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Marriage and the making of scientific careers

14.02.2015 14:55
There are many examples of couples in the history of science, though few are as well known as Pierre and Marie Curie. What, for example, of the less familiar Hertha and William Aryton, who conducted work on the electrical arc? These examples suggest that unconventionality could be the key to...

More teenagers trying e-cigarettes than tobacco, US study suggests

14.02.2015 14:45
More teenagers are trying or using e- cigarettes than tobacco products, according to a US study that has prompted fresh concerns among some scientists about a new generation of nicotine addicts. The report is the first to claim such high rates of e-cigarette use among 12- to 18-year- olds, though...

US faces worst droughts in 1,000 years, predict scientists

14.02.2015 14:34
The US south-west and the Great Plains will face decade-long droughts far worse than any experienced over the last 1,000 years because of climate change, researchers said on Thursday. The coming drought age – caused by higher temperatures under climate change – will make it nearly impossible to...

'It taunts us spiritually': the fight for Indigenous relics spirited off to the UK

14.02.2015 14:16
When Gary Murray contemplates the thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander objects held in the vaults of the British Museum in London, he strikes a simple analogy. “All of these things that belong to our people in Australia – they don’t tell a story about the Queen of England, do they?”...

New Zealand rescuers hope to save 60 stranded whales

14.02.2015 14:13
Rescuers in New Zealand hope to have saved 60 pilot whales after about 140 died when they became stranded on a sandy spit. The pod became beached on Farewell Spit in Golden Bay on Friday in one of the worst such incidents in recent years. There have been numerous whale strandings in the past on...

Oldest and most distant galaxy ever discovered was a prolific star factory

25.10.2013 16:13
Astronomers have spotted the most distant galaxy ever seen after a faint ray of light struck a telescope on a volcano in the middle of the Pacific. The ancient group of stars lies 30bn light years from Earth, far beyond the handle of the Big Dipper that traces a celestial saucepan in...

Scorpion venom is a painkiller for the grasshopper mouse

25.10.2013 16:03
The bark scorpion is, according to Wikipedia, the most venomous scorpion in North America, wielding an intensely painful – and potentially lethal – sting that stuns and deters snakes, birds and other predators. People unfortunate enough to have experienced the sting say that it produces an...

Metabolism gene mutations can cause childhood obesity, find scientists

25.10.2013 15:56
Scientists have discovered that defects in a single gene can cause a rare but severe form of obesity by disrupting the body's ability to burn calories. The study is the first to show that genetics can play a role in what many had long suspected: that some people put on weight more easily...

US student 'scarred for life' in street attack three days after arriving in UK

25.10.2013 15:34
LONDON -- An American student was attacked and slashed with a broken bottle just three days after arriving in Britain, police said Wednesday. Francesco Hounye, who moved to the U.K. from Florida to study aviation, needed 23 stitches to his face after five men beat him following a "heated" verbal...

Dad burned teenage daughter to death for contacting fiance: Yemen police

25.10.2013 15:32
DUBAI -- A father burned his 15-year- old daughter to death for keeping in touch with her fiance, police in Yemen said. "The father committed this heinous crime on the pretext that his daughter had been keeping contacts with her fiance," according to a statement posted on a police website Tuesday....
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