mri
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What Childbirth Looks Like From The Inside
Back in 2010, a team of German doctors announced that they’d recorded the world’s first MRI of a woman giving birth. Back then, only still images were available — but now the researchers have released the video, and it’s spellbinding.
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What Your IQ Is Depends On A Single Gene
If you thank your parents for your intelligence, or blame them for your stupidity, you might be right — but not because of the way they raised you. In fact, a new study provides the most compelling evidence yet that intelligence is affected by a single gene.
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Surgeons Extract Pen In Woman’s Stomach 25 Years After She Swallowed It
This woman swallowed a felt-tip pen in 1986. Back then, she told the doctor and her husband what happened, but they didn’t believe her. Now, 25 years later, she went to another doctor and they found the pen intact inside her stomach.
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Worried You’ll Never Quit Smoking? A Brain Scan Can Tell Whether Or Not That’s True
Similar to the way an MRI brain scan can determine whether or not you’ll be good at video games, it can also tell you how successful you’ll be in your attempt to escape the death grip of big tobacco.