Guardian: One tenth of Britain, including moorlands and hillsides, could be used to grow crops…
Month: January 2010
U.N. panel “regrets” exaggeration of Himalayan thaw
Reuters: The U.N. panel of climate scientists expressed regret on Wednesday for exaggerating how quickly…
UN drops deadline for countries to state climate change targets
Guardian: The UN has dropped the 31 January deadline by which time all countries were…
Study links Asia to smog component in Western US
Associated Press: Ozone blowing over from Asia is raising background levels of a major ingredient…
Sweating out the cravings
Supervised exercise in addition to pharmacological agents like nicotine replacement therapy helps smoking cessation, improves…
Today’s threat: Computer network terrorism
“Carry out all my demands or the entire country’s electricity will be cut off.” Is…
Informative method to identify biomarkers for guiding therapy decisions
A randomized biomarker-stratified design, which uses the biomarker to guide analysis but not treatment assignment,…
New superconductivity mechanism found in iron compound
A surprising discovery by researchers of electronic liquid crystal states in an iron-based, high-temperature superconductor…
When the smoke clears: Molecular link between tobacco carcinogen and cancer
New research has uncovered a potential mechanism by which the tobacco-specific carcinogen NNK promotes lung…
Gene linked to schizophrenia may reduce cancer risk
A specific form of a gene that puts people on the road to schizophrenia may…