AP – Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s daylong tour of Silicon Valley Wednesday started with a…
Month: June 2010
Builders urged to support swifts
House builders and homeowners need to provide more nest sites for swifts to reverse the…
US ranks last among 7 countries on health system performance, new report says
Despite having the most expensive health care system, the United States ranks last overall compared…
Early results from the world’s brightest X-ray source
The first published research to emerge from the SLAC linear collider since it was reconfigured…
Lowering homocysteine levels with folic acid and vitamin B12 does not appear to reduce risk of heart attack, stroke, study finds
Patients who had experienced a heart attack and lowered their blood homocysteine levels with folic…
Loneliness, poor health appear to be linked
Two studies have found that hoarding friends doesn’t necessarily diminish forlorn feelings and that loneliness…
Structural basis for incidence of skin cancers in a genetic disorder discovered
Researchers have found why patients with a variant form of xeroderma pigmentosum (XPV), an inherited…
Brave brains: Neural mechanisms of courage uncovered in study of fear of snakes
A fascinating new study combines snakes with brain imaging in order to uncover neural mechanisms…
Fin to limb evolution clue found
A study has shed light on a key genetic step in the evolution of animals’…