Humans
We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
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- Life
As cells age, the nucleus lets the bad guys in
A study tracks a growing 'leakiness' in the membrane of the cell nucleus that could contribute to aging and even to diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.
- Humans
Life expectancy up when cities clean the air
Study shows people live longer after fine-particulate air pollution is reduced.
- Health & Medicine
Child-sized medicine
A new UNICEF campaign pursues youth-appropriate dosing of medicines.
- Health & Medicine
Easygoing, social people may get dementia less often
Don’t worry, be happy: People who are largely unstressed by mundane events seem less likely to develop dementia in old age than people who sweat the small stuff.
- Health & Medicine
Epigenetics reveals unexpected, and some identical, results
One study finds tissue-specific methylation signatures in the genome; another a similarity between identical twins in DNA’s chemical tagging.
- Health & Medicine
Neural paths for borderline personality disorder
A new brain-imaging study indicates that unusual neural activity linked to emotion, attention and conflict-resolution systems underlies a common psychiatric condition known as borderline personality disorder.
- Tech
Stimulus bill doesn’t ignore R&D
Featured blog: Here's where the economic-stimulus bill would attempt to revamp and reinvigorate federally financed research.
- Humans
Gamers crave control and competence, not carnage
Study turns belief commonly held by video game industry, gamers, on its head.
- Humans
Stimulus Bill Calls for Money and Transparency
Congress wants to make sure accountability for economic-stimulus funds doesn't vanish the way it has in the recent bank-bailout program.
- Humans
Salazar II: On Freeing Ms. Liberty’s Crown
A New Jersey senator pleaded with the incoming Interior Secretary to reopen the Statue of Liberty's crown.
- Humans
Salazar I: The Value of Science at Interior
Flawed Endangered Species Act decisions brought out a request for the Interior Secretary nominee to promise to ground future decisions by the agency firmly on the science.
