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Researchers in the states may have found a way to detect potential prostate tumours using Magnetic resonance spectroscopy, and this should lead to fewer false negatives, better precision when locating tumours and a better idea of how aggressive they are.
Magnetic resonance spectroscopy analyses the...
Bats and dolphins may appear to be very different types of mammals – after all one of them flies and the other swims – but it turns out they have both, independently evolved exactly the same gene that allows them to use sound as a way of visualising the world around them.
Both bats and dolphins hun...
People who run barefoot learn to minimise impact shock, adopting a different style of running from those in shoes, according to research published in Nature this week. This could help us to understand the impact-related injuries suffered by a high percentage of runners.
Daniel Lieberman and c...
Among the enormous diversity of cichlid fish living in Lake Tanganyika in eastern Africa, one group in particular has evolved a most unusual feeding habit: they sneak up behind other fish and pick their scales off, approaching every time either from the left or right side. You can easily see whether...