Month: February 2011

Just over two weeks before its flyby of comet Tempel 1, NASA’s Stardust spacecraft fired…

Opiate abuse is a chronic disorder and maintaining abstinence represents a major challenge for addicts….

To demonstrate tiny cotton-eating caterpillars’ destructive power, entomologists planted two cotton varieties — one genetically…

Two separate studies — carried out in Burkina Faso and Mali — have found that…

Fresh on the heels of a series of crippling floods that began in December 2010,…

For decades, medical wisdom about shingles has been that it’s a once-in-a-lifetime experience. The commonly-held…

After a good night’s sleep, people remember information better when they know it will be…

Researchers set out to examine what benefits bilingualism might have in the process of learning…

Biologists have published results of a new study into the intricacies of sex in flowering…