Humans
We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
- Health & Medicine
Experiment Eleven
Dark Secrets Behind the Discovery of a Wonder Drug by Peter Pringle
- Neuroscience
Hurt Blocker
The next big pain drug may soothe sensory firestorms without side effects.
- Humans
European cave art gets older
Ancient illustrations in northern Spain date to more than 40,000 years ago.
- 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.
- 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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- Tech
Court ‘shares’ researchers’ e-mails, intellectual property
“A situation has arisen involving scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) that should concern all those who value the principles of academic freedom and responsibility,” warns top WHOI officials. They were responding to a court order requiring that two WHOI scientists turn over 3,500 emails and other documents to BP. Included in the information was intellectual property that outsiders could exploit.
- Health & Medicine
Replacing fatty acids may fight MS
Patients are deficient in four key lipids that neutralize immune cells linked to inflammation and nerve damage.
- Health & Medicine
Why antipsychotics need time to kick in
Insight into how some schizophrenia drugs work may explain why compounds that build up in the brain can take weeks to provide relief.
- Humans
Stone Age art gets animated
Cave paintings and decorated disks provided moving experiences in ancient Europe.
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- Life
Treatment helps paralyzed rats walk
A combination of drugs, electrical stimulation and therapy can restore lost connections between lower limbs and brain.
