Humans
We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
- Health & Medicine
Vitamin D deficiency
Parkinson’s disease patients are more commonly lacking in vitamin D than Alzheimer’s patients or healthy people.
- Climate
Glacier melts are erasing climate record
Featured blog: As glaciers continue to dry up, so does any hope of gleaning information from them about the past climate record.
- Health & Medicine
Bad air for growing brains and minds
Preliminary evidence suggests that children’s regular exposure to heavy air pollution can be accompanied by brain inflammation and lowered scores on intelligence tests.
- Health & Medicine
Body In Mind
Long thought the province of the abstract, cognition may actually evolve as physical experiences and actions ignite mental life.
- Math
Numbers don’t add up for U.S. girls
Culture may turn potentially high achievers away from math, new study suggests.
- Astronomy
On that ‘earmark’ for my favorite science center
Featured blog: In the last debate, McCain denounced proposed federal spending on a multimillion dollar "overhead projector."
- Humans
New hand, same brain map
An investigation of a man who received a successful hand transplant suggests that reorganization of sensory maps in the brain following amputation can be reversed in short order.
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- Health & Medicine
Flu shot in pregnancy protects newborns
Mothers-to-be impart antibodies to offspring that pay dividends later
- Health & Medicine
Let’s Get Physical
The feds articulate how much exercise we should consider as healthy.
- Humans
Arctic warming chills interest in fishing
Featured blog: An October 7 accord could put U.S. Arctic waters off-limits to fishing.
- Humans
Origins of Maya pottery material remain mysterious
Scientists haven’t yet identified the source of volcanic ash used in Maya pottery, but they now have geochemical clues about the ash’s composition.
