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  1. Materials Science

    Spring in your step? The forces in cartilage

    Researchers are uncovering the role of molecular forces in cartilage's ability to resist compression.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Appetite-suppressing drug burns fat, too

    An experimental drug seems to assail obesity through dual biological actions.

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  3. Physics

    Double or Nothing

    The hunt for a rare, hypothetical nuclear transformation known as neutrinoless double-beta decay may answer one of the most urgent questions in physics today: How much do elementary particles called neutrinos weigh?

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  4. Aphids with Attitude

    A few aphid species that live socially in groups raise their own armies of teenage female clones.