What counts as ‘nature’? It all depends

A psychology professor describes 'environmental generational amnesia' as the idea that each generation perceives the environment…

Use big tobacco’s Nov 26 corrective statements to reduce smoking

The court-ordered publication of 'corrective statements' by major US tobacco companies later this month should serve…

Chimp study reveals how brain’s structure shaped our evolution

Chimpanzee brains may be more different from those of humans than was previously thought, according to…

New light on pathogen cooperation

New approaches are needed to control the spread of epidemic diseases, according to the developers of…

Developing a new vaccination strategy against AIDS

Infection researchers have tested a new vaccination strategy against the HIV-related simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) in…

Two-thirds of children with concussions not receiving medical follow-ups

More than two-thirds of youth and children with an acute concussion do not seek medical follow-up…

Filling intercropping info gap

In some parts of Africa, farmers intercrop sorghum -- a grain -- and peanuts. But they…

Photomosaic technology finds order in chaos of coral reefs

Scientists have created and analyzed detailed photomosaics of the coral reef at Palmyra Atoll using advanced…

Children’s exposure to secondhand smoke may be vastly underestimated by parents

A new study suggests that parents who smoke mistakenly rely on their own physical senses to…

Key to unlock blocked differentiation in microRNA-deficient embryonic stem cells

Scientists have partly solved a long-unanswered basic question about stem cells -- why are pluripotent stem…