Month: December 2011

New research indicates that glia cells are “the brain’s supervisors.” By regulating the synapses, they…

For decades, science has suggested that when people make decisions, they tend to ignore logic…

Wild chimpanzees monitor the information available to other chimpanzees and inform their ignorant group members…

Stable two-dimensional networks of organic molecules are important components in various nanotechnology processes. However, producing…

People with diets high in several vitamins or in omega 3 fatty acids are less…

New research links ‘silent strokes,’ or small spots of dead brain cells, found in about…

Debris from the tsunami that devastated Japan in March could reach the United States as…

Short, fast, and frequent: Those 21st-century demands on publication have radically changed the news, politics,…

Mutations in the ATM gene may increase the hereditary risk for pancreatic cancer, according to…

Targeted drugs, which block or disrupt particular molecules involved in the growth of tumors, have…