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Mandolinist, neurosurgeon among winners of 2012 "Genius" grants
Mon,1 Oct 2012 07:12 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - A bluegrass musician and a pediatric surgeon were among 23 of the world's most creative and original thinkers to be awarded no-strings-attached $500,000 "genius" grants this year, a U.S. charitable organization said on Monday. Also among the 2012 MacArthur Foundation fellows are a celebrated fiction writer, a Washington Post reporter and a Boston man who makes some of the finest violin bows the modern world has ever seen. Since the program was initiated in 1981, the John D. and Catherine T. ... Full Story | Top |
Pesticide use ramping up as GMO crop technology backfires: study
Mon,1 Oct 2012 06:18 PM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - U.S. farmers are using more hazardous pesticides to fight weeds and insects due largely to heavy adoption of genetically modified crop technologies that are sparking a rise of "superweeds" and hard-to-kill insects, according to a newly released study. Genetically engineered crops have led to an increase in overall pesticide use, by 404 million pounds from the time they were introduced in 1996 through 2011, according to the report by Charles Benbrook, a research professor at the Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources at Washington State University. ... Full Story | Top |
Genetically engineered cow makes anti-allergy milk
Mon,1 Oct 2012 12:21 PM PDT
Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Researchers in New Zealand have genetically engineered a cow to produce milk with very little of a protein that causes an allergic reaction in some children. They hope the technique, which uses a process called RNA interference that reduces the activity of certain genes without eliminating it completely, can be used to control other traits in livestock. With mothers breastfeeding less, cows' milk is an increasing source of protein for babies, but the different composition of cows' milk can cause an allergic reaction. ... Full Story | Top |
Amsterdam goes green with electric scooter taxis
Mon,1 Oct 2012 06:23 AM PDT
Reuters - AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Six years ago Dutchman Ruben Beugels was on an Amsterdam tram that broke down, leaving him stuck in an out-of-the way place, and late for an appointment when he couldn't quickly find another means of transport. "I was very frustrated at being late, and it was then that I thought, hey a scooter would be able to get me to my meeting on time," said Beugels, founder of Hopper, Europe's first electric taxi scooter service, which will debut in Amsterdam on Monday. ... Full Story | Top |
UK plan to merge Antarctic, ocean research stirs science row
Mon,1 Oct 2012 06:02 AM PDT
Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - A British government plan to merge its Antarctic research division with a centre studying the oceans has triggered protests from scientists who said it would cut studies of polar climate change and rising sea levels. They said the British Antarctic Survey had a strong history of discovery including, in 1985, of a hole in the ozone layer that protects the planet from harmful solar rays. That helped spur a 1987 United Nations treaty on damaging chemicals. ... Full Story | Top |
Mars rover finds first evidence of water: a river of it
Thu,27 Sep 2012 02:35 PM PDT
Reuters -  CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA's Mars rover, Curiosity, dispatched to learn if the most Earth-like planet in the solar system was suitable for microbial life, has found clear evidence its landing site was once awash in water, a key ingredient for life, scientists said Thursday. Curiosity, a roving chemistry laboratory the size of a small car, touched down on August 6 inside a giant impact basin near the planet's equator. The primary target for the two-year mission is a three-mile (five-km) -high mound of layered rock rising from the floor of Gale Crater. ...
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New "extreme" Hubble shows deepest view yet of night sky
Tue,25 Sep 2012 03:54 PM PDT
Reuters -  Cape Canaveral, Florida (Reuters) - Piecing together 10 years of Hubble Space Telescope images, astronomers on Tuesday unveiled the deepest view yet of a small sliver of the night sky, revealing a kaleidoscope of galaxies and other celestial objects. The Hubble eXtreme Deep Field, or XDF, adds another 5,500 galaxies to Hubble's 2003 and 2004 view into a tiny patch of the farthest universe. Hubble returned to the same target more than 50 times over the past decade, racking up an additional 2 million seconds of exposure time. ...
