News

  1. Earth

    How reading may protect the brain

    People who read well show more resistance to the toxic brain effects of lead exposure.

    By Janet Raloff
  2. Animals

    What’s so great about ‘chuck’?

    A particular flourish in a male frog's call attracts extra interest from predators as well as female frogs, and researchers now have an idea why.

    By Susan Milius
  3. Animals

    Badly matched birds make troubled parents

    Cockatiel pairs that don't cooperate well have trouble raising their chicks.

    By Susan Milius
  4. Physics

    Newton’s Dusty Mirror: Old experiment inspires ultrafast imaging

    An experiment devised by Isaac Newton inspires a modern successor, in which X rays capture the image of a microscopic explosion.