A recent study describes a new candidate anti-cancer drug, HB-19. In contrast to conventional anti-cancer…
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New Way To Control Water Pollution? Mats Designed To Capture And Stabilize Pollution In Rivers
In a mud flat at the edge of the Cocheco River, just outside downtown Dover,…
Failure To Bridle Inflammation Spurs Atherosclerosis
When a person develops a sore or a boil, it erupts, drawing to it immune…
Jules Verne Refuels The International Space Station
ESA’s Jules Verne ATV was used for the first time yesterday to transfer in one…
Global War Deaths Have Been Substantially Underestimated, Study Shows
Globally, war has killed three times more people than previously estimated, and there is no…
Mars probe makes ‘ice’ discovery
Nasa’s Phoenix spacecraft unearths evidence of ice in the soil around its landing site on…
Gallons Per Mile Would Help Car Shoppers Make Better Decisions
Posting a vehicle’s fuel efficiency in “gallons per mile” rather than “miles per gallon” would…
Chemical Clues Point To Dusty Origin For Earth-like Planets
Higher than expected levels of sodium found in a 4.6 billion-year-old meteorite suggest that the…
Lou Gehrig’s Protein Found Throughout Brain, Suggesting Effects Beyond Motor Neurons
Two years ago researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine discovered that misfolded…
Latrines And Out-houses Trounce Toilets In Global War Against Poor Sanitation
While Americans may consider flush-and-forget-it indoor plumbing to be the pinnacle of sanitary science, the…