The study provides evidence on the impact of the size and quality of an assortment…
Month: August 2011
Scared of the wrong things: Lack of major enzyme causes poor threat-assessment in mice
Do you run when you should stay? Are you afraid of all the wrong things?…
Popular muscle-boosting supplement does not increase blood flow, study suggests
A new study has found that a popular nutritional supplement that is marketed to lead…
Pharmacist-directed anticoagulation service improves care coordination
A pharmacist-directed anticoagulation service improves the coordination of care from the hospital to an outpatient…
Engineers reverse E. coli metabolism for quick production of fuels, chemicals
In a biotechnological tour de force, engineering researchers have now unveiled a new method for…
Most plant species important in various and varying ecosystems
According to a new analysis of plants in grasslands around the world, 84 percent of…
Marked rise in intensely sexualized images of women, not men
Sociologists have found that the portrayal of women in the popular media over the last…
Bird song-sharing like verbal sparring
While singing the same songs as your neighbors may sound harmonious, new research suggests that…
Why vertebrate intestines are so predictably loopy: Gut coils with help from its elastic neighbor
Between conception and birth, the human gut grows more than two meters long, looping and…
New anti-censorship scheme could make it impossible to block individual Web sites
A radical new approach to thwarting Internet censorship would essentially turn the whole Web into…