Humans
We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
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- Health & Medicine
Coloring the body
Color MRI scans may one day be possible, thanks to microscopic, tunable magnets.
- Anthropology
Numbers beyond words
New research with Amazonian villagers suggests that their language lacks number words but that they still comprehend precise quantities of objects.
- Health & Medicine
Wishful thinking
Male athletes who think they are getting growth hormone claim to feel better and score higher in a jumping test while on a placebo.
- Health & Medicine
Where funny faces come from
Making a face might have helped human ancestors survive.
- Health & Medicine
Girl athletes’ energy crisis
Lack of regular periods in teenage female athletes stems from a hormone imbalance arising from inadequate energy intake.
- Materials Science
Family Snaps in Peril
Digital photography appears to be far more ephemeral than camera sales people have led us to believe.
- Health & Medicine
Cooking cancer cells
A new technique combining antibodies, carbon nanotubes and near-infrared light holds promise for treating malignancies, scientists report.
- Archaeology
Green reapers
Agriculture's rise sparked widespread use of green stone beads as fertility charms and as protection against supernatural forces, scientists propose.
- Humans
How Would Carnegie Judge Our Digital Libraries?
As the nature of "modern" libraries change, one digital designer questions whether libraries are losing much more than just hard copies of their books.
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Digital Data Cry Out — Save Me!
Despite being make-or-break issues, how to collect, store, and catalog digital data are on the radar screens of few scientists and engineers.
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