Scientists are developing new drug therapies that they hope will kill the family of parasites…
Month: January 2010
Scent of a woman: Men’s testosterone responses to olfactory ovulation cues
Women around the world spend billions of dollars each year on exotic smelling perfumes and…
Clean-up for Welsh waterways
Plans to improve the rivers, lakes and coastlines of Wales aim to restore them to…
Verizon, AT&T cut fees, expand price war (Reuters)
Reuters – The two largest U.S. wireless carriers, Verizon and AT&T, cut their rates on…
Story of Newton’s encounter with apple goes online (AP)
AP – An 18th-century account of how a falling piece of fruit helped Isaac Newton…
Cost of 2007 floods put at £3.2bn
Flooding in England in the summer of 2007 cost the economy £3.2bn, a report by…
Sony’s PlayStation is ‘poison’ to children: Chavez (AFP)
AFP – Sony’s PlayStation video game console is “poison” and leads children down the capitalist…
Parks and recreation programs declining as obesity, health concerns rise
One way to help address the epidemic of obesity in the United States is improved…
Game-changing nanodiamond discovery for MRI
A new study shows that coupling a magnetic resonance imaging contrast agent to a nanodiamond…
Paradigm changing mechanism is revealed for the control of gene expression in bacteria
A new study is shedding new light on the action of Rho, a key regulatory…