Month: October 2009

In a six year study of World Trade Center workers, researchers probed the connection between…

Many of us have been rescued from unfamiliar territory by directions from a Global Positioning…

Influenza viruses evade infection-fighting antibodies by constantly changing the shape of their major surface protein….

No pain, no gain applies to happiness, too, according to new research. People who work…

Try to pronounce the words “caught” and “cot.” If you’re a New Yorker by birth,…

Scientists have built the first optical frequency comb — a tool for precisely measuring different…

At its most benign, the autoimmune disease scleroderma can discolor parts of the skin of…

For the first time, a group of scientists working in the Kuril Islands off the…