Humans
We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
- Life
Pollutants long gone, but disease carries on
Even without new exposures, various chemicals can impact DNA and cause illness across at least three subsequent generations, rat study finds.
- Anthropology
Frozen mummy’s genetic blueprints unveiled
DNA study reveals the 5,300-year-old Iceman had brown eyes, Lyme disease and links to modern-day Corsicans and Sardinians.
- Life
Brain cells know which way you’ll bet
Activity of nerve cells in a key brain structure reveals how people will bet in a card game.
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- Humans
Shelters date to Stone Age
Middle Eastern foragers inhabited dwellings for months at a time around 20,000 years ago.
- Health & Medicine
2012 AAAS Meeting
Highlights from the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in Vancouver, February 16-20.
- Humans
Scientists probe terrorist talk on ‘Dark Web’
Mathematical tools can pry secretive terrorist communications in hidden sector of the Internet.
- Humans
Oceans set stage for human evolution
Temperature changes off the coast dried out East Africa and allowed grasslands to spread starting around 2 million years ago.
- Humans
Harsh conditions in childhood have long-term effects
Kids from Romanian orphanage also had lower volumes of gray matter.
- Archaeology
Archaeoacoustics: Tantalizing, but fantastical
While compelling, findings lack scientific rigor.
- Health & Medicine
Osteoporosis drugs delivered wirelessly
Implanted microchip that releases medications on command has been tested in people for the first time.
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