News

  1. Animals

    Babbling Bats: Do pups talk baby talk as human infants do?

    Young sac-winged bats make long strings of adultlike noises and could be the first animals besides some primates and birds that babble when they're babies.

    By Susan Milius
  2. Earth

    Breaking Crust: Sonar finds new kind of deep-sea volcano

    Undersea explorations more than 600 kilometers east of Japan have discovered evidence of a previously unknown type of volcanism.

    By Sid Perkins
  3. Astronomy

    Double disks

    Astronomers have confirmed that the nearby star Beta Pictoris has two disks of dust orbiting it, each of which is generated by debris likely to be left over from planet formation.

    By Ron Cowen
  4. Tech

    Litmus test gets tiny

    When zapped by a laser, new, light-sensitive nanobaubles could provide a reading of pH, or how acidic or basic a solution is, even from deep inside living cells.