Alzheimer's Breakthrough Treatment?

4 Aug, 2008 08:18 am People suffering early and moderate Alzheimer's have great reason for hope today as a new medication appears to materially impact of the disease in Stage...

Unexpected perspectives

30 Jul, 2008 09:46 pm The EPOXI mission of NASA?s Deep Impact spacecraft took pictures of Earth late in May 2008 from 31 million miles away, with the goal of examining Earth...

Hell in a handbasket?

24 Jun, 2008 11:35 am So what is information technology doing to our brains? Neuroscientist Susan Greenfield has written a book about the upside and the downside of a world...

UK Scientists Seeks to Ban Creation of "Humanzee"

1 May, 2008 01:35 pm The UK is debating a new bill to govern the ethics of creating embryos.

Human Development Report 2007 - Interview with Mary Robinson

14 Jan, 2008 12:09 pm Interview with Mary Robinson, former UN Human Rights Commission talking about climate change as a human right.

Human Influence on Ecology

18 Dec, 2007 11:30 am Scientists have reclassified biomes like deserts and forests into ecosystems that show how humans have altered the Earth. Jorge Ribas (Discovery News)...

Turbocharged Human Evolution

13 Dec, 2007 04:25 pm I?ve heard people say that selection pressure on humans has relaxed?or we have slipped from its grip to some degree?and that as a result human evolution...

Cartilage Engineered Using Human Embryonic Stem Cells

18 Sep, 2007 12:13 pm Rice University researchers have engineered musculoskeletal cartilages with human embryonic stem cells, with the hope of eventually using the neotissue...

What our Eyes Get up to When We Read

17 Sep, 2007 11:35 am In this article I briefly discuss some recent research from our laboratory that investigated how we coordinate our eyes binocularly when we read...

Higher Social Skills Are Uniquely Human

6 Sep, 2007 08:02 pm A new study published today in Science reports that humans have distinctive social skills. Esther Herrmann, lead author of the study,...

A New Human

31 Jul, 2007 11:24 am A few years ago, everyone was in a tizzy over the discovery of Flores Man, curious hominin remains found on an Indonesian island that had a number of astonishing...

Human Most Likely Origin Is "Somewhere in Sub-Saharan Africa?

18 Jul, 2007 07:00 pm A new study published today in Nature shows new evidence that humans probably evolved in Africa. Interview with Dr Andrea Manica,...

Pilot of the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements Released Today

13 Jun, 2007 07:00 pm After scientists revealed the map of the entire human genome in 2001, the ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project was launched in September 2003...

I Think I Can Feel My Brain Evolving

29 May, 2007 07:29 pm There?s a Far Side cartoon where a kid in a classroom raises his hand and says, ?May I be excused? My brain is full.? After two intense days at a brain...

"We?re Not Seeing any Discernable Effects of the Kyoto Protocol on Global Emissions"

4 Dec, 2006 11:41 am In a recent Earth science conference in Beijing, Michael Raupach, a carbon-cycle scientist as well as a participant in the Global Carbon Project,...

The real value of embryonic stem cells?

10 Apr, 2006 05:58 am Several controversies surround the use of human embryonic stem cells: Is it ethical to use them? Will embryonic stem cells ever be used to treat human...