Photon reaches from beyond the grave in quantum trick 04 October 2012 by Anil Ananthaswamy Magazine issue 2885. For similar stories, visit the Quantum World Topic Guide EINSTEIN mockingly called it “spooky action at a distance”: the finding that quantum… Read More ›
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Spain’s tax take tumbles as companies go abroad: Spain’s corporate tax take has tumbled by almost two thirds from pre-crisis levels
Spain’s tax take tumbles as companies go abroad By Tracy RucinskiPosted 2012/10/03 at 8:00 am EDT MADRID, Oct. 3, 2012 (Reuters) — Spain’s corporate tax take has tumbled by almost two thirds from pre-crisis levels as small businesses fail and… Read More ›
Spanish Ire, Symbolized by a Carrot: Central Government is Losing Control
September 26, 2012 By RAPHAEL MINDER MADRID — As Spanish domestic politics threaten to spin beyond the control of the central government, they are also making it harder for Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy to meet Spain’s financial obligations to the… Read More ›
“Biohackers” or “DIY Biologists”, Teams have come together to create the world’s first “public BioBrick”
Amateur scientists build Lego-style synthetic BioBricks in public lab By Joel Winston 24 September 12 While some may believe that science is better left to scientists, hundreds of amateur biologists around the world have been setting-up makeshift biology labs in… Read More ›
BBC apologises to the Queen for Abu Hamza disclosure
Security correspondent Frank Gardner prompts crisis by telling how Queen lobbied home secretary for arrest of radical cleri Dan Sabbagh, Peter Walker and Caroline Davies The Guardian, Tuesday 25 September 2012 15.19 EDT Abu Hamza, who faces extradition to the… Read More ›
Sulforaphane, which occurs naturally in broccoli restores certain functions in COPD
2008 Post for filing Contact: Keely Savoie ksavoie@thoracic.org 212-315-8620 American Thoracic Society COPD? Eat your veggies You know it’s good for you in other ways, but could eating your broccoli also help patients with chronic lung disease? It just might…. Read More ›
University researchers being funded to find out how many students are charging for sex
University researchers have been given £500,000 of lottery funds to find out how many students are selling sex to pay for their education. A survey published in 2010 found more than a quarter of 315 undergraduates at a London university… Read More ›
A fertility treatment which eliminates hereditary disease by engineering babies to carry healthy DNA from a third biological parent could be legalised next year.
‘Three-parent baby’ fertility technique could be made legal DNA sequence transparency Photo: ALAMY By Nick Collins, Science Correspondent 12:01AM BST 17 Sep 2012 Members of the public are being asked whether families with a genetic risk of incurable conditions… Read More ›
How artificial intelligence is changing our lives
By The Christian Science Monitor Sunday, September 16, 2012 13:38 EDT In Silicon Valley, Nikolas Janin rises for his 40-minute commute to work just like everyone else. The shop manager and fleet technician at Google gets dressed and heads out… Read More ›
$1m an hour to schmooze sheiks? No wonder Mr Blair’s preening like the new peacocks on his country estate
* Engineering Evil Note: This is also filed under Security. Reason being, this Makes Mr. Blair a security risk. By Paul Scott PUBLISHED:18:34 EST, 14 September 2012| UPDATED:18:34 EST, 14 September 2012 Schmoozing sheiks: Former Prime Minister Tony Blair … Read More ›
‘Poverty barons’ who make a fortune from taxpayer-funded aid budget
Britain’s swelling overseas aid budget has created a new group of “poverty barons” paying themselves up to £2 million a year for their work helping the disadvantaged. By Andrew Gilligan 10:00PM BST 15 Sep 2012