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Saturday, November 28, 2009 12:13 AM PST By Thomas J. Sheeran The Associated Press CLEVELAND — Woe is me: If you want to be all things to all people, remember that many are called but few are chosen. That gave Obama’s rhetoric...
ScienceDaily (Nov. 27, 2009) — Many patients with diabetes should forego angioplasties for heart disease and just take medicine instead, according to a new National Institutes of Health study led by Stanford University School...
SUMMIT COUNTY - State water experts hope to develop an early warning system for drought using a grassroots network of trained weather watchers. Summit County and Grand County will be part of the data-gathering effort for the...
If humans are genetically related to chimps, why did our brains develop the innate ability for language and speech while theirs did not? Scientists suspect that part of the answer to the mystery lies in a gene called FOXP2....
Researchers at Uppsala University and University Children's Hospital in Uppsala have devised powerful new tools for typing cells from children with acute lymphatic leukemia and for prediction of how children with leukemia will...
Why Self-Help Books are Wrong New information from the Association for Psychological Science suggests that positive thinking doesn't help build self-esteem, but can actually make you feel worse. Researchers from the University...
Bioengineers have developed a simple and inexpensive method for loading cancer drug payloads into nano-scale delivery vehicles and demonstrated in animal models that this new nanoformulation can eliminate tumors after a single...
Much of the discussion in recent days has been motivated by the idea that climate science is somehow unfairly restricting access to raw data upon which scientific conclusions are based. This is a powerful meme and one that has...
Vancouver, where I live, is plagued by a number of critters. There are urban bears, urban coyotes, urban raccoons, urban skunks and urban socialists. Of course, the audacity and ambitious schemes of the latter have done the...
Certain common herbicides and lipid-lowering fibrate drugs act in humans to block T1R3, a nutrient-sensing taste receptor also present in intestine and pancreas. These compounds were not previously known to act on the receptor,...
