 07/02/09 There's more action and cuddly creatures for kids to love in "Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs" than in the animated franchise's first two installments. For their parents, it's more of the same, a "Yawn of the Dinosaurs" adventure with some new faces and places but the same central characters rehashing the themes of the first two movies.
 07/02/09 For a human cell, this is a scary world. Each of the 60 trillion or so cells in the average person's body is damaged tens of thousands, perhaps a million, times a day, scientists say.
 07/02/09 The Brothers Bloom: The Blooms are the best con men in the world, swindling millionaires with complex scenarios of lust, intrigue and the most complex literary-inspired setups imaginable.
 07/02/09 "Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs" is the best of the three films about our friends in the interspecies herd of plucky prehistoric heroes. And it involves some of the best use of 3-D I've seen in an animated feature. It also introduces a masterstroke that essentially allows the series to take place anywhere: There is this land beneath the surface of the Earth, you see ...
 07/02/09 There's more action and cuddly creatures for kids to love in "Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs" than in the animated franchise's first two installments.
 07/02/09 Companies that track consumer behavior online for advertising purposes are vowing to make their practices more transparent and to give people a way to decline being shadowed.
 07/01/09 Manny, Ellie and the gang are back again for a tepid foray into a warmer era.
 07/01/09 Jilted subscribers to the now-defunct North Shore Music Theatre in Beverly have been showered with offers of free tickets from other eastern Mass. performing arts venues.
 07/01/09 YAKIMA, Wash. -- This weekend several communities will be celebrating the Fourth of July. Here's a roundup of activites around the Yakima Valley.
 06/22/09 ITV confirms it will not commission second series of Demons despite producer's US bid to save the vampire drama ITV has confirmed it will not commission a second series of vampire drama Demons, despite a last-minute bid by the show's producer to save it by doing a deal with a US broadcaster. A question mark has hung over the Philip Glenister drama, which is made by Lis Murdoch's production ...
 06/22/09 Some dinosaurs were the largest creatures ever to walk on land, including the classic long-necked, whip-tailed Diplodicus, but a new study suggests it and its many extinct brethren weighed as little as half as much as previously thought.
 06/22/09 Because of increased risk of complications from influenza, vaccination of adults and children with asthma is recommended by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. The Healthy People 2010 Objectives call for annual influenza vaccination of at least 60% of adults aged 18-64 years with asthma. However, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) investigators have determined that ...
 06/22/09 High cholesterol levels are considered to be a risk factor not only for cardiovascular disease including stroke, but also for the development of Alzheimer's disease. Therefore, many cholesterol lowering drugs, including statins, have been developed in recent years. In addition to the cholesterol reducing effect of statins Amalia Dolga, PhD, of the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, and ...
 06/22/09 The Magnetic Resonance Center of the University Children's Hospital Zurich has achieved a world first break through in MR-guided, non-invasive neurosurgery. Ten patients have been successfully treated by means of transcranial high-intensity focused ultrasound. This fully non-invasive procedure opens new horizons for neurosurgery and the treatment of different neurological brain disorders.
06/22/09 There is exactly one funny bit in 'Land of the Lost,' and it stands out because it comes at the very beginning and the very end.
 06/21/09 Thirty cultural and natural sites will seek to become a Unesco world heritage treasure this week, but the east German city of Dresden could be dropped from the list.
 06/18/09 Everyone knows the economy's been a little rocky lately, with many houses going into foreclosure. Th...
 06/17/09 Plants or meat: That's about all that fossils ever tell paleontologists about a dinosaur's diet. But the skull characteristics of a new species of parrot-beaked dinosaur and its associated gizzard stones indicate that the animal fed on nuts and/or seeds.
 06/17/09 Researchers have discovered a unique beaked, plant-eating dinosaur in China that offers new, important evidence about how three-fingered hands of birds evolved from the hand of dinosaurs.
 06/17/09 James Clark, the Ronald B. Weintraub Professor of Biology in The George Washington University's Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, and Xu Xing, of the Chinese Academy of Science's Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing, have discovered a unique beaked, plant-eating dinosaur in China. This finding demonstrates that theropod, or bird-footed, dinosaurs were more ...
 06/17/09 A small, ostrich-like dinosaur found in China may shed light on how bird wings evolved from dinosaur limbs, a new study suggests. |