Humans
“Old” pacemakers may still work for years, so doctors are refurbishing used devices and donating them to patients in low- and middle-income countries. Read…
Starting around 4,000 years ago, an elaborate fish-trapping system nourished…
Roughly one-third of Americans could be exposed to a long-sought,…
Life with diabetes usually includes many injections of the blood sugar–controlling hormone insulin. Recent research…
The United States’ reputation as an exemplar of democracy appears to be eroding. In a…
Science and the sources of pain — Science News, October 26, 1974 Chronic pain is…
An unexpected discovery about what made a tiny worm refuse to grow up has now…
When the arm is on the lap or the side, a blood pressure reading can…
Horse-riding Scythian herders and warriors, who inhabited Central Asia and Eastern Europe around 2,500 years…