Humans
We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
- Psychology
Behind the Shock Machine
The Untold Story of the Notorious Milgram Psychology Experiments by Gina Perry.
- Health & Medicine
Device offers promise of no brain tumor left behind
A new technique might allow surgeons to identify with precision where brain cancer ends and healthy tissue begins.
- Humans
The Tune Wreckers
People who can’t carry a tune, or can but think they can’t, are a rich resource for researchers studying musical ability.
- Health & Medicine
Gut infections keep mice lean
Bacteria can invade one rodent from another, preventing both from getting fat.
- Health & Medicine
Heart disease patients more apt to take one combined pill than many
Patients stayed on track better with a "polypill" than with three medications.
- Health & Medicine
Test could warn of problems for kidney transplant recipients
A urine test for an immune protein might tell doctors whether a patient is headed for trouble.
- Health & Medicine
Don’t stand so close to me
Personal space has a measurable boundary, a study suggests.
- Psychology
Poverty may tax thinking abilities
Scarce funds reduce mental abilities of U.S. shoppers and Indian farmers, experiments suggest.
- Humans
Babies learn words before birth
Brain responses suggest infants can distinguish distinct words from altered versions that they learned in the womb.
- Psychology
Behavioral research may overstate results
'Soft' sciences inflate support for what scientists expected to find, data check suggests.
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- Psychology
Familiar faces
"Super recognizers" never forget a visage, an unusual ability that can be put to good use.
