Humans

  1. Health & Medicine

    New twists for phantom limbs

    An experiment explores the connections between brain and body.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Junk food junkies

    Rats on a junk food diet behave like drug addicts.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    The taste of bubbles

    Taste cell for sourness senses fizz, too.

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  4. Archaeology

    Meet your mysterious relative

    Ardi climbed trees and walked on two legs 4.4 million years ago.

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  5. Genetics

    Two monkeys see a more colorful world

    A genetic experiment changes the way monkeys see the world.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    Making good, brown fat

    Researchers find a way to make energy-burning fat out of other types of cells.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    Brain cells take a break

    As you fall into deep sleep, some neurons pause their electrical activity.

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  8. Brain

    The colorful world of synesthesia

    Explore the sensory explosion experienced by people with this unusual, but not that uncommon nor unwelcome, condition.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    Taking the sting out of scorpion venom

    Drug given to stung children in Mexico lessens symptoms.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    Swine flu goes global

    The disease is likely to keep spreading, but a vaccine may be in sight.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    Kids now getting ‘adult’ disease

    More kids are developing diabetes, and obesity is a major reason why.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    Fighting fat with fat

    Brown fat found in adults may help keep obesity at bay.

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