Humans
We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
- Anthropology
Stone Age twining unraveled
Plant fibers excavated at a cave in western Asia suggest that people there made twine more than 30,000 years ago.
- Health & Medicine
Hearing bolsters case for U.S. moly-making
Congress today addressed the need to wean America off of reliance on foreign sources of a feedstock of the most widely used isotope in medical imaging.
- Health & Medicine
The eyes remember
Eye movements may reveal memories that the hippocampus recalls even when a person isn’t aware of them, a new study shows.
- Chemistry
50 million chemicals and counting
BLOG: Chemists race to keep up with a mushrooming proliferation of novel molecules.
- Health & Medicine
Dopamine primes kidneys for a new host
Giving dopamine infusions to brain-dead organ donors may make transplanted kidneys more resilient, a new study shows.
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- Health & Medicine
Tetris players are not block heads
Playing the geometry-based computer game can boost the brain’s gray matter.
- Chemistry
New bond in the basement
Scientists identify a sulfur-nitrogen link, never before seen in living things, critical to holding the body together.
- Humans
Medicare changes threaten access to radiation therapy
Oncologists worry that proposed Medicare cuts could result in dramatically reduced access to radiation therapy, even for non-Medicare patients.
- Health & Medicine
Mice with mutation feel the burn
Instead of becoming obese, mice with a mutation in an immune gene burn off the fat they eat.
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- Archaeology
Europe’s oldest stone hand axes emerge in Spain
Researchers report identifying Europe’s oldest stone hand axes at Spanish sites dating to 900,000 and 760,000 years ago.
