Top Scientists To Review Climate Panel WPXI UNITED NATIONS -- At a tumultuous time in U.N.-led climate negotiations, one of the world's most credible scientific groups agreed Wednesday to plug the recent cracks in the authoritative reports of the United Nations' Nobel Prize-winning global warming panel. | "We enter this process with no precon...
3-day meet on global warming from today The Times Of India AHMEDABABD: Environmentalists, scientists and academicians will be discussing new means and methods to strengthen and expand agriculture to mitigate the negative impact of global warming at a three-day international conference on global warming, 'Agriculture, sustainable development and public leade...
3-day meet on global warming from today The Times Of India AHMEDABABD: Environmentalists, scientists and academicians will be discussing new means and methods to strengthen and expand agriculture to mitigate the negative impact of global warming at a three-day international conference on global warming, 'Agr...
World's top scientists to review climate panel The Guardian | SETH BORENSTEIN | AP Science Writer= WASHINGTON (AP) — The world's biggest scientific guns are being called in to mop up after a trickle of unsettling errors in the authoritative reports written by a global warming panel. | The United Nations and...
Cern's giant collider aims for world record The Guardian | Scientists in Geneva expect to generate beams of particles with three times more energy than previously achieved | The giant machine designed to recreate conditions that existed moments after the big bang will attempt to run with enough energy to b...
Scientists say 11am is perfect time for coffee break Indian Express | If you are among those who desperately need a midmorning coffee break, then go for it at 11 a.m., as scientists claim a formula they have devised proves that 'elevenses' is the best time to drink your brew. | The Oxford University research also sho...
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Tasmanian devil colony shows immunity to cancer The Boston Globe | ADELAIDE, Australia-Australian scientists said Wednesday that the discovery of a genetically distinct colony of Tasmanian devils may save the species from being wiped out by a co...
Baked rhubarb could help battle cancer The Times Of India Rhubarb could hold the key to battling cancer, believe scientists at Sheffield Hallam University. | In the study, scientists found that when baked for 20 minutes, the plant release...
'Smart' nanoparticles target specific cancer cells Newstrack India | Washington, March 9 (ANI): Scientists in the U.S. have created synthesized nanoparticles that can identify, target and kill specific cancer cells while leaving healthy cells alone. | The research team, led by Professor Carl Batt, said the nan...
Nicotine Rises Gradually In Smokers' Brains WPXI WASHINGTON -- Nicotine builds up gradually in smokers' brains rather than spiking after each puff, according to a study that might help point to new ways to help people quit smoking. | Dr. Jed E. Rose of Duke University reports in Monday's online edi...
Children's Artwork Inspires Line of Wallpaper The New York Times | The Menagerie Collection, a new line of wallpaper from Bholu and Porter’s Original Paints, two Australian companies, was inspired by the artwork of underprivileged children in Ahmedabad, India, where the designer, Jodie Fried, lived for several years. | Frederick Elephant-Moo Night, a bordered pattern, is $130 a roll; Marjory Duck, an abstr...
Emirates Airline Festival of Literature: Words worth Gulf News | Dubai: The sentence, a writer once said, is humanity's greatest invention. | And this week, over 100 of today's top authors (an improvement from 60 last year), including William Dalrymple and Shobhaa Dé, descend upon Dubai during the 2nd Emirates Airline Festival of Literature (EAFL) to celebrate all permutations of this invention. | The f...