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  1. Science & Society

    Trauma surgeon studies gun violence stats — and was one

    Joseph Sakran is trying to help counter the U.S. epidemic of gun violence with data.

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  2. Life

    Hybrids reveal the barriers to successful mating between species

    Scientists don’t understand the process of speciation, but hybrids can reveal the genes that keep species apart.

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  3. Animals

    Scary as they are, few vampires have a backbone

    Researchers speculate on why there are so few vampires among vertebrates.

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  4. Physics

    Photons are caught behaving like superconducting electrons

    Light particles, or photons, swap energy like electrons in a superconductor.