| Vietnam's stelae declared Unesco World Heritage Site The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) has declared the 82 stelae of the Temple of Literature in Vietnam as a World Heritage Site, Prensa Latina... | |
| Unesco to help restore Haitian cultural heritage The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) will set up a committee to help restore the Haitian cultural heritage damaged in a devastating earthquake in the Caribbean... |
| Gerrard believes football is a science England and Liverpool FC captain Steven Gerrard has described football as a science that requires years of understanding and... |
| Unveiled: Scotland's Carbon Capture Plans To Challenge Climate Change THE Scottish Government has unveiled a vision for Scotland to lead the way globally in key technology to capture carbon dioxide from power stations and store it... |
| Face Facts… Wide Boys Just Can't Be Trusted Psychologists at the University of St Andrews found that wider-faced men were less trustworthy, and people instinctively seemed to be aware of this.Men with narrower faces were generally seen as more... |
| Scots Unearth Clues Of Earliest Life On Earth SCOTTISH scientists have uncovered startling new evidence that the earliest forms of life on Earth could have survived a massive meteor bombardment four billion years... |
| Patching Things Up After A Row Is Far From A No Brainer – Try Sudoku Or A Crossword l forget differences with a partner after a fight quicker. The psychologists, from Harvard University in the US, discovered that emotions are controlled better among people who have more activity in... |
| Robert Winston Appointed To Scots Advisory Council Lord Professor Robert Winston is known to television audiences for his appearances on popular shows such as Have I Got News For You and Question Time.He has also presented shows including the... |
| New Caledonia Asks Australia For Reef Help Posted on: Wednesday, 10 March 2010, 15:02 CST New Caledonia asked for help from Australia on Wednesday to protect the world's second biggest reef, according to AFP. Senior officials said the... |
| Fossilized Eggshells Yield Dna DNA samples from the eggshells of extinct birds, like this elephant bird egg, could provide valuable insight into the evolutionary histories of a number of animal... |
| Einstein Was Right: General Relativity Confirmed An image of a galaxy cluster in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, showing some of the 70,000 bright elliptical galaxies that were analyzed to test general relativity on cosmic... |
| Lost Dog Numbers Triple After Weekend Storms It was not just people and property that bore the brunt of Saturday's wild hail storm in Melbourne. Pets also got the fright of their lives when tennis ball-sized hail pelted down and some of them... |
| Study Suggests Too Many Invasive Heart Tests Given NEW YORK -- A troublingly high number of U.S. patients who are given angiograms to check for heart disease turn out not to have a significant problem, according to the latest study to suggest... |
| Personal Look At Genes Locates Disease Causes By RANDOLPH E. SCHMIDAP SCIENCE WRITER WASHINGTON -- Children inherit about 30 mutated genes from each parent, fewer than had been thought, but enough in at least one case to pass on inherited... |
| Un To Review Climate Science After Ipcc Errors Independence no panacea but end of Soviet rule still celebrated in Lithuania UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said yesterday that a group of national science academies would review UN climate science... |
| Sonic Hedgehog Gene Found In An Unexpected Place During Limb Development Sonic hedgehog, a gene that plays a crucial rule in the positioning and growth of limbs, fingers and toes, has been confirmed in an unexpected place in the embryos of developing mice -- the... |
| Brain Mechanism May Explain Alcohol Cravings That Drive Relapse , uncovers a crucial mechanism that facilitates motivation for alcohol after extended abstinence and opens new avenues for potential therapeutic... |
| Game On? Video-game Ownership May Interfere With Young Boys' Academic Functioning Psychological scientists Robert Weis and Brittany C. Cerankosky of Denison University conducted a study examining short-term effects of video-game ownership on academic development in young boys.... |
| Conquering The Chaos In Modern, Multiprocessor Computers Computers should not play dice. That, to paraphrase Einstein, is the feeling of a University of Washington computer scientist with a simple manifesto: If you enter the same computer command,... |
| Students' Perceptions Of Earth's Age Influence Acceptance Of Human Evolution High school and college students who understand the geological age of the Earth (4.5 billion years) are much more likely to understand and accept human evolution, according to a University of... |
| Years Of Smoking Associated With Lower Parkinson's Risk, Not Number Of Cigarettes Per Day Researchers have new insight into the relationship between Parkinson's disease and smoking. Several studies have shown that smokers have a lower risk of developing Parkinson's disease. A new... |
| 'fat' Taste Could Hold The Key To Cut Obesity Deakin researchers Dr Russell Keast and PhD student Jessica Stewart, working with colleagues at the University of Adelaide, CSIRO, and Massey University (New Zealand), have found that humans can... |
| Zoologger: Mummy, Can I Have Some More Carrion Soup? These little beetles must be quick workers. I imagine that it would take quite some time for a beetle to bury a brid's corpse. There are many animals that will scavenge and you rarely see dead... |
| The Trouble With Climate Science Has anyone noticed that after 20 years and $25 billion in government-sponsored research on climate change, the political controversy over global warming is... |
| Smith 'over The Moon' Boom all-rounder Steve Smith admits he is 'over the moon' following his inclusion in Australia's 14-man squad for the upcoming two-Test series against New Zealand.Smith, already a member of the... |
