Preventing Progeria
Scientists have identified an enzyme that could be responsible for one of the rarest childhood diseases of all.
Electric Math
Electrical stimulation to the brain can improve math performance.
Indoor Tanning
Despite the serious risk of melanoma, indoor tanning remains alarmingly popular, especially among young women.
Computer Programming Game
A fun video game teaches college-level computer programming skills to 10-year-olds.
Sharing Kids
New research suggests that young children understand the concept of fairness, but desire gets in the way of sharing.
Mental Housekeeping
Cells that eat up defective brain cells may also target healthy cells during development.
Newborn Vaccines
Researchers have identified a molecule that could help turn on newborn babies’ immune systems.
Podcast for 8 March 2013
INSECTS & ALCOHOL - Insects that arm their offspring with alcohol. Drinking may have a 10 million year history. And the importance of wild insects to the worldwide food supply. Also: prosthetic ears from a 3-D printer and seals that sleep with one eye open.
Printable Prosthetic Ears
Scientists have reproduced a human ear using a 3-D printer.
Brain Sensor Tattoos
Sensors the size of temporary tattoos could transform how brain signals are monitored.
Hard Labor
Other people help human mothers through the emotional and physical aspects of the birth process, which help decrease the risks of childbirth. But apes have easy births, and prefer to go it alone.
Brain Sensor Tattoos – 2013 AAAS Annual Meeting Coverage
Sensors the size of temporary tattoos could transform how brain signals are monitored.
Podcast for 16 February 2013
2013 AAAS ANNUAL MEETING, BOSTON, MA - Researchers are discussing how to treat psychological problems in chimpanzees, and why childbirth is such an ordeal in humans but not in apes. Also: scientific detectives have solved an art mystery. And researchers have unveiled ultrathin, wireless sensors that can monitor your brain activity.
Hard Labor – 2013 AAAS Annual Meeting Coverage
Other people help human mothers through the emotional and physical aspects of the birth process, which help decrease the risks of childbirth. But apes have easy births, and prefer to go it alone.
China’s Only Children
China's “one-child” social policy may have unintended effects on the children.
Making Room for Memories
Children are better at forming long-term memories than adults for a surprising reason.
Stingy Kids
Children, like adults, act more generous when they’re being watched.
Marshmallows Revisited
Children in the classic “Stanford Marshmallow Study” may have been more strategic than we thought.
X-Ray Vision Carrots
Giving vegetables catchier names could get kids to eat more of them.
Chimpanzee Brain Development
The insulation surrounding nerves develops more quickly in chimpanzees than in humans.
Neonatal Genetic Testing
A new technique makes it possible to scan a sick newborn's entire genetic code in 50 hours.
Teen Brains on Pot
Smoking marijuana regularly as a teenager may be associated with cognitive decline later in life.
Podcast for 10 August 2012
Dad's diversity and perilous parenthood.
Silk Drug Stabilizer
Silk proteins may allow antibiotics and vaccines to be stored without refrigeration.