Humans
We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
- Humans
Gamers crave control and competence, not carnage
Study turns belief commonly held by video game industry, gamers, on its head.
- Humans
Stimulus Bill Calls for Money and Transparency
Congress wants to make sure accountability for economic-stimulus funds doesn't vanish the way it has in the recent bank-bailout program.
- Humans
Salazar II: On Freeing Ms. Liberty’s Crown
A New Jersey senator pleaded with the incoming Interior Secretary to reopen the Statue of Liberty's crown.
- Humans
Salazar I: The Value of Science at Interior
Flawed Endangered Species Act decisions brought out a request for the Interior Secretary nominee to promise to ground future decisions by the agency firmly on the science.
- Health & Medicine
Using checklist reduces surgery complications
Measure twice, cut once: Going over a checklist of procedures in the operating room before and after surgery lowers the complication rate and, in developing countries, saves lives, a study in eight hospitals shows.
- Health & Medicine
Omega-3 fatty acid is early boost for female preemies
DHA given to newborns in the first weeks following birth improves brain development in girls, but not boys.
- Earth
Steven Chu’s Senate Confirmation Looks Certain
Senate energy committee appreciates Obama's pick for Secretary of Energy.
- Health & Medicine
Going nano to see viruses 3-D
Nanoscale MRI-like machine images individual virus shapes; first step to seeing proteins in 3-D
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- Archaeology
Armenian cave yields ancient human brain
A team of scientists has excavated 6,000-year-old artifacts and three human skulls, including one containing a preserved brain, from a cave bordering Armenia’s Arpa River.
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- Archaeology
Early chemical warfare comes to light
Investigations of a Roman garrison in Syria conquered in a massive assault by Persians nearly 2,000 years ago have uncovered evidence of the earliest known chemical warfare.
