Topic: Nordic Countries
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Partial solar eclipse begins over the Mideast and much of EuropeWintry 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 ...
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 ...
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