Humans
We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
- Health & Medicine
Easy steps limit antibiotic-resistant infections in hospitals
Intensive care units that bathe patients and take other precautions have fewer cases of staph, a study finds.
- Health & Medicine
Mars trip would deliver big radiation dose
Curiosity instrument confirms expectation of major exposures.
- Health & Medicine
Cancer drug damages mouse hearts by slaying helpful cells
Explanation for side effect in people could provide way to avoid it.
- Health & Medicine
Underactive thyroid ups pregnancy risks
Several complications are more common in women with the condition, including gestational diabetes and cesarean births.
- Life
Response to bacterial infection depends on time of day
Mice that got Salmonella in the evening fared better than those given the microbe in the morning.
- Life
A molecular window on itch
Researchers discover chemical puppet master behind the need to scratch.
- Psychology
Less is more for smart perception
Neural efficiency reigns in brains of high-IQ individuals as they view their surroundings, a new study indicates.
- Psychology
Dog sniffs out grammar
After years of word training, a canine intuitively figures out how simple sentences work.
- Humans
Teens take home science gold at Intel ISEF
Self-driving vehicles, battery alternatives and analyses of galaxy clusters claim top prizes at global high school science competition.
- Humans
Highlights from the Biology of Genomes meeting
Highlights from the genome biology meeting held May 7-11 in Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y., include an enormous tree's enormous genome, genes for strong-swimming sperm, and back-to-Africa migration some 3,000 years ago.
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- Psychology
Closed Thinking
Without scientific competition and open debate, much psychology research goes nowhere.
