| Bomb found in car hired by Bihar Minister A bomb was found in a car hired by Bihar Science and Technology Minister Anil Kumar on Thursday. ccording to reports, the bomb was found hidden underneath a Scorpio car hired by Kumar from a local taxi... | |
| Einstein's General Theory of Relativity passes biggest cosmic test Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity has passed its biggest test yet, with an analysis of more than 70,000 galaxies by scientists, supporting the... |
| Pachauri welcomes review of IPCC Reports indicate that UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has asked the world's science academies to review work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and Rajendra Pachauri, the IPCC's chair, has welcomed the... |
| Lab Space Vacancy Is At 10.1% Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 7:06 p.m. Since last year, the near-empty life-science laboratory building in Torrey Pines has been a monument — make that mausoleum — to a moribund economy. “It... |
| Quantum Dots Spotlight Dna-repair Proteins In Motion Posted on: Thursday, 11 March 2010, 19:54 CST PITTSBURGH -- Repair proteins appear to efficiently scan the genome for errors by jumping like fleas between DNA molecules, sliding along the strands,... |
| Us Sushi Chef Charged With Serving Whale A California sushi chef and the restaurant in which he worked have been charged with illegally serving meat from an endangered sei whale, the US Justice Department said. Kiyoshiro Yamamoto, 45, and... |
| Students Badly Burnt In Science Explosion TWO teenagers have been left with third degree burns to their bodies after an explosion in their science class at a high school, in the western Sydney suburb of... |
| First Confirmed Species Of Monogamous Frog , better known as the mimic poison frog -- a finding that provides groundbreaking insight into the ecological factors that influence mating behavior. The scientists' work, which is to be published... |
| Arctic Seed Vault Reaches Milestone Oslo - Barely two years after it opened, a unique Arctic "doomsday" stockpile of all the world's crop seeds has reached the half-million species mark, the foundation that oversees it said on... |
| More Americans Say Warming Is Exaggerated By Richard Cowan Washington - A growing number of Americans, nearly half the country, think global warming worries are exaggerated, as more people also doubt that scientific warnings of severe... |
| Poor Advice On Cholesterol May Up Stroke Risk By Kate Kelland London - Only half of patients at high risk of heart disease are given the right targets for cutting their cholesterol and millions may suffer heart attack or stroke due to... |
| Can Brain Scans Reveal Your Thoughts? Washington - A scan of brain activity can effectively read a person's mind, researchers said on Thursday. British scientists from University College London found they could differentiate brain... |
| No More Wild Sprints For Circus Zebra Atlanta - A 12-year-old circus zebra that caused a stir when he escaped from an animal compound and ran through downtown Atlanta last month has been euthanized. A statement posted on Ringling Bros... |
| Memory Software 'reads Minds' Scientists used the "mind-reading" software to tell which of three film scenes their volunteers were thinking about simply by analysing their brain activity.The research illuminates mechanisms of... |
| Egg Messages 'tell Chicks How To Act' Nestlings respond to the signals by adjusting the way they beg for food, scientists found.If chicks get a message that they will be reared by generous parents, they beg vigorously after hatching, say... |
| <b>science And Maths: </b>heed Parents Wishes For Mathematics T, 99.6 per cent answered in English versus 98.2 per cent in 2008, and for Further Mathematics T, it was 100 per cent for both 2009 and 2008. In 2007, it was 91.2 per cent. This batch... |
| Commissioner Will Lobby To Save Space, Aerospace Jobs A county commissioner is heading to Washington next week to lobby for saving both space and aerospace jobs.District 5 Commissioner Andy Anderson said he doesn't like public officials making too many... |
| Biofuels Study In Cooper Basin South Australian resource company Beach Energy and a US business General Atomics are doing a joint study on producing biofuels in the Cooper Basin. They are examining whether General Atomics'... |
| Group: Polluters Use Offsets To Avoid Carbon Cuts By GRETCHEN MAHANASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER BRUSSELS -- Major European polluters are buying their way out of making big cuts to greenhouse gas emissions by purchasing carbon offsets that pay for... |
| Rescuers Try To Save Dolphins On Cape Cod WELLFLEET, Mass. -- Rescuers have been hip-deep in mud in a desperate effort to rescue 16 white-sided dolphins stranded on Massachusetts' Cape Cod, but at least two of the animals have died and the... |
| Glenn Close Has Genes Mapped Close, who stars in the FX television series "Damages" and is known for movie roles including "Fatal Attraction" and "Dangerous Liaisons," said the offer was too good to pass... |
| Novel Stroke Treatment Passes Safety Stage Of Clinical Trial A clinical research trial of a new treatment to restore brain cells damaged by stroke has passed an important safety stage, according to the UC Irvine neurologist who led the... |
| Fewer Platelets Could Be Used For Some Cancer And Bone-marrow Transplantation Patients Physicians may be able to safely lower the platelet dosage in transfusions for cancer and bone-marrow transplant patients without risking increased bleeding, according to new research... |
| <strong>the Christian Science Monitor: </strong>russia On The Rebound GDP rose to 39 trillion rubles , or roughly $1.3 trillion at current exchange rates. That is still smaller than for example Spain or California, but it is a lot more than Sweden or New York City. ... |
