Humans

  1. Health & Medicine

    Heart bypass surgery outperforms stents in diabetics

    Among patients getting multiple coronary blockages cleared, those assigned to surgery fared better.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep

    by David K. Randall.

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  3. Psychology

    Too little money, too much borrowing

    A contested study suggests that poverty contracts attention and detracts from financial decisions.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Monkeys keep the beat without outside help

    Nerve cells in the brain may regulate a precise sense of internal time-keeping.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Smoking laws limit heart attacks

    A county that banned smoking in bars, restaurants and other workplaces saw a one-third decrease, a new study finds.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    An enlightened idea

    Technique lights up neurons at work in living animals.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    Same neurons at work in sleep and under anesthesia

    Drugs boost activity in nerve cells that usually induce a slumber.

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  8. Humans

    Shoulder fossil may put Lucy’s kind up a tree

    Fossils of an ancient child suggest the more than 3-million-year-old hominid mixed climbing with walking.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    Aspirin has selective benefit in colorectal cancer

    Patients with a common gene mutation survive longer, which might enable doctors to predict who would get results from the drug.

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  10. Chemistry

    Human blood types have deep evolutionary roots

    The ABO system may date back 20 million years or more, a genetic analysis suggests.

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  11. Humans

    The man behind Sarcastic Rover

    NASA’s newest rover, Curiosity, wasn’t alone on Mars for long.

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  12. Humans

    Homo Mysterious

    Evolutionary Puzzles of Human Nature by David P. Barash.

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