries, is changing its name to Society for Science & the Public, reflecting a renewed mission to advance public engagement in science.

    By Elizabeth Marincola
  4. Earth

    In 2007, Greenland set a melting record

    The duration and extent of ice melt across high-altitude portions of the Greenland ice sheet last year were the highest they've been in recent decades, satellite observations indicate.