Health & Medicine

  1. Health & Medicine

    Learn to play piano in your sleep

    That’s still impossible, but an experiment suggests hearing a previously learned ditty while snoozing improves later performance of the piece.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    More adults put off kids’ vaccinations

    Scientists say the practice has no proven value and poses risks of infection.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Like a prion, Alzheimer’s protein seeds itself in the brain

    Injecting amyloid-beta into mice may induce misfolding of native amyloid-beta molecules, leading to the buildup associated with the neuron-killing disease.

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  4. Humans

    Color this chimp amazing

    An extra layer of sensory perception called synesthesia might help ape make a monkey of humans on memory tests.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Science Past from the issue of June 30, 1962

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  6. Health & Medicine

    Letters

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  7. Health & Medicine

    Internal Time

    Chronotypes, Social Jet Lag, and Why You're So Tired by Till Roenneberg.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Why Calories Count

    From Science to Politics (California Studies in Food and Culture) by Marion Nestle and Malden Nesheim.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    Experiment Eleven

    Dark Secrets Behind the Discovery of a Wonder Drug by Peter Pringle

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  10. Neuroscience

    Hurt Blocker

    The next big pain drug may soothe sensory firestorms without side effects.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    Diet sodas may confuse brain’s ‘calorie counter’

    Among regular consumers of sugar-free soft drinks, networks that equate sweet flavors with energy intake may grow numb to the real stuff.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    Fish oil components may not benefit everyone’s heart

    A six-year study finds that omega-3 fatty acids don't lower heart risk in people with diabetes.

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