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- Health & Medicine
High blood glucose levels linked to dementia
Elderly people with elevated blood glucose levels are more apt to develop dementia, whether or not they have diabetes.
- Animals
Noise may disrupt a bat’s dinner
Mechanical cacophony can drown out the whispers of moving insect prey.
- Neuroscience
Caffeine shakes up growing mouse brains
When pregnant mice consumed caffeine, their offspring had altered neurons and faulty memory.
- Science & Society
HeLa genome offers clues to cells’ cancerous nature
The genetic sequence is published along with an agreement to protect the privacy of the family of the cells’ provider, Henrietta Lacks.
- Science & Society
Flu researchers plan to repeat controversial work
The scientists who made the H5N1 strain transmissible between ferrets intend to do the same with H7N9.
- Animals
Climate change may bring dramatic behavior shifts
Shifting temperatures and rainfall are expected to alter animal lifestyles from the poles to the tropics.
- Neuroscience
One sleepless night weakens resolve in the face of doughnuts
Sleep loss changes brain activity and food preferences.
- Health & Medicine
Space-mapping neurons found in human brain
Grid cells may orient people in Euclidean space.
- Space
Long the stuff of fantasy, wormholes may be coming soon to a telescope near you
For decades now, black holes have been the rock stars of popular astrophysics, both fact and fiction. Physicists rely on them to explain all sorts of mysterious astrophenomena, and black holes have been essential plot devices in various films, from Star Trek (2009) to Galaxy Quest (1999) to (obviously) The Black Hole (1979). But black […]
- Tech
Bandage-like patch dissolves to deliver medicine to skin
Flexible material gets drugs or vaccines into body painlessly.
- Animals
Spider’s personality matters when job hunting
Boldest individuals of social species tasked with seeking out prey.
- Life
Evolution of mammalian monogamy remains mysterious
Two large studies reach opposing conclusions about why males stay with females.
