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14.02.2015 14:55
There are many examples of couples in the
history of science, though few are as well
known as Pierre and Marie Curie. What,
for example, of the less familiar Hertha
and William Aryton, who conducted work
on the electrical arc? These examples
suggest that unconventionality could be
the key to...
14.02.2015 14:45
More teenagers are trying or using e-
cigarettes than tobacco products, according
to a US study that has prompted fresh
concerns among some scientists about a
new generation of nicotine addicts. The
report is the first to claim such high rates
of e-cigarette use among 12- to 18-year-
olds, though...
14.02.2015 14:34
The US south-west and the Great Plains
will face decade-long droughts far worse
than any experienced over the last 1,000
years because of climate change,
researchers said on Thursday.
The coming drought age – caused by higher
temperatures under climate change – will
make it nearly impossible to...
14.02.2015 14:16
When Gary Murray contemplates the
thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander objects held in the vaults of the
British Museum in London, he strikes a
simple analogy.
“All of these things that belong to our
people in Australia – they don’t tell a story
about the Queen of England, do they?”...
14.02.2015 14:13
Rescuers in New Zealand hope to have
saved 60 pilot whales after about 140 died
when they became stranded on a sandy
spit.
The pod became beached on Farewell Spit
in Golden Bay on Friday in one of the worst
such incidents in recent years.
There have been numerous whale
strandings in the past on...
25.10.2013 16:13
Astronomers have spotted the most
distant galaxy ever seen after a faint
ray of light struck a telescope on a
volcano in the middle of the Pacific.
The ancient group of stars lies 30bn
light years from Earth, far beyond
the handle of the Big Dipper that
traces a celestial saucepan in...
25.10.2013 16:03
The bark scorpion is, according to
Wikipedia, the most venomous
scorpion in North America, wielding
an intensely painful – and potentially
lethal – sting that stuns and deters
snakes, birds and other predators.
People unfortunate enough to have
experienced the sting say that it
produces an...
25.10.2013 15:56
Scientists have discovered that defects
in a single gene can cause a rare but
severe form of obesity by disrupting
the body's ability to burn calories.
The study is the first to show that
genetics can play a role in what
many had long suspected: that some
people put on weight more easily...
25.10.2013 15:34
LONDON -- An American student was
attacked and slashed with a broken
bottle just three days after arriving in
Britain, police said Wednesday.
Francesco Hounye, who moved to the
U.K. from Florida to study aviation,
needed 23 stitches to his face after five
men beat him following a "heated"
verbal...
25.10.2013 15:32
DUBAI -- A father burned his 15-year-
old daughter to death for keeping in
touch with her fiance, police in Yemen
said.
"The father committed this heinous
crime on the pretext that his daughter
had been keeping contacts with her
fiance," according to a statement
posted on a police website Tuesday....