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  1. Life

    When two hyenas get the giggles

    Laughs of higher-status individuals are more posh, a study in a captive colony suggests.

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  2. Anthropology

    Inca cemetery holds brutal glimpses of Spanish violence

    Bones from a 500-year-old cemetery have yielded the first direct evidence of Inca death at Spaniards’ hands.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Bees forage with their guts

    Researchers show that a gene helps honeybees choose between nectar and pollen.

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  4. Space

    Cosmic magnetic field strength measured

    Hints of weak magnetism between galaxies narrows options for how the early universe got its fields.

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  5. Humans

    For a rare few, driving and cell phones go well together

    Some people do well at combining driving with cell phone use, raising questions about the nature of attention.