Health & Medicine
- Climate
Science’s inconvenient (but interesting) uncertainties
In the latest issue of Science News, Editor in Chief Eva Emerson talks climate change, mouth microbes, and synthetic life.
- Health & Medicine
Gum disease opens up the body to a host of infections
Researchers are getting to the root of gum disease's implications for other diseases.
- Neuroscience
Hippocampus makes maps of social space, too
The hippocampus is a multitalented mapmaker.
- Health & Medicine
Five things to know about Zika
Last week, a public health poll pointed to some myths that have been circulating about Zika. Let’s bust them.
- Health & Medicine
Global obesity rates continue to climb
Despite public health campaigns, the worldwide prevalence of obesity is on the rise, an analysis of BMI data suggest.
- Health & Medicine
Machine makes drugs on demand
A new drug-making system rapidly produces a variety of medications on demand.
- Health & Medicine
Fridge-sized contraption makes drugs on demand
A new drug-making system rapidly produces a variety of medications on demand.
- Neuroscience
Nerve cell links severed in early stages of Alzheimer’s
Nerve cell connections may be trimmed too much in early stages of Alzheimer’s.
- Health & Medicine
Environment still tied to MS risk
50 years ago, scientists reported a possible connection between the environment and multiple sclerosis risk.
- Health & Medicine
Should C-section babies get wiped down with vagina microbes?
A study suggests that a post-birth rubdown with vaginal fluid offers starter microbes to babies born by C-section. But it might not always be a good idea.
- Health & Medicine
Cancer killers send signal of success
Newly designed nanoparticles deliver anticancer drugs and updates on tumor death.
- Genetics
Zika may have flown to Brazil in 2013
The brand of Zika currently floating around the Americas traces its origins to Asia and may have arrived in Brazil by air as early as 2013.
