A diet low in carbohydrates may help stunt the growth of prostate tumors, according to a new study led by Duke Prostate Center researchers. The study, in mice, suggests that a reduction in insulin production possibly caused by fewer carbohydrates may stall tumor growth.
Researchers have found that low self-esteem and materialism are not just a correlation, but also a causal relationship where low self esteem increases materialism, and materialism can also create low self-esteem. The also found that as self esteem increases, materialism decreases. The study primarily focused on how this relationship affects children and adolescents.
Small, rocky planets that could resemble the Earth or Mars may be forming around a star in the Pleiades star cluster, astronomers reported on Wednesday.
This heat engine is very simple. We suspend a small piece of magnetic material at the end of a pendulum. A large magnet is placed near the pendulum, so that the small piece of material sticks to the large magnet. The magnet should be close enough that the material never rests at the bottom of the pendulum's swing, but instead jumps up to the magnet.
Id Software's John Carmack recently openly criticized Apple 's attitude toward supporting game developers, and said that he and Steve Jobs have had "a fairly heated argument" over the issue.
A brain region that processes sight and sound simultaneously in monkeys could hold the key to explaining how ventriloquists create the illusion that their puppets can speak.
It was recently pointed out on one of the news programs that one of the reasons that so much water was being released through Buford Dam was so that the mussels in Apalachicola Bay, Florida would not be harmed.
