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  1. Genetics

    Resistance to CRISPR gene drives may arise easily

    New tools for pest and disease control could become useless without improvements.

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  2. Physics

    Majorana fermion detected in a quantum layer cake

    Scientists found evidence of a particle that is its own antiparticle.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Cows produce powerful HIV antibodies

    For the first time in any animal, researchers elicit broadly neutralizing antibodies against HIV. Cows’ antibodies could help with drug development.

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  4. Genetics

    These genes may be why dogs are so friendly

    Dog domestication may be the result of just a few genetic changes, including ones that made canines more interested in interacting with people.

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  5. Archaeology

    Humans first settled in Australia as early as 65,000 years ago

    Australia may have said “G’day” to humankind thousands of years earlier than previously believed.

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  6. Tech

    The incredible shrinking transistor just got smaller

    Tiniest transistor, made with carbon nanotubes, suggests computers aren’t done shrinking down.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    Common drugs help reverse signs of fetal alcohol syndrome in rats

    A thyroid hormone and a blood sugar drug affect levels of a hormone needed for brain development, study in rats shows.

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  8. Genetics

    Dog domestication happened just once, ancient DNA study suggests

    DNA of ancient canines counters idea that dogs were domesticated twice, in Europe and Asia.

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  9. Physics

    Scientists peek inside the mind of Maxwell’s demon

    Scientists probe information retained by Maxwell’s demon.

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  10. Planetary Science

    Giant mud balls roamed the early solar system

    The first asteroids may have been great balls of mud, which would solve some puzzling features of meteorites.

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  11. Agriculture

    GM moth trial gets a green light from USDA

    GM diamondback moths will take wing in a New York field trial.

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  12. Animals

    Water bears will survive the end of the world as we know it

    Water bears have a till-death-do-us-part pact with the sun, study suggests.

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