| Charges Laid In Fatal Huron Police Shooting Suspect Fred Preston (left) and Const. Vu Pham (right) (HO) LONDON. Ont. - The suspect in Monday's shooting death of am Ontario police officer has now been charged with first-degree murder in the... |
| Alleged Sex Killer Mistook Victim For His Mother Murder victim Arcelie Laoagan (left) and alleged sex killer Christopher Watcheston (left). (QMI File) Tripping out on the potent drug salvia, Christopher Watcheston raped Arcelie Laoagan after... |
| Man Hidden In Hockey Bag Nabbed At Border TORONTO - Two Virginia sisters whose love knew no borders are in jail after allegedly trying to smuggle a Haitian man inside a hockey bag into the U.S. The women were arrested after Benedict Pierre,... |
| Smith 'over the moon' Boom all-rounder Steve Smith admits he is 'over the moon' following his inclusion in Australia's 14-man squad for the upcoming two-Test series against New Zealand.Smith, already a member of the... |
| OMNIlife science, Inc., Announces U.S. Distribution Agreement with SERF-Dedienne Sante of France for its 'ION free' Large Diameter Head Dual Mobility Acetabular Cup System EAST TAUNTON, Mass., March 10 /PRNewswire/ -- OMNIlife science, Inc., is very pleased to announce that it has entered into an exclusive U.S. distribution agreement with Societe d'Etudes Recherches... |
| International Merchant Advisors to Complete Purchase of Medical Marijuana Company Organic Science, Inc. www.imaiinc.com announced today that the company is preparing to complete the purchase of medical marijuana management and development company Organic Science, Inc. Organic Science, Inc. is intended... |
| Wendy Lynch, Ph.D., Joins HealthFitness' Science Advisory Board MINNEAPOLIS, March 10 /PRNewswire/ -- HealthFitness announces that Wendy Lynch, Ph.D., an independent healthcare consultant with Human Capital Management Services, has joined HealthFitness' Science... |
| Whale research team heads back An Australian-led Antarctic whale expedition is on its way home after six weeks in the Southern Ocean. It has been dubbed the largest collaborative whale research voyage with 17 scientists from... |
| Temporary Hearing Deprivation Can Lead to 'Lazy Ear' Scientists have gained new insight into why a relatively short-term hearing deprivation during childhood may lead to persistent hearing deficits, long after hearing is restored to normal. The... |
| Molecule Tells Key Brain Cells to Grow Up, Get to Work About four out of every 10 cells in the brain are so-called oligodendrocytes. These cells produce the all-important myelin that coats nerve tracts, ensuring fast, energy-efficient transmission... |
| Noguchi installs robotic arm on space station TSUKUBA — Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi on Wednesday installed a robotic arm outside the country’s Kibo laboratory module on the International Space Station, the Japan Aerospace... |
| Parliament puts seal meat on the menu Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff gives a thumbs up while eating a seal meat appetizer during an event to mark the first time seal meat is served in the parliamentary restaurant on Parliament Hill in... |
| Baby Elephant Defies Death By Being Born Posted on: Wednesday, 10 March 2010, 14:57 CST A baby elephant that keepers believed to have died during a strenuous 9-day labor was born alive at an Australian zoo on Wednesday, defying expert... |
| Low Strengthens Into Hubert, Making Landfall In Madagascar Posted on: Wednesday, 10 March 2010, 14:52 CST The low that forecasters were watching for development yesterday, March 9, strengthened into Tropical Storm Hubert, and is already making landfall in... |
| 90Q: A Curious Short-Lived 'Tropical' Cyclone Posted on: Wednesday, 10 March 2010, 14:43 CST Tropical cyclones typically don't form in the Southern Atlantic because the waters are usually too cool. However, forecasters at the Naval Research... |
| World Crude Oil Production May Peak A Decade Earlier Than Some Predict Posted on: Wednesday, 10 March 2010, 14:16 CST In a finding that may speed efforts to conserve oil and intensify the search for alternative fuel sources, scientists in Kuwait predict that world... |
| NoMix Toilets Get Thumbs-up In 7 European Countries Posted on: Wednesday, 10 March 2010, 14:14 CST People in seven European countries have positive attitudes toward a new eco-friendly toilet that could substantially reduce pollution problems and... |
| A Huge Step Toward Mass Production Of Coveted Form Of Carbon Posted on: Wednesday, 10 March 2010, 14:11 CST Scientists have leaped over a major hurdle in efforts to begin commercial production of a form of carbon that could rival silicon in its potential... |
| Physicists Take Atoms For A Walk Posted on: Wednesday, 10 March 2010, 12:19 CST A team of physicists headed by Christian Roos and Rainer Blatt from the Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information of the Austrian Academy... |
| Texas Earthquake Study Cites 'Plausible Cause' A study of seismic activity near Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport by researchers from Southern Methodist University and the University of Texas at Austin reveals that the operation of a... |
| More Muscular Trout Could Boost Commercial Aquaculture A 10-year effort by a University of Rhode Island scientist to develop transgenic rainbow trout with enhanced muscle growth has yielded fish with what have been described as six-pack abs and muscular... |
| Improving Production Of Chemicals From Wood Waste Posted on: Wednesday, 10 March 2010, 12:40 CST Researchers from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands have succeeded in making a significant leap forward in the production of... |
| Large Mammals Need Protected Areas, Forest Cover In India Posted on: Wednesday, 10 March 2010, 12:09 CST A study of extinction patterns of 25 large mammal species in India finds that improving existing protected areas, creating new areas, and... |
| No space for 10 per cent buses There are 4,700 buses in the stables of the Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport (BEST) undertaking. But you do not see all of them on the roads because there is no space for them to ply.... |
