News
- Health & Medicine
Pain, numbness, pain
Some anesthetics not only cause a burning feeling when they're given, but can also increase the pain felt after surgery.
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- Humans
Whaling back to the future
International commission meets after soul-searching on years of dispute.
- Life
When cells go quiet
Connections between nerve cells may be lost when communication between the cells lapses.
- Health & Medicine
Breathe easy
When it comes to heart function, the concentration of pollution in the air may matter less than its chemical makeup.
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- Physics
Left in the cold
An optical trap lets atoms in but not out, and it can be used to study matter at ultracold temperatures.
- Chemistry
Catching your breath
Scientists are investigating how to use the human breath to diagnose diseases and environmental ills.
- Humans
Worth the cooties
Boys who attend preschool classes with a majority of girls do better developmentally than other boys.
- Animals
Peril of play
A new study shows that playful 2-year-old chimpanzees may be particularly vulnerable to infectious diseases — some caught from humans.
- Health & Medicine
Stomaching diabetes
A new way to treat diabetes could recruit cells in the gut to make insulin when the pancreas can’t.
- Climate
Now that’s abrupt
Past abrupt climate change in the North Atlantic could have started as far south as China, scientists say.
