Humans

Humans

Einstein’s Notes

Caltech and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have made available in an online archive thousands of handwritten notes scrawled by Albert Einstein. The digitized documents, some accompanied by translations, include a wide variety of items, such as a diary Einstein kept during a year-long stay in the United States in 1930 and 1931 and a […]

Humans

From the October 14, 1933, issue

SOVIET ASCENSION BREAKS WORLD ALTITUDE RECORD Enclosed within the metal shell pictured on the front cover of Science News Letter, three Soviet scientists rose higher above the surface of the earth than man has ever been before, in an ascension from Moscow on September 30. It is the gondola of the Soviet free balloon USSR. […]

Health & Medicine

As If You Needed Another Reason to Eat Strawberries (with recipe)

Whether draped atop shortcake, cooked with rhubarb and slathered over vanilla ice cream, or downed in the garden just after picking, strawberries are one of summer’s delights. Now, scientists at Cornell University find that this fragile fruit not only tastes great and contains vitamins but also may offer surprisingly potent benefits in the body’s fight […]

Health & Medicine

Centenarian Advantage: Some old folks make cholesterol in big way

People who live to be nearly 100 and their offspring are more likely to have large cholesterol particles in their blood, a condition conducive to good health.

Health & Medicine

Magnets, my foot!

Shoe inserts with magnets have no more effect against foot pain than insoles without them.

Health & Medicine

Danger, danger, cry injured cells

Damaged cells may release uric acid to rouse the immune system.

Health & Medicine

Do Arctic diets protect prostates?

Marine diets appear to explain why the incidence of prostate cancer among Inuit men is lower than that of males anywhere else in the world.

Anthropology

Erectus Ahoy

A researcher who explores the nautical abilities of Stone Age people by building rafts and having crews row them across stretches of ocean contends that language and other cognitive advances emerged 900,000 years ago with Homo erectus, not considerably later among modern humans, as is usually assumed.

Humans

From the October 7, 1933, issue

ANCIENT MAP SHOWS HOW WORLD LOOKED TO COLUMBUS Startled to find the name Columbus mentioned on an old Turkish map of the Atlantic Ocean, Paul Kahle has subjected the map to closest study, finding on it important new clues to the discovery of America. In a report on his investigations, to appear in the forthcoming […]

Humans

Nobel prizes go to scientists harnessing odd phenomena

The 2003 Nobel prizes in the sciences were announced early this week.

Health & Medicine

Was President Taft cognitively impaired?

President William Howard Taft apparently had sleep apnea, a breathing disorder that could explain his propensity to nod off.

Health & Medicine

Making the heart burn

Burning chest pain during a heart attack may stem from a protein that also responds to chili peppers.