Washington, Sept 30 : Carnegie Mellon University scientists are developing new software that could revolutionize the way archaeologists work.
The new software is being developed to scan 200-year-old gravestones at Old St. Luke’s Church in nearby Carnegie to help its Episcopal pastor identify all the names on the cemetery’s tombstones.
Washington, Sept 30 : Scientists at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson in Philadelphia have found that prolactin, a pituitary hormone which stimulates breast development and milk production, initiates a new “signaling pathway” that may regulate the growth and survival of breast cancer cells.
Washington, September 30 : Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have found that working during adolescence raised the risk of a child’s taking to smoking at an earlier age.
The researchers focused their study on 14 to 18-year-old adolescents, and found that the subjects who worked more than 10 hours per week also started smoking at an earlier age than their peers.