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  1. Health & Medicine

    Pain type matters to brain

    Chronic back pain affects different parts of the brain than acute back pain does, magnetic resonance images reveal.

    By Julie Rehmeyer
  2. Health & Medicine

    Indian men are prone to insulin resistance

    Men from India are more likely than those in other large ethnic groups to have a condition that predisposes them to adult-onset diabetes.

    By Nathan Seppa
  3. Anthropology

    Stone Age Role Revolution: Modern humans may have divided labor to conquer

    A new analysis of Stone Age sites indicates that a division of labor first emerged in modern-human groups living in the African tropics around 40,000 years ago, providing our ancestors with a social advantage over Neandertals.