News

  1. Health & Medicine

    XXL from Too Few Zs? Skimping on sleep might cause obesity, diabetes

    Widespread sleep deprivation could partly explain the current epidemics of both obesity and diabetes.

    By
  2. Smarty Brains: High-IQ kids navigate notable neural shifts

    Children with extremely high IQ scores display a distinctive pattern of brain development, characterized by dramatic thickening and then by marked thinning of brain tissue.

    By
  3. Tech

    Corralling Brownian motion

    A new microscope system uses electrically controlled fluid motions to counteract Brownian motion, preventing those random jitters from driving proteins, viruses, and other tiny objects out of the field of view.

    By
  4. Physics

    Tiny wires trigger electric reversal

    Ultrathin zinc nanowires exhibit a puzzling conductivity reversal that flies in the face of known wire behavior.