Humans
We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
- Health & Medicine
Mapping the brain’s superhighways
New scans created using diffusion MRI technique reveal an order to information flow in the mind.
- Health & Medicine
Psoriasis drugs show promise
Two new drugs attack psoriasis by inhibiting interleukin-17, a focal player in the troublesome skin disease.
- Humans
New ancestor grasped at walking
By 3.4 million years ago, two human relatives built differently for upright movement inhabited East Africa.
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- Health & Medicine
Fatty diet leads to fat-loving brain cells
A study in mice links a high-fat diet to changes in the brain that might encourage weight gain.
- Humans
Growth-promoting antibiotics: On the way out?
Sixty-two years later — to the day — after Science News ran its first story on the growth-promoting effects of antibiotics, a federal judge ordered the Food and Drug Administration to resume efforts to outlaw such nonmedical use of antibiotics.
- Anthropology
Measure Your Giant Carefully And His Size Will Shrink
Ongoing controversy over a hobbitlike hominid.
- Psychology
Visions For All
People who report vivid religious experiences may hold clues to nonpsychotic hallucinations.
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- Life
The yin and yang of male pattern baldness
The discovery of a hormone-like molecule in the scalp may offer new clues for treating baldness.
- Health & Medicine
Abnormal cells may signal hidden heart risk
Damage to blood vessel lining shows up in blood tests.
- Humans
Proposed cuts in planetary science take center stage
NASA officials endure slings and arrows of outraged researchers.
