Finding an answer to this enigma may be of prime importance for several reasons. One of them is prevention since discovering a relationship between eating and…
The study analysed patterns of media use in Norway, Germany and Austria, on the basis of a sample population of 24,468 persons aged between 12 and 74. The data…
These are some of the many questions posed by José Miguel Vílchez González in his thesis Física y Dibujos Animados. “Una estrategia de alfabetización…
At the same time, more than half dismiss these subjects as completely unscientific. This is according to a new opinion study from the Swedish organisation…
The study involved a survey of national and local politicians, an analysis of science-related material in political party magazines and those of their youth…
This system, carried out with a swab (similar to pregnancy testing), will initially detect specific markers for ocular pathologies such as conjunctivochalasis…
A research team led by Juliet Usher-Smith from the University of Cambridge, and Professor Mike Kirby from The Hertfordshire Primary Care Research Network…
The license, which was granted following months of strict safety testing and evaluation by the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Authority (MHRA),…
Government initiatives encourage women into what has been regarded as a tough, heavy and dirty profession, but they are often turned off by the teaching and…
Nano small.A Michigan State University chemical engineer has discovered that nanoparticles can stop thin polymer films from buckling and wrinkling. It's a new…
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease that causes an estimated 2 million deaths each year. The majority of those deaths occur in developing countries,…
Professor Joao Zilhao of the University of Bristol, Professor Erik Trinkaus of Washington University and colleagues in Europe compared the features of an early…
Two tumor-suppressing genes given intravenously reduced cancer separately but had their most powerful effect when administered together, cutting the number of…
Benzodiazepine use was not shown to be associated with hip fractures after all, according to a new study from the Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention…
These findings, based on data from the double-blind Physicians' Health Study, appear in the second issue for January 2007 of the American Journal of…
The study involved the review of hospital discharge data from 657,877 patients who had been admitted to U.S. hospitals for carotid endarterectomy or coronary…