ROME, June 19, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- The osteoporosis treatment Protelos(R) (strontium ranelate, Servier) has greater effects than the commonly prescribed bisphosphonate alendronate on bone…

Consistent with the Standard Model of particle physics, there is postulated a Higgs field which determines those particles which are massive and those which are not. Photons are massless. Gluons also…

Last weekend, Boston was taken over by the Transhumanists, for the gathering of the 2010 Humanity Plus (H+) Summit at Harvard University. The H+ Summit was two glorious days of information loading,…

BP's Tried And Tested Failures If you have a problem which has been attacked before, you don't try failed methods again unless your name is Homer Simpson - or you are too young to remember the event…

BEIJING, June 19, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Seven out of 10 men admitted to hospital for a heart attack (acute ST segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI)) had erectile dysfunction (ED) in the six…

BEIJING, June 19, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Younger, unmarried men around the world are least likely to be aware of hypertension (high blood pressure) and less likely to be receiving treatment. Whereas…

One thing the film industry get right - and they don't get much right, since romantic comedy behavior in real life is likely to get you a restraining order - is that music evokes moods. French…

Giant freak waves - seriously, that is what oceanographers and physicists call them - are called that because they can appear on the open sea out of nowhere. Researchers from the Ruhr-…

Scientists from the Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Collaborative Research Center 746 of the University of Freiburg say they have discovered a new mechanism which plays an…

For our 1951 pick, we have the work of one of the great British writers of sci-fi’s Golden Age. In The Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham presents a horror story of giant, ambulatory, flesh-eating…