National Public Radio: Turkey’s Bosphorus strait is one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes for…
Month: January 2010
Mozart therapy: A sonata a day keeps the doctor away
Researchers have found that pre-term infants exposed to thirty minutes of Mozart’s music in one…
Airport full-body scanners expose passengers to less harmful radiation than most flights, experts say
Amid concerns regarding terrorists targeting airliners using weapons less detectable by traditional means, the Transportation…
‘Lorenzo’s Oil’ breakthrough: Newfound mechanism could prevent or treat deadly peroxisome diseases
Medical researchers have made a major breakthrough in understanding a group of deadly disorders that…
H1N1 virus spreads easily by plane
Researchers have developed a novel mathematical model that predicts the spread of the H1N1 virus…
Old antidepressant offers promise in treating heart failure
Researchers have found in animal experiments that an antidepressant developed over 40 years ago can…
Evolutionary surprise: Eight percent of human genetic material comes from a virus
About eight percent of human genetic material comes from a virus and not from our…
Nexus One: You Can Look, You Can Buy, but You Can’t Touch
The 2009 holiday spirit seems to have faded for Google and Apple, who didn’t waste…
Tackle science fraud, China urged
An editorial in the medical journal the Lancet has urged China’s authorities to do more…