Research News

11:13 AM EST
2/10/2012 Researchers find cancer drug rapidly clears dementia plaqueU.S. researchers say that a drug already approved for use on a form of skin cancer appears to reverse the symptoms of Alzheimer’s in mice.

Source:AHN Topics:Health, Disease, Alzheimer's Disease, Science And Technology, Research, Medical Research

4:36 PM EST
2/2/2012 US researchers say sugar tax neededThe government should tax sweetened drinks and food and identify sugar alongside alcohol and tobacco as a threat to health, according to researchers in the United States.

Source:AHN Topics:Science And Technology, Research, Health, Illness

2:02 PM EST
1/31/2012 Ultrasound zap on testicles eyed as male contraceptiveApplying therapeutic ultrasound on testicles may be a potential male contraceptive in the future after researchers, who tested it on rats, found the procedure lowered sperm count on the rodents.

Source:AHN Topics:Health, Medical Research, Human Interest, Curiosity, Science And Technology, Research

2:15 PM EST
1/18/2012 Scientists find La Nina precedes flu pandemicPublic health researchers revealed in a study that the La Nina weather phenomenon precedes flu pandemics. The findings of Jeffrey Shaman of Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and Marc Lipsitch of the Harvard School of Public Health were published Monday on the website of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.

Source:AHN Topics:Health, Epidemic And Plague, Weather, Global Change, Science And Technology, Research

11:56 AM EST
1/16/2012 Drug resistant TB strain emerges in IndiaIndian doctors have reported the country's first case of totally drug-resistant tuberculosis. Experts are not fearful that the Indian TB strains will rapidly spread.

Source:AHN Topics:Health, Disease, Communicable Diseases, Science And Technology, Research, Medicine, Western

10:57 PM EST
1/12/2012 U.S. astronomers say they have discovered the Milky Way's true colorsScientists have often wondered what color the Milky Way appeared to be when viewed from outside our solar system.What they discovered is the Milky Way is actually a milky white that is closer to the color of “fine-grain, new spring snow in the early morning or late evening, about an hour away from dawn or sunset.”

Source:AHN Topics:Science And Technology, Research, Natural Science, Astronomy

9:45 AM EST
1/5/2012 Jack sat and just got fatA Tel Aviv University study finds fat cells multiply when subject to mechanical loads created by sitting and lying down

Source:TML Topics:Health, Illness, Obesity, Science And Technology, Research, Social Issue

9:46 AM EST
12/19/2011 Study: Ugly guys overestimate their 'hotness'Unattractive guys looking for a quick hookup are more likely to overestimate how attractive women find them, a Texas study has found.

Source:AHN Topics:Science And Technology, Research, Survey, Lifestyle And Leisure, Beauty, Human Interest, Curiosity

12:51 PM EST
12/13/2011 Out of Africa? Not modern manModern man first evolved from his Homo erectus forebears in the Levant and not in Africa as was thought until now -- and that’s because people ate up all the elephants. That’s the hypothesis put forward by a group of scientists researching a cave near Tel Aviv that contains some of the earliest remains of modern man ever found in the Middle East.

Source:TML Topics:Science And Technology, Research, Arts, Culture And Entertainment, Archaeology

12:44 PM EST
12/8/2011 Israeli study debunks basketball mythA new study of NBA players has found that trying to repeat a successful three-pointer is more likely to be a missed shot. On the other hand, trying again after missing is more likely to end with a score.

Source:TML Topics:Sports, Basketball, Science And Technology, Research, Social Issue