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People Will Give Away Their Personal Information for an Actual Cookie
I’ll take two oatmeal raisin and a high risk of identity theft
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For the First Time Ever, a Woman With a Transplanted Uterus Gave Birth to a Baby
Two more women with transplanted uteruses are due to give birth in the next couple of weeks, too
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Each Day, 50 Percent of America Eats a Sandwich
About 20 percent of our daily sodium intake is delivered between two slices of bread
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How Exactly Does Exercise Help Your Brain?
Well-trained muscles could be protecting the body from an imbalance of chemicals that lead to depression
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In 2014, Descendants of Woman Who Played Aunt Jemima Sued Quaker Oats
The case, which was later dismissed by a judge, accused the company of failing to pay royalties to Anna S. Harrington
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Some Surgery Is No Better Than Sham “Placebo” Surgery
The placebo effect isn’t just for pills
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Cancer Spreads Through Our Bodies at Night
This could mean that therapies delivered after dark might be more effective
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Do We Doodle Because We Speak?
Scribbling and sketching aren’t just practices to idle time away, but a more fundamental indication of our need for language
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ISIS Is Cutting Off Water to Uncooperative Villages
In parched Syria and Iraq, water is a weapon
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Columbus Day Is Now Indigenous People’s Day in Seattle And Minneapolis
Some cities seek to change the second Monday in October to a more politically correct, inclusive holiday
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What Will It Take For Someone to Run A Marathon in Under Two Hours?
Course design, genetics, training and luck all have a hand in this game
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Scientists Figure Out Why Mozzarella Is the Perfect Pizza Cheese
It’s all about the elasticity, moisture and oil content
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Why Kinshasa in the 1920s Was the Perfect Place for HIV to Go Global
Railways, a booming population and many sex workers created ideal conditions for the virus to spread
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How the Isolation of Space Messes with Your Mind
Long-term missions must deal with hallucinations, boredom and the silent treatment between crew members
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The Grand Canyon Will Not Be Mined for Uranium
Uranium mining will be banned for the next 20 years on nearly 1 million acres of land near the Grand Canyon
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The Park Service Wants to Cull 900 of Yellowstone’s 4,900 Buffalo
The Park Service will be killing bison that stray from the park
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Many of the Same Brain Regions Are Activated When Mothers Look at Their Pets or Their Children
It seems that maternal attachment does not discriminate between species
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The Tibetan Plateau is Getting a High-Tech Array of Weather Sensors
The massive research effort will help predict the increasingly unpredictable Indian monsoons as the climate changes
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Whaler Makes History as the First Female in Her Community to Harpoon a Whale
The 31-year old struck the whale near the end of the fall season for Alaska’s bowhead subsistence hunters
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