News

  1. Health & Medicine

    Flu vaccine seems to work for kids under 6 months of age

    Babies younger than 6 months appear fully capable of responding to a flu shot.

    By Nathan Seppa
  2. Health & Medicine

    Dengue strikes United States

    Texas has been hit with the first-ever outbreak of dengue hemorrhagic fever in the continental United States.

    By Nathan Seppa
  3. Animals

    Ivory-billed hopes flit to Florida

    There's no photo, but a team of ornithologists says that its sightings suggest that a few ivory-billed woodpeckers still live along the Choctawhatchee River in Florida.

    By Susan Milius
  4. Physics

    Electromagnetism could ease the flow in oil pipelines

    A few minutes of exposure to a magnetic or electric field sharply reduces crude oil's viscosity for hours at a time.