Humans
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Health & Medicine
Highlights from the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions
Vitamin D and heart disease, the effectiveness of external defibrillators, a shot to lower cholesterol, and more from the Orlando, Fla., meeting.
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Health & Medicine
Magic trick reveals unconscious knowledge
People know more than they think when it comes to visual information, study shows.
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Health & Medicine
Exceptional memory linked to bulked-up parts of brain
People with total recall of their life’s events have enlargement in a region also associated with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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Health & Medicine
Childhood sex abuse tied to heart risk
Women victimized as children or in adolescence have increased cardiac disease in adulthood, a study shows.
By Nathan Seppa -
Health & Medicine
Sleep doesn’t help old folks remember
Reduced quality of slumber with age erases memory benefits of snoozing.
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Health & Medicine
Mirrors can alleviate arthritis
Swapped-hand illusion produces drop in pain ratings, preliminary study shows.
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Tech
Hooking fish, not endangered turtles
A tuna fisherman has taken it upon himself to make the seas safer for sea turtles, animals that are threatened or endangered with extinction worldwide. He’s designed a new hook that he says will make bait unavailable to marine birds and turtles until long after it’s sunk well below the range where these animals venture to eat.
By Janet Raloff -
Humans
Future wars may be fought by synapses
Neuroscientists consider defense applications of recent insights into how the brain works.
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Health & Medicine
Hands off and on in schizophrenia
A broken connection to one’s physical self may cause a rubber hand to seem like a real one.
By Bruce Bower -
Health & Medicine
Prompt liver transplant boosts survival in heavy drinkers
Some patients with severe organ inflammation from alcohol use can benefit from the operation.
By Nathan Seppa -
Humans
Contrasting the concerns over climate and ozone loss
On November 7, ozone and climate scientists met in Washington, D.C., to discuss whether the history of stratospheric ozone protection offered a useful case study about how to catalyze global action on carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. The simple answer that emerged: No.
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Psychology
Skateboarders rock physics
Skateboarding develops intuition about slope speeds unavailable to most people.
By Bruce Bower