News

  1. Chemistry

    Old drug, new use

    By screening a library of more than 2,000 existing drugs, researchers have identified an antihistamine that shows activity against malaria.

    By Aimee Cunningham

  2. Bullying leaves mark on kids’ psyches

    Being victimized by bullies at school between ages 5 and 7 promotes a unique set of behavioral and emotional problems in children, regardless of any such problems that they had before entering school.

    By Bruce Bower
  3. Health & Medicine

    Male circumcision could avert millions of HIV infections

    Mass circumcision of boys and men in sub-Saharan Africa could avert 2.7 million new cases of HIV infection over the next decade.

    By Nathan Seppa
  4. Astronomy

    Recurrent Eruption: Explosive stellar saga

    Six thermonuclear explosions have ripped off the outer layers of a dense, nearby star in the past 108 years.