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16.02.2015 14:40
Who hasn’t started a spring clean and
become sidetracked, having discovered an
old photo album? Which of us doesn’t love
perusing early Facebook pics?
The man with the best job title in the
world, chief internet evangelist and vice
president at Google, Vint Cerf, has warned
of a possible “digital...
16.02.2015 14:12
US authorities are investigating whether
some of those responsible for one of the
American south’s most notorious mass
lynchings are still alive, in an attempt to
finally bring prosecutions over the brutal
unsolved killings.
FBI agents questioned a man in Georgia
who was among several in their 80s...
14.02.2015 15:22
A gifted artist, he had composed 13
symphonies by the age of 11, and his
recordings of Joseph Haydn's piano sonatas
are considered definitive.
His own compositions included orchestral and
chamber music, and he was director of the
London College of Music between 1983 and
1990.
Confirming his death,...
14.02.2015 15:17
NEW YORK (AP) — They're considered one
of mankind's greatest medical
achievements, yet people have balked at
vaccines almost since the time of the first
vaccination — in 1796, when an English
country doctor named Edward Jenner
inoculated an 8-year-old boy against
smallpox.
In the mid-1800s, people...
14.02.2015 15:03
When I tell people that we have a problem
with too much plastic in our oceans, many
invariably say how shocked they were
when they heard about vast swirling
islands of trash that accumulate in the
oceans’ gyres.
I wish this was the full extent of the
problem. It is not.
The drifting garbage...
14.02.2015 14:57
Women who undergo hormone
replacement therapy (HRT) have a
significantly increased risk of developing
ovarian cancer, according to a major study.
Researchers from the University of Oxford
analysed 52 previous studies involving
21,000 women and found that even those
who took it for less than five...
14.02.2015 14:50
One of Britain’s most ambitious astronomy
projects is under threat due to a large
housing development being planned
nearby, scientists have warned.
Prof Simon Garrington, director of Jodrell
Bank observatory, said proposals to build
119 houses just over a mile from the Lovell
telescope in Cheshire...
14.02.2015 14:47
A contact lens that magnifies objects at the
wink of an eye has been created by
scientists to help people with impaired
vision.
The lens contains an extremely thin
telescope that is switched on when the
wearer winks their right eye and returns to
normal when they wink their left eye.
Eric...
14.02.2015 14:43
US regulators have approved what would
be the first commercialised biotech apples,
rejecting efforts by the organic industry
and other GMO critics to block the new
fruit.
The US Department of Agriculture’s animal
and plant health authority, Aphis,
approved two genetically engineered
apple...
14.02.2015 14:41
Soldiers will have full-body scans stored
on their medical files to help surgeons
rebuild them should they become injured
in war, under plans drawn up by US
doctors.
The proposals call for computed
tomography (CT) scans to create “virtual
twins” of soldiers before they are
deployed, so that...