Topic: California
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A huge hole that appeared in the Earth's protective ozone layer above the Arctic in 2011 was the largest recorded in the Northern Hemisphere, triggering worries the event could occur again and be even worse, scientists said in a ...
"Contact" star Jodie Foster was among donors helping to revive the 42 radio telescope dishes at a key California institute searching for extraterrestrial life, the group said Tuesday.The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute in California, which got a direct hit from ...
An international team of researchers using sophisticated x-ray technology has found chemical traces of a key color pigment in 100-million year old fossilized birds that once formed their feather patterns.The study, reported Thursday in the journal Science, provides a glimpse into the ...
Tough investors seek frisky prospectorsMONTREAL – Canada’s largest banks are setting loose a fresh batch of gold analysts. Their mission: evaluate $100 million to $800 million prospectors. The new blood, among them Dan Earle at Toronto Dominion (TD Newcrest), Nick Campbell at ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The search for intelligent life in the universe beyond planet Earth has been dealt a major blow by government spending cutbacks in the United States.The world's only radio telescope array specially designed to detect potential signals from distant ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The search for intelligent life in the universe, at least beyond planet Earth, has been dealt a major blow by government budget constraints.The world's only radio telescope array specially designed to eavesdrop on potential signals from distant worlds ...
California is closely watching the crisis at a Japanese nuclear plant, but officials downplayed the threat that a radioactive cloud blown across the Pacific could pose for the US West Coast.While radioactivity could reach the United States from the quake-hit Fukushima plant, ...
Bacteria that thrive on arsenic have been scooped from a California lake, a discovery that redefines the building blocks of life and offers new hope in the search for other organisms on Earth and beyond.Not only do the bacteria survive, they grow ...
Bacteria that thrive on arsenic have been scooped from a California lake, a discovery that redefines the building blocks of life and offers new hope in the search for other organisms on Earth and beyond.Not only do the bacteria survive, they grow ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A strange, salty lake in California has yielded an equally strange bacterium that thrives on arsenic and redefines life as we know it, researchers reported Thursday.The bacteria do not merely eat arsenic -- they incorporate the toxic element directly ...
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