Humans

  1. Humans

    Babies perk up to sounds of ancient hazards

    Evolution has primed infants to focus on noises linked to longstanding dangers, a new study finds.

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  2. Psychology

    Behind the Shock Machine

    The Untold Story of the Notorious Milgram Psychology Experiments by Gina Perry.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Device offers promise of no brain tumor left behind

    A new technique might allow surgeons to identify with precision where brain cancer ends and healthy tissue begins.

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  4. Humans

    The Tune Wreckers

    People who can’t carry a tune, or can but think they can’t, are a rich resource for researchers studying musical ability.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Gut infections keep mice lean

    Bacteria can invade one rodent from another, preventing both from getting fat.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    Heart disease patients more apt to take one combined pill than many

    Patients stayed on track better with a "polypill" than with three medications.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    Test could warn of problems for kidney transplant recipients

    A urine test for an immune protein might tell doctors whether a patient is headed for trouble.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Don’t stand so close to me

    Personal space has a measurable boundary, a study suggests.

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  9. Psychology

    Poverty may tax thinking abilities

    Scarce funds reduce mental abilities of U.S. shoppers and Indian farmers, experiments suggest.

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  10. Humans

    Babies learn words before birth

    Brain responses suggest infants can distinguish distinct words from altered versions that they learned in the womb.

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  11. Psychology

    Behavioral research may overstate results

    'Soft' sciences inflate support for what scientists expected to find, data check suggests.

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  12. Earth

    Letters to the editor

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