In March, the Messenger spacecraft entered orbit around Mercury to become that planet’s first orbiter….
Month: June 2011
Senate bill would add protections for mobile users’ location data (Appolicious)
Appolicious – Sen. Al Franken isn’t happy about the prospect of mobile operating system developers…
A stem cell target for expanding waistlines?
Researchers may have found the key to developing a method to rid the body of…
How we come to know our bodies as our own
By taking advantage of a “body swap” illusion, researchers have captured the brain regions involved…
Old, large, living trees must be left standing to protect nesting animals, study shows
Old trees must be protected to save the homes of more than 1,000 different bird…
How the immune system fights back against anthrax infections
Scientists have uncovered how the body’s immune system launches its survival response to the notorious…
Radionuclide treatment against small tumors and metastases
Medicine could very soon have a new ally in the fight against cancer: Terbium-161. Researchers…
First diagnostic test for hereditary children’s disease
A breakthrough in genetic research has uncovered the defect behind a rare hereditary children’s disease…
When warming up for the cycling race, less is more
New findings challenge conventional wisdom and find shorter warm-ups of lower intensity are better for…
Pregnancy: Walking, sex and spicy food are favored unprescribed methods to bring on labor
More than half of the women in a recently published survey reported that near the…