Iceland's Decode signs genetics deal with Pfizer

2011-10-12T11:00:25Z

LONDON (Reuters) - Iceland's Decode Genetics has clinched its first deal with a major pharmaceutical company since emerging in 2010 from a brush with bankruptcy, signing a research collaboration with Pfizer on lupus.

The alliance will see researchers from both companies working to...

Record Arctic ozone hole raises fears of worse to come

2011-10-03T04:00:09Z

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 report on Monday.

The ozone layer high in the stratosphere acts like a giant shield against the Sun's ultraviolet (UV) radiation, which can cau...

Yoko Ono says Japan should look at Iceland

2011-08-06T14:30:20Z

Yoko Ono has an idea for her disaster-scarred country Japan -- abandon nuclear energy for renewables and tap the geothermal energy beneath the unstable ground of the volcanic island nation.

The artist and widow of John Lennon is in Japan for the first time since the March 11 quake and tsunami sparked a nuclear crisis, and as th...

Giant Swedish space balloon fizzes out: space centre

2011-07-07T10:30:28Z

Swedish scientists were forced to halt a ground-breaking project Thursday to test the impact of stars when a balloon carrying an X-ray telescope began leaking helium, a space centre said Thursday.

"We sent it up without any problems, but then we were forced to take it down. It was leaking, and when a balloon leaks it loses height," said Johanna Bergstroem-Roos of the Esrange Space Centre, near Kiruna in northern

Electricity from microbes a step closer: study

2011-05-23T12:30:13Z

OSLO (Reuters) - Microbes may be harnessed more easily to generate energy after a finding about how they naturally let off tiny electrical charges, scientists said on Monday.

The bacteria, found to have microscopic "wires" sticking through their cell walls, might also be used to clean up oil spills or uranium pollution, according to the report in the <...

Clouds block first 2011 solar eclipse

2011-01-04T13:30:50Z

Europe was on Tuesday given a front-row seat on the first solar eclipse of 2011 only to find that in many places a thick curtain of cloud marred the spectacle.

In London, Paris and Rome, hopes for a spooky darkening of the winter skies at sunrise were dashed by dense cloud which turned the event into a grey mush.

"Aaah so much hype of an eclipse... all I saw was the usual British cloud!!!" said...

Partial solar eclipse visible over Mideast, Europe

2011-01-04T09:00:12Z

Partial solar eclipse begins over the Mideast and much of Europe

Wintry skies darkened over Switzerland on Tuesday morning, but Romanians were treated to a pinkish ethereal light and Swedes to a beautiful sunrise, as a partial solar eclipse that began over the Mideast extended across much of Europe.

In Switzerland, the pall of clouds an...

Lunar eclipse makes memorable solstice

2010-12-21T17:30:31Z

Skygazers with a clear view in North America and Europe were greeted with a celestial treat early Tuesday, as a unique total lunar eclipse turned the Moon pink, coppery or even a blood red.

Coinciding eerily with the northern hemisphere's mid-winter solstice -- for the first time in almost four centuries -- the eclipse showed the Sun, the Earth and its satellite as they directly al...

American Indian Hit Europe in 1000?

2010-11-29T14:46:51Z

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Vikings brought first native American to Europe

2010-11-29T14:47:00Z

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Vikings brought Amerindian to Iceland 1,000 years ago: study

2010-11-18T14:14:29Z

The first Native American to arrive in Europe may have been a woman brought to Iceland by the Vikings more than 1,000 years ago, a study by Spanish and Icelandic researchers suggests.

The findings boost widely-accepted theories, based on Icelandic medieval texts and a reputed Viking settlement in Newfoundland

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2010-11-29T14:43:22Z

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Baron Jons Jakob Berzelius

2010-11-29T14:43:21Z

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Artturi Ilmari Virtanen

2010-11-29T14:43:21Z

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Scientists exhume Danish astronomer's remains

2010-11-15T01:30:26Z

Scientists exhume remains of famous astronomer to try determine the cause of his sudden death

An international team of scientists was opening the tomb of a famous 16th-century Danish astronomer Monday in an effort to shed light on his sudden and mysterious death.

