Science

Russia fetes 50th anniversary of first woman in space - 06/17/2013

MOSCOW, Dmitry Zaks- Russia celebrated Sunday the 50th anniversary of the maiden flight of the first woman in space -- a Soviet national hero who went by the call name "Seagull" and captured the...

Ice Age language may share words with modern tongues - 05/08/2013

WASHINGTON- Our Ice Age ancestors in Europe, 15,000 years ago, may have used words we would recognize today, according to a new study out this week in a US journal. Words that sound alike in related...

Nobel prize-winning French biologist dies - 04/22/2013

PARIS- French biologist Francois Jacob, who won the 1965 Nobel prize for medicine for his research into enzymes, has died at the age of 92, a relative told AFP on Sunday. Jacob, a member of the...

Mum and dad equally good at recognising baby's cry - 04/16/2013

PARIS- French researchers on Tuesday dealt a blow to folklore that says mothers are better than fathers in recognising their baby's cry. The "maternal instinct" notion gained scientific backing more...

Indo-Canadian student gives boost to cancer treatment - 04/10/2013

OTTAWA- A Canadian high school student has improved an ineffective experimental cancer therapy with a simple tweak -- pairing it with antibiotics -- earning accolades Tuesday from a panel of eminent...

NASA wants to tow an asteroid to the moon: senator - 04/07/2013

WASHINGTON- NASA wants to grab a small asteroid and tow it into orbit around the moon, as part of a long-range plan towards establishing permanent manned outposts in space, according to a US senator....

Scientists unravel genetic code of oesophageal cancer - 03/24/2013

PARIS- Scientists said Sunday they had found mutations in 26 genes that may cause oesophageal cancer, a breakthrough they hope will lead to new drugs for the deadly and increasingly frequent disease....

Canadian astronaut floats through chat with kids - 03/16/2013

The Q&A was moderated by Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and was broadcast live on television. Hadfield reflected on a range of questions, including the occasional fears he encounters in...

Rover finds gray rock beneath Red Planet's surface - 02/21/2013

WASHINGTON- So much for Mars being "The Red Planet." NASA said Wednesday that its Curiosity rover has scooped up a sample from the interior of a Martian rock and found that the powdery soil just...

Scientists unwittingly discover new owl species in Indonesia - 02/14/2013

"Ornithologists have long patted themselves on the back, believing that the taxonomy of birds was almost complete," researcher George Sangster from the Swedish Museum of Natural History, told AFP....
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