- Health & Medicine
Sleep therapy for fears
Scared? A nap spent inhaling the proper smell might relieve those fears, a study finds.
- Health & Medicine
Nobel goes for studying ‘school buses’ in cells
A trio of scientists who studied how cells transport materials — think of buses moving kids to and from school — will share a 2013 Nobel Prize.
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- Microbes
Slimming germs
In the gut, the right microbe mix can help keep off extra weight — at least in mice.
- Health & Medicine
Explainer: Where and when did HIV begin?
The virus that causes AIDS may have evolved in monkeys or apes more than a century ago.
- Health & Medicine
Meet the new meat
Scientists made a hamburger without harming animals; but it cost as much as a house.
- Environment
Unconventional spill
An accidental spill of extra-heavy crude oil points to some unusual challenges in safely getting this petroleum to market.
- Health & Medicine
Camels linked to mystery disease
A mysterious and deadly virus has sickened 94 people — killing 46 — in parts of the Middle East, Europe and northern Africa. A new study finds that camels (the one-humped type) may have introduced the new disease to people. The germ responsible is a virus that lives in people’s lungs, throats and noses. Scientists recently named the disease it causes Middle East respiratory syndrome, or MERS.
- Animals
Explainer: Animals’ role in human disease
Wildlife, livestock and pets are the source of most germs that can sicken people
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- Brain
Nature resets body’s clock
After a week in the wild, people went to bed — and got up — earlier.
- Health & Medicine
Explainer: The teenage body clock
Around puberty, a change in the body clock of adolescents and teens makes it hard for them to fall asleep as early as they used to.
