• Russian Space Ark Returns to Earth with Animal Crew Some Mice Die

  A Russian space capsule carrying lizards, mice, gerbils, fish and other creatures has safely returned to Earth, but not all of its animal passengers survived the month-long spaceflight, according to news ...

• Human Body Factory by Dan Green | Book Review | GrrlScientist

  Everyone is curious to learn how their body works, but understanding the details can often be a daunting task. But a new children's book rises up to meet this challenge, and it does so admirably: Human Body Factory by Dan Green [Kingfisher - An imprint of Macmillan Children's Books, ...

• Kenya Space strained Kisii court gets facelift

  KISII, KENYA: A shortage of courtrooms at the busy Kisii Law Courts is set to be alleviated in the next 20 months after the government allocated Sh10 million towards constructing a new ...

• AI gets involved with the law

  recent study of the behaviour of parole board judges revealed this interesting human trait. The law isn't supposed to put the rumbling of stomachs above fact and reason, but that's the problem when those charged with administering it are ...

• Nanotech roundup safety concerns bionic ears and worlds smallest movie | Ros Daw

  In this month's roundup we report new recommendations on handling nanofibres and nanotubes, the creation of superhuman ears, and a movie made from individual ...

• US Space Tech Conference Expo focuses on commercial space flight

  The three-day US Space Tech Conference and Expo kicked off at the Long Beach Convention Center in California on Tuesday with focuses on the future of commercial space flight.The debut of Lynx, the piloted two-seat reusable spacecraft developed by XCOR Aerospace attracted the attention of many visitors who have been keen on the arrival of the age of space tourism.The aircraft-like Lynx vehicle is ...

• Canadian killed in escalating violence in Iraq

  Residents stand amid rubble at blast scene in Tuz Khormatu town in northern Iraq May 21, 2013. Three persons were killed and 52 others were injured after two car bombs were set off in Tuz Khormatu on Tuesday, according to the police. REUTERS/Stringer A Canadian has been killed amidst rising violence in Iraq. "I have grown increasingly concerned in recent days as a spate of deadly sectarian ...

• One dead in floatplane crash in B.C.

  An aerial map shows Bute Inlet, 250k m northwest of Vancouver. One person is dead after a floatplane crashed in the area. Google/QMI Agency One person is dead after a floatplane crashed in British Columbia Tuesday evening. The Joint Rescue Coordination Centre Victoria received a report just after 5 p.m. and deployed a search-and-rescue team in a Cormorant helicopter, a spokesman said. The ...

• It is rocket science as SA firm expands operation

  Technology firm NewSat plans to hire up to 20 space scientists as part of an expansion of its facility at Mawson Lakes in Adelaide. The Australian company is preparing to launch a satellite fleet and needs more antennae in Adelaide to support them. It provides communication services for customers including mining companies and the United States military. NewSat chief executive Adrian ...

• Video Predicting the tornado How science can save lives

  The difference between survival and death during a tornado can be helped by increased warning time. The National Weather Service says the ability to forecast a tornado system has advanced drastically. Chip Reid reports on the improving ...

• Has science outgrown patents

  A legal tussle in the US Supreme Court over who can own gene patents like the breast cancer gene has raised fundamental questions about what can be owned.While the combatants - the Association for Molecular Pathology and Myriad Genetics - hone their arguments, the rest of us should pause to consider how we got here and whether it's time to change the law.Patents give inventors an incentive ...

• Judge dismisses HD Mining court challenge by unions

  (QMI Agency files) A Federal Court judge dismissed Tuesday a challenge by two unions to overturn temporary foreign worker permits granted to a China-backed mining company. Judge Russel Zinn ruled HD Mining properly applied for the 201 worker permits, according to the Labour Market Opinions process. The International Union of Operating Engineers Local 115 and BC Building Trades union said the ...

• Theres a Gnome at the Bottom of Your Garden

  Royal Horticultural Society have decided this year to relax their century-old ban and for the first time allow the "little people" into the show -- garden gnomes, that is, those tacky little statues of short bearded men with pointy ...

• Your Pictures The Oklahoma Tornado

  Nicholas Rutledge snapped this picture of yesterday's devastating tornado as it gathered strength in Newcastle, Oklahoma. It later intensified before smashing through suburbs surrounding Oklahoma City, including the city of ...

• 5 Tornado Myths Busted

  deadly tornado ripped through the Oklahoma City area on Monday , leaving 24 dead. As rescue crews assist victims, scientists have fanned out across the Great Plains, seeking to better understand how severe storms form, and how people may better guard against their worst ...

• Opposing stances on science research

  Tuesday was either a great day or an awful day for science research in Canada -- depending on whose story you were listening to.On one hand, Gary Goodyear, federal minister of state for science and technology, was presenting the government's commitments to science and technology research and proclaiming that discovery-driven research is a priority for the Conservatives.On the other hand, ...

