Daily News Alert | Friday, December 31, 2010 12:03 AM PST |
US, UK scientists draw up list of world's plants
Wed, 29 Dec 2010 06:59 am PST
 AP - British and U.S. scientists say they've compiled the most comprehensive list of land plant species ever published — a 300,000-species strong compendium that they hope will boost conservation, trade and medicine. Full Story | Top |
Biologists head to bunkers to fight bat disease
Sat, 25 Dec 2010 11:30 am PST
 AP - Biologist Susi von Oettingen walked into the dark World War II-era military bunker and took out her flashlight. Among the old pipes, wires and machinery parts, she saw some bats hanging from cracks in the cement walls and ceiling. Full Story | Top |
Medical Problems of 1911 Are Still With Us
Thu, 30 Dec 2010 05:30 pm PST
LiveScience.com - After a century of progress, the issues that medicine must tackle in the coming year aren't that different from the ones that faced doctors at the start of 1911, according to the observations of the medical journal The Lancet. Full Story | Top |
Stem cell research breaks new ground in 2010
Thu, 30 Dec 2010 01:56 pm PST
 AFP - Two US companies this year broke new ground by winning regulatory approval to start the first experiments using embryonic stem cells on humans suffering from spinal cord injury and blindness. Full Story | Top |
Scientists aim to map and save endangered habitats
Thu, 30 Dec 2010 09:16 pm PST
AP - From mangrove swamps in Venezuela to lowland forests in Indonesia, entire communities of plants and animals are under threat. Now scientists are figuring out how to catalog and map the world's most threatened ecosystems — just like their familiar list of endangered species. Full Story | Top |
The nation's weather
Thu, 30 Dec 2010 02:22 am PST
AP - The major winter storm of the West was expected to remain the main weather producer of the nation Thursday as it pushes eastward across the Four Corners. Full Story | Top |
NASA Finds New Cracks on Space Shuttle's Fuel Tank
Thu, 30 Dec 2010 02:30 pm PST
SPACE.com - NASA has completed its latest round of X-ray scans on the space shuttle Discovery's external fuel tank, only to find more small cracks on the beleaguered tank's support beams, the space agency announced today (Dec. 30). Full Story | Top |
2010 Reproductive Rights Policy Year in Review
Mon, 27 Dec 2010 12:01 pm PST
ContributorNetwork - ANALYSIS | Ever since the landmark Roe v. Wade decision in 1973, abortion has been a hot topic in United States politics. 2010 was no different, as states enacted controversial abortion laws and embryonic stem cell research was ordered to stop and then start again. Full Story | Top |
Mayor: NYC's response to snowstorm 'unacceptable'
Thu, 30 Dec 2010 03:28 pm PST
 AP - Mayor Michael Bloomberg visited some of the neighborhoods hard-hit by the Christmas weekend blizzard and confessed Thursday that the city's handling of the crisis was "inadequate and unacceptable." But it was clear the anger wasn't exactly melting away. Full Story | Top |
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