News

  1. Health & Medicine

    Sticky treatment for staph infections

    Honey from New Zealand gums up bacteria, offering a potential new means of combating difficult-to-treat infections.

    By Brian Vastag
  2. Astronomy

    Crash will determine solar system’s fate

    The solar system already lies in the suburbs of the Milky Way, but the sun and its planets will be yanked even farther away about 5 billion years from now.

    By Ron Cowen
  3. Earth

    Guidelines for wind farms

    National policies to maximize the benefits of wind farms while lessening their environmental impacts may be needed.

    By Aimee Cunningham
  4. Physics

    Magnetic Logic: Electron spins could do cool calculations

    Novel circuits use electrons as tiny bar magnets to process information.