Reuters: Science News

Soviet H-bomb scientist Ginzburg dies

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:43:03 +0000

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Vitaly Ginzburg, a Russian physicist who survived Stalin's purges by working on the Soviet atomic bomb project and later won the Nobel Prize for physics, died in Moscow late on Sunday after a long illness. He was 93.

Genetic tests help track food web, climate change

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:41:27 +0000

BARCELONA, Spain (Reuters) - New uses of genetic testing can help track how animal diets may change due to global warming and are helping crack down on wildlife smuggling, experts said on Saturday.

Scientists devise early treatment for spine injury

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:44:10 +0000

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Injecting tiny polymer spheres into rats right after a spinal cord injury helped the animals recover movement and prevented secondary nerve damage that often follows such injuries, U.S. researchers said on Sunday.

Another reason to cover your cough: pets at risk

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:56:30 +0000

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - People who think they may have H1N1 flu need to stay away from work, avoid sneezing on their spouses and children and now, they have someone else to worry about infecting too -- their pets.

Canada to investigate disappearing Pacific salmon

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:23:17 +0000

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - Canada will launch an investigation into why far fewer sockeye salmon than scientists had predicted returned to the Fraser River on the Pacific Coast this summer.

Hu says China seeks peaceful use of airspace

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:57:11 +0000

BEIJING (Reuters) - China supports the peaceful exploration and use of space, President Hu Jintao said on Friday, days after its top air force officials sparked concerns with talk of a "Great Wall of steel in the blue sky."

WHO says pandemic flu on rise in China, Japan

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:07:10 +0000

GENEVA (Reuters) - H1N1 swine flu is on the rise in China and Japan after triggering an unusually early start to the winter influenza season in Europe, Central Asia and North America, the World Health Organization said on Friday.

Company sequences whole human genome for $1,700

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:24:11 +0000

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Want to know your entire DNA sequence? A California company has done it for as little as $1,700.

Scientists halt brain disease with new gene therapy

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:36:15 +0000

LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have managed to halt a rare and fatal brain disease with an experimental gene therapy technique using a deactivated version of the AIDS virus, a study published on Thursday showed.

Study suggests peat CO2 credits more valuable

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:39:22 +0000

JAKARTA (Reuters) - An Indonesia-based study is showing carbon-rich tropical peat lands trap more greenhouse gases than first thought, driving up their potential value on the carbon market and strengthening the case for their protection.