Our bones have much greater influence on the rest of our bodies than they are often given credit for, according to two new studies. Both studies offer new insights into the interplay between bone and blood sugar, based on signals sent via insulin and a bone-derived hormone known as osteocalcin.
An early study in rats provides the first direct indication that a major component of smog might trigger cell death in the heart, researchers report.
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For the first time, scientists in Germany have successfully measured in the ozone layer the chlorine compound ClOOCl, which plays an important role in stratospheric ozone depletion. Doubts in the established models of polar ozone chemistry expressed by American researchers based on laboratory measurements are disproved by these new atmospheric observations.
A clinical trial in Cambodia has found it possible to prolong the survival of untreated HIV-infected adults with very weak immune systems and newly diagnosed tuberculosis by starting anti-HIV therapy two weeks after beginning TB treatment, rather than waiting eight weeks, as has been standard.
To many big companies, you aren’t just a customer, but are described by multiple “dimensions” of information within a computer database. Now, a computer scientist has devised a new method for simpler, faster “data mining,” or extracting and analyzing massive amounts of such data.
Children who come in conflict with the law early on in life do not necessarily become long-term criminals thereafter, according to a child delinquency study by researchers in Germany.
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Seeing the official downfall for the year of any climate legislation in Congress—a development…
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For the first time in months, the government has good news for Gulf of…
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A Senate spending panel wants the National Science Foundation (NSF) to triple its investment…
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Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida, have designated an atmospheric disturbance…
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