Most Recent Articles from Science News

• Atom & cosmos 

  Black holes may make the universe more disorderly than researchers believed, a new analysis shows. See "Universe has more entropy than thought."

  10/24/09 · More from publication

• Life 

  Infection by a common microbe may have meant starvation for a dino king. Read "Parasite may have felled a mighty T rex." [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

  10/24/09 · More from publication

• Earth 

  Bacteria that thrived on sulfur could have kept other life from evolving on early Earth. See "Earth's 'boring billion' years blamed on...

  10/24/09 · More from publication

• Environment 

  Finding flu meds in rivers has fueled fears of a drug-resistant virus. See "Excreted Tamiflu found in rivers."

  10/24/09 · More from publication

• Correction 

  Janet Raloff's feature article about the current shortage of radioactive isotope feedstocks for use in nuclear medicine ("Desperately seeking...

  10/24/09 · More from publication

• Solving sleep's mysteries seems a Herculean task 

  In the centuries since the early days of Greek civilization, mythological explanations for natural phenomena have steadily succumbed to the...

  10/24/09 by Tom Siegfried · More from publication

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