Humans
We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
- Health & Medicine
Inactive HIV poses even greater barrier to cure
The reservoir of dormant virus strains is larger than scientists estimated, a finding that could make the virus harder to combat.
- Psychology
Groups recall travel details better than loners
Small teams of people can recite key information from public announcements better than any one person.
- Anthropology
Hunting boosts lizard numbers in Australian desert
Reptiles prefer to live in places aboriginal people have burned.
- Humans
Our Final Invention
Computers already make all sorts of decisions for you. Imagine if the machines controlled even more aspects of life and could truly think for themselves.
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- Health & Medicine
Infant digestive problem more likely with formula
Hypertrophic pyloric stenosis, which causes forceful vomiting, is more common in babies not breast-fed.
- Health & Medicine
Seek Meningitis Vaccine
Excerpt from the November 9, 1963, issue of SCIENCE NEWS LETTER.
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- Anthropology
Fossil skull points to single root for human evolution
New find suggests that humankind’s origins trace to an ancient species that spread from Africa to Asia.
- Health & Medicine
Hopes raised for Ebola treatment
Most monkeys given dual therapy survive infection with lethal virus.
- Health & Medicine
Audio therapy may avert chemo-induced hearing loss
Mice exposed to loud sound before getting chemotherapy preserve valuable cells in the inner ear, a new study shows.