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Florida wants NASA land to develop commercial spaceport
Sun,23 Sep 2012 01:29 PM PDT
Reuters - CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - With an eye toward developing a commercial spaceport, Florida has asked NASA to transfer 150 acres of land north of the shuttle launch pads and the shuttle runway to Space Florida, the state's aerospace development agency. "Florida believes that the properties identified in this request are excess to the needs of the U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
Boost for carbon capture from new non-toxic absorber
Sun,23 Sep 2012 10:07 AM PDT
Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Researchers have created a new material that could solve some of the problems holding back projects to combat global warming by capturing and burying carbon emitted from power stations. The material, made from aluminum nitrate salt, cheap organic materials and water, is non-toxic and requires less energy to strip out the carbon when it becomes saturated, the scientists said. ... Full Story | Top |
GE plans medical technology acquisitions in Germany
Sat,22 Sep 2012 03:55 AM PDT
Reuters - FRANKFURT (Reuters) - General Electric plans to make acquisitions in Germany to raise its market share in CAT scan and MRI technology, the company's new Germany chief told a magazine. "Especially in the high-end segment we want to double, in some areas even triple, our market share," Volker Wetekam told Wirtschafts Woche weekly, according to an excerpt of an article to be published on Monday. He said the company plans to spend a "considerable" sum on acquisitions, without elaborating. "We are looking for companies that move us forward in terms of technology, not just in Germany but globally. ... Full Story | Top |
Space shuttle Endeavour home in Los Angeles after final flight
Fri,21 Sep 2012 03:37 PM PDT
Reuters -  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The space shuttle Endeavour touched down in Los Angeles on Friday on the back of a jumbo jet, greeted by cheering crowds as it ended a celebratory final flight en route to its retirement home at a Southern California science museum. The 75-ton winged spaceship, ferried by a modified Boeing 747, landed at Los Angeles International Airport shortly before 1:00 p.m. after hop-scotching across the country from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and flying a victory lap over California. ...
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Honeybee homicide case against Syngenta pesticide unproven
Fri,21 Sep 2012 03:55 AM PDT
Reuters -  LONDON (Reuters) - British scientists have shot down a study on declining honeybee populations that triggered a French ban on a pesticide made by Swiss agrochemicals group Syngenta. France's farm minister Stephane Le Foll withdrew Syngenta's marketing permit for the pesticide Cruiser OSR in June, citing evidence of a threat to the country's bees. But a study by Britain's Food and Environment Research Agency with the University of Exeter says the results of the original research were flawed. ...
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Space shuttle Endeavour lands piggyback in California
Thu,20 Sep 2012 01:43 PM PDT
Reuters -  EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, California (Reuters) - The space shuttle Endeavour, carried piggyback atop a Boeing 747 jumbo jet, landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California on Thursday after a cross-country trip to Los Angeles to begin its final mission as a museum exhibit. The 747 carrying the newly retired spaceship touched down safely shortly before 1 p.m. (4 p.m. EDT) at Edwards, located in the Mojave Desert north of Los Angeles. ...
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Author defends Monsanto GM study as EU orders review
Thu,20 Sep 2012 08:56 AM PDT
Reuters - BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The French author of a study linking a type of genetically modified corn to higher health risks in rats dismissed criticism of his research methods on Thursday, describing the work as the most detailed study to date on the subject. Gilles-Eric Seralini of the University of Caen and colleagues said on Wednesday that rats fed on Monsanto's genetically modified corn or exposed to its top-selling weed killer suffered tumors and multiple organ damage and premature death. ... Full Story | Top |
Study on Monsanto GM corn concerns draws skepticism
Thu,20 Sep 2012 05:57 AM PDT
Reuters -  LONDON (Reuters) - In a study that prompted sharp criticism from other experts, French scientists said on Wednesday that rats fed on Monsanto's genetically modified corn or exposed to its top-selling weedkiller suffered tumors and multiple organ damage. The French government asked the country's health watchdog to investigate the findings further, although a number of scientists questioned the study's basic methods and Monsanto said it felt confident its products had been proven safe. ...
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