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  1. Health & Medicine

    Slow brain repair seen in Huntington’s

    In people with Huntington's disease, the brain tries to replace dying nerve cells.

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  2. Scanning a brain that’s out of tune

    Scientists have scanned the brain of a man who had great difficulty playing a tune and showed that his brain doesn't react normally to music.

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  3. Mutant mice resist morphine’s appeal

    A protein on nerve cells appears to be the key to developing morphine addiction.

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  4. Humans

    From the May 31, 1930, issue

    A PHARAOH’S TOMB The picture on the cover of this week’s SCIENCE NEWS-LETTER shows how an archaeologist masters the “human fly” trick when he must measure the stones that form the sloping walls of a pharaoh’s tomb.