Prostate cancer cells require androgens including testosterone to grow. A recent review describes new classes…
Month: June 2012
Soon after the Big Bang, heavier elements emerge: Tin-100, a doubly magic nucleus
A few minutes after the Big Bang the universe contained no other elements than hydrogen…
Healthy muscle mass linked to healthy bones, but there are gender differences
A new study looked at skeletal muscle mass and bone health across the life span…
Trouble on the horizon for genetically modified crops?
Pests are adapting to genetically modified crops in unexpected ways, including dominant resistance not previously…
How humans predict other’s decisions
Researchers have uncovered two brain signals in the human prefrontal cortex involved in how humans…
Megapixel camera? Try gigapixel
By synchronizing 98 tiny cameras in a single device, electrical engineers have developed a prototype…
Chemical analysis of pottery reveals first dairying in Saharan Africa nearly 7,000 years ago
The first unequivocal evidence that humans in prehistoric Saharan Africa used cattle for their milk…
Poor role models: Children say two-thirds of parents do ‘almost no physical activity’
Children who said their parents do almost no physical activity have a 50 per cent…
Taming light with graphene
Scientists have visualized the trapping and confinement of light on graphene, making a sheet of…
Proposed drug may reverse Huntington’s disease symptoms: Single treatment gives long-term improvement in animals
With a single drug treatment, researchers can silence the mutated gene responsible for Huntington’s disease,…