Humans
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Humans
Traffic hydrocarbons linked to lower IQs in kids
Prenatal exposures to common air pollutants correlate with a drop in intelligence scores.
By Janet Raloff -
Earth
Pollution vs health reform
Health care reform should include investments in measures that curb the pervasive pollution contributing to costly disability and disease.
By Janet Raloff -
Health & Medicine
Cheap shots — typhoid vaccine shows broad coverage
Vaccine protects against typhoid across age groups and is especially effective in young children.
By Nathan Seppa -
Health & Medicine
Chimpanzees die from primate version of HIV
A new study links the simian immunodeficiency virus to serious AIDS-like illness in a wild population.
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Health & Medicine
Early testing for Alzheimer’s
Spinal fluid test in people with mild cognitive impairments can predict in many cases who will develop the disease.
By Nathan Seppa -
Health & Medicine
Postmenopausal hormones up cancer risk
Danish researchers weigh in fairly conclusively on the risk of one especially deadly cancer.
By Janet Raloff -
Earth
A hundred new nukes?
Here are some issues to contemplate while deciding whether to welcome the nuclear-power renaissance that Sen. Alexander has just proposed.
By Janet Raloff -
Humans
New view of iconic moon walk
NASA previews digitally restored footage from Apollo 11.
By Sid Perkins -
Psychology
Neighborhood unity offers behavioral protection for poor kids
A five-year study of British families finds that young children living in low-income communities show fewer signs of serious behavior problems if they have close-knit, concerned neighbors.
By Bruce Bower -
Health & Medicine
300 milliseconds from hand to head
New work shows that the “rubber hand illusion” only works when a hand feels a sensation no more than 300 milliseconds before the eyes see it
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Earth
Arctic images declassified
High-res Arctic sea images should be declassified, says National Research Council.