Children who play an online game promoting healthy foods and beverages appear more likely to…
Month: July 2009
Researchers Enlist DNA To Bring Carbon Nanotubes’ Promise Closer To Reality
Scientists and engineers report a new method of disentangling carbon nanotubes from a mixture and…
How Tamoxifen Stimulates Uterine Cell Growth And Cancer
Researchers have identified a new “feed-forward” pathway linking estrogen receptors in the membrane of the…
New Role Discovered For Molecule Important In Development Of The Pancreas
For years researchers have been searching for a way to treat diabetics by reactivating their…
Low Birth Weight Linked To Long-term Respiratory Problems
Infants who weigh less than five and a half pounds at birth often enter the…
Why It Is Easy To Encode New Memories But Hard To Hold Onto Them
Memories aren’t made of actin filaments. But their assembly is crucial for long-term potentiation (LTP),…
Chips in Official IDs Raise Privacy Fears
Climbing into his Volvo, outfitted with a Matrics antenna and a Motorola reader he’d bought…
Review: Palm Pre Promising, But Won’t Replace iPhone
The much-awaited Palm Pre is a bit premature. I really wanted to love this smart…
Web Site Recreates Apollo 11 Mission in Real Time
Families crowded around black-and-white television sets in 1969 to watch Neil Armstrong take man’s first…
Still Traveling for Business, But Carefully
Airfare wars and room-rate promotions are usually aimed at vacationers, but airlines and hotels are…