Uncategorized
- Humans
Rising seas made China’s ancient mariners
Ancient environmental changes produced a maritime culture that colonized Taiwan 5,000 years ago, archaeologists contend.
By Bruce Bower - Life
Genes & Cells
Traditional medicine helps give the slip to bacteria, plus insulin insensitivity and dental plaque in this week's news.
By Science News - Health & Medicine
Body & Brain
Thank your mom for your big brain, plus contagious itching and phobia therapy in this week’s news.
By Science News - Humans
Hidden dalliance revealed by X-rays
A high-tech analysis uncovers a 19th century painter’s do-over.
- Life
Great-grandpa’s genes gone, effects stay
Removing an obesity-preventing scrap of DNA from a mouse lineage doesn’t prevent descendants from reaping its slimming benefits for generations.
- Humans
Just breathing in Iraq can be hazardous
Poor air quality is an added danger for troops, testing indicates.
- Health & Medicine
New drug boosts hepatitis C treatments
An experimental medication has cleared a major hurdle and seems poised for FDA approval, two studies show.
By Nathan Seppa - Space
First portraits of Mercury from orbit
MESSENGER spacecraft to capture more than 1,500 images in three days.
By Ron Cowen - Physics
2011 American Physical Society meeting
Powerful X-rays illuminate hidden messages from the past, plus Lyme disease sensors and graphene transistors in meeting news.
By Science News - Physics
2011 American Physical Society meeting
Powerful X-rays illuminate hidden messages from the past, plus Lyme disease sensors and graphene transistors in meeting news.
By Science News - Life
Wasps airlift annoying ants
In a scrap over food, being big and able to fly is an advantage.
By Susan Milius - Health & Medicine
Worms live longer with thioflavin T
A dye commonly used by Alzheimer’s disease researchers to spot misshapen proteins gives lab nematodes longer lives, scientists say.