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- Health & Medicine
Ginkgo biloba fails drug test
The herbal supplement Ginkgo biloba fails to prevent Alzheimer’s disease or other dementia, a large trial finds.
- Animals
Forensics’ next tool: Hair-collecting caterpillars
First human DNA extraction from hair bits in moth larval case.
- Humans
Moonsleeping bad for spacewalking
Day three of the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting offered news about Down syndrome and sleep cycles.
- Psychology
Your body is mine
Scientists have developed a technique for inducing an illusion of having swapped one’s own body with someone else’s body, providing a new means for investigating self-identity and body-image disorders.
- Health & Medicine
Still crazy (in love) after all these years
A brain imaging study reveals that some people are as giddy as teenagers in love, even after two decades of marriage.
- Health & Medicine
Between men and women, dyslexia takes sides
The second day of the Society for Neuroscience meeting offers insights on dyslexia and gender, the brain on age, touch receptors under the skin and a way to reduce brain swelling after head trauma.
- Earth
Subglacial lakes flood, glaciers speed up
Floods that occasionally surge from immense lakes trapped beneath the Antarctic ice sheet can significantly affect the flow rate of overlying glaciers, a new study shows.
- Health & Medicine
Feed your brain: News from neuroscience
Highlights from the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting held in Washington, D.C.
- Health & Medicine
Neandertals, gut microbes and mail-order ancestry tests
Geneticists weigh in during the annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics.
- Space
Misplaced muons either mundane or monumental
During an experiment in Fermilab's Tevatron particle accelerator, a group of elementary particles called muons showed up in a strange place. Physicists are considering the likely implications.
- Health & Medicine
Diversity of human skin bacteria revealed
First large-scale inventory of microbes charts types, locales of bacteria.
- Life
Supreme Court lifts restriction on Navy sonar testing
Justices overturn restrictions that require Navy to stop using sonar when marine mammals are within 2,200 yards of vessels.
