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  1. Health & Medicine

    Protein implicated in many cancers

    A hormone receptor that shows up in 11 tumor types might make a good target for drugs, a new study suggests.

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  2. Life

    Gene therapy for depression

    Researchers were able to reduce pathological behaviors in mice by delivering genetic material to a particular brain region.

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  3. Space

    New cosmic distance record-holder

    A faraway galaxy hails from a time when the 13.7-billion-year-old universe was a mere 600 million years old.

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  4. Life

    Splices of time

    Organisms distinguish day and night by shifting the way genes are interpreted.

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  5. Animals

    Lady MacBee

    In one stingless Brazilian species, young queens shut out of succession in their own hives often usurp another colony’s throne.