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- Health & Medicine
Highlights from the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting
Stress and motherhood, tandem MRIs, the memory benefits of resveratrol and more from the organization's meeting November 12-16 in Washington, D.C.
- Health & Medicine
Busting blood clots with a nanoparticle
An experimental technology that delivers medication directly to a dangerous blockage might augment heart attack treatment, a new study finds.
- Health & Medicine
Highlights from the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions
Vitamin D and heart disease, the effectiveness of external defibrillators, a shot to lower cholesterol, and more from the Orlando, Fla., meeting.
- Health & Medicine
Magic trick reveals unconscious knowledge
People know more than they think when it comes to visual information, study shows.
- Physics
Superconductor may hide long-sought secret
It conducts electricity without resistance, sure; but a new material could also demonstrate the existence of a particle proposed 70 years ago.
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Grocers stacking oranges demonstrate intuitive grasp of sphere-packing math
They may not know it, but grocers face some of the most difficult questions in mathematics when stacking produce each day. Four centuries ago, the astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler guessed that the standard grocers’ method of piling oranges packs the most fruit into the least space. Confirming he was right had to wait until […]
- Health & Medicine
Exceptional memory linked to bulked-up parts of brain
People with total recall of their life’s events have enlargement in a region also associated with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
- Health & Medicine
Childhood sex abuse tied to heart risk
Women victimized as children or in adolescence have increased cardiac disease in adulthood, a study shows.
- Health & Medicine
Sleep doesn’t help old folks remember
Reduced quality of slumber with age erases memory benefits of snoozing.
- Earth
Dirty air fosters precipitation extremes
Changes to clouds encourage drought in dry areas and torrential downpours in moist places.
- Health & Medicine
Mirrors can alleviate arthritis
Swapped-hand illusion produces drop in pain ratings, preliminary study shows.
