Adults over 60 who played for several hours a month beat untrained 20-year-olds in racing game

People stayed on top of their medications better with a 'polypill'

A second, hidden chytrid species attacks amphibians

Assay for biomarker could reduce need for biopsies

Future conditions less likely to steer hurricanes directly into the East Coast

Birds get more efficient the more they migrate

Simple new device could find use in loudspeakers, artificial muscles or soft robots

Personal space has a measurable boundary

But sudden windfalls improve poor people's mental fortunes

Almost twice as ancient, star gives glimpse of sun's future

Newly discovered chasm helps explain island's lack of subglacial lakes

Stem cells arrange themselves into a version of the most complex human organ

Pigs vaccinated against one influenza virus got lung damage if infected with another strain

Thick, rigid crust of ice encases Saturn's largest moon, perplexing scientists

Average air temperatures' rise has paused, but not stopped, because of normal variation in ocean temperatures

Worms and Giardia can antagonize each other in the human intestinal tract

Brain responses suggest infants can distinguish distinct sounds from altered versions

Analysis implicates ambiguous methods and publish-or-perish culture in the United States

Satellite data capture how jet stream pushed particles through planet's atmosphere

It had been NASA’s top planet-hunting telescope