In a finding that defies conventional culinary wisdom, researchers in Italy report that cooking vegetables…
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Toward An Urgently Needed Antidote For Cyanide Poisoning Disasters
Citing an “alarming” lack of preparedness for terrorist attacks or other incidents involving release of…
Researcher Seeks Clues To How Tuberculosis Infects Cells
Cornell researchers are using advanced genetic techniques to better understand the relationship between the bacteria…
Gold Nanoparticle Probes May Allow Earlier Cancer Detection
Using tiny gold particles embedded with dyes, researchers have shown that they can identify tumors…
Sleep Chemical Central To Effectiveness Of Deep Brain Stimulation
A brain chemical that makes us sleepy also appears to play a central role in…
Beavers could be released in 2009
Plans are in the pipeline for beavers to be released into the Scottish wild for…
Explosives On A Chip: Unique Structure Enables New Generation Of Military Micro-detonators
Tiny copper structures with pores at both the nanometer and micron size scales could play…
Miscarriage And Abortion Triple Chances Of Future Low Birthweight Babies
Women who have miscarried or had an abortion run three times the normal risk of…
New Potential Target In The Treatment Of Fatal Brain Disease
Hypertensive encephalopathy is an often-fatal disease of the brain that results from extremely high blood…
Cryptic Messages Boost Data Security
Quantum cryptography, or quantum key distribution, enables two communicating parties to produce a shared random…