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Putin overhaul of science risks final blow to Soviet-era machine

Russian President Vladimir Putin (AP-Yonhap News) Yulia Nelyubina is an internationally recognized chemist at the Russian Academy of Sciences. An overhaul of the academy pushed through by President ...

Jan 15, 2014
Scientist drafts nuke shelter guide

PARIS (AFP) ― A scientist published a guide Wednesday to help authorities limit deaths from fallout after a city is hit by a nuclear bomb. Taking cover in existing buildings is widely accepted as a ...

Jan 15, 2014
India scrambles to save tigers from deadly virus

A female tiger at the Kanha Tiger Reserve in central India (MCT) NEW DELHI (AP) ― India is scrambling to protect its beleaguered tiger population after several big cats tested positive for a deadly ...

Jan 14, 2014
New GM CEO hopes to inspire science students

DETROIT (AP) ― The incoming CEO of General Motors hopes her appointment as the first woman to lead a global automaker will inspire young women and men to pursue careers in science. Mary Barra’s firs...

Jan 14, 2014
Swedish doctors transplant wombs into nine women

The Swedish research team practices before the operations to transplant wombs at Sahlgrenska Hospital in Goteborg, Sweden. (AP-Yonhap News) STOCKHOLM (AP) ― Nine women in Sweden have successfully re...

Jan 14, 2014
Hong Kong suffers in smog as pollution problems rise

A general view of Hong Kong (AFP-Yonhap News) HONG KONG (AFP) ― The new year has revived old problems for Hong Kong as a murky smog blankets the usually glittering skyline, fueling complaints from l...

Jan 13, 2014
Virgin Galactic spaceship makes third powered test flight

Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo, a six-passenger, two-pilot spacecraft aiming to make the world’s first commercial suborbital spaceflights later this year, conducted its third rocket-powered test flig...

Jan 12, 2014
Mars rover photos featured at U.S. museum

This image provided by NASA, shows rover tracks disappearing toward the horizon in a sea of sand between the craters Endurance and Victoria on the Meridiani Plains. (AP-Yonhap News) WASHINGTON (AP) ...

Jan 8, 2014
Long shots: Galaxies from 13.2b years ago

This undated image shows galaxies in the Abell 2744 cluster, and blue galaxies behind it, distorted and amplified by gravitational lensing. (AP) WASHINGTON (AP) ― The Hubble Space Telescope has peer...

Jan 8, 2014
One-way trip to Mars? Sign me up, says Frenchwoman

Mars One CEO Bas Lansdorp holds a press conference to announce the launch of astronaut selection for a Mars space mission project, in New York, on April 22. (AFP) PARIS (AFP) ― A comfortable, middle...

Jan 8, 2014
Earth appears to be an oddity, astronomers say

The image of the Earth, taken by the Apollo 8 astronauts on Dec. 24, 1968. (AFP) WASHINGTON (AFP) ― Astronomers call them super-Earths, and they are abundant outside our solar system. But the more e...

Jan 7, 2014
Eating nuts caused tooth decay in hunter-gatherers: study

WASHINGTON (AFP) ― Eating nuts and acorns may have helped hunter-gatherers survive 15,000 years ago in northern Africa but the practice wreaked havoc on their teeth, researchers said Monday. Ferment...

Jan 7, 2014
Vast water reservoir beneath Greenland ice

PARIS (AFP) ― A vast store of water equivalent in area to Ireland lies beneath Greenland’s icesheet, and it may provide answers to one of the big riddles of climate change, scientists reported on Sun...

Dec 23, 2013
Cat-mouse game might explain how felines got tame

NEW YORK (AP) ― A cat-and-mouse game played out in a Chinese village some 5,300 years ago is helping scientists understand how wild felines transformed into the tame pets we know today. In fact, it ...

Dec 17, 2013
Iran sends second monkey into space

TEHRAN (AP) ― Iran said Saturday it has successfully sent a monkey into space for a second time, part of an ambitious program aimed at manned space flight. Iran’s state TV said that the launch of th...

Dec 15, 2013

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