Notebook

Newborns deprived of oxygen have their temperatures lowered to protect against brain damage, but it’s hard to decipher the babies’ immediate response to the intervention.

Researchers are beginning to uncover a link between activity level and the microbial makeup of one’s gut.

Parallel evolution in jaws and teeth helped early mammals diversify their diets.

Locals helped researchers find the extremely rare boa.

Teams of modelers compete to develop algorithms for estimating how people will perceive a particular odor from its molecular characteristics.

The green peach aphid can colonize new host plants with ease through rapid changes in gene expression.

Researchers are redesigning the humble brick to produce electricity, to clean water and air, and to harvest valuable compounds.

The giant lizards have numerous microbicidal compounds in their blood.

Human visitors to camera traps display, well, human behavior.

Overcooked potatoes and burnt toast contain acrylamide, a potential carcinogen that researchers have struggled to reliably link to human cancers.

A plant breeder succeeds in growing a huge maize plant thanks to a known mutation and a few environmental tricks.

Despite an overall decrease in the number of US cancer deaths, some cancer types are on the rise, and disparities remain between genders and ethnicities.