News

  1. Plants

    Tough Frills: Ferns’ wimp stage aces survival test

    A supposedly fragile stage in the life of ferns shows surprising toughness.

    By Susan Milius
  2. Health & Medicine

    Superbug: What makes one bacterium so deadly

    A molecule that pierces immune cells gives some aggressive antibiotic-resistant staph bacteria their fearsome virulence.

    By Sarah Williams
  3. Earth

    New climate sensor: Swiss grapes

    Records of grape harvests reveal the summer climate in parts of Switzerland as far back as the 1400s.

    By Sid Perkins
  4. Health & Medicine

    Too little sleep may fatten kids

    Lack of sleep may promote childhood obesity.

    By Janet Raloff
  5. Tech

    Bucky shrink-wrap

    Scientists filmed cage-shaped carbon molecules as they shrank to become buckyballs.