How Speed Bumps Help Predict Appendicitis
British physicians discover a slow-speed approach to diagnosing a life-threatening condition.
Milk a Genius Makes
It’s not just an affinity for chocolate that seems to produce Nobel prizewinners.
Who’s Happier on Valentine’s Day? The Single or the Hitched?
How we feel about romance has everything to do with the relationship we’re currently in (or not in).
Men: Want More Sex? Don’t Do the Laundry!
Sociologists refute the idea that husbands who help out around the house are repaid with sex.
Marijuana: the Gateway Drug (to Nicotine)
New research suggests that smoking pot promotes an even more dangerous addiction.
The Audacity of Brainless Slime Mold
Dispatches from the weird world of unicellular biology, where essentially brainless critters do a fair job of helping us understand aspects of human behavior--such as how we use memory.
Will DNA Be the Hard Drive of the Future?
If you can say it in words, you can store it in nucleotides, experimenters have confirmed. And is the new storage medium durable? You bet your Jurassic Park it is.