Scientists target mess from Christmas tree needles

NEW YORK (AP) — The presents are unwrapped. The children's shrieks of delight are just a memory. Now it's time for another Yuletide tradition: cleaning up the needles that are

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Dr. Oliver Sacks dead at age 82

MALCOLM RITTER AP Science Writer

August 31, 2015

NEW YORK (AP) — Dr. Oliver Sacks, whose books like “The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat” probed distant ranges of human experience by compassionate...

Lasers, magnetism allow glimpses of the human brain at work

MALCOLM RITTER AP Science Writer

June 21, 2015

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut (AP) — To the untrained eye, the graph looked like a very volatile day on Wall Street — jagged peaks and valleys in red, blue a...

Study: Artificial Sweeteners may promote diabetes

MALCOLM RITTER AP Science Writer

September 17, 2014

NEW YORK (AP) — Using artificial sweeteners may set the stage for diabetes in some people by hampering the way their bodies handle sugar, suggests a p...