Fingers and toes become wrinkled after being in water for long periods, and now new research explains why. The transformed skin improves our grip on wet objects.Aside from answering why we get the wrinklies after bathing, swimming and hand-washing dishes,
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Thirty years ago most psychologists, philosophers and psychiatrists thought that babies and young children were irrational, egocentric and amoral. They believed children were locked in the concrete here and now—unable to understand cause and effect, imagi
Continue reading >>Researchers have mapped the genome of a fetus using DNA samples from parents.
Continue reading >>It seems that we’ve been edging toward becoming a race of cyborgs for a number of years. Medical advances like replacement limbs and joints, cochlear implants, and artificial organs are already being used. Improving medical technology and our understandin
Continue reading >>Neanderthals apparently created the oldest known examples of a kind of bone tool used in Europe, thus raising the possibility that modern humans may have learned how to make these tools from Neanderthals, researchers say.
Continue reading >>The news that researchers have used cloning to make human embryos for the purpose of producing stem cells may have some people wondering if it would ever be possible to clone a person.
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