Humans
We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
- Humans
Lean Times: Proposed budget keeps science spending slim
After accounting for inflation, President Bush's proposed research-and-development budget for fiscal year 2006 is down 1.4 percent from FY 2005, a figure that has many science agencies tightening their belts.
- Health & Medicine
Heartfelt Fear: Findings link stress and cardiac symptoms
Emotional stress can lead to symptoms that mimic a heart attack, even in people without coronary artery blockages, possibly by causing an unusual secretion of hormones.
- Humans
NIH tightens its ethics rules
The National Institutes of Health issued new ethics rules to keep its employees from engaging in potentially questionable relationships with organizations that might have a financial interest in NIH activities or policies.
- Humans
From the February 2, 1935, issue
Crystal stalagmites from winter rain, evidence for early inhabitants in Texas, and a new transmission system for electric power.
- Health & Medicine
There’s the Rub: Football abrasions can lead to nasty infections
U.S. football players who get scrapes and cuts from playing on artificial turf sometimes develop bacterial infections that are resistant to some antibiotics.
- Health & Medicine
When Ebola Looms: Human outbreaks follow animal infections
A network of organizations in an African region prone to Ebola epidemics has identified the virus in wild-animal remains prior to two recent human outbreaks, suggesting that animal carcasses may provide timely clues that could prevent the disease from spreading to people.
- Health & Medicine
Disease Detector: Chemical test may spot Alzheimer’s
A new test that detects very low levels of protein clumps associated with Alzheimer's may provide an early warning for the disease.
- Humans
Letters from the February 5, 2005, issue of Science News
Not measuring up I love Science News. Now and then, however, you write in terms that aren’t understandable to the average reader. I refer in particular to “Snow Blow: Image of Mount Everest from orbit captures enormous plume” (SN: 12/4/04, p. 358). It states that “weather models suggest winds atop the peak exceeded 50 meters […]
- Health & Medicine
A drink a day might keep fuzzy thinking away
One alcoholic drink per day can stave off mental decline in elderly women.
- Health & Medicine
Dangerous Practices
Pharmaceutical companies' overaggressive marketing of risky drugs, compounded by conflicts of interest among physicians and government agencies, is hurting public safety, some researchers assert.
- Anthropology
Cultivating Revolutions
New studies suggest that farmers spread from the Middle East throughout Europe beginning around 10,000 years ago in a multitude of small migrations that rapidly changed the continent's social and cultural landscape.
- Humans
From the January 26, 1935, issue
A giant turbine flywheel, high-altitude plane flights, and high-energy cosmic rays.
