by leaded gasoline. The paper, published Dec. 4 in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, was headed by Duke University’s Aaron Reuben, a postdoctoral scholar in neuropsychology. Reuben ...

I’ve written in the past about Walter Midgley, the engineer behind leaded gasoline, and his mentor, Charles Kettering, who went on to help found Memorial Sloan Kettering.

Ah, the tangled web of history—where the guy who helped bring us leaded gasoline also played a role in cancer research. Meanwhile, neuroscientists confirm what we all suspected: our brains love a good ...