Humans

  1. Chemistry

    Bottled water may contain ‘hormones’: Plastics

    New concerns arise over the presence of hormonelike pollutants in plastic food packaging.

    By Janet Raloff
  2. Humans

    Whiz Kids: Its science and outreach

    The filmmakers behind Whiz Kids would like to see their footage serve an educational purpose, perhaps through some online portal.

    By Janet Raloff
  3. Tech

    Whiz Kids: The Movie

    New independent film showcases the arduous path by which extraodinary high school researchers reach the Science Talent Search competition in Washington, D.C.

    By Janet Raloff
  4. Anthropology

    Peking Man fossils show their age

    Scientists have pushed back the age of Peking Man, raising questions about whether Homo erectus trekked to eastern Asia in two separate migrations.

    By Bruce Bower
  5. Humans

    Science’s next generation wins accolades

    Star students receive more than $530,000 in scholarships and prizes in the Intel Science Talent Search.

    By Rachel Ehrenberg
  6. Health & Medicine

    Migraines during pregnancy may be linked to stroke

    Pregnant women who have migraines also face a heightened risk of stroke and other vascular diseases, a new study finds.

    By Nathan Seppa
  7. Health & Medicine

    Blood type could matter in pancreatic cancer

    People with type O blood are less likely to develop pancreatic cancer than are people with type B blood, a study finds.

    By Nathan Seppa
  8. Tech

    Coming: Needed Protections for Science Integrity

    The Obama admistration wants to depoliticize federal science.

    By Janet Raloff
  9. Health & Medicine

    Early intellectual gap found for kids of older fathers

    A reanalysis of data from more than 33,000 U.S. children finds that those with older fathers fared somewhat poorer on intelligence tests than those with younger fathers, regardless of mothers’ ages.

    By Bruce Bower
  10. Health & Medicine

    President reverses federal ban on stem cell funding

    President Barack Obama signed an executive order lifting a ban on federal funding for research that uses embryonic stem cells.

    By Janet Raloff
  11. Health & Medicine

    Dangers of biomedical plagiarism

    The bogus data present in plagiarized biomedical papers is not just an ethical lapse, but also a threat to effective medicine.

    By Janet Raloff
  12. Health & Medicine

    Study finds plenty of apparent plagiarism

    Featured blog: A data-mining program looks for and finds plagiarism among scientific papers. The researchers survey the papers' writers and editors.

    By Janet Raloff