Smoking both tobacco and marijuana increases the risk of respiratory symptoms and chronic obstructive pulmonary…
Month: April 2009
Omega-3 Fatty Acids May Benefit Cancer Patients Undergoing Major Operations
New research points to a potentially significant advance in the treatment of patients undergoing major…
Autopsy Study Links Prostate Cancer To Single Rogue Cell
One cell … one initial set of genetic changes — that’s all it takes to…
Alligators Hint At What Life May Have Been Like For Dinosaurs
When dinosaurs evolved oxygen levels were much lower than they are now, so how did…
Video Games and the Summer Blockbuster Stigma
Video games based on blockbuster movies typically get panned, yet shamelessly benefit from the buzz…
African aid ‘needs science focus’
A leading physicist says aid to Africa needs to be focused on higher education, especially…
Key role of forests ‘may be lost’
The ability of forests to act as massive carbon sinks is under threat as a…
New Way To Analyze Sleep Disorders
Sleep is such an essential part of human existence that we spend about a third…
Important Breakthrough Towards Silicon-based All-optical Integrated Circuits
The first experimental proof of all-optical ultra-fast communication signal processing with silicon-based devices for transmission…
Discovery Of Variations In Resistance To Sulfadoxine Across Africa
Researchers have discovered that malaria parasites in east and west Africa carry different resistance mutations,…