Yemen Blast Kills 6 Spanish Tourists SANAA (Reuters) - Yemen said seven Spanish tourists and two Yemenis were killed in a suspected al Qaeda suicide car bomb attack on their convoy in the province of Marib on Monday.... Read Full Article Schlumberger Profit Up On Global Demand The oilfield services company said profit rose 35 percent to $1.35 billion in the third quarter, as strong demand in Latin America, Russia and Asia offset weakness in domestic markets.... Read Full Article World Briefing | Europe: Poland: Bus Driver Fired For 38,000 Text Messages Leszek Wojcik, a bus driver in Slupsk, has been fired for sending 38,000 text messages on his company cellphone in a losing effort to win a contest jackpot, a spokesman said. He ran up a tab of $34,00... Read Full Article The Day The Pixels Froze: When A Digital World Was Stopped By A Natural Disaster The earthquake off the coast of Taiwan was a reminder of the world’s increasing dependence on communications technology.... Read Full Article NBC Developing Web Site For Students Imagine Tim Russert introducing a classroom history lesson about the Articles of Confederation, or Brian Williams describing the reverberations of the Stamp Act.... Read Full Article |
Science NewsWhy Pregnant Women Don?t Tip Over2007-12-13 05:30 - Researchers have found evidence that evolution produced a stronger and more flexible lower spine for women. Fin Whale at Feeding Time: Dive Deep, Stop Short, Open Wide 2007-12-12 06:01 - Scientists are tracking the ocean’s biggest whales to figure out how exactly they get enough food to build their giant bodies. Observatory: The Gene That Tells Planaria Worms Which End Is Up 2007-12-12 05:30 - A single gene lets a flatworm know if it should regrow a head or a tail, based on where the wound is. Observatory: Scientists Blend Materials to Create Oil-Repellent Surfac... 2007-12-12 05:30 - Scientists have succeeded in making oil-repellent, or superoleophobic, surfaces. Observatory: When Removing One Predator Harms the Prey 2007-12-12 05:30 - Elimination of the top predator can actually be worse for the prey. From a Japanese Satellite, Here Comes the Sun 2007-12-12 05:30 - Telescopes aboard the Hinode satellite have been returning some of their first results. Warming Trends: In Duck Blinds, Visions of Global Warming 2007-12-12 05:30 - Wildlife agencies are re-examining some longstanding approaches to cultivating waterfowl populations. Selection Spurred Recent Evolution, Researchers Say 2007-12-12 05:30 - Researchers analyzing variation in the human genome have concluded that human evolution accelerated enormously in the last 40,000 years under the force of natural selection. Basics: An Ancient Medicine (Enjoy in Moderation) 2007-12-12 05:30 - If we humans are congenitally inclined to drink, researchers caution, we are designed to do so only in moderation. Scientist at Work | Shinya Yamanaka: Risk Taking Is in His Genes 2007-12-12 05:30 - After years of searching, Shinya Yamanaka found a way to turn adult skin cells into the equivalent of human embryonic stem cells without using an actual embryo. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 |
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