Mental stimulation and drug treatment may help people with brain ailments such as Alzheimer's disease regain seemingly lost memories, according to research...
Researchers have long debated what happened when the indigenous Neanderthals of Europe met "modern humans" arriving from Africa starting some 40,000 years ago....
A gene that helps control muscle development makes all the difference between an elite racing dog and a freak that is put down at birth, scientists reported on...
Nobody objects when government biologists move to kill off ecologically destructive invasive species, such as zebra mussels or snakehead fish. But when the...
Fossil bones from the largest dinosaurs ever known to walk Australia were on Thursday unveiled in a find, which scientists said, shed new light on the...
The mystery of why eating less means living longer is a step closer to being solved, scientists report. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6612411.stm...
Millions of years ago, climate change shaped the evolution of the human species. Paleoanthropologist Rick Potts tells Robert Siegel that humans evolved as a...
A new study has found that Germany has the highest proportion of overweight people in Europe, partly due to the country's high beer consumption. But Britain,...
The purveyor of Freakonomics takes my criticism personally. by Noam Scheiber Only at TNR Online Post date: 05.03.07 A few weeks ago I wrote a piece about how...
People are walking 10% more quickly than a decade ago, according to research in 32 cities across the globe. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6614643.stm...
A treasure hunt for genes has found that up to three-quarters of people of European descent have DNA that raises their risk for heart disease -- and these...
Self-deception has been uncovered in a wide range of situations, says Robert L. Trivers, an evolutionary biologist at Rutgers University who has studied the...
From The Sunday Times April 15, 2007 ORANG-UTANS have been named as the world's most intelligent animal in a study that places them above chimpanzees and...
Clever ravens: Masters of deceit April 10, 2007 (...) But few ravens are stupid enough to just let themselves be watched as they hide their prey. So the...
By GREG IP May 1, 2007 3:22 p.m. WASHINGTON -- With a Democratic Congress and the White House at odds over raising taxes and by how much, a former top Bush...
Wisdom, long a subject for philosophers, is now being scrutinized by a cadre of scientific researchers. The trick lies not just in measuring something so fuzzy...
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