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Study suggests humans are slowly but surely losing intellectual and emotional abilities

Human intelligence and behavior require optimal functioning of a large number of genes, which requires enormous evolutionary pressures to maintain. A provocative hypothesis published in a recent set of Science and Society ...

Genetics created Nov 12, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (37) | comments 78 | with audio podcast

Antibiotic resistance a growing concern with urinary tract infection

As a result of concerns about antibiotic resistance, doctors in the United States are increasingly prescribing newer, more costly and more powerful antibiotics to treat urinary tract infections, one of the most common illnesses ...

Medications created Oct 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The nose's unheralded neighbor

Pity the poor maxillary sinuses. Those bulbous pouches on either side of the human nose are known more for trapping mucus and causing sinus infections than anything else. They were thought to be an evolutionary ...

Other created Mar 12, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0