New Clock May End Time As We Know It
Scientists working to create the perfect atomic clock have a fundamental problem: Right now, on the ceiling, time is passing just a bit faster than it is on the floor.
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How Removing Checkpoints Could Make Israelis More Secure
Social scientists recently analyzed the effects of removing Israeli checkpoints in the West Bank. They found it markedly reduced anti-Israel sentiment, and actual acts of violence against Israel.
8 Million Tons Of Plastic Clutter Our Seas
A scientist estimating the weight of candy wrappers, bags, bottles, syringes and other plastic trash in the world's water sees a synthetic tsunami. Should China and India create more landfills?
Just A Bit Of DNA Helps Explain Humans' Big Brains
Scientists have found some human DNA that, when added to mice, makes their brains bigger. But as DNA research into human brains goes forward, are there ethical lines we shouldn't cross?
A Biological Quest Leads To A New Kind Of Breast Cancer Drug
The Food and Drug Administration has approved a drug that thwarts some enzymes breast cancer cells use to evade treatment with estrogen-blocking drugs.
Pain Really Is All In Your Head And Emotion Controls Intensity
Humiliation, fear and unpredictability all turn up the volume on pain, research shows. And meditation can turn down pain's intensity, according to scientists who are starting to figure out why.
Female Libido Pill Fires Up Debate About Women And Sex
Is the FDA being sexist or appropriately cautious in requiring stringent evidence that the latest pill works and is safe? Women's advocacy groups aren't sure.
Tough As Nails: Female Scientists Rise Up In Nigeria
Working as a professor isn't an easy job anywhere. But try doing innovative research with only four hours of electricity a day, no access to the Internet and hostility from male colleagues.
How Marijuana Highjacks Your Brain To Give You The Munchies
Where there's pot, there's often an insatiable hunger. Now researchers have a big clue why: Cannabinoids, the drug in marijuana, appear to flip a neural circuit that normally tells us we're full.
Examining The Entourage Effect
New psychological research explores a phenomenon known as the entourage effect. We hear why people like to create their own entourages.