Goodall, who is set to receive the Leakey Prize, is focusing on humanitarian efforts. She says chimps in Africa can't be protected unless people's living...
New research suggests that our basic political attitudes - liberal, conservative, or otherwise - are with us at birth. What does this mean for our democracy? ...
Telling people if their neighbors had voted in a previous election and letting them know they would be similarly informed about current election, boosts...
According to a new study, the inability to judge a ball "out" is actually embedded in the mechanisms of the human brain. Guest host Alison Stewart speaks with...
Wash your hands, folks, especially you ladies. A new study found that women have a greater variety of bacteria on their hands than men do. And everybody has...
A team of Japanese geneticists has successfully created healthy clones of long-dead mice. The technique could someday be used to bring back extinct animals...
Scientists say they may have found why people with schizophrenia have abnormal electrical waves in their brains. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7693850.stm...
Children who live in the U.S. Northwest's wettest counties are more likely to have autism, but it is unclear why, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday. ...
When scientists opened up the human genome, they expected to find the genetic components of common traits and diseases. But they were nowhere to be seen....
Chickens, pigs, and cattle scored more wiggle room in a new law passed Tuesday in California. But farmers are crying foul, saying the legislation would cripple...
A neuroanthropologist explains what Colombian teenagers can teach neuroscientists about addiction http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=getting-hooked-on-sin...
Pope Benedict condemned the trade in human organs as an abomination on Friday and urged caution in removing organs for transplant from dying donors who might...
The sculpin could reveal how some ocean dwellers made the jump to life in fresh water. http://www.nature.com/news/2008/081107/full/news.2008.1215.html...
Scientists have found a way to get damaged nerve cells in the brains of mice to repair themselves, a finding that may lead to new treatments for spinal cord...