Following months of gruelling tests and trials, scientists now reveal the World's strongest insect to be a species of dung beetle called Onthophagus taurus.
Mar 23, 2010
3.6 / 5 (7)
0
|
A study of the brains of people who stayed mentally sharp into their 80s and beyond challenges the notion that brain changes linked to mental decline and Alzheimer's disease are a normal, inevitable part of ...
Mar 23, 2010
4.6 / 5 (10)
0
|
Curcumin, one of the principal components of the Indian spice turmeric, seems to delay the liver damage that eventually causes cirrhosis, suggests preliminary experimental research in the journal Gut.
Mar 23, 2010
4.4 / 5 (9)
1
|
Who's in charge? Who's got food? The brain region responsible for learning and memory is bigger in social bee queens who may have to address these questions than in solitary queens, report scientists at the ...
Mar 23, 2010
4.5 / 5 (2)
0
|
Births by Caesarean section in the United States reached an all-time high in 2007 when some 1.4 million babies, or 32 percent of births, were delivered by C-section, a study showed Tuesday.
Mar 23, 2010
not rated yet
1
(PhysOrg.com) -- Utah's red rocks - world-famous attractions at numerous national parks, monuments and state parks - have yielded a rare skeleton of a new species of plant-eating dinosaur that lived 185 million ...
Mar 23, 2010
4.6 / 5 (7)
0
|
(AP) -- Cell phone company executives support a proposal by federal regulators to find more wireless spectrum for mobile broadband services, but say the industry needs to do more to help networks keep up with the demand ...
Mar 23, 2010
1 / 5 (1)
0
Imec, Holst Centre and the lab of Neuro- and Psychophysiology at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven today presented the Mind Speller, a portable, easy-to-wear, intelligent textual and verbal communications ...
Mar 23, 2010
5 / 5 (8)
2
|
ETH-Zurich physicists (Switzerland) have developed a new kind of laser that shatters the boundaries of possibility: it is by far the smallest electrically pumped laser in the world and one day could revolutionize ...
Mar 23, 2010
4.6 / 5 (26)
5
|
(PhysOrg.com) -- People with Alzheimer’s disease experience a rate of cognitive decline four times greater than those with no dementia according to a new study by researchers at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. ...
Mar 23, 2010
2 / 5 (1)
0
Taking arginine supplements can improve the cycling ability of over-50s. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition tested a combination of the amino acid and an antiox ...
Mar 23, 2010
2.5 / 5 (2)
0
Scientists today described the discovery of a new drug, which is currently in Phase II clinical trials, designed to specifically target the root cause of painful menstrual cramps, not just the symptoms. The ...
Mar 23, 2010
not rated yet
0