| Man Pleads Not Guilty In Death Of Disabled Brother Jerry Hawley, 36, of Prescott is led into the Brockville courthouse Thursday afternoon where he appeared for a bail hearing. (DARCY CHEEK/QMI Agency) PRESCOTT, ONT. - A Prescott man charged with... |
| Lesbian Teen Sues School Over Prom Flap Constance McMillen, an 18-year-old senior at Itawamba County Agricultural High School, reads her many messages from Facebook and Myspace concerning her desire to attend her senior prom with a... |
| Why Female Moths Are Big And Beautiful Posted on: Thursday, 11 March 2010, 14:47 CST In most animal species, males and females show obvious differences in body size. But how can this be, given that both sexes share the same genes... |
| Hubert's Remnants Still Raining On Southern Madagascar Posted on: Thursday, 11 March 2010, 15:25 CST Hubert may not be a tropical storm now that it has made landfall in southeastern Madagascar, but it's still a formidable and large storm system.... |
| Survey: Lack Of Confidence In National Hurricane Response Planning Posted on: Thursday, 11 March 2010, 14:09 CST According to a study recently completed by an LSU group charged with conducting studies on improving hurricane crisis communication in coastal... |
| Scavenging Energy Waste To Turn Water Into Hydrogen Fuel Posted on: Thursday, 11 March 2010, 14:25 CST Materials scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have designed a way to harvest small amounts of waste energy and harness them to turn... |
| Trubion To Present Company Overview And Participate In Panel Discussion At Prestigious Life Science Innovation Northwest 2010 10th Annual Life Science Innovation Northwest (LSINW) conference to be held at the Bell Harbor International Convention Center, 2211 Alaskan Way, Seattle, on March 16 - 17, 2010. Michelle Burris,... |
| Cardiac Science Announces Q4 And Full Year 2009 Results AED ) and diagnostic cardiac monitoring devices, today announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and the full year ended December 31, 2009. (Logo:... |
| Cruisin' At Lightspeed: Songs For Space Travel March 11, 2010 Mankind has been dreaming about flying in space ever since we began looking up to the stars. Once flight and space travel became a reality, songs about flying to the heavens entered... |
| Cardiac Science Loses $7.8m In Q4 reported a fourth-quarter loss of $7.8 million, or a loss of 33 cents per share. Revenues fell slightly to $42.2 million from $51.1 million in 2008. In the fourth quarter of 2008, the company... |
| Internet Project Encourages Tree Change An online induction showing off almost a quarter of Queensland is being launched this morning in an effort to convince people to move to the outback. The Remote Area Planning and Development Board... |
| Slow New Space Shuttle, Don't Kill It, Says Bishop Washington » A group of House members says it makes more sense for NASA to slow the development of a new space shuttle rather than kill the program. In a letter sent Thursday, 15 House... |
| International Space Station Could Fly Through 2028, Nasa Partners Say Sunlight glints off the International Space Station with the blue limb of Earth providing a dramatic backdrop in this photo taken by an astronaut on the shuttle Endeavour just before it docked after... |
| Historic Space Antenna Starts Vital Repairs The 70-meter antenna at the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex in the Mohave Desert in California. This complex is one of three comprising NASA's Deep Space Network. Credit:... |
| 600 Million-year-old Origins Of Vision By studying the hydra, a member of an ancient group of sea creatures that is still flourishing, scientists at UC Santa Barbara have made a discovery in understanding the origins of human... |
| Advance Boosts Potential For Solar Fuel Emory University chemists have developed the most potent homogeneous catalyst known for water oxidation, considered a crucial component for generating clean hydrogen fuel using only water and... |
| Opp Officer's Uniform Stolen An Ontario Provincial Police officer returned to his personal vehicle Thursday morning to find pieces of his uniform stolen, an OPP press release said. The officer had been parked at the commuter... |
| Florida Lawmakers Pushing For Space Shuttle Extension, New Rocket Space shuttle Discovery is seen after completing its 3.4 mile trip from Kennedy's Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39A on March 3, 2010 in preparation for an April 5 launch on NASA's STS-131... |
| Movement Disorder Symptoms Are Lessened By An Antibiotic: Treating Worms With Ampicillin Helps Restore Normal Movement Discovery of an antibiotic's capacity to improve cell function in laboratory tests is providing movement disorder researchers with leads to more desirable molecules with potentially similar... |
| Immune Cells That Fight Parasites May Promote Allergies And Asthma Millions of people in both the developing and developed world may benefit from new immune-system research findings from the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary... |
| Ice And Rock Mix Inside Saturn's Titan By precisely tracking NASA's Cassini spacecraft on its low swoops over Saturn's moon Titan, scientists have determined the distribution of materials in the moon's interior. The subtle... |
| Aquatic 'dead Zones' Contribute To Climate Change The increased frequency and intensity of oxygen-deprived "dead zones" along the world's coasts can negatively impact environmental conditions in far more than just local waters. In... |
| 'waste' Energy Turns Water Into Hydrogen Fuel Materials scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have designed a way to harvest small amounts of waste energy and harness them to turn water into usable hydrogen... |
