More Stories from the September 27, 2008 issue
- Psychology
World of hurt
Treatments shown to diminish psychological problems in traumatized youngsters often don’t get used, an exhaustive research review concludes.
- Health & Medicine
Amniotic sac not so sacrosanct
Infections found in amniotic fluid may be more common than thought and may cause premature birth.
- Health & Medicine
Eye protection
A variant form of a gene called TLR3 offers some protection against the eye disease known as dry macular degeneration.
- Humans
Honey of a discovery
Investigators have discovered the remains of 3,000-year-old beehives in Israel, offering a glimpse of the oldest known beekeeping operation.
- Space
Cosmic heavyweight
Astronomers discover the heftiest, most distant galaxy cluster, suggesting evidence for dark energy’s existence.
- Neuroscience
New insights on new neurons
Neurogenesis works differently in two parts of the brain. New neurons are necessary for making memories and keep the olfactory bulb’s structure but aren’t needed for smelling, study in mice shows.
- Life
Gene linked to commitment-phobia
A common gene variation in men is linked to marital crises and less bonding in a study of more than 500 long-term couples.
- Physics
Electrons as math whizzes
A new paper suggests the possibility that the behavior of electrons in quantum systems could verify Riemann’s famous conjecture about prime numbers.
- Health & Medicine
Calcium clue
Excess calcium in the blood might signal an increased risk of fatal prostate cancer, a new study finds.
- Space
Milky Way’s black hole seen in new detail
New radio wave observations are giving astronomers their closest look yet at the supermassive black hole believed to be lurking at the center of our galaxy.
- Humans
Infants have social sightlines
One-year olds can translate personal experience into knowledge about others
- Life
Gene regulation makes the human
The regulation of genes, rather than genes alone, may have been crucial to primate evolution.
- Space
PAMELA may have spotted the dark stuff
An orbiting observatory may have discovered particles of dark matter -- the proposed, invisible material that researchers believe holds the universe together.
- Physics
The proton’s strange new cousin
Physicists have discovered a new particle made of three quarks, including two strange quarks. Its existence further validates the standard model of particle physics.
- Humans
Inborn path to math
A new study links math achievement with individual differences in the ability to rapidly estimate quantities.
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- Neuroscience
Breaking the Barrier
A technique combining ultrasound pulses with microbubbles may help scientists move therapeutic drugs across the brain’s protective divide.
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