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  1. Health & Medicine

    What’s good for the heart is good for the prostate

    A new study finds that lower cholesterol levels slow the growth of prostate tumors in mice.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Stick to a low-cal diet and it will work

    Summary: Overweight people on low-calorie diets lose weight equally well despite differences in how much fat, protein or carbohydrates the diet allows.

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  3. Life

    Prions complicit in Alzheimer’s disease

    A study in mice suggests a version of prion proteins, which are known to cause the brain-wasting mad cow and Creutzfeldt-Jakob diseases, may also play a role in neuron malfunction.

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  4. Life

    New stegosaur is quite a stretch

    A newly discovered stegosaur has neck proportions like those of sauropods.