Humans
We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
- Health & Medicine
Two drinks a day might increase breast cancer risk
Two or more alcoholic drinks a day can increase the risk of hormone receptor-positive breast cancer, new research suggests.
- Health & Medicine
Tandem Attack
By attaching a tumor-suppressing protein to a harmless compound, scientists can kill cancer cells in a mouse model.
- Health & Medicine
Asperger’s syndrome may not lead to lack of empathy
People with high-functioning autism respond to others' pain, two studies show.
- Life
Pockets of Poor Health
The trend towards longer life expectancy plateaued or reversed in some parts of the U.S., a new study finds.
- Health & Medicine
New approach might strike at the core of Alzheimer’s disease
By anchoring an enzyme-inhibiting molecule to a cell membrane, researchers have designed a potential skeleton for a new Alzheimer's treatment.
- Life
Rest in peace nanobacteria, you were not alive after all
New studies bid a fond farewell to nanobacteria -- the extremely tiny “microorganisms” that have sparked controversy and may cause disease.
- Health & Medicine
Six-legged Arthritis Relief
Here's a novel health food I learned about this morning--one that could be free for the gleaning right outside your front door (especially if you live in China). Warning: You have to be quick or it will get away.
- Humans
The Presidential Climate
Climate-news watchers may have done a double-take if they caught a look at a story in today’s Washington Times. It reported that: “President Bush is poised to change course and announce as early as this week that he wants Congress to pass a bill to combat global warming.” If the account proves true, it will […]
- Humans
From the April 9, 1938, issue
Mining limestone to make steel, a bright little bulb, setting a new record on the sun and finding buried thermos bottles.
- Health & Medicine
Stem Cell Snag: Implanted cells may show signs of Parkinson’s
After as many as 16 years, nerve cells transplanted into the brains of Parkinson's patients still thrive, but some show signs of acquiring the disease.
- Health & Medicine
Virus Reprise: Mumps outbreak in 2006 was largest in 20 years
Mumps infected more than 6,500 people in the United States in 2006, the largest outbreak in 20 years.
- Health & Medicine
Body and Brain: Possible link between inflammation and bipolar disorder
Inflammatory genes create a signature for bipolar disorder in some people.
