
Sorry, cities: No strength in numbers
Urban legislators have long lamented that they do not get their fair share of bills passed in state governments, often blaming rural and suburban interests for blocking their efforts. Now a new study confirms one of those suspicions but surprisingly refutes the other.

Peeking into Schrödinger’s box
How do you measure a 27-dimensional quantum state, when the act of measuring can lead to its collapse? (photo by Flickr user Martin Cathrae)

Secret to Peanut-Shaped Star Orbits Peeled Away
Alice Quillen, professor of astronomy, and collaborators have created a mathematical model of what might be happening at the center of the Milky Way.

Depression Therapy Effective for Poor, Minority Moms
The study tested the effectiveness of interpersonal psychotherapy, a short-term depression treatment that has worked with more advantaged populations. The comparison was clear: home-based, interpersonal psychotherapy lifted depression much more effectively than standard care.

‘Seeing’ in the Dark
The eerie ability to see our hand in the dark suggests that the brain combines information from different senses to create perceptions.

First Results from Dark Matter Detector Announced
A mile underground in the Black Hills of South Dakota, a new experiment named LUX has proven itself the most sensitive dark matter detector in the world.

Super-thin membranes portend tiny pumps
A super-thin silicon membrane could pave the way for diagnostic devices the size of a credit card.

Tracking Tweets to Enhance Food Safety
The system combines machine-learning and crowdsourcing techniques to analyze millions of tweets to find people reporting food poisoning symptoms following a restaurant visit.

New Type of Neutrino Oscillation Confirmed
The new finding could help explore a fundamental question of science – why is the universe made up almost exclusively of matter, when matter and antimatter were created in equal amounts in the Big Bang?

Madagascar No Longer an Evolutionary Hotspot
Daniel Scantlebury calls Madagascar “an ideal evolutionary laboratory” for studying species formation because it has long been isolated and geologically stable relative to other regions.