January 13, 2015 Why Do Fingers Get Pruney When Wet? An Evolutionary Wrinkle! Why do our fingers and toes get pruney when they're wet? For a long time, people assumed it happened for no particular reason — that our skin simply soaks up water like a sponge in a random pattern. However, showing once again that few evolved traits are useless, recent research has revealed wet-induced wrinkles' deeper purpose
January 13, 2015 Close Ties to Children May Ensure Grandkids Later Parents with close emotional ties to their children may be increasing their chance of having grandchildren down the road
January 13, 2015 Mind-Controlling Parasite May Increase Brain Cancer Risk Mind-altering parasites already linked to neurosis and schizophrenia might also be linked to brain cancer, scientists now find
January 13, 2015 Boy or Girl? Simple Test Raises Ethical Concerns Boy or girl? A simple blood test in mothers-to-be can answer that question with surprising accuracy at about seven weeks, a research analysis has found.
January 13, 2015 Artificial Skin Spun From Spider Silk The secret to creating artificial skin might be spider silk, researchers now suggest
January 13, 2015 Clearing the Mind: How the Brain Cuts the Clutter Newly discovered neurons in the front of the brain act as the bouncers at the doors of the senses, letting in only the most important of the trillions of signals our bodies receive. Problems with these neurons could be the source of some symptoms of diseases like attention deficit disorder and schizophrenia
January 13, 2015 World Health Organization Decides to Keep Smallpox Stocks ... For Now At the annual meeting of the governing body of the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland Tuesday, a committee of world leaders decided to keep, for now, the world's two remaining vials of the deadly disease smallpox
January 13, 2015 Office Workers Take to Pedaling at Their Desks Combating the negative health effects of a sedentary lifestyle could be as easy as turning paper-pushers into pedal-pushers
January 13, 2015 Old people have distinctive smell, but it's not too bad, study finds The distinctive "old person smell" you may have picked up on when visiting your grandparents most likely wasn't your imagination, a new study indicates
January 13, 2015 Inside the Brains of Psychopaths Differences in psychopaths' brains may help explain their anti-social behavior, according to new research
