Topic: Southern Europe
Celebrated Russian seed bank survived war but now may see its fields plowed for housingThe world's first seed bank survived World War II thanks to 12 Russian scientists who chose to starve to death rather than eat the grain they were saving ...
GlaxoSmithKline PLC says it has finalized a deal to sell its research operations in Italy to Aptuit Inc. Glaxo hasn't revealed financial terms for the deal disclosed on Thursday. Some 500 staff at a facility in Verona will be transferred from Glaxo ...
Scientists in Europe announced Monday they had likely solved the case of the missing neutrinos, one of the enduring mysteries in the subatomic universe of particle physics. If confirmed in subsequent experiments, the findings challenge core precepts of the so-called Standard Model ...
Europe's largest undersea volcano could disintegrate and unleash a tsunami that would engulf southern Italy "at any time", a prominent vulcanologist warned in an interview published Monday. The Marsili volcano, which is bursting with magma, has "fragile walls" that could collapse, Enzo ...
One of Europe's gastronomic jewels, the fabled black Perigord truffle, has been genetically unravelled, a feat that could doom fakers who pass off inferior truffles as the real thing, scientists said on Sunday. The truffle, found mainly in France but also in ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Working long days in a particle physics laboratory at the University of Turin, doctoral student Paolo Giordano wanted an escape from the academic rigors of numbers. So he wrote about love and misunderstanding with a sprinkling of science ...
An experiment in Austria in which 29 live pigs were to be buried under masses of snow to study human survival chances in avalanches has been called off for fear of public protests, police said Friday. Animal rights groups condemned the experiment ...
Scientists in Italy say amputee controlled robotic hand connected to nerves, felt sensationA group of European scientists say they have successfully connected a robotic hand to a man who had lost an arm, allowing him to feel sensations in the artificial hand ...
Spanish study shows traces of cocaine, other drugs in the air in Madrid, BarcelonaAir pollution has long been a fact of life in Spanish cities, but scientists now say it is not just smog that chokes people as they walk to work ...
Leather-clad, spike-heeled women with boldly colored hair and beefed-up laptop computers are getting their geek on at supportive gatherings in Silicon Valley. A recent "She's Geeky 3" conference in the city of Mountain View in northern California was just such an oasis ...
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Miss World 2006 - Southern Europe Zone ...
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Miss World 2005 Part 7 Southern ...
Miss World 2005 Part 7 Southern Europe2008-07-25
