Calling herself “one of us old ladies,” Mildred Seelig said she has a bone to pick with osteoporosis researchers who endorse increased calcium in the diet to fight the degenerative skeletal condition.

“Your bones are constantly remodeling, which means they are repeatedly breaking down old bone and rebuilding new,” says Callins. Adequate calcium helps support this process, giving bones the resources ...

This post is the third in a three-part series on how living creatures use the elements of the periodic table. Read earlier posts here and here, and learn more about the elements on NOVA's two-hour ...

A team has succeeded in computing how atomic nuclei of the Calcium element behave in collisions with electrons. Results agree very well with available experimental data. For the first time, a ...

Calcium (Ca) is one of the most abundant elements on the earth and it is easily accessible and is very cheap. In comparison with transition-metal elements, Ca is biocompatible and environment-friendly ...

There are basically two ways to look at the economy – macro-economically and micro-economically. The BBC has taken that one step further – they’re looking at the economy micro-scopically, if you will.

They contain important minerals like calcium and magnesium, essential amino acids and unsaturated fatty acids. Brazil nuts ...

Nuclear calcium is an important mediator of activity-dependent gene expression in the nervous system. It serves as a signalling end point in synapse-to-nucleus communication and activates gene ...