Health & Medicine
- Earth
Air pollution is shortening lives worldwide
Worldwide, tiny particles of air pollution are making the average person’s life a year shorter.
- Health & Medicine
Crickets for breakfast?
In a small trial, levels of beneficial gut bacteria rose in young adults who ate a breakfast that included crickets every day for two weeks.
- Health & Medicine
Phones in the classroom hurt everyone’s grades
When students use electronic devices in the classroom, their school performance may suffer. And so might their classmates’ grades, a new study finds.
- Animals
Cool Jobs: Sucking up science with mosquitoes
Mosquitoes are tiny, but the illnesses they spread can be deadly. To fight these germ spreaders, scientists need to get to know mosquitoes better — much better.
- Brain
Body heat due to exercise may reduce hunger
Why aren’t animals hungry after a workout? Brain cells that control appetite may sense the exercise heat — and keep you out of the kitchen, a new study finds.
- Health & Medicine
Gut ‘bug’ transplants can bring kids with autism lasting benefits
Giving fecal transplants to kids with autism helped their stomach symptoms and behavioral symptoms — even two years after the poop trade.
- Health & Medicine
Explainer: What is a clinical trial?
Scientists perform these to compare the effects of a new drug or therapy in treated — and untreated — people. Always people.
- Brain
Soccer headers may hurt women’s brains more than men’s
Women sustain more brain damage from heading soccer balls than men, a new imaging study indicates.
- Health & Medicine
Scientists Say: Remission
Remission is a term used in medicine. It describes a disease that isn’t active anymore —whether it is cured or simply dormant.
- Brain
Taste good? Senses inform the brain — but don’t tell everyone the same thing
Whether something tastes appetizing depends on what a host of different sensory nerves collectively tell the brain. Warning: Sometimes they aren’t dependable — or even truthful.
- Brain
Explainer: Taste and flavor are not the same
What’s behind a food’s flavor? More than what we taste, it turns out.
- Animals
Here’s how a clam can hide within a rock
Old boring clam research has been upended after 82 years.
