Humans
We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
- Humans
Symbolic snacks
Capuchin monkeys can reason with tokens as they do with different foods, demonstrating a basic capacity for thinking symbolically.
- Health & Medicine
Parasite payback
The protozoan parasite that causes leishmaniasis seems vulnerable to the anticancer drug tamoxifen, research in mice shows.
- Health & Medicine
Time on their side
Review of a decade's worth of major league baseball games shows a slight cost in performance in teams with jet lag.
- Health & Medicine
Thanks for the pounds, Mom
When inherited from mom, a gene linked to obesity and diabetes interferes with blood sugar metabolism.
- Climate
Polar Bear Fallout
Why fights are likely to break out in the next few months to years between industry, environmental advocates, and the feds as regulations are developed, and litigated, over how to conserve declining numbers of polar bears.
- Health & Medicine
Ineffective alternative
The herbal remedy St. John’s Wort may not treat ADHD, a new study shows
- Climate
Science academies call for climate action
Thirteen national academies of science today called on world leaders to “to limit the threat of climate change.” Read more in the current Science & the Public blog by Janet Raloff.
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- Health & Medicine
Take a nap
A nap is the most effective way to combat an after-lunch slump, but caffeine will help too.
- Humans
ARISE and Invest in New Talent
A new report argues strongly for investing more in graduate students and early-career researchers.
- Health & Medicine
Sun up
Men with lower concentrations of vitamin D have higher risk of heart attack.
- Health & Medicine
Wake up and smell the java
The smell of coffee leads to changes in gene activity in sleep-deprived rats, hinting at the molecular basis for the relaxing effect of the aroma seen in experiments.
