Month: April 2009

In 2006, a concrete panel weighing several thousand pounds fell onto traffic in Boston’s Big…

Sometimes less is more: Lower doses of an Alzheimer’s drug delivered via skin patches improve…

These days, chemical analysts are expected to track down even single molecules. To do this…

Statins, drugs widely prescribed to lower cholesterol, may have protective effects on prostate health.

Every dog and cat knows that scratching relieves an itch. But for ages, not even…

Scientists demonstrate an imaging system that each second can take millions of images just half…

Keeping global temperatures within “safe” limits means leaving most fossil fuel reserves unburned, scientists say.

Facial recognition is not as automatic as it may seem. Researchers have identified specific areas…

Progress in human gene therapy — the insertion of therapeutic DNA into tissues and cells…

The implications of a new study could improve the outcomes, and potentially survival rates, for…