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Scientists have stumbled upon a new way to help patients with Parkinson's to move more easily.
Writing in this week's Science, Duke University researcher Miguel Nicolelis and his colleagues have used experimental animals to show how a simple nerve stimulation technique can overcome the symptoms of...
The health benefits of eating the Omega-3 amino acids found in fish may not outweigh the cost to the oceans of our continued fishing, according to an analysis in the Canadian Medical Association Journal this week.
Dr David Jenkins argues that although some studies show that eating fish rich in Omeg...
Sutures of the future might well be deployed by a portable ink-jet printer according to scientists in the US. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researcher Roger Narayan and his team, with a view to finding better ways to close wounds, have been investigating the sticking power of a collect...
New Software can identify a tiger from its pelt, helping to catch poachers out in the act.
A tiger’s stripes are unique, much like our own fingerprints, so this means that individual tigers can be identified from its colouring.
Lex Hiby, from Conservation Research Limited, has developed a softwar...
A new species of miniature meat-eating dinosaur has been discovered in North America, where it is the smallest-known dinosaur. Hesperonychus elizabethae was half the size of a modern day house cat and it ran around on two legs hunting for insects and other small animals like frogs and mammals and po...
For thousands of years frankincense has been used in incense and perfumes, and the bible tells that it was one of the gifts the wise men brought to Jesus. And there might now be a new use for Frankincense, to treat cancer of the bladder, a deadly form of the disease – in the US it is the 4th most co...
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