Humans
We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
- Health & Medicine
Us against Them
New antibiotics may be valuable weapons in the fight against tougher bacteria.
- Health & Medicine
Star Wars Goes Organic
A group promoting organic foods has produced its own version of Star Wars, featuring heroic produce, villainous eggs and bananas, and warnings about dangerous agricultural practices.
- Humans
Letters from the May 21, 2005, issue of Science News
Rascal rabbits Evidence of animals sensing where people are looking and what they’re seeing is interesting yet hardly new (“Monkey See, Monkey Think: Grape thefts instigate debate on primate’s mind,” SN: 3/12/05, p. 163). For years, I have observed that wild rabbits will remain motionless as long as I stare in their direction. But as […]
- Humans
From the May 18, 1935, issue
Making heavy water, probing the cause of multiple sclerosis, and establishing galaxy rotation.
- Anthropology
Coasting to Asia in the Stone Age
New genetic analyses of people from native island groups in Southeast Asia support the unconventional view that around 70,000 years ago, people living in Africa crossed the Red Sea and moved east along Asia's southern coast.
- Health & Medicine
Insulin may trigger type 1 diabetes
Insulin itself may precipitate the body's autoimmune attack in people with type 1 diabetes.
- Humans
When Fair Means Superb: Young scientists and engineers meet in international competition
A record 1,447 high school students from 45 countries shone their brightest in Phoenix last week as they competed at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair.
- Health & Medicine
Heartburn in Bed: Soda, sleeping pills can spoil sleep
Nighttime acid reflux is a common condition that often goes hand-in-hand with sleep problems.
- Health & Medicine
Baby Rescue: Cord blood saves infants with rare disease
Using umbilical cord blood, doctors can rescue babies from Krabbe's disease, a lethal enzyme deficiency that causes brain damage.
- Health & Medicine
To Fight Cataracts, It’s Fish Yea, Mayo Nay
Which fats predominate in a person's diet may influence that individual's susceptibility to cataracts.
- Humans
Letters from the May 14, 2005, issue of Science News
It’s kids’ stuff Regarding the therapeutic effects of sunflower-seed oil on infants (“Anoint Them with Oil: Cheap-and-easy treatment cuts infection rates in premature infants,” SN: 3/12/05, p. 165), has any research been done as to the health benefits of the oil in any other age group? Yael LevyNew York, N.Y. Research to date has focused […]
- Humans
From the May 11, 1935, issue
Falconry in the United States, new 'ears' for anti-aircraft guns, and Albert Einstein's objections to quantum mechanics.
