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Energy-saving bacteria resist antibiotics

Bacteria save energy by producing proteins that moonlight, having different roles at different times, which may also protect the microbes from being killed. The moonlighting activity of one enzyme from the tuberculosis bacterium ...

Biology /

created Sep 03, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Invisibility undone: Chinese scientists demonstrate how to uncloak an invisible object

Harry Potter beware! A team of Chinese scientists has developed a way to unmask your invisibility cloak. According to a new paper in the latest issue of Optics Express, the Optical Society's (OSA) open-access journal, certai ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 03, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (47) | comments 0

Too much calcium in blood may increase risk of fatal prostate cancer

Men who have too much calcium in their bloodstreams may have an increased risk of fatal prostate cancer, according to a new analysis from Wake Forest University School of Medicine and the University of Wisconsin.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 03, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0