News

  1. Animals

    Woodpecker video is challenged and defended

    The video released last spring as evidence that the ivory-billed woodpecker exists may show a common pileated woodpecker, some critics say.

    By Susan Milius
  2. Humans

    Science’s New Guard: Winners of annual competition get honors and hefty scholarships

    For her water-quality research project, an 18-year-old from Utah earned top honors among 40 competitors in the final phase of the annual Intel Science Talent Search.

    By Ben Harder
  3. Materials Science

    The art of the fold

    With DNA origami, researchers can make complex nanostructures.

    By Carolyn Gramling
  4. Animals

    Can You Hear Me Now? Frogs in roaring streams use ultrasonic calls

    A small frog living beside Chinese hot springs may be the first amphibian known to use ultrasound in its calls.