British dentists are being told not to re-use dental instruments from root canals because it could put patients at risk for mad cow disease.

Medicine & Health - Other

Apr 20, 2007 4 / 5 (1) 0

A new birth control pill that stops menstruation completely is expected to be approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration next month.

Medicine & Health - Medications

Apr 20, 2007 4 / 5 (13) 1

Doctors in New York have removed a woman's gall bladder vaginally with minimal external incisions.

Medicine & Health - Other

Apr 20, 2007 3.6 / 5 (7) 0

China, apparently fearing criticism of its recent satellite destruction, has put off hosting next week's global meeting on hazardous space waste.

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Apr 20, 2007 5 / 5 (1) 0

Smith Micro has released its MediaRECOVER 4.0, a file-recovery software tool that enables users to recover their lost or corrupted digital media files.

Technology - Software

Apr 20, 2007 3 / 5 (1) 0

These days, EMC looks a little like the Energizer Bunny - it keeps going, and going, and going - seemingly unstoppable.

Technology - Business

Apr 20, 2007 not rated yet 0

Adolescents who are chronically exposed to family turmoil, violence, noise, poor housing or other chronic risk factors show more stress-induced physiological strain on their organs and tissues than other young people.

Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry

Apr 20, 2007 4.3 / 5 (3) 0

A new experiment aims to accelerate electrons using dark red light.

Physics - General Physics

Apr 20, 2007 4.6 / 5 (16) 0

Sand. A single grain is tiny, but solid, and shares the physical properties of other solid matter. But pack or transport millions of grains together - as modern society does with coffee grounds, flour and industrial chemicals ...

Physics - General Physics

Apr 20, 2007 4.7 / 5 (12) 0

Researchers at the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego report that they have developed a new method for detecting cancer very early in its development, when it consists of just a few cells. The ...

Medicine & Health - Cancer

Apr 20, 2007 4.9 / 5 (9) 0

If you’ve ever had a broken arm – or a paper cut – you probably appreciated the healing role textiles played in your recovery. New types of materials are now being used to treat internal illnesses and injuries, making ...

Medicine & Health - Other

Apr 20, 2007 2.3 / 5 (7) 0

Researchers at McGill University have found that cells respond to their ever-changing environment in a way that mimics the optimal mathematical approach to doing so, also known as Bayes’ rule; an application of probability ...

Biology -

Apr 20, 2007 4.4 / 5 (12) 0

Combining the world's largest radio telescope at Arecibo, Puerto Rico with a precision imaging, seven-antenna synthesis radio telescope at the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory (DRAO), a team of researchers led by ...

Space & Earth - Astronomy

Apr 20, 2007 4.8 / 5 (28) 0

Yale School of Medicine and University of Crete School of Medicine researchers report in Cell April 20 the first evidence of a molecular mechanism that dynamically alters the strength of higher brain network connections.

Medicine & Health - Medical research

Apr 20, 2007 4.6 / 5 (8) 0

Imagine looking at a pool of spilled milk. Your brain knows that it's milk and not another white substance like sugar, or cottage cheese, but how does it know?

Medicine & Health - Medical research

Apr 20, 2007 4.3 / 5 (24) 0