A new prostate-imaging technology that fuses MRI with real-time, three-dimensional ultrasound may offer a more…
Month: May 2011
Deepwater Horizon spill threatens more species than legally protected, study finds
Marine species facing threats from the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf…
WINS Patch Is Especially Important for Server 2003 (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor – Microsoft on Tuesday issued two security bulletins to fix three vulnerabilities. Microsoft only…
Animal-like urea cycle in ocean’s tiny diatoms enables marine phytoplankton to use carbon and nitrogen from their environment
Scientists have discovered that marine diatoms, tiny phytoplankton abundant in the sea, have an animal-like…
Slow road to a synapse: Why some neuronal proteins take their time getting to the terminal
Grappling with a question that has defied scientific explanation for decades, researchers offer the first…
Doing good so you don’t feel bad: Neural mechanisms of guilt anticipation and cooperation
On a daily basis, our social life places us in situations where we have to…
Novel mouse model provides insight into rare neurodegenerative disease
New research sheds light on common pathogenic mechanisms shared by Huntington’s disease (HD) and HD-like…
Secret behind new gas detector? Chirp before sniffing
Trace gas detection, the ability to detect a scant handful of a particular molecule in…
2,300-year climate record suggests severe tropical droughts as northern temperatures rise
A 2,300-year climate record that researchers recovered from an Andes Mountains lake reveals that as…
Carbon, carbon everywhere, but not from the Big Bang
As Star Trek is so fond of reminding us, we’re carbon-based life forms. But the…