Humans
We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
- Humans
Fewer fires in Africa these days
How flames spread, not how frequently people start them, controls burning on the continent.
- Humans
Smells like a bear raid
Analysis of stock trading data suggests an effort to manipulate the market in 2007.
- Psychology
Face deficit holds object lesson
A brain-damaged man yields controversial clues to how people identify complex objects.
- Humans
Uncommitted newbies can foil forceful few
Decisions more democratic when individuals with no preset preference join a group.
- Health & Medicine
Gene therapy helps counter hemophilia B
Treatment enables cells to produce a key blood-clotting compound, allowing some patients to quit medication.
- Humans
Tools of a kind
People in southern Arabia around 100,000 years ago made tools like those of East Africans.
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- Health & Medicine
Bedbugs not averse to inbreeding
The pests have also developed ways to resist common insecticides, research shows.
- Health & Medicine
Presidency not a death sentence
For occupants of the Oval Office, wealth, status and quality medical care more than compensate for any life-shortening effects of stress.
- Health & Medicine
Scooters save lives of snakebite victims
Nepal project achieves dramatic drop in deaths by using motorbike helpers to rush the stricken to hospital.
- Health & Medicine
E. coli evade detection by going dormant
When stressed, bacteria can temporarily turn comatose and dodge germ-screening tests.
- Humans
DNA highlights Native American die-off
A genetic analysis points to widespread New World deaths after Europeans arrived.
