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  1. Health & Medicine

    Tea compound aids dying brain cells

    A constituent of green tea rescues brain cells damaged in a way that mimics the effect of Parkinson's disease.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Malaria’s sweet spot

    The malaria parasite's reliance on a sugar in the gut of mosquitoes may offer a way to block the disease's transmission.

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  3. Astronomy

    Out-of-focus find

    Blurry images yield estimates of the true width of glowing meteor vapor trails in Earth's upper atmosphere.

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  4. 19885

    Astronomer Masanori Iye of the National Observatory of Japan blames the blurry appearance of meteor trails at about 100 kilometers altitude on the fact that they were photographed with telescopes focused at infinity.