Obesity: the Scourge of the Western World Obesity is rapidly becoming a new scourge of the western world, delegates agreed at the 11th European Confer...
After-birth Depression Blamed for Woman’s SuicideA new mother apparently suffering from postpartum mental illness fell to her death from a narrow 12th...
Hypertension Drugs Found to Cut Risk of Stroke Australian doctors declared Monday that a cocktail of simple antihypertensive drugs can lower the risk ...
Air Pollution Cloud Measured on Both Sides of Pacific Scientists watched closely last spring as a haze of pollution, which had been tracked by satelli...
Florida Hit by Cold Air Mass In January, 2003, the eastern two-thirds of the United States was at the mercy of a bitterly cold air mass that has endan...
Japanese Drilling into Core of Earth In what reassembles a journey to the center of the Earth, Japanese scientists have launched the world’s first att...
Controlling Robots with the Mind Belle, our tiny monkey, was seated in her special chair inside a chamber at our Duke University lab. Her right hand g...
U.S. Marks 175 Locomotive Years Built by the Mason machine Worlds in 1856, the 27,900-kilogram William Mason was an example of the archetypal 19th Cen...
Kasparov: Chess Computers Beatable…For Now Humans will continue to beat computers for years, but the machines are likely to dominate in matches played...
Sauna Ceremonial bathing has existed for thousands of years and has many forms, one of which is the sauna. The Finns have perfected the steam bath, or...