Veterinarians are trying to track down 25 Barbary monkeys that are allegedly terrorizing tourists on Gibraltar.

Biology -

Apr 18, 2008 3.5 / 5 (2) 0

Without that five minutes chat by the watercooler, the open-ended lunch break, or a boss's beckoning door, homeworkers can often feel isolated from colleagues and the opportunities for informal networking and mentoring that ...

Technology - Telecom

Apr 18, 2008 2.5 / 5 (2) 0

A light echo occurs when interstellar gas is heated by radiation and reacts by emission of light. An international team led by Stefanie Komossa from the Max Planck Institute for extraterrestrial Physics in ...

Space & Earth - Astronomy

Apr 18, 2008 4.6 / 5 (25) 1

Teaching robots to understand enough about the real world to allow them act independently has proved to be much more difficult than first thought.

Electronics - Robotics

Apr 18, 2008 3.8 / 5 (9) 1

There are many pathways that allow an errant gene to turn a cell cancerous, and a number of these pathways go through a single enzyme called the p21-activated kinase 1, or PAK1.

Medicine & Health - Cancer

Apr 18, 2008 5 / 5 (2) 0

A team of scientists from the Université de Montréal and the Montreal Heart Institute Research Centre, led by Dr. Jean-Claude Tardif, has completed an important study that show how a new type of medication can lead to an ...

Medicine & Health - Medical research

Apr 18, 2008 4 / 5 (3) 0

Data from the ESA/NASA spacecraft SOHO shows clearly that powerful starquakes ripple around the Sun in the wake of mighty solar flares that explode above its surface. The observations give solar physicists ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Apr 18, 2008 4.1 / 5 (19) 0

A new American Cancer Society study finds female African American patients tend to overestimate their level of cancer screening, indicating that current estimates of screening based on self-reported data may be lower than ...

Medicine & Health - Cancer

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Scientists at the University of Liverpool have found that female mice avoid mating with inbred males by ‘sensing’ the diversity of a protein type in their urine.

Biology -

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In a demonstration that even some of the most hard-to-treat tumors may one day succumb to therapies aimed at molecular "weak points," researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute report the first instance in which metastatic ...

Medicine & Health - Cancer

Apr 18, 2008 4.8 / 5 (4) 0

Interventional cardiologists at Rush University Medical Center now offer a minimally-invasive transcatheter valve replacement procedure for patients with congenital heart disease that doesn’t involve open heart surgery.

Medicine & Health - Other

Apr 18, 2008 4 / 5 (4) 0

Researchers in Belgium have discovered that increasing age affects the way breast cancer behaves. As women approach the age of 70, they become less likely to be diagnosed with aggressive tumours that have spread to the lymph ...

Medicine & Health - Cancer

Apr 18, 2008 5 / 5 (2) 0

A connection between vitamin D level and the risk of developing breast cancer has been implicated for a long time, but its clinical relevance had not yet been proven. Sascha Abbas and colleagues from the working group headed ...

Medicine & Health - Cancer

Apr 18, 2008 4.6 / 5 (7) 0

Less educated, older men are more likely to view depression negatively, while almost one in five Australians say they wouldn’t work with someone suffering depression, according to researchers from The Australian National ...

Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry

Apr 18, 2008 2.7 / 5 (3) 0

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley have now developed a new strategy for the formation of hybrid materials from synthetic polymers and proteins. They have thus been able to fuse the specific biological ...

Chemistry -

Apr 18, 2008 5 / 5 (1) 0