News

  1. Humans

    Study finds bias in peer review

    Researchers have found evidence of bias when scientists review data and the researcher's name and affiliation are available to the reviewers.

    By Janet Raloff
  2. Animals

    Bird hormone cuts noise distractions

    A jolt of springtime hormones makes a female sparrow's brain more responsive to song.

    By Susan Milius
  3. Health & Medicine

    Small Wonder: Taking the bite out of anthrax toxin

    Using a submicroscopic synthetic blob called a liposome, scientists have neutralized anthrax toxin in rats.

    By Nathan Seppa
  4. Animals

    Grammar’s for the Birds: Human-only language rule? Tell starlings

    A grammatical pattern called recursion, once proposed as unique to human language, turns out to fall within the learning abilities of starlings.