All News from Mon, 25 Oct 2010
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Drug combo effective against breast cancer
Preliminary Australian research points to a way to stop the growth of aggressive triple negative breast cancer Read more…
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Govt boosts funding to improve land management practice
Doubles funding for the New Zealand Landcare Trust Read more…
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Study reveals risky sex behavior among NYC teens
Findings of a New York City high school survey have been published in the journal Pediatrics Read more…
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Police ‘devastated’ by Labour weekend road toll
Science student, Jessie Lineham, who had a long association with the Royal Society during her school years, was among the fatalities Read more…
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Radical technique to save more babies
Australian-led research has shown how a radical therapy could halve the number of babies who die from a birthing complication caused by inhaling their own waste Read more…
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Brainy bees learn to take shortest route
University of London researchers investigated whether bees followed a simple route defined by the order in which they found the flowers, or looked for the shortest route Read more…
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Haiti may be primed for another quake -US research
Two new studies published in the journal Nature Geoscience conclude the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault originally blamed for the quake was not the real source and still remains a threat Read more…
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Lung taste receptors may improve asthma treatment
US researchers show how receptors in the smooth muscles of the lungs and airways relax and open in response to bitter tastes Read more…
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Iran restricts social sciences seen as ‘Western’
More than a half of Iranian university students study social sciences and humanities Read more…
