Medicine
Women Can’t Do Pull Ups? Not So Fast
With enough training and determination, women can do pull-ups
October 26, 2012 |
By Rachel Nuwer
Don’t Let the Ear Mites Bite
The New England Journal of Medicine recently posted this horror-inducing video of ear mites crawling around in some poor 70-year-old man's ear
October 24, 2012 |
By Rachel Nuwer
Five Kid Concussions in One Game Have Parents Questioning Pop Warner Football
Those concussions have hurtled this game to the forefront of the ongoing debate surrounding kids and football
October 23, 2012 |
By Rose Eveleth
PHOTOS: The Distressing Worldwide Boom in Cosmetic Surgery
Photographer Zed Nelson traveled the world documenting how body improvement has practically become a new religion
October 2012 |
By Joseph Stromberg
People Leave Hospitals Unhappy Because Doctors Are Mean
Many patients leave the emergency room unhappy because they feel belittled or ignored
October 19, 2012 |
By Rose Eveleth
Brain-Eating Crows May Help Spread Prion Diseases
Prions - the infectious proteins that cause illnesses in humans and other animals such as mad cow disease - can pass through the digestive systems of crows
October 18, 2012 |
By Rachel Nuwer
Germophobes Take Note: Your Pillowcase Is As Dirty As Your Toilet
Bacterial swabs from toilet seats and pillowcases are pretty much indistinguishable
October 18, 2012 |
By Colin Schultz
What Makes Temple Grandin’s Brain Special?
Temple Grandin, perhaps the world's most famous person with autism, allowed scientists to peak into her exceptional brain for the first time in order to better understand the minds of savants
October 17, 2012 |
By Rachel Nuwer
A New Great Depression and Ladies on the Moon: 1970s Middle School Kids Look to the Year 2000
The ideal future according to a ten-year-old: shorter school days, lower taxes, and lots and lots of robots
October 12, 2012 |
By Matt Novak
Downer News Bums Out Women But Not Men
Bad news delivered through the media increases women's sensitivity to stressful situations, new research finds, but men are immune to such effects
October 12, 2012 |
By Rachel Nuwer
Report Suggests Armstrong Not Just a Doper But a Pusher
Sources close to Armstrong have come forward admitting that not only did he dope, but he was at the center of the doping world
October 11, 2012 |
By Rose Eveleth
Painting Portraits With Bacteria
Microbiologist Zachary Copfer has created detailed portraits of famous artists and scientists in petri dishes
October 10, 2012 |
By Megan Gambino
Brain-Invading Amoebas Kill Ten in Pakistan
Since the 1960s, Naegleria fowleri - a water-borne amoeba with a 98 percent fatality rate when it invades through the nose - has claimed around 150 lives, including 10 recently in Pakistan
October 09, 2012 |
By Rachel Nuwer
The FBI Would Like Everyone To Stop Shooting Lasers at Airplanes
Shooting a laser at an airplane could get you 20 years in prison
October 08, 2012 |
By Colin Schultz
Like Salamanders, African Spiny Mice Can Grow New Tails
The spiny mouse achieves regeneration feats thanks to its unique gene expression, but new research shows that tissue regeneration may not be so uncommon in mammals as scientists once thought
October 08, 2012 |
By Rachel Nuwer
The Two Newest Nobel Prize Winners Opened Up Pandora’s Box of Stem Cell Research And Cloning
Today's Nobel Prize in medicine went to Shinya Yamanaka and John Gurdon for their work on stem cell research and cloning
October 08, 2012 |
By Rose Eveleth
Black Mamba Venom Beats Morphine as a Painkiller
Black mambas' toxicity turns out to have applications other than rodent-killing
October 04, 2012 |
By Rachel Nuwer
How Mosquitos Are Out-Smarting Humans
Mosquitos have figured us out and have started biting during the daytime
October 04, 2012 |
By Rose Eveleth
California Bans ‘Cure The Gays’ Therapy
In California, it's no longer legal to try to cure homosexual youth
October 01, 2012 |
By Rose Eveleth
Science Images that Border on Art
This year's Wellcome Image Award winners pull at your "art" strings. The curious seek out the science behind them
September 26, 2012 |
By Megan Gambino
