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EVOLUTION & MORALITY SPECIAL: Hunting large game led to the evolution of the conscience, and evidence of moral systems in other animals. Also: Giant snake fossil points to warmer times, and grandparents helped civilization evolve.
Infant Rhythm
Newborn babies can sense when a musical rhythm goes off the beat.
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EVOLUTION SPECIAL: Celebrating Charles Darwin's 200th birthday, the evolution of kissing, mosquito love duets, robot sex, and the unhealthy history of the human diet.
Teen Obesity
Teens from low-income backgrounds face several heightened obesity risks.
Doppler Baby Monitor
A Doppler radar baby monitor could alert parents when an infant stops breathing.
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BREATHING: Why it's harder to breathe at high altitudes, asthma and your birthdate, and more.
Asthma’s Season
Your chances of developing asthma may be influenced by your date of birth.
Babies & Pain
If untreated, pain that premature infants feel when undergoing medical procedures could impair their ability to respond to medication later in life.
Food Allergies
Scientists are developing an unconventional but surprisingly straightforward treatment for food allergies.
Mom Flu Shot
Vaccinating pregnant women against the flu can also protect their newborns.
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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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COGNITION: Crows don't forget a human face, magpies see themselves in mirrors, wasps remember each others' faces, how much memory can our brains store, and more.
Eye Color
A listener asks why a baby's eyes can change color during the first year.
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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).
SIDS & Serotonin
Irregular brain chemistry may make some babies more prone to SIDS.
Math Roundup
A large international study suggests that girls only lag behind boys in math achievement in cultures where gender inequality remains a problem.
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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.
Negligent Mice
Mice that neglect their offspring have a neuro-chemical disruption in their brains.
Diabetes Roundup
Diabetes during pregnancy puts babies at risk for birth defects, and teenage mothers-to-be are especially vulnerable.
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GENETICS & EVOLUTION: Exclusively human genes, transitional fossils, and the history of lefthandedness.
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What happened to our vitamin C, new insights into childhood leukemia, and why artificial sweeteners make rats fat.