Tycho Brahe, who was born in 1546, has been buried in the Church of Our Lady Before Tyn near Norway deliveries are just the newest facet of a decades-old effort by more than 100 countries to save the world's many varieties of rice which might otherwise be lost.

A fire-proof, quake-proof, typhoon-proof gene bank set up by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in Correction: Nobel-Medicine story

In a story Oct. 4 about the Nobel Prize in medicine, The Associated Press misspelled the surname of a Stockholm woman who gave birth after vitro fertilization treatments. Her name is Johanna Mannung, not Nannung.

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Nobel Medicine Prize ushers in week of awards

2010-10-03T20:15:33Z

The Nobel Medicine Prize winner will be named Monday, kicking off a week of prestigious award announcements including the two that are most watched, Literature and Peace.

Speculation is as always rife for those honours, to be announced on Thursday and Friday respectively, with many predicting a poet will grab the literature award, and some saying a Chinese dissident will follow last year's jaw-dropping surprise pick of US Pr...

Big Picture: How Climate Change Shaped Humanity

2010-10-03T17:00:14Z

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Genetics of Alstrom Syndrome Information for Patients

2010-09-28T18:03:15Z

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Evolving Health Care Products Popular New Trend

2010-10-08T13:33:24Z

Survey, the next few years, China Health Products Market, significant changes will occur, mainly in the expansion of demand, prices, tends to benefit the consumer more and more attention to health effects.

"Popular health care products," the mainstream of the future industry

Wuxi Ray, chairman of Group, president of Wang Fu was pointed out that China is gradually aging into the community, people's health awareness growing on Health Produc...

What is a Fjord?

2010-11-05T10:54:11Z

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FirstLook: Food And Western Disease (Wiley-Blackwell/2010)

2010-09-21T16:39:20Z

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What is the History of Geothermal Energy

2010-10-05T20:53:22Z

Geothermal energy is the use of the renewable energy found in the earth's core. This energy is generated from the origination of the earth's core, the shifting of tectonic plates, and the radioactive decay of the inner earth's minerals and elements.

Hot springs, which are geothermal hot water, have been used since Paleolithic times. Hot springs occur when there is a fissure through the earth connecting to the inner core. Water seeps into this area, and is warmed all the way to th...

Fast Vesicle Fusion in Living Cells Requires at Least Three SNARE Complexes

2010-11-02T14:04:17Z

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Top Ten Universities in Norway

2010-09-11T21:58:37Z

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What Are Some Geothermal Energy Advantages?

2010-11-05T10:28:27Z

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What is Geothermal Heating?

2010-11-05T09:59:57Z

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What is Cerium?

2010-11-05T10:00:05Z

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What Are the Different Types of Research?

2010-11-05T09:57:05Z

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What Is Quantum Theory?

2010-11-05T09:57:19Z

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Metamorphic Rock

2010-09-09T10:04:58Z

Metamorphic minerals

Metamorphic minerals are those that form only at the high temperatures and pressures associated with the process of metamorphism. These minerals, known as index minerals, include sillimanite, kyanite, staurolite, andalusite, and some garnet.

Other minerals, such as olivines, pyroxenes, amphiboles, micas, feldspars, and quartz, may be found in metamorphic rocks, but are not necessarily the result of the process of metamorphism. These minerals formed du...

Some Trees Harvest Nutrients Using Bacteria

2010-09-11T10:40:32Z

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Information on Kunzite Gems

2010-11-02T14:35:44Z

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Moderate Wine Consumption Good for Brain Health

2010-11-02T12:51:30Z

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How to do research on Wars and Conflicts

2010-10-14T11:56:32Z

How to do Fieldwork Research in War and Conflict Zones; by Ocean Marambanyika

Researchers in the study of peace and conflict studies as well as within the disciplines of political and social science research have to carry out their fieldworks in conflict zones. Conflict zones include areas raging with war, areas with heightened hostilities or areas in the aftermath of heated political temperatures like a disputed election. Countries in disarmament phases also constitut...

