World / Science & Education
Opponents of Evolution Are Adopting New Strategy
03.06.2008 23:09
nytimes.com
Starting this summer, the Texas education board will determine the curriculum for the next decade and decide whether the “strengths and weaknesses” of evolution should be taught.
World
Science & Education
Spacewalk ends amid mission to attach Japanese lab
03.06.2008 21:03
reuters.com
HOUSTON (Reuters) - A pair of astronauts on Tuesday completed the first of three scheduled spacewalks on a mission by U.S. shuttle Discovery to install a huge Japanese research lab at the International Space Station.
World
Science & Education
Fighting classroom germs helps keep kids healthy
03.06.2008 21:03
reuters.com
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Frequent use of alcohol-based hand sanitizers and a daily disinfectant wipe-down of classroom surfaces can help reduce school absences due to gastrointestinal illness, a new study demonstrates.
World
Science & Education
Space station: Someone call a plumber?
03.06.2008 21:03
reuters.com
HOUSTON (Reuters) - After more than a year of training, a rocket ride to space and a two-day journey to reach the International Space Station, the shuttle Discovery crew floated into the orbital outpost with these words: "Someone call a plumber?"
World
Science & Education
Researchers find new way to attack malaria
03.06.2008 21:03
reuters.com
LONDON (Reuters) - Danish and U.S. researchers said on Tuesday they have found a way to way to attack malaria by knocking out a gene that helps malaria parasites reproduce inside mosquitoes.
World
Science & Education
Mexico to tag sharks after deadly attacks
03.06.2008 21:03
reuters.com
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Biologists in Mexico plan to tag hundreds of sharks off the Pacific Coast to help understand the cause of a rare spate of deadly attacks on humans, the local government said on Tuesday.
World
Science & Education
Bees learn new languages easily
03.06.2008 20:12
telegraph.co.uk
Bees from opposite ends of the Earth can communicate more easily than people, a discovery that suggests bees can learn a new language easily. By Roger Highfield.
Great Britain
Science & Education
Red wine stops effects of high-fat diet
03.06.2008 20:12
telegraph.co.uk
Red wine does indeed explain why the French get away with a relatively clean bill of heart health despite eating a diet loaded with saturated fats, concludes a new study. Roger Highfield reports.
Great Britain
Science & Education
Motherly love - worm that eats mummy
03.06.2008 20:12
telegraph.co.uk
The ultimate in maternal love - where offspring eat their own mother - is ancient and dates back at least 100 million years, reports Roger Highfield.
Great Britain
Science & Education
Robot that can build itself to be unveiled
03.06.2008 20:12
telegraph.co.uk
A team at the University of Bath is about to unveil the first self-reproducing artificial creature that can make its own body. Roger Highfield reports.
Great Britain
Science & Education
Another 18 Substances To Be Evaluated As Part Of Government's Chemicals Management Plan, Canada
03.06.2008 19:12
medicalnewstoday.com
The Honourable Tony Clement, Minister of Health, and the Honourable John Baird, Minister of the Environment, announced on Saturday that the Government has issued notices to industry and other stakeholders for information on a sixth batch of substances identified as high priorities for action under the Chemicals Management Plan. There are 18 substances in this batch. "We are committed to improving Canadians' quality of life and taking action to protect our environment.
World
Biology
Discovery's first spacewalk underway; set to install Kibo lab
03.06.2008 15:27
usatoday.com
Spacewalking astronauts floated outside the international space station Tuesday to help install the orbiting outpost's newest room, a bus-sized Japanese laboratory.
USA
Astronomy
Milky Way loses two (major) arms
03.06.2008 15:27
usatoday.com
For decades, astronomers have pictured our galaxy as sporting four major, spiral arms, however new images effectively sever two appendages, revealing the Milky Way has just two major arms.
USA
Astronomy
Grandfather builds Web browser for autistic grandson
03.06.2008 15:27
usatoday.com
John LeSieur is in the software business, so he took particular interest when computers seemed mostly useless to his 6-year-old grandson, Zackary. The boy has autism, and the whirlwind of options presented by PCs so confounded him that he threw the mouse in frustration.
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Astronomy
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