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(Reuters) - The 2011 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, was awarded on Monday to Bruce Beutler and Jules Hoffmann jointly "for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity" and the other half to Ralph Steinman "for his discovery of the ...

A mathematics institute which opened in Senegal this week is the first step to creating a west African science centre, which backers hope could produce the continent's own Albert Einstein.The institute is the second of its kind on the continent. It is ...

A team of Ugandan and French paleontologists announced Tuesday they had found a 20-million-year-old ape skull in northeastern Uganda, saying it could shed light on the region's evolutionary history."This is the first time that the complete skull of an ape of this ...

KAMPALA (Reuters) - Ugandan and French scientists have discovered a fossil of a skull of a tree-climbing ape from about 20 million years ago in Uganda's Karamoja region, the team said Tuesday.The scientists discovered the remains on July 18 while looking for ...

A tiny 'water boatman' insect is the world's loudest animal relative to its body size, according to a new study.Males of the Micronecta scholtzi species serenade their sweethearts with a three-part song made by rubbing their genitalia against their abdomens, but it ...

What child has not dreamed of breaking free from gravity's chains and floating, weightless, above Earth's surface?That fantasy, long-since dismissed in the adult mind as a violation of Nature, came true this week for a small group of scientists, French parliamentarians and ...

World-class "noses" in the perfume and wine business are not born with an outsized sense of smell but acquire it through years of professional sniffing, according to new research.In experiments with novice and veteran perfume makers, French scientists found that the ability ...

Ultra-sharp 3-D X-ray imaging of a 95-million-year-old fossil found in Lebanon has shed light on the evolution of snakes from limbed lizards, French scientists said on Wednesday.The 50-centimetre (20-inch) fossil of Eupodophis desouensi shows a small hind leg attached to the animal's ...

In ancient Egypt, the Pharaohs thought that the mushrooms were gifts from heaven. Unlike the case in ancient Egypt where mushroom consumption was restricted, mushrooms were widely consumed throughout the Roman Empire. In Ancient Greece (over 4.500 years ago) mushrooms were seen ...

a new, lethal strain of influenza sweeps through the trenches, killing even young, fit soldiers. Within weeks the outbreak has spread to ports of call in Africa, North America and onward. DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO, 2002: Ebola virus resurfaces, killing nearly 90 ...

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Topic: France

Factbox: Winners of 2011 Nobel Medicine Prize

Senegal dreams of 'African Einstein' with new science hub

20-million-year-old ape skull unearthed in Uganda

20-million year-old ape skull found in Uganda

Pond insect 'loudest animal on Earth'

Zero-gravity experience lifts off at Le Bourget

Super sense of smell not innate

Images show why ancient snakes were out on a limb

Nourishing Food for the Ages

establishing the central paradigm

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