Humans
We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
- Health & Medicine
Vaccine stops deadly sand-fly-spread scourge in animal test
A DNA vaccine triggers protection against the sand-fly-borne scourge Leishmania.
- Health & Medicine
Szechuan pepper taps at nerve fibers
The spice makes lips tingle at 50 beats per second, researchers find.
- Health & Medicine
Fructose may be key to weight gain
Mice that could not make or metabolize the sugar gained less weight than normal mice.
- Math
Egypt wasn’t built in a day, but it did rise quickly
New timeline of ancient civilization’s earliest days finds little time between earliest villages and dominant centralized state.
- 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.
- Psychology
Behind the Shock Machine
The Untold Story of the Notorious Milgram Psychology Experiments by Gina Perry.
- 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.
- 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.
- Health & Medicine
Gut infections keep mice lean
Bacteria can invade one rodent from another, preventing both from getting fat.
- 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.
- 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.
- Health & Medicine
Don’t stand so close to me
Personal space has a measurable boundary, a study suggests.
