Elderly Video Gamers
Playing a strategic video game may help seniors keep their brains sharp.
Nanoparticles & Skin
Nanoparticles are common ingredients in cosmetics, but scientists are finding that they're more than skin deep.
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Learning from electric eels, the roots of ticklishness, the health benefits of web surfing and maternal vaccines that protect babies.
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MIND & BODY: The science of magic, the hormone behind the mind-body connection and the brain chemical that could be responsible for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).
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ANIMAL MODELS: Rhesus monkey social relationships reveal a link between stress and overeating, what the platypus genome can tell us about being a mammal, how an antidepressant restores vision in rats, negligent mother mice have abnormal brain chemistry, and fruit flies uncover secrets of aging and pain.
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RADIATION: The world's most powerful laser, radiation dangers for astronauts, a new drug fights radiation poisoning, and the lifespan of the sun.
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What happened to our vitamin C, new insights into childhood leukemia, and why artificial sweeteners make rats fat.
Memory Roundup
Our memory is closely linked to our imagination; and daytime naps help us remember what we learn.
Animal Grandparents
Researchers scientifically document grandparenting behavior in animals for the first time.
Self Tanners
A listener asks: Do self-tanners give you the same tan as the sun?
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How the solar system formed, determining the standard for the kilogram, how brain damage affects art, cancer drugs from trees, protecting ports with underwater using sound.
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Listening to muscles, yoga may stave off depression, a blood-based bandage, a protein inhibits aging in fruitflies, and whether lizards or snakes evolved first.
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Grilling could take a toll on your health, smarter doesn't equal richer, an infection could help prevent asthma, a step toward fusion reactors, and the closest living descendants of dinosaurs.
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Replacing your skeleton with metal, a sniff test for neurological diseases, a decline in baby boy births, how your brain puts on the brakes, and the Robin Hood inside many of us.
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Why you can't remember your babyhood, Africa's pulling apart, how amoebas move, nonsmoking women are more prone to lung cancer than nonsmoking men, and coral reefs are susceptible to global warming.
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Testing the age of your organs, the reliability of home genetic tests, a medical use for radioactive scorpion venom, global warming may be irreversible, and the weather on Titan.
Aging Test
Your organs age at different rates. But how do you know how old they are?
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An ancient astronomical record, chewing gum that fights cancer, a new way to weigh the elderly, the shifting jet streams, and how killer whales use sound to hunt.
Elderly BMI
New research shows that people should perhaps get plumper with age.
Music and Parkinson’s
An experimental treatment for Parkinson's symptoms doesn't even require a prescription.