• London Ont. sex offender escapes again

  Kenneth Froude. LONDON, Ont. - A sex offender who terrorized a London woman after breaking into her townhouse is on the loose again, police said. Repeat offender Kenneth Froude, 45, who serving a 19-month sentence for criminal harassment and breach of his supervision, has escaped from the halfway house at the Collins Bay Institution in Kingston, Ont., said Const. Brett Anderson said. In June ...

• Mountie claims she was dragged through manure sexually assaulted by colleagues

  OTTAWA -- An RCMP Staff Sgt. has filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against 13 former colleagues, claiming she was sexually assaulted, harassed and bullied during her time with the iconic Musical Ride more than 25 years ago. Caroline O'Farrell, 52, was subjected to numerous degrading incidents during her training and performances with the force's equestrian show in 1986 and 1987, ...

• Time-lapse spots faulty embryos before IVF

  Together with his colleagues, Fishel has devised a way to record and analyse the development of early embryos collected for IVF. The ability to identify embryos with the best chance of producing a healthy pregnancy is vital for couples undergoing expensive IVF treatment, which can cost up to 10,000 per ...

• NASA releases satellite images of storm that spawned Oklahoma tornado

  NASA's Aqua satellite acquired this image of the storm at 2:40 p.m. local time. The red line depicts the tornado's track. Credit: NASA/Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA ...

• Macrophages Play Critical Role In Salamander Limb Regeneration

  has revealed an exciting step forward in the quest to adapt this ability for medical use in humans. Based on experiments with the tiny amphibians, researchers from the Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute at Monash University have found that elements of a salamander's immune system called macrophages play a key role in enabling the regenerative process. ';Previously, we thought ...

• Climate Change Due To Meteorite Caused Extinction Of The Woolly Mammoth

  meteorite breaking apart in the atmosphere about 13,000 years ago - around the time when the prehistoric pachyderms died out. By studying sediment layers from 18 archaeological sites around the world, the team found tiny spheres of carbon they say are telltale signs of multiple impacts and meteorites’ mid-air explosions, according to their study in ...

• Does Practice Really Make Perfect

  Hambrick said . "The evidence is quite clear that some people do reach an elite level of performance without copious practice, while other people fail to do so despite copious practice." In the study, the team reviewed 14 studies involving chess players and musicians and looked explicitly at how practice routine was related to performance. They found that time spent practicing ...

• Satellites watch the march of deadly Oklahoma twisters from space

  The progress of Monday's disastrous tornado in Oklahoma was caught from space by satellites in orbit.The GOES-13 satellite, which is operated by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, imaged the movement of storm systems in the south-central United States between Sunday and Monday, including the storm that sparked ...

• UPDATE 9-Whole neighborhoods razed by Oklahoma tornado that killed 24

  Tue May 21, 2013 7:26pm EDT * Thousands left homeless in suburb of Oklahoma City * Tornado was a rare EF5, the most powerful * Thunder and lightning slows rescue work * Death toll lowered to 24; another 237 injured (Adds witness quotes, damage estimate details) By Carey Gillam and Ian Simpson MOORE, Okla., May 21 (Reuters) - Rescuers went building to building in search of victims and thousands ...

• In search of net gains

  malaria in 2010, with an estimated 660,000 deaths, mainly among children in Africa. Yet rates of malaria transmission are falling with the use of bed nets - Long Lasting Insecticide Treated Nets (LLINs) in particular are proving key to preventing the spread of malaria.However, distribution of these nets remains insufficient for financial and practical reasons. In addition, evidence of the ...

• Lightning more deadly than twisters in Canada Forecaster

  Ontario teacher struck by lightning Tornadoes may scare you, but lightning is more likely to kill you - at least in Canada. More people die annually from lightning strikes - 80% of them from thunderstorms unaccompanied by official warnings - than from tornadoes, according to Dan Kulak, a meteorologist with Environment Canada. "Lightning is the major summer killer. More people die from ...

• Teen suicide may be contagious Study

  (Shutterstock) OTTAWA - A new study from the University of Ottawa suggests suicide may be contagious among young people, especially when they hear stories of others killing themselves. "Suicide contagion - the idea that someone else’s suicide can influence your own suicidal thoughts and behaviours - does occur, especially among younger adolescents," according to the study, led ...

• Further Space Oddity Jeremy Paxman grills British astronaut Major Tim Peake in weirdly aggressive Newsnight interview

  Space Race: Astronauts break record for quickest journey to International Space Station - making trip in less time than standard flight from London to New ...

• Quebec mayor never showed me any cash Mulcair

  Mulcair aided Quebec corruption probe OTTAWA -- NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair says he stayed mum for 17 years about a possible bribe offer because he never saw any cash first-hand. Mulcair took questions Tuesday for the first time since revealing last week he'd met with police investigating former Laval, Que., Mayor Gilles Vaillancourt in early 2011. According to his sworn affidavit, obtained ...

