Month: November 2009

A new Web site allows users to explore differences in the probability of dying across…

Chemists are using a simple method to convert methane to methanol — something that has…

A new study suggests that tooth-binding micelles (or particles) may provide long-term cavity protection by…

Plasmids, which are DNA molecules capable of independent replication in cells, have played an important…

Scientists have discovered a previously unknown fruit fly gene that controls the metabolism of fat….

Solar wind generated by the sun is probably driven by a process involving powerful magnetic…

The USSR’s first civilian cosmonaut, Konstantin Feoktistov, a crew member of the 1964 Voskhod spaceship,…

Astronaut Randolph Bresnik becomes a father in space after his wife gives birth to a…

Coronary artery bypass graft patients who were screened for depression after surgery and then cared…