Topic: Oceania
One of the world's most popular fruits, the apple, has been genetically sequenced, an exploit that could lead to crisper, juicier and more flavoursome harvests, scientists said on Sunday. The genome comprises 600 million base pairs, or "rungs" of DNA in the ...
Greenpeace members gathered Saturday in the Polish port city of Gdansk to mark the 25th anniversary of the sinking of their iconic flagship, the Rainbow Warrior, by French secret agents. Ledares of the global environmental group, including executive director Kumi Naidoo, and ...
Avatar director James Cameron will be among thousands of visitors turning their eyes skywards in French Polynesia on Sunday for the islands' first solar eclipse in 350 years. The Canadian film-maker is one of more than 5,000 tourists expected in the Pacific ...
SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - Scientists have come up with a way to satisfy Australians' demand for prawns which have become the nation's main Christmas fare -- a specially bred strain of larger, black tiger prawns that taste great. After 10 years of ...
A boat made from 12,500 plastic bottles will leave New Caledonia for Sydney this week on the final leg of a voyage across the Pacific to raise environmental awareness, organisers said Tuesday. The "Plastiki", inspired by the 1947 Kon-Tiki raft expedition, has ...
SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - Scientists have come up with a way to satisfy Australians' demand for prawns which have become the nation's main Christmas fare -- a genetically bred strain of larger, black tiger prawns that taste great. After 10 years of ...
Scientists have sequenced the genome of the body louse, offering insights into human biology and insect evolution that could help detach us from our inseparable, blood-sucking companions. The study, published on Monday in the official journal of America's National Academy of Sciences, ...
SYDNEY (Reuters) - A Japanese space probe has landed in the Australian outback after a seven-year voyage to an asteroid, safely returning a capsule containing a unique sample of dust, Japanese mission controllers said on Monday. The Hayabusa probe blazed a spectacular ...
A capsule that scientists hope will contain a little slice of outer space after a seven-year journey across the solar system was sitting in the Australian Outback on Monday waiting to be recovered. The pod, which was ejected from a Japanese space ...
A tiny heatproof capsule which scientists hope contains some of the oldest dust in the universe will streak back to Earth and land in the Australian Outback on Sunday, ending a historic space mission. Scientists hope the Hayabusa craft, which left Earth ...
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