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Learning mathematics may make the brain reorganize the way it works.Published: 2008-12-08 11:35:56Found in: Body & Brain, Numbers and Science News For Kids -
Clothes moth larvae snack on hair from corpses, providing police with genetic clues.Published: 2008-12-08 11:36:34Found in: Life, Science & Society, Science News For Kids and Zoology -
A blog entry on the Sussex Amateur Brain Surgery Club’s website boasts that “these days, brain surgery is very much the preserve of professional surgeons, but we at the Amateur Brain Surgery Club believe that anyone can do it, with a few basic tools and a little care.” The post is a spoof, but whoever penned those words may be on to something. The right tools could make treating the brain a simpler, less invasive process. Researchers have zeroed in on two such tools—sound waves and microscopic bubbles—that may eventually allow doctors to tackle a range of ... (p. 20)Published: September 27th, 2008; Vol.174 #7Found in: Body & Brain, Humans and Technology -
Tasmanian devils have started mating much earlier in response to an epidemic, called facial tumor disease, that is wiping out much of their population.Published: 2008-07-15 10:49:46Found in: Biology, Ecology, Life and Zoology -
Skeletal muscle stem cells can fix weakling muscles in mice and could eventually lead to treatments for muscular dystrophy.Published: August 2nd, 2008; Vol.174 #3Found in: Biomedicine and Body & Brain
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Skulls of Neandertal ancestors show the prehistoric humans had a hearing capacity similar to present-day people, suggesting human speech could have originated much earlier than previously thought.Published: 2008-07-07 16:24:58Found in: Anthropology and Humans -
“What makes a man?” Flam, a science writer who pens a sex column for The Philadelphia Inquirer, seeks a scientific answer to this often-asked question. Her search takes her from a seduction boot camp for men to the labs of evolutionary biologists, sociologists and physiologists who study gender differences. From mushrooms with 30,000 sexes to sea worms that compete to be the male, Flam surveys the natural world to explain why human males evolved the way they did, revealing a riotous diversity in the way life begets life. While human males have one X and one Y chromosome, for inst...Published: 2008-07-04 13:41:03Found in: Humans -
When it comes to heart function, the concentration of pollution in the air may matter less than its chemical makeup.Published: 2008-06-23 09:14:57Found in: Body & Brain, Environment and Science & Society
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Targeting a receptor on immune cells may hold promise for treating multiple sclerosis and asthma.Published: 2008-06-19 12:26:49Found in: Biomedicine and Body & Brain -
Color MRI scans may one day be possible, thanks to microscopic, tunable magnets.Published: 2008-06-18 16:13:32Found in: Body & Brain
