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Plaice in history: Australians detect world's oldest pregnancy
Sydney - The discovery of an embryo in a fish that lived 375 million years ago pushes back the first known live birth by 200 million years, an Australian scientist said Thursday. The fossil find is also the earliest example of vertebrate sex ever dis...

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[Posted on : 2008-05-29 ] Category : [ Science (Technology) ]

Norwegian prizes for astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience
Oslo - Seven scientists on Wednesday were announced winners of the newly created Kavli prizes for discoveries in astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters said. Each prize category was worth 1 million do...

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[Posted on : 2008-05-28 ] Category : [ Science (Technology) ]

Merkel urges 'trailblazing decisions' to save biodiversity - Summary
Bonn, Germany - German Chancellor Angela Merkel Wednesday urged a key UN conference on preserving biodiversity to take trailblazing decisions to halt global species loss. I am convinced that we need a complete change of course in the preservation ...

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[Posted on : 2008-05-28 ] Category : [ Science (Technology) ]

Biodiversity another issue where Merkel and Bush differ - Feature
Bonn, Germany - German Chancellor Angela Merkel and US President George W Bush are good friends on a personal level. The two leaders also share a similar conservative Christian outlook, but when it comes to the gravest problems facing mankind, they d...

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[Posted on : 2008-05-28 ] Category : [ Science (Technology) ]

At half-time, some progress at bio-diversity talks - Feature
Bonn, Germany - Halfway through a two-week conference in Germany on bio-diversity, enough progress has been made to avoid total failure, but much more remains to be done at the UN event. More than 6,000 delegates from 200 nations have debated and por...

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[Posted on : 2008-05-25 ] Category : [ Science (Technology) ]

Experts urge cooperation on bird flu at UN biodiversity conference
Bonn, Germany - Greater international cooperation on bird flu and the setting up of an early warning system to counter the disease were needed, members of an international bird flu task force warned Friday. Speaking at a major UN biodiversity confere...

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[Posted on : 2008-05-23 ] Category : [ Science (Technology) ]

Unique Dutch settlement discovered from Bronze Age
Amsterdam - Archaeologists have found a settlement dating back to the Bronze Age just north of Eindhoven, a city in the southern Netherlands, Dutch archaeologist Nico Arts told Dutch media Friday. The discovery was made during preparations for the bu...

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[Posted on : 2008-05-23 ] Category : [ Science (Technology) ]

Leader in heart valve science opens manufacturing facility
Singapore - Edwards Lifesciences Corporation, the world leader in the science of heart valves, opened on Thursday its new manufacturing facility in Singapore to meet the demand for technologically advanced tissue heart value replacement products. The...

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[Posted on : 2008-05-22 ] Category : [ Science (Technology) ]

King hands mathematics prize to French and US mathematicians
Oslo - Norwegian King Harald on Tuesday presented the Abel Prize to French mathematician Jacques Tits and US mathematician John Griggs Thompson. Thompson, 75, of the University of Florida in the US, and Tits, 77, of College de France shared the prize...

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[Posted on : 2008-05-20 ] Category : [ Science (Technology) ]

Hybrid embryo - Progress or Frankenstein science?     - Feature
London - Britain has taken a major step to allow the creation of hybrid embryos for scientific research - hailed by supporters as a revolutionary step forward and condemned by opponents as Frankenstein science. For weeks, debate had been raging over...

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[Posted on : 2008-05-19 ] Category : [ Science (Technology) ]