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• American Paul Krugman wins economics Nobel
He added that Krugman’s analyses tend to back free trade and his research gives no “support for protectionism.” The 55-year-old American economist was the lone winner of the 10 million kronor ($1.4 million) award and the latest in a string of ...
• Docs double kids' vitamin D recommendations
The new advice is based on mounting research about potential benefits from vitamin D besides keeping bones strong, including suggestions that it might reduce risks for cancer, diabetes and heart disease. But the evidence isn't conclusive and there's ...
• Going beyond the Palin
For example, an Obama radio spot says of McCain, “He’s opposed stem-cell research.” (That too-clever use of a contraction allows the line to be more truthy than true: McCain flip-flopped on embryonic-stem-cell research in 2001.) But there is no ...
• Army developing ‘synthetic telepathy’
It will take a lot of research, and a lot of time, but there are also a lot of commercial applications, not just military applications," he said. The idea of communicating by thought alone is not a new one. In the 1960s, a researcher strapped an EEG ...
• Nobel Prize winner Dr. George Palade dies at 95
In 1990, he came to UCSD, where he became the founding dean for scientific affairs. He retired in 2001 but remained a consultant. Among his many other honors were the National Medal of Science, the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research and ...