Researchers on Sunday said they had pinpointed the biochemical pathway by which cannabis causes memory loss in mice.

Medicine & Health - Neuroscience

Aug 02, 2009 4.9 / 5 (10) 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have discovered that gorillas are a source of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), having diagnosed a Cameroonian woman living in Paris with a strain that is different to those previously ...

Medicine & Health - HIV & AIDS

Aug 02, 2009 5 / 5 (2) 2

New research helps explain why infection with herpes simplex virus-2 (HSV-2), which causes genital herpes, increases the risk for HIV infection even after successful treatment heals the genital skin sores and breaks that ...

Medicine & Health - HIV & AIDS

Aug 02, 2009 5 / 5 (1) 2

(AP) -- Yukon River smokehouses should be filled this summer with oil-rich strips of king salmon - long used by Alaska Natives as a high-energy food to get through the long Alaska winters. But they're mostly empty.

Biology - Ecology

Aug 02, 2009 5 / 5 (1) 1

(AP) -- Coming soon to your TV: More advertising, in places you might not expect. The ads are showing up where people used to enjoy a break from advertising, such as video on demand and on-screen channel guides. Even TiVo, ...

Technology - Telecom

Aug 02, 2009 5 / 5 (2) 4

(AP) -- Wrecking coral will cost you in Hawaii. A Maui tour company is paying the state nearly $400,000 for damaging more than 1,200 coral colonies when one of its boats sank at Molokini, a pristine reef and popular diving ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Aug 02, 2009 5 / 5 (3) 1

Patient satisfaction with their medications and the quality of interactions with their doctor reflect the success of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) therapy, according to a new study in Clinical Gastroenterology an ...

Medicine & Health - Other

Aug 02, 2009 5 / 5 (1) 0

In a major step in spinal cord injury research, scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have demonstrated that regenerating axons can be guided to their correct targets and ...

Medicine & Health - Neuroscience

Aug 02, 2009 5 / 5 (5) 2

Researchers have pinpointed a specific gene variation that causes increased risk of urinary bladder cancer, according to a scientific team led by The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.

Medicine & Health - Genetics

Aug 02, 2009 not rated yet 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Although the speed of light is constant in a vacuum, light slows down a small amount when traveling through other materials. While it's relatively easy to measure the speed of light in mediums ...

Physics - General Physics

Aug 02, 2009 4.5 / 5 (14) 7

Walter and Eliza Hall Institute scientists have found that a population of breast cells called luminal progenitor cells are likely to be responsible for breast cancers that develop in women carrying mutations ...

Medicine & Health - Cancer

Aug 02, 2009 5 / 5 (1) 1

(AP) -- Nissan Chief Executive Carlos Ghosn drove quietly out of the Japanese automaker's soon-to-open headquarters Sunday in the first public viewing of its new zero-emission vehicle.

Technology - Energy & Green Tech

Aug 02, 2009 4.4 / 5 (18) 19

(AP) -- A powerful new type of Internet attack works like a telephone tap, except operates between computers and Web sites they trust.

Technology - Internet

Aug 02, 2009 4.8 / 5 (13) 4

South Korea has rescheduled its first space rocket launch from its soil to August 11 after repeatedly postponing it due to technical reasons, officials said Saturday.

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Aug 02, 2009 5 / 5 (2) 7

Non-small cell lung cancer patients who have progressed on a cetuximab-containing regimen may respond to erlotinib, Fox Chase Cancer Center researchers reported today at the annual meeting of the International Association ...

Medicine & Health - Cancer

Aug 02, 2009 5 / 5 (1) 0