Humans
We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
- Health & Medicine
Mom’s nutrition puts a stamp on baby’s DNA
A new study is the latest in a growing list of how the environment sculpts a person’s epigenome.
- Health & Medicine
MERS outbreak picks up pace in Middle East
As the number of MERS cases increases, researchers race to learn more about the deadly virus carried by camels.
- Health & Medicine
First MERS case found in the U.S.
Patient in Indiana had traveled from Arabian Peninsula, where most of the 463 cases of Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome have occurred.
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- Archaeology
Written in bone
Researchers are reconstructing the migrations that carried agriculture into Europe by analyzing DNA from the skeletons of early farmers and the people they displaced.
- Psychology
Basketball players richly rewarded for selfishness in playoffs
Future paychecks trip up teamwork in NBA championship tournament.
- Health & Medicine
Musicians have elevated risk of hearing loss
Compared to the general public, professional musicians' risk of hearing loss and ringing in the ears is higher, a new study shows.
- Science & Society
Anti-leukemia vaccine reported hope of future
Fifty years ago, Science News Letter reported on the promise of a vaccine to prevent leukemia. No preventive vaccine has come to pass, but leukemia vaccines as treatments has yielded promising results.
- Neuroscience
Humans can sniff out gender
A new study adds to controversy of whether people have pheromones.
- Psychology
Leonardo da Vinci may have invented 3-D image with ‘Mona Lisa’
A mysterious copy of the ‘Mona Lisa’ combines with the Louvre painting to make a stereoscopic image of the woman with the enigmatic smile.
- Humans
Neandertals’ inferiority to early humans questioned
Early modern humans may not have been smarter or more technologically or socially savvy than their Neandertal neighbors.
- Health & Medicine
Drug resistance has gone global, WHO says
World Health Organization reports that antibiotics are failing worldwide against infections.
