News

  1. Tech

    Teasing Apart Nanotubes: Fast-spun carbon fibers may feed an industry

    Researchers have devised a way to sort carbon nanotubes by size and electronic properties.

    By Peter Weiss
  2. Health & Medicine

    Life Blood: Drug stops mothers’ bleeding after births

    A drug sometimes used to induce abortions can stem bleeding after childbirth.

    By Christen Brownlee
  3. Humans

    Smoke Out: Bartenders’ lungs appreciate ban

    Pub workers in Scotland breathed easier and showed better respiratory health shortly after a nationwide ban on smoking inside public spaces went into effect.

    By Nathan Seppa
  4. Health & Medicine

    Many infections tied to medical settings

    More than one-fourth of skin or muscle infections that require hospitalization originate from microbes acquired in a clinic, hospital, or other medical-care setting.