Study: At 'Rate My Professors,' A Foreign Accent Can Hurt A Teacher's Score
Teachers with Asian-sounding names were given poorer marks, and their accents were the main reason.
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Arsenic Antidote Hidden In Our Genes
Even at low doses, the potent poison damages organs and causes cancers. Now scientists have found a population high in the Andes Mountains that has adapted to the toxic metal over thousands of years.
Jaw Fossil In Ethiopia Likely Oldest Ever Found In Human Line
The 2.8 million-year-old bone may mark the first human branch in the primate family tree. It wasn't just a bigger brain that marked the shift, scientists say. It was also big changes in the mouth.
U.S. Government Teams Up With Private Sector To Stave Off Cocoa Crisis
Chocolate is increasingly popular and under assault from diseases that infect cocoa plants. Scientists are working to find varieties that will resist diseases and keep the world's sweet tooth happy.
10 Questions Some Doctors Are Afraid To Ask
Just 10 questions about bad childhood experiences can turn up undiagnosed illness in adults, research suggests. So why don't more doctors ask? Some say they aren't equipped to deal with the answers.
GAO Report Urges Fewer Antipsychotic Drugs For Dementia Patients
Strong drugs are rarely warranted to control the behavior of dementia patients, specialists say. But antipsychotic medicine is being overprescribed, and not just among residents of nursing homes.
Health Experts Don't Always Sanitize Their Hands, Data Show
A massive analysis of hospital data finds doctors and nurses are not following guidelines on washing their hands before and after they come into contact with patients.
Can You Dig It? More Evidence Suggests Humans From The Ice Age
Initially dismissed as a hoax a century ago, scientists have found evidence in Florida of humans living 14,000 years ago. If the findings hold up, they will help rewrite the history of early man.
Rats Blamed For Bubonic Plague, But Gerbils May Be The Real Villains
Rats have had a bad reputation ever since they were blamed for spreading bubonic plague. But perhaps the blame was misplaced. NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the roles of rodents.
Stone Age Britons Were Eating Wheat 2,000 Years Before They Farmed It
Scientists have recovered cultivated wheat DNA from an 8,000-year-old submerged site off the British coast. The finding suggests hunter-gatherers were trading for the grain long before they grew it.