News

  1. Talk to the Hand: Language might have evolved from gestures

    Language might have evolved from hand gestures, say researchers who study communication in chimpanzees.

    By Patrick Barry
  2. Health & Medicine

    Less Is More (Bone): Yearly osteoporosis drug reduces fractures

    Older women with osteoporosis who received yearly infusions of a drug that prevents bone loss had far fewer fractures than did peers who didn't get the drug.

    By Brian Vastag
  3. Planetary Science

    A solar forecast

    Solar activity, which waxes and wanes in an 11-year cycle, will most likely begin its next round in March 2008 and peak sometime between late 2011 and mid 2012.

    By Ron Cowen
  4. Animals

    Spider blood fluoresces

    Among spiders, fluorescence under ultraviolet light seems to be a widespread trait.