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- Health & Medicine
The electric brain
Electrical implants allowed a brain-damaged man to talk, eat, and move again.
By Emily Sohn - Humans
Chicken of the Sea
Chickens may have crossed the Pacific Ocean along with early Polynesian explorers.
By Emily Sohn - Health & Medicine
A big discovery about little people
Humans may have once walked the Earth with tiny people—a possible newly discovered species that scientists have nicknamed "hobbits."
By Emily Sohn - Health & Medicine
Don’t Eat That Sandwich!
If you drop a sandwich on the floor, how quickly does it pick up bacteria?
- Health & Medicine
A Better Flu Shot
A new kind of vaccine that's made in caterpillar cells prevents influenza.
By Emily Sohn - Humans
A Long Trek to Asia
An ancient skeleton from a Chinese cave shows how far humans walked when they left Africa.
- Health & Medicine
Chew for Health
Surprise your teacher: New studies show that chewing gum might be good for you!
By Emily Sohn - Humans
Earth Rocks On
Some rocks in Greenland show that Earth's crust was moving even 3.8 billion years ago.
By Emily Sohn - Health & Medicine
Wake Up, Sleepy Gene
Variation in the length of one gene affects how well you function when short of sleep.
By Emily Sohn - Health & Medicine
Childhood’s long history
Our ancient ancestors had long childhoods, just as we do today.
By Emily Sohn - Health & Medicine
A fix for injured knees
A new way of repairing a common knee injury might someday help athletes recover faster.
- Humans
Stonehenge settlement
The remains of a prehistoric village lie near the legendary stone circle in England known as Stonehenge.
By Emily Sohn