Humans
We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
- Health & Medicine
Home births more risky than hospital deliveries
Babies born at home are more likely to lack pulse after five minutes.
- Animals
MERS virus jumped several times from animals to humans
More than one person caught new illness from bats, camels or other creatures.
- Humans
Brain research goals laid out
NIH details priority areas, including improving imaging technology and mapping brain structures.
- Psychology
Poker pros’ arms betray their hands
Top players' arm motions when betting provide clues to whether or not they hold strong cards.
- Humans
Chemical behind corked wine quashes other aromas
Old sock smell signals contamination but doesn't belong to TCA, study proposes.
- Psychology
Bad acts spark a ‘cheater’s high’
Committing low-stakes acts of dishonesty enhances perpetrators’ moods.
- Health & Medicine
Alzheimer’s disease protein structure may vary among patients
Two people with different symptoms had amyloid-beta fibers with different shapes.
- Health & Medicine
Vaccine stops deadly sand-fly-spread scourge in animal test
A DNA vaccine triggers protection against the sand-fly-borne scourge Leishmania.
- Health & Medicine
Szechuan pepper taps at nerve fibers
The spice makes lips tingle at 50 beats per second, researchers find.
- Health & Medicine
Fructose may be key to weight gain
Mice that could not make or metabolize the sugar gained less weight than normal mice.
- Math
Egypt wasn’t built in a day, but it did rise quickly
New timeline of ancient civilization’s earliest days finds little time between earliest villages and dominant centralized state.
- Humans
Babies perk up to sounds of ancient hazards
Evolution has primed infants to focus on noises linked to longstanding dangers, a new study finds.
