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Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary . . .
How does her garden grow? From fertile dirt with rusty nails, beer, and bacteria. At least according to the Exploratorium in San Francisco. Now that spring has arrived, green thumbs are itching to get out and get planting, and this hands-on science museum in California has put together a Web site for experienced and budding […]
- Math
The Noisy Game of Baseball
Predicting a baseball player's future batting average (and many other things) is not as simple as relying on past performance, mathematicians say.
- Humans
From the April 9, 1938, issue
Mining limestone to make steel, a bright little bulb, setting a new record on the sun and finding buried thermos bottles.
- Chemistry
Einstein’s invisible hand: Is relativity making metal act like a noble gas?
Element 114 should be chemically similar to lead, but controversial experimental data shows it behaves more like a noble gas, potentially subverting the periodic table's structure.
- Health & Medicine
Stem Cell Snag: Implanted cells may show signs of Parkinson’s
After as many as 16 years, nerve cells transplanted into the brains of Parkinson's patients still thrive, but some show signs of acquiring the disease.
- Health & Medicine
Virus Reprise: Mumps outbreak in 2006 was largest in 20 years
Mumps infected more than 6,500 people in the United States in 2006, the largest outbreak in 20 years.
- Health & Medicine
Body and Brain: Possible link between inflammation and bipolar disorder
Inflammatory genes create a signature for bipolar disorder in some people.
- Animals
Antibiotic Alligator: Promising proteins lurk in reptile blood
Scientists are zeroing in on alligator blood proteins that show promise for fighting disease-causing microbes.
- Humans
Letter from the Publisher
Science News is about to pause briefly before presenting itself to you in a new form, both in print and online.
- Earth
Britain’s biggest meteorite strike
An unusual layer of rock found along Britain's northwestern coast formed from the debris thrown out of a crater when a meteorite struck nearby more than 1 billion years ago.
- Astronomy
Solving a cosmic ray conundrum
Astronomers say they have solved a puzzle about the most energetic particles that smash into Earth.
- Earth
Refuge for the resilient
Some conservationists recommend creating marine parks in areas most likely to survive climate change.
