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19-Year-Old Survives 49 Days At Sea, After Floating Hut Drifts To Guam
After he ran out of cooking gas, Aldi Novel Adilang started using wood from his craft to cook fish. He drifted from Indonesia to waters around Guam. -
In Lab Turned Casino, Gambling Monkeys Help Scientists Find Risk-Taking Brain Area
Scientists at Johns Hopkins have identified a brain region in monkeys that influences their desire to take big risks. When this area is inactivated, the monkeys tend to hedge their bets. -
Octopuses Get Strangely Cuddly On The Mood Drug Ecstasy
The drug makes the usually antisocial creatures much more interested in friendly contact with other octopuses. It's one more sign that the chemistry of social behavior has deep evolutionary roots. -
New Study Shows Eating Whole-Fat Dairy Products Is Less Likely To Cause Heart Disease Than Low-Fat
Food critic and Senior Editor at The Atlantic Corby Kummer talked to Boston Public Radio about why eating whole-fat dairy products may be healthier than low-fat. -
After Mysterious Closure, Solar Observatory In New Mexico Reopens
A telescope in Sunspot, N.M., will have additional security for now, after "an unusual number of visitors" showed up at the site. Conspiracy theories had proliferated about its sudden closing. -
How Your Hormones Control Everything
Author Randi Hutter Epstein explains why hormones affect so many things in our lives. -
Update: A Young Man's Experiment With A 'Living Drug' For Leukemia
After trying one treatment after another for his leukemia, 20-year old Aaron Reid enrolled in a study to test an experimental therapy using modified cells from his own body. -
Infectious Theory of Alzheimer's Disease Draws Fresh Interest
Money has poured into Alzheimer's research, but until very recently not much of it went toward investigating infection in causing dementia. A million dollar prize may lead more scientists to try. -
In 1974, They Gave The Nobel To Her Supervisor. Now She's Won A $3 Million Prize
Fifty years ago, Jocelyn Bell Burnell saw a blip in the data from a radio telescope she helped build. The discovery of pulsars was "one of the biggest surprises in the history of astronomy." -
The Fake Doctor Who Saved Thousands Of Babies
Martin Couney put premature babies in incubators that were on public display, saving thousands of children's lives.