• China Space Program Ramping Up Capabilities Pentagon Says

  '); A Chinese Long March 2F rocket launches on the Shenzhou 9 mission, China's first manned space docking flight and first flight of a female astronaut, on June 16, 2012 from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch ...

• Oklahoma Tornado Storms Seen from Space Satellite Photos

  A line of thunderstorms that resembles an exclamation mark in this image from NOAA's GOES-13 satellite gave rise to the Moore, Okla. tornado on May 20, 2013. The tornado was generated near the bottom of the line of clouds, NASA officials ...

• Astronaut Chris Hadfield’s space station guitar built in Vancouver

  The guitar Canadian astronaut Commander Chris Hadfield played on board the International Space Station was made in Vancouver. The three-quarter-size travel guitar, created and manufactured in the Vancouver office of Larrivee Guitars, spins around in front of the Canadian spaceman as he sings David Bowie's Space Oddity in ...

• Pope performs exorcism Vatican denies video footage

  Pope Francis blesses a child as he leaves in his papamobile after the Holy mass for Pentecost Sunday on May 19, 2013 at St Peter's Square at the Vatican. AFP PHOTO / ANDREAS SOLARO Vatican City - The Vatican on Tuesday denied that Pope Francis had performed an exorcism after an Italian religious television channel said footage of the pontiff blessing a boy in a wheelchair showed he had. ...

• Vigilante mom charged for defending son say cops

  Vigilante set up sting in Timmies MONTREAL - A Montreal woman paid the price after police said she took the law into her own hands when her son was allegedly attacked by a gang of assailants. Police have charged her with stabbing one of the alleged attackers. So far, she's the only one charged. As for why they didn't immediately charge other suspects, police said they were still ...

• Girl 11 at wheel in deadly accident

  B.C. teen busted doing 100 km/h over the limit VANCOUVER -- An 11-year-old girl was behind the wheel when a 12-year-old girl -- a passenger -- was killed in a crash in northern B.C., police say. The Jeep turned on its side as the driver lost control, according to police in Mackenzie, about 950 km north of Vancouver. A 41-year-old man was in the car supervising at the time of the accident. The ...

• Video Watch NASA captures Okla. tornado from space

  NASA's GOES-13 satellite captured images of the storm system that sparked tornadoes in the middle of the country. The video includes images of the twister left dozens of people dead in Moore, ...

• Across America 2013 Solar Impulse Prepares For Flight From Phoenix To Dallas

  Image Caption: Event week in Phoenix- Consulate of Switzerland Dinner - J. Brewer, Governor of the State of Arizona, and B. Piccard and A. Borschberg with the Clean Generation Flag. Credit: Solar Impulse |Merz| ...

• Bilingual People Use Different ‘Sound Systems’ To Switch Languages

  bilingual individuals switch between two different 'sound systems' in their brain when alternating between languages. "A lot of research has shown that bilinguals are pretty good at accommodating speech variation across languages, but there's been a debate as to ...

• Pica Pica Plaza creating new event space in South San Antonio

  Pica Pica Plaza has launched a new Celebrations Event Center. Pica Pica Plaza, a 130,000-square-foot retail/entrepreneur incubator on San Antonios South Side is adding a new service the Celebrations Event Center. The newly completed event center will be open for any kind of event, be it formal or casual. Celebrations will also provide such services as catering, party planning and floral ...

• Gay marriage opponent kills himself in cathedral

  PARIS - An 78-year-old French far-right activist committed suicide at the altar of the Notre Dame cathedral on Tuesday by shooting himself in the mouth, three days after a law legalising same-sex marriage came into effect. Police evacuated the cathedral, one of Paris’ biggest tourist draws, after Dominique Venner - a historian known for his hard-right political essays and a fierce ...

• Wired Space Photo of the Day Valhalla Crater

  In today's business world, disruption is a constant force that never lets up. At the annual WIRED Business Conference: Disruptive by Design, we celebrate the creative power of bold new ideas and the people that make them happen. See the event ...

• Russian mice gerbils dead in 30-day space ordeal lizards live

  LOS ANGELES -- A crew of Mongolian gerbils may have gone where no Mongolian gerbil has gone before, but they did not come back alive. A Russian spacecraft filled with mice, lizards and other animals has returned to Earth -- but with the majority of its furred passengers apparently dead. The Bion-M experiment, launched from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on April 19, carried 45 mice, 15 geckos, 18 ...

• Parcels find their way to you via the crowd

  crowd-powered delivery system dreamed up by a group of Microsoft researchers. Fictional Jane never has to deviate from her normal route to pick up her package. Instead, it is sent via a chain of people - an algorithm calculates the fastest route using aggregated location data from New York tweeters. Eric Horvitz ...

• Scientists use DNA to finger culprit in historic Irish potato famine

  A potato leaf specimen from the Kew Garden herbarium, collected in 1847, during the height of the Irish famine. Credit: Marco Thines/Senckenberg Gesellschaft fr ...

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