Month: February 2010

As if there are not enough reasons for obese people to lose weight, a new…

Researchers have developed a way to make some notoriously brittle materials ductile — yet stronger…

Three years after the US blood banking industry issued recommendations that discourage transfusing plasma from…

Biogeochemists have developed a dynamic three-dimensional model of Earth’s early ocean chemistry that can significantly…

Scientists have pinpointed specific mutations that allow a common plant virus to infect new species….

In research that gives literal meaning to the term “power suit,” engineers have created energy-scavenging…

Associated Press: The Obama administration’s planned loan guarantee to build the first nuclear power plant…

Agence France-Presse: Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has broken from philanthropic work fighting poverty and disease…