Topic: Iceland
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 together ...
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 ...
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 -- ...
Five hundred years before Columbus sailed the ocean blue, a Native American woman may have voyaged to Europe with Vikings, according to a provocative new DNA study. Analyzing a type of DNA passed only from mother to child, scientists found more than ...
An Amerindian woman may have been the first native American to set foot on European soil, brought to Iceland by the Vikings several centuries before Christopher Columbus set foot on the Americas in 1492. The analysis found that around 80 Icelanders in ...
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 ...
The Leifur Eiriksson's location can't be beat. For travellers looking for cheaper alternatives (Iceland is and expensive destination! We had a group of five, and instead of putting us up in separate rooms in the main hotel, the proprietor gave us an ...
Until quite recently, humans burned wood, animal dung, or coal for fuel. In a 21st Century paradigm we have learned so much more about global energy resources: there are vast reserves of oil and coal, which while not the best for the ...
Amid Concerns Over Security, Biobanks Are Valuable Resources In the Search For Cures Biobanks can be effective in determining environmental factors that play a role in disease, but only if they have 5,000 or more cases of the disease to study for ...
There has been a battle of models on the subject of light since the 1600s. A new 'field theory' (the Ultra-Space Field Theory) has been developed, which provides a new model for light as electromagnetic (EM) waves. (Even Albert Einstein recognized the ...
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