Humans

  1. Health & Medicine

    Internet use may harm teen health

    Using the Internet more than two hours a day puts teens at risk of high blood pressure, a new study finds.

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  2. Brain

    Explainer: What is anxiety?

    Anxiety is the stress linked to worries about an upcoming event — one that may not even happen. But anxiety can affect the body every bit as much as does the stress provoked by staring down a hungry lion.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    If you’re awake, you’re probably eating

    The idea that we eat three meals a day is a myth. People eat nearly constantly, and that may not be good for our health.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    These bubbles treat wounds

    New research shows bubble-powered drugs can travel upstream, against the flow of blood, to seal wounds shut.

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  5. Brain

    Study challenges safety for teens of two depression drugs

    Scientists reanalyze data on the safety of common drugs to treat depression and find that they don’t seem to help teens. Worse, the drugs may harm them.

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  6. Microbes

    News Brief: People shed clouds of tell-tale germs

    Even after someone has left a room, a cloud of his or her germs laces the air, new data show. Watch out: That mix can be very individual — and even ID you!

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  7. Animals

    Cool Jobs: Finding new uses for nature’s poisons

    Scientists study toxins and other natural compounds in search of alternatives to ineffective antibiotics and dangerous pesticides.

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  8. Environment

    Store-receipt chemicals taint blood and urine

    Cashiers who handle receipts absorb potentially risky levels of chemicals that coat the receipts, a new study shows.

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  9. Psychology

    Friends’ good moods can be contagious

    Good mental health spreads through teen social networks, but depression doesn’t, a new study finds.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    Nobel goes for developing drugs from nature

    The 2015 Nobel Prize in medicine went to scientists who used nature as the model for important human drugs to combat malaria and serious infections.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    Alcohol can rewire the teenage brain

    Alcohol — especially binge drinking — can harm teens. New research shows teen drinking may leave a lasting legacy.

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  12. Humans

    Bronze Age mummies unearthed in Great Britain

    Bronze Age communities from southern England to Scotland appear to mummified their dead. Tests show this occurred between roughly 3,000 and 4,000 years ago.

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