Hitting harder than a fist: Childhood bullying linked to teen psychosis
Bullying causes more than tears, according to new research. Scientists reporting in the May issue of the journal Archives of General Psychiatry say that childhood bullying can lead to teenage psychotic...
View ArticleHackers vs. Your Social Security Number
Your social security number is now a part of almost every form, including health insurance paperwork and the application for your library card. In fact, researchers reporting in this week's issue of...
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SuperFreakonomics on Altruism
People (and economists) have long thought that humans have a basic inclination toward altruism: toward helping one another without thinking of a reward. Stephen Dubner, co-author of "SuperFreakonomics:...
View ArticleClinical Trial of Psilocybin: From the Inside
Clark Martin is a retired clinical psychologist; he was diagnosed with kidney cancer in 1990 and has had multiple metastases and treatments since then. What follows is his description of receiving a...
View ArticleSettlement with Havasupai Tribe Means $700,000 for Unauthorized Use of DNA
The University of Arizona has agreed to pay $700,000 to 41 Havasupai tribal citizens to settle claims that the university misused DNA samples given by tribe members over a decade ago.In 1989, some...
View ArticleDid Lou Gehrig Have Lou Gehrig's Disease?
For 71 years, Lou Gehrig has been the face of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, or ALS, now most commonly known as "Lou Gehrig’s disease."After getting the diagnosis of a disease that would quickly rob...
View ArticleJudge Blocks Federally Funded Stem Cell Research
A federal judge on Monday blocked federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. The decision overrides an executive order signed by President Obama over a year and a half ago, just six weeks after...
View ArticleA Biography of Cancer
For over four thousand years cancer has been an increasingly common scourge of our species; indiscriminately afflicting the very strong, the very weak, the very young and the very old among us. Yet in...
View ArticleHow Neuroscience is Changing Teaching
Everyone had a favorite teacher growing up, but did you ever wonder how that person got you excited about learning? Well, according to new neurological research, it might be because that teacher...
View ArticleWhy Kids Are The Best Scientists
The next time your children get filthy playing in the riverbed or taking apart the remote control, stop before you scold. Scientists say that this kind of play is actually like hands-on science...
View ArticleLinking Violence and Biology Through DNA
What happens in the brain of a mass killer that permits such violence to occur?In an attempt to answer this question, researchers at the University of Connecticut are preparing to carry out what may be...
View ArticleMaternal Antibodies May Be Closely Connected to Autism
New research suggests that nearly a quarter of all autism cases may be connected to the presence of certain maternal antibodies.The study published in the scientific journal Translational Psychiatry...
View ArticleCompensation Finally Comes to Family of Henrietta Lacks
Imagine a small number of your cells were harvested while seeking medical care. But instead of just being used for research into your own health, those cells are used for 62 years and in over 74,000...
View ArticleNew Migraine Drugs Signal Hope for Millions
Over the past 50 years there hasn't been a single preventative drug developed that specifically targets migraines. But new research in its early stages shows hope that a preventative drug may be within...
View ArticleScientists May Help Rewrite Bad Memories
What if you could take any one unpleasant memory and rewrite it to have sunnier associations? Researchers at MIT say they've figured out how to shift positive associations onto negative memories by...
View ArticleGender Bias in Health Research Leads to Unintended Consequences
In 2011, researchers from Smith College and the University of California, Berkeley compiled data from scientific research on mammals in ten fields, including neuroscience, pharmacology, and...
View ArticleToday's Takeaways: A Thanksgiving Day Special
Happy Thanksgiving from The Takeaway! Whether you're travelling, prepping a meal, or spending the day with family and friends, we're here to say thank you and wish you a great holiday. Today's special...
View ArticleThe Science of Decision-Making
The New Year can feel like the perfect opportunity to reinvent yourself—many people decide to go to the gym more often or to eat healthier foods. However, even with the greatest of intentions, New...
View ArticleResearch Lab Lets Animals Suffer for Profits
The United States Meat Animal Research Center in Clay Center, Nebraska has managed to dodge unwanted scrutiny for the several decades. It even slipped in a loophole into the Animal Welfare Act, a 1966...
View ArticleThink Our Voting System is Color Blind? Think Again.
When Congress passed the 1965 Voting Rights Act, non-white voters in the South and urban areas across the country had been facing racial discrimination at the polls.“Nearly 50 years later, things have...
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