chief of obesity surgery
at Lenox Hill Hospital in
New York City, holds
several patents for the
treatment of obesity and
designed a method for
treating relapse after
gastric bypass. Roslin
has expertise in
laparoscopic obesity
surgery, duodenal
switch...
Day care may reduce the
risk of emotional
problems in children at
high risk of such
problems, according to a
new study from Canada.
The researchers found
that among children of
women with symptoms of
depression, those who
went to day care had
fewer em...
Nothing proves how
fragile, beautiful and
rare our planet is like a
portrait of it taken from
space. Now, scientists
are planning to image
Earth from a spacecraft
stationed at Saturn, and
are hoping many
Earthlings will plan to
stop and wave toward t...
Good new, techies: 3D
printers can now do more
than make dust-collecting
doodads. Researchers have
developed a method of
producing powerful
microbatteries using
these trendy
contraptions.
By Irene Klotz PARIS
(Reuters) - The European
Space Agency signed final
contracts with Thales
Alenia Space Italy for
work on a pair of
missions to assess if the
planet Mars has or ever
had life, officials said
at the Paris Airshow this
week. Until la...
After an especially cold
winter across much of the
United States, the
American public was
slightly less convinced
that the planet is
heating up, a new survey
shows.
Apart from their hairless
appearance, naked mole
rats are known for
several distinguishing
characteristics: They
have an unusually long
life span for a rodent,
and they seem to be
protected from developing
cancer. Now, researchers
have pinpointed a n...