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Babies Just Want to Be Smiled at Oct 08, 2015

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By studying the interactions of babies and their mothers, researchers determined that babies smile in hopes others will smile at them. Erika Beras reports

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2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Oct 07, 2015

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The 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich, Aziz Sancar for mechanistic studies of DNA repair

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2015 Nobel Prize in Physics Oct 06, 2015

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The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald for the discovery that one kind of neutrino can change into another, which shows that neutrinos have mass

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2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Oct 05, 2015

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The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes jointly to William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura for their studies leading to novel therapies against infections caused by roundworm parasites and to Youyou Tu for her work developing a novel therapy against malaria

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Cheap Goods from China Have a High Carbon Cost Oct 02, 2015

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Because China relies on coal for much of its power, goods produced there can have a dirtier carbon footprint than those produced elsewhere. Christopher Intagliata reports

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MacArthur Genius Grant Winner Probes the Pruning Brain Oct 01, 2015

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Harvard neuroscientist Beth Stevens wins a MacArthur Fellowship for studies of how microglia cells prune away excess neuronal synapses during brain development and how that necessary function might go awry in neurodegenerative diseases

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MacArthur Genius Grant Winner Makes Waste a Resource Sep 29, 2015

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Environmental engineer Kartik Chandran of Columbia University won a MacArthur Fellowship for his work on extracting nutrients and energy from wastewater and sewage

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Ancient Human Ancestors Heard Differently Sep 25, 2015

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Early human species may have had sharper hearing in certain frequencies than we enjoy, to facilitate short-range communication in an open environment. Cynthia Graber reports

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Sitting Not the New Smoking for Fidgeters Sep 24, 2015

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Sitting for more than seven hours a day is linked to a 30 percent higher risk of death, but that association disappears among the in-place movers and shakers. Christopher Intagliata reports

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We Emit Clouds of Microbes Wherever We Go Sep 23, 2015

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Humans shed a million particles an hour, and those microbe-laced clouds are sometimes unique enough to identify the person producing them. Christopher Intagliata reports

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