Topic: Europe
Progressive deafness profoundly influenced Beethoven's compositions, prompting him to choose lower-frequency notes as his condition worsened, scientists said on Tuesday.Beethoven first mentioned his hearing loss in 1801 at the age of 30, complaining that he was having problems hearing the high notes ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said Monday it would promote use of new medicines and use a 180 million pounds ($280 million) fund to bring modern technologies to market under a package of reforms designed to attract investment from big pharmaceuticals companies.Prime Minister ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will promote use of new medicines and has earmarked 180 million pounds ($280 million) to bring modern technologies to market under a package of reforms designed to make the country more attractive to big pharmaceuticals companies.Prime Minister David ...
Scientists from Japan and Russia believe it may be possible to clone a mammoth after finding well-preserved bone marrow in a thigh bone recovered from permafrost soil in Siberia, a report said Saturday.Teams from the Sakha Republic's mammoth museum and Japan's Kinki ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Arctic zone has moved into a warmer, greener "new normal" phase, which means less habitat for polar bears and more access for development, an international scientific team reported on Thursday.Arctic air temperatures were higher - about 2.5 degrees ...
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Elan Corp Plc has signed an agreement with Britain's Cambridge University to create a research center focused on therapies for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, the Dublin-headquartered biotech group said on Sunday.Elan, whose main research facility is in San Francisco, will ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Teenagers who spend a lot of time on video-games have different structures and activity levels in areas of the brain that are linked to reward, scientists have found, suggesting they get more out of gaming than people who tend ...
Accusations that a giant of astronomy, Edwin Hubble, quashed a Belgian cleric who beat him to making one of the greatest discoveries of modern times are unfounded, Nature said on Wednesday.Hubble's reputation has been recently tarnished by suggestions that he, or an ...
LONDON (Reuters) - A Dutch psychologist has admitted making up data and faking research over many years in studies which were then published in peer-reviewed scientific journals.Diederik Stapel, a psychologist working at Tilburg University in the Netherlands, said he had "failed as ...
Does Facebook alter the brain? That's the question which flows from an unusual investigation into the online social network used by 800 million people.Volunteers placed in a 3-D scanner had bigger, denser structures in three areas of the brain if they had ...
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