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  1. Meditation changes

    People who meditate display particularly strong immune responses and brain activity that has been linked to emotional improvements, according to preliminary data.

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  2. Paleontology

    Oh, what a sticky web they wove

    A look inside a piece of 130-million-year-old amber has revealed a thin filament of spider silk with sticky droplets that look just like those produced by modern spiders.

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  3. Humans

    Remembering Linus Pauling

    Linus Pauling won the 1962 Nobel prize in chemistry for his research into the nature of chemical bonding and later won the Nobel peace prize and promoted the health benefits of vitamin C. This National Library of Medicine Web site highlights Pauling’s achievements and offers access to parts of a large collection of his personal […]

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  4. Humans

    From the August 26, 1933, issue

    AN APE FOR A BABY SISTER If it is not possible or desirable to bring up the young human removed from human surroundings–why not test the effects of civilization in the reverse matter? Why not bring up an ape infant in a human home–place him in a human babys bed, dress him in infants clothes, […]

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  5. 19038

    In the article about infinity, the “stereoscopic” images of tiny squares on page 140 are too far apart to view in the conventional way.