News
- Physics
Superconductor may hide long-sought secret
It conducts electricity without resistance, sure; but a new material could also demonstrate the existence of a particle proposed 70 years ago.
- Health & Medicine
Exceptional memory linked to bulked-up parts of brain
People with total recall of their life’s events have enlargement in a region also associated with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
- Health & Medicine
Childhood sex abuse tied to heart risk
Women victimized as children or in adolescence have increased cardiac disease in adulthood, a study shows.
- Health & Medicine
Sleep doesn’t help old folks remember
Reduced quality of slumber with age erases memory benefits of snoozing.
- Earth
Dirty air fosters precipitation extremes
Changes to clouds encourage drought in dry areas and torrential downpours in moist places.
- Health & Medicine
Mirrors can alleviate arthritis
Swapped-hand illusion produces drop in pain ratings, preliminary study shows.
- Astronomy
Supernova may have kicked off solar system
Force of explosion could explain chemical mysteries contained within asteroids.
- Humans
Future wars may be fought by synapses
Neuroscientists consider defense applications of recent insights into how the brain works.
- Health & Medicine
Hands off and on in schizophrenia
A broken connection to one’s physical self may cause a rubber hand to seem like a real one.
- Health & Medicine
Prompt liver transplant boosts survival in heavy drinkers
Some patients with severe organ inflammation from alcohol use can benefit from the operation.
- Space
How the moon got its magnetism
Earth’s tug or asteroid impacts may have generated the ancient lunar magnetic field.
- Life
Two steps to primate social living
Evolutionary shifts about 52 million and 16 million years ago led to the group structures observed today, researchers argue.
