Will Japan react to North Korea's missile and nuclear programmes?

14 May, 2009 09:19 am The Japan Times, in an article on 20 April 2009, reported that the former Japanese Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa suggested,...

North Korea's Missile and Nuclear Programmes

19 Apr, 2009 11:21 am The nuclear programme of North Korea is again in the news. Selig S. Harrison, a specialist on South Asia and East Asia and a senior scholar of the Woodrow...

Finding the Best Way to Train Older Brains

3 Sep, 2007 01:30 pm Memory training programs are becoming popular, but do they work for everyone? The bad news is that the older we get, the less likely we are to show improvements...

Varying Environments Can Speed Up Evolution

31 Jul, 2007 11:28 am Nadav Kashtan is a specialist of evolution computer simulations. He authored a study on the subject published in the Proceedings of the National Academy...

"We Can Get Cells That Perfectly Ressemble Embryonic Stem Cells"

6 Jun, 2007 07:00 pm Researchers have reprogrammed skin cells into embryonic stem cells. This new technique could be used to develop stem cell lines without use of controversial...