Taking a leukemia chemotherapy drug may help breast cancer patients who don’t respond to tamoxifen…
Month: August 2011
NASA satellite tracks severity of African drought
Northeast Africa continues to reel from the effects of the worst drought to strike the…
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft views dark side of Vesta
Dawn took a new image over Vesta’s northern hemisphere after the spacecraft completed its first…
Herschel telescope detects oxygen molecules in space
The Herschel Space Observatory’s large telescope and state-of-the-art infrared detectors have provided the first confirmed…
A bit of boron, a pinch of palladium: One-stop shop for the Suzuki reaction
Thanks to chemists in Munich, a crucial type of intermediate in the so-called Suzuki reaction…
Caregivers and their relatives disagree about care given, received
Caregivers and their relatives who suffer from mild to moderate dementia often have different perceptions…
People tend to exaggerate influence of political ads on others
The push for campaign finance reform may be driven by a tendency to overestimate the…
Systematic osteoporosis management urged after vertebral fracture augmentation
Scientists have issued a literature review of prospective controlled studies comparing the efficacy and safety…
Microbes consumed oil in Gulf slick at unexpected rates, study finds
In the first published study to explain the role of microbes in breaking down the…
Facebook date ends with supermarket robbery
If something seems too good to be true, it probably is — especially when it…