Humans
We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
- Humans
Letters from the January 8, 2005, issue of Science News
Below the surface I would suggest that the Italian hydrologists cited in “Fighting Water with Water: To lift the city, pump the sea beneath Venice” (SN: 10/30/04, p. 277: Fighting Water with Water: To lift the city, pump the sea beneath Venice) consider the law of unintended consequences. Similar actions begun in 1978 at an […]
- Humans
From the January 5, 1935, issue
Karl T. Compton, Einstein explains relativity theory, and controlling cancer cells.
- Health & Medicine
Bad Combo? Some antidepressants may hamper breast cancer drug
Certain widely used antidepressants and a woman's own genes might diminish the effect of tamoxifen, a frontline breast cancer drug.
- Anthropology
Temples of Boom: Ancient Hawaiians took fast road to statehood
A boom in temple construction on two Hawaiian islands around 400 years ago marked the surprisingly rapid formation of an early political state.
- Health & Medicine
Beat Generation: Genetically modified stem cells repair heart
Tissue engineers have for the first time used genetically modified human stem cells to repair damaged hearts in guinea pigs.
- Humans
Helping patients decipher options
Scientific publishers and research organizations are preparing to launch a Web site that will make new research findings available to the public in an easy-to-understand context.
- Health & Medicine
Food Colorings
Many deeply hued plant pigments appear to offer health benefits, from fighting heart disease and obesity to preserving memory.
- Anthropology
Suddenly Civilized: New finds push back Americas’ first society
The earliest known civilization in the Americas appears to have emerged about 5,000 years ago in what's now Peru.
- Humans
From the December 29, 1934, issue
A young Crater Lake in Oregon, the internal structure of chromosomes, and a revolutionary method of electric power transmission.
- Humans
Letters from the January 1, 2005, issue of Science News
Just the facts My response as an educator to much of the outrageous science depicted in so many of the recent blockbuster hits is very different from that of many of the scientists quoted (“What’s Wrong with This Picture?” SN: 10/16/04, p. 250: What’s Wrong with This Picture?). The films provide a wonderful source of […]
- Health & Medicine
One-Two Punch: Vaccine fights herpes with antibodies, T cells
An experimental vaccine against genital herpes shows promise in animal tests.
- Health & Medicine
Expanding the therapeutic arsenal
Two experimental drugs can send chronic myeloid leukemia into remission in patients who don't benefit from the best currently available drugs.
