Jun 5 2008
Yet another Earthly extremeophile, a new ultra-small species of bacteria that has survived for more than 120,000 years within the ice of a Greenland glacier at a depth of nearly two miles has been discovered by a team of Penn State scientists.
May 31 2008
A police chief was slapped down by the Government yesterday for suggesting Britain could open talks with Al Qaeda.Sir Hugh Orde, head of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, said he knew of no terror campaign that had not ended with negotiation.
May 31 2008
An experimental vaccine has prevented and reversed type 1 diabetes in laboratory animals, researchers at Children\’s Hospital of Pittsburgh reported Wednesday.
May 31 2008
On many purchases, it\’s pretty easy to tell whether you\’re getting a good deal. Often it\’s as simple as consulting a shopping search engine, like MSN Shopping or Google Product Search (yup, looks like I paid too much for my copy of...
May 30 2008
Whether it\’s the mild temperatures, the aura of the summer solstice, or there\’s just more love in the air, a June wedding always has the ring of a destiny fulfilled.
May 30 2008
A total of 341 military personnel killed themselves in 2007, a reduction of 15% on the previous year.
May 29 2008
Nowadays, a computer is indispensable in our homes, but don’t you think they all look about the same? It would be nice to have something special, a PC like no other, therefore there are many people who try to create their own design for a computer and...
May 29 2008
The vigorous international trade in exotic pets such as monkeys, crocodiles and rats must be stopped if human beings are to be protected from global pandemics, according to Dorothy Crawford, Professor of Medical Microbiology and a Fellow of the Academy...
May 25 2008
When the dust settles over the 2008 election, will Hillary Clinton have helped or hindered women\’s advance toward the US presidency?
May 24 2008
The endorsement by US Rep. Dennis Cardoza (D-California) of Obama today sends an extremely firm message to the Clinton campaign, and not only because he was, until today, a Clinton superdelegate.