News
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Tots Who Tote: Babies show neural signs of budding number sense
By three months of age, infants already display separate brain networks for detecting changes in either the number or the types of objects that they see.
- Earth
Finding Fault: Trace of old subduction zone found in Italy
A thick layer of rocks now lying high in the mountains of Italy is the remains of a quake-generating subduction zone active under the sea millions of years ago, a discovery that provides clues about ancient seismic activity along this interface between tectonic plates and insights into what may be happening along many such subduction zones today.
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Growing Up to Prozac: Drug makes new neurons mature faster
Prozac may relieve depression by stimulating growth and maturation of neurons in some parts of the brain.
- Archaeology
Zeus’ altar drew early visitors
Archaeologists have discovered evidence that people used a ceremonial altar to the ancient Greek god Zeus around 5,000 years ago, a millennium before Zeus worship originated.
- Archaeology
The Black Death chose its victims selectively
An analysis of medieval skeletons in England and Denmark finds that the devastating epidemic known as the Black Death killed excess numbers of people who were physically frail to begin with.
- Earth
Early dioxin exposure hinders sperm later
Dioxin exposure at an early age affects sperm quality later in life.
- Chemistry
Chomping on uranium
Chemists forced the most common form of uranium into a new kind of chemical reaction, which could lead to new industrial applications and new tools to clean up the environment.
- Humans
Diabetes drug and conflicts of interest
A U.S. senator outed a noted diabetes researcher for breaking confidentiality and leaking a study while he was peer-reviewing it for a major journal.
- Humans
Web Special: Diabetes drug and conflicts of interest
A U.S. senator outed a noted diabetes researcher for breaking confidentiality and leaking a study while he was peer reviewing it for a major journal.
- Humans
Web Special: Diabetes drug and conflicts of interest
A U.S. senator outed a noted diabetes researcher for breaking confidentiality and leaking a study while he was peer reviewing it for a major journal.
- Health & Medicine
Warning Sign: Genetic fragments tag cancer severity
High levels of the microRNA miR-21 lead to poor prognoses for colon cancer patients.
- Animals
The naming of the elephant-shrew
A new species of giant elephant-shrew, small bounding forest dwellers very distantly related to elephants, has been discovered in Tanzania. With video.
