Why showing pain helps
The attention and comfort generated minimizes how bad or stressful an injury feels – and that’s not just in humans Mirjam Guesgen If you watch kids at a local playground,…
Chimp calls and human language origins
The apes’ calls seem to resemble sounds like laughter and crying rather than elements of a true language Michael Wilson, University of Minnesota Freud, Wilkie and the other chimpanzees peacefully…
How to make a perfect free throw
Angle, launch speed, aim point and muscle memory – all as controlled as in a dance movement – are the magic elements that make it what might be basketball’s most…
Close encounters of the stellar kind
A star flashed past our solar system about 70,000 years ago. Did our ancestors even notice it? P Rajendran About 70,000 years ago two stars in a free spin careened…
The looming threat over Mexico City
A study on the 2017 quake that killed 300 in Mexico City finds that both its location and cause were unusual. And seismologists say that rare bending earthquake could repeat…