Month: August 2012

The greatest risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is advancing age. By age 85, the…

Overweight and obese individuals can achieve a decade’s worth of important health benefits by losing…

Computer-generated characters have become so lifelike in appearance and movement that the line separating reality…

Scientists have vaporized the Earth — if only by simulation, that is mathematically and inside…

Researchers have identified a potential target for treating diabetes and obesity. Studying mice, they found…

A researcher has observed a never-before-seen defensive strategy used by a small species of deep-sea…

Women outlive men by about five to six years but why? By age 85 there…

Despite the current and rapid melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet, it remains uncertain just…

To minimize the chance of being recognized and thus attacked by the birds they are…

Elephants rely on the same mechanism that produces speech in humans (and the vocalizations of…