Statins 'prevent artery ageing'

"Drugs given to heart patients to lower cholesterol may have an additional benefit - keeping their blood vessels feeling younger. Advanced heart disease patients have arteries which have effectively aged faster than the rest of their bodies. University of Cambridge...

How Daughter Is Different From Mother ... In Yeast Cells

The mother-daughter relationship can be difficult to understand. Why are the two so different? Now a Northwestern University study shows how this happens ..."A research team has discovered a new mechanism for cell fate determination -- how one cell, the daughter, becomes...

Blogging--It's Good for You

"Self-medication may be the reason the blogosphere has taken off. Scientists (and writers) have long known about the therapeutic benefits of writing about personal experiences, thoughts and feelings. But besides serving as a stress-coping mechanism, expressive writing...

The Golden Collapse

Here's an article from Reason Magazine written by Matt Welch. It's about what happened after the tech crash that happened at the turn of the millenium."Despite the considerable hit that the wave of tech publication closures had on the pocketbooks of freelancers like me, it...

'Horror frog' breaks own bones to produce claws

""Amphibian horror" isn't a movie genre, but on this evidence perhaps it should be. Harvard biologists have described a bizarre, hairy frog with cat-like extendable claws. Trichobatrachus...

Indonesia seeks international help to protect forests

""We need financial assistance for the conservation of our forests. Developed countries must give their support by providing financial assistance to developing countries," Rachmat Witoelar told AFP. Indonesia is gearing up to host a global UN summit on climate change next...

Platelet Aggregration Cancer Metastasis Mechanism

New details from researchers at the University of Yamanashi, Japan being announced about how cancer cells spread through encircling themselves with platelets.

The First Computer- Second Century B.C.

"A century ago, pieces of a strange mechanism with bronze gears and dials were recovered from an ancient shipwreck off the coast of Greece. Historians of science concluded that this was an instrument that calculated and illustrated astronomical information, particularly...