Survey finds that many overweight individuals consider their body size normal and healthy despite having health problems

Days after birth, French and German infants wail to the melodic structure of their languages. (p. 14)

Discussing how physicians and patients can cure their misunderstandings of medical statistics.

Amputees who feel phantom limbs can learn to do physically impossible body tricks

Scientists argue a newly discovered stretch of DNA essential for larynx development may have allowed the evolution of language. (p. 11)

Bacon, cheesecake and Ho Hos elicit addictive behavior in rats similar to the behavior of rats addicted to heroin. (p. 8)

Droughts were actually good times for early humans, helping to develop skills for survival in other parts of the world, Lisa Grossman reports in a blog from the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing's New Horizons in Science meeting.

Headache patients may benefit from drug treatment even if they also suffer from depression or anxiety.