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Striking changes are possible in IQ and neuroanatomy, study finds Web edition : Wednesday, October 19th, 2011 The roller-coaster teenage years can take IQs along for the ride. A person's IQ can nosedive and climb sky-high during adolescence, while corresponding brain regions wax and wane in bulk, researchers report online October 19 in Nature.

Somebody had to do it. A Google map of newspaper layoffs in the US. Data goes back to 2007.

Killings sometimes occur in communities across Africa PORTLAND, Ore. - In a cooperative venture aimed at understanding the most uncooperative of acts, researchers studying different African communities of wild chimpanzees have pooled their data and found that the apes sometimes kill each other nearly everywhere they've been studied.

Dinosaur debate gets cooking Researchers deflate evidence for cold-blooded dinosaurs Web edition : Wednesday, June 27th, 2012 Life stories written in mammal bones are being used to debunk a key argument for cold-bloodedness in dinosaurs.

If aliens ever sent us a message, scientists hope to pick it up in a remote part of northern California. There, in a clearing nestled amid the volcanoes of the Cascade Range, 42 radio dishes point together at the sky. The dishes, each 20 feet across, form a single, giant scientific instrument called the Allen Telescope Array.

Wayne Maddison was 13 years old when he fell in love. Standing on the shore of Lake Ontario in Canada, he noticed a mat of grass float by. On top of the mat was a spider about the size of a dime, withmetallic green jaws. "She looked up at me," recalls Maddison.

Night lights may foster depression Chronic dim light triggers temporary brain changes in animals Psychiatrists sometimes prescribe light therapy to treat a form of depression in people who get too little morning sun. But too much light at other times may actually trigger such mood disorders.

Stronger storms may destroy ozone Extra water vapor up high coul trigger destructive chemical reactions Web edition : Thursday, July 26th, 2012 Climate change may spur the destruction of ozone in unexpected parts of the globe. In a warming world, many scientists believe, severe weather will become more common.

Throughout history there have been midwives and there have been physicians. Midwifery is and always has been separate and distinct from the practice of medicine. It should not be included in the definition of the practice of medicine in Missouri law. The word midwife means "with woman."

Yesterday, the Supreme Court of the State of Missouri reversed a lower court ruling in a 5-2 decision and upheld a 2007 law that would allow legal midwifery in the state.

FDA bans BPA in baby bottles, cups It was an easy call; nobody makes these any more Web edition : Tuesday, July 17th, 2012 From now on, U.S. manufacturers may no longer produce polycarbonate baby bottles and sippy cups (for toddlers) if the clear plastic had been manufactured from bisphenol A, a hormone-mimicking compound.

Ecstasy may cause memory problems Club drug's effects documented in new users Web edition : Thursday, July 26th, 2012 Light use of the club drug Ecstasy may cause subtle memory deficits. People who popped just three Ecstasy tablets a month over the course of a year saw their memory slip on a laboratory test, scientists report online July 25 in Addiction.