The Sorrows of Old Werner

2010-11-03T09:04:08Z

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How Polar Bears Work

2010-11-02T16:01:42Z

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nature's wildest lightshow

2010-11-03T08:22:47Z

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Canada's Magma says not trying to buy up all Iceland energy

2010-08-03T07:15:12Z

Canada's Magma Energy, whose ongoing take-over of an Icelandic geothermal power company has caused uproar in the island nation, countered charges on Tuesday it was planning to take over the country's entire energy sector.

"As we see it, the current debate is full of misleading and incorrect information," Asgeir Margeirsson, who heads Magma's Iceland branch, told AFP, insisting the Canadian gro...

What is Quantum Uncertainty?

2010-11-05T09:59:17Z

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What is Geothermal Energy?

2010-11-05T09:56:59Z

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Eyelashes up close

2010-11-03T08:24:44Z

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A trip beyond the edge of the observable universe

2010-11-02T13:26:56Z

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Tycho Brahe Planetarium

2010-11-02T15:26:57Z

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Carl Friedrich Freiherr von Weizsacker

2010-11-02T15:07:42Z

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Fossilised cell blobs could be oldest multicellular life

2010-11-02T13:10:51Z

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Why Big Bird Isn't Bigger

2010-11-02T14:03:48Z

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Rare, Expensive Japanese Mushroom Grows in Sweden

2010-11-02T12:51:22Z

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Shared Opinions Light Up Brain's 'Reward Center'

2010-09-10T19:53:09Z

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Males and females "have innate sense of direction"

2010-06-17T11:30:20Z

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Scientists studying rats have found both male and female newborns have an innate sense of direction before they've even begun to move around, and this is likely to be the same for all animals -- including humans.

The researchers found no difference in directional sense between male and females, suggesting both sexes are born with have the same tools on which to build navigational skills.

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Quantum dogma

2010-10-27T09:10:55Z

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The Problem With Quantum Lithography

2010-10-27T09:10:38Z

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SNP Linked to Outcomes in Hepatitis C Infection

2010-10-27T09:18:14Z

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Want To Live Longer? Find Things Funny.

2010-11-03T08:17:15Z

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The 2010 Kavli Prizes honors eight scientists in astrophysics, nanotech and neuroscience

2010-10-27T09:14:14Z

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Finnish Roots

2010-10-27T07:28:09Z

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Control of Membrane Protein Topology by a Single C-Terminal Residue

2010-10-27T07:55:25Z

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Geothermal Companies Vie for African Development Contracts

2010-10-27T09:01:53Z

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Closing Loopholes: Getting Illegal Fishing Under Control

2010-10-27T07:55:15Z

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Sweden Bets on New Lab to Spruce Up Its Bioscience Future

2010-10-27T07:55:10Z

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Scientific Facilities Sweden Bets on New Lab to Spruce Up Its Bioscience Future

2010-10-27T07:55:13Z

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Nobody understands

2010-10-27T07:11:40Z

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Blue Jackets Coyotes Hockey

2011-01-04T21:01:29Z

Phoenix Coyotes' Sami Lepisto (18), of Finland, gets ready to get a shot off as he scores against Columbus Blue Jackets' Mathieu Garon (32) during the second period of an

Canucks Sharks Hockey

2011-01-04T00:00:24Z

San Jose Sharks center Jamal Mayers, right, celebrates his goal with teammates Scott Nichol (21) and Dany Heatley (15) as Vancouver Canucks center Henri...

Islanders Flames Hockey

2011-01-03T21:31:24Z

Calgary Flames goalie Henrik Karlsson, from Sweden, makes a save during second period NHL hockey action against the New York Islanders in Calgary, Can...

Russia Sweden World Junior Hockey

2011-01-03T19:31:55Z

Russia's Vladimir Tarasenko (10) scores past Sweden goalie Robin Lehner, right, as Sweden forward Oscar Lindberg (24) looks on during first period IIHF World Junior Championship semifinal hockey action in Columbus Blue Jackets left wing Kristian Huselius (20), of Sweden, closes in on Nashville Predators defenseman Shea Weber (6) and goalie Pekka R...

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