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  1. Earth

    Glacial breakdown

    Greenland's Helheim Glacier is shedding ice at a high rate.

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  2. 2011 Science News of the Year: Technology

    Courtesy of J. Rogers Epidermal electronics Scientists have created an ultrathin electronic device that puckers, stretches, wrinkles and bends just like human skin (SN: 9/10/11, p. 10). This flexible patch could one day allow the human body to enter the digital world, enabling Internet browsing without the mouse or communication without words. The patch’s electronics […]

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  3. 2011 Science News of the Year: Earth

    NASA Warming slowdown The planet’s overall temperature has been climbing upward, but that trend stalled during the early 2000s — and now scientists think they can explain why.