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As the U.S. military gears up for possible war with Iraq there is one thing it doesn’t have in its arsenal that it almost certainly would like to have: the "Joint Strike Fighter." |
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Scientists are working on a way to connect a computer to living things, and the effort could help protect us from bioterror. |
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One of the world’s biggest killers, malaria takes millions of lives each year and that number is on the rise. But genetic engineers are working on modifying mosquitoes so they can’t transmit deadly diseases. |
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Neuroscientists have found that when kids are deprived of a mother’s love, it could affect the way their brains are wired and make them more prone to abuse drugs as adults. |
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How do you take care of something that practically no one has ever even seen alive before? |
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For the first time, scientists can watch individual brain cells in living animals for long periods of time. |
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Neurologists may have found a way to use stem cells to bridge the gaps in the brains of those affected by brain injuries like cerebral palsy. |
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Silicon chips have made everything electronic smaller, faster, and cheaper. Now scientists are working to make circuits so small, we won’t see them at all. |
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Geneticists report they’ve identified hundreds of genes that appear to make worms either fat or slim. And this may lead to big new anti-fat drugs. |
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Infants are more likely to view an object when another person looks with open, not closed, eyes. |
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Tiny gold particles could help speed the diagnosis of diseases. |
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Engineers have built a car that uses satellites to help you steer. |
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Why it’s important to catch up on your sleep. |
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Doctors are searching for a genetic cause for eating disorders. |
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Drunk flies are helping geneticists understand alcoholism |
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With the reported birth of the first human clone comes a renewed campaign to outlaw reproductive cloning. |
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Researchers say your everyday Internet communications can be tapped to perform calculations. |
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Could an incredibly tiny, uniquely strong structure could make a space elevator? |
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Low-lying, coastal cities around the world are in a battle with nature that threatens to wash them away. |
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New research shows that the way we speak to children has a huge effect on their language comprehension. |
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For years police and psychologists have been trying to get inside voilent minds.Now they’re getting closer than ever. |
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Stem Cell Shakes (video) - December 12, 2002 |
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Brain scientists have found a solution for how to turn stem cells into the kind of nerve cells they want. |
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Studies indicate that overweight people may get more pleasure from eating. |
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Do you eat or need to be around people when you’re stressed? Scientists are studying the nerve cells of tiny worms to find out why. |
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Why is the publishing of the mouse genome so exciting? Just about all medical advances that benefit human patients are first studied in mice. |
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