Researchers have genetically engineered a laboratory mouse in which pancreatic beta cells can regenerate after…
Month: June 2008
New Way To Think About Earth’s First Cells
A team of researchers have modeled in the laboratory a primitive cell, or protocell, that…
Machu Picchu ruin ‘found earlier’
Westerners found Peru’s Machu Picchu 40 years earlier than previously thought, historians say.
Leaving Your Wireless Carrier Is Going To Cost You
There may be 50 ways to leave your wireless carrier. Just don’t do it before…
The Popularity of E-Books Haunts Publishers
Is the electronic book approaching the tipping point? That topic both energized and unnerved people…
Cell Phones and Cancer: The Debate Is Revived
What do brain surgeons know about cell phone safety that the rest of us don’t?…
A New Crop of Minicomputers Try To Fill Mobile Niche
Lugging around a big-screen MacBook Pro or other large laptop to the local wireless hot…
Copyright Quiz Limits Students’ Music File Sharing
A tech-savvy university near the Missouri Ozarks is resorting to an old standby to reduce…
Study Secretly Tracks Cell-Phone Users Outside U.S.
Researchers secretly tracked the locations of 100,000 people outside the United States through their cell…
Bacteria could stop frog killer
Bacteria may hold the key to halting the fungal disease which is devastating amphibian populations…