News

  1. Humans

    Legal Debate: Assumptions on medical malpractice called into question

    The notion that many medical-practice lawsuits are frivolous and intended to generate undeserved riches for their plaintiffs and lawyers isn't borne out in a new study.

    By Nathan Seppa
  2. Anthropology

    Making sacrifices in Stone Age societies

    A half-dozen burials at sites in Europe and western Asia dating to between 27,000 and 23,000 years ago provide clues to possible human sacrifices.

    By Bruce Bower
  3. Anthropology

    Digging up debate in a French cave

    A scientific debate has broken out over whether a French cave excavated more than 50 years ago contains evidence of separate Stone Age occupations by Neandertals and modern humans.