Humans
We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
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- Health & Medicine
One problem, many paths
Autism’s many genetic players may act through common networks.
- Health & Medicine
Body & Brain
Sour news for cranberries, libido-sapping drugs, the social brain and more in this week’s news
- Health & Medicine
Better transplants through centrifuging
Removing some antibodies from the blood of kidney recipients can improve their long-term outlooks, a study finds.
- Humans
EPA considers new call for toxicity testing of BPA
The Environmental Protection Agency solicited public comment, July 26, about whether to require new toxicity testing and environmental sampling of bisphenol A, an ingredient in many plastics and food-contact resins.
- Health & Medicine
Chimp brains don’t shrink
Primate studies aim to find out why humans get dementia.
- Health & Medicine
Tossing, turning, forgetting
A new study in mice finds that sleep disturbance erodes memory.
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- Health & Medicine
Body & Brain
Knights’ bodily burden, go-to-sleep nerve cells, rat empathy and more in this week’s news.
- Health & Medicine
‘Wave of death’ may not be a last gasp
A minute after decapitation, a rat's severed head shows signs of life.
- Psychology
Kids share, chimps stash
Divvying up goods comes easily to 3-year-old kids but not to adult chimps, a finding with evolutionary implications.
- Health & Medicine
Body & Brain
The brain sleeps in shifts, plus thinking better with folate, how brains feel the beat and more in this week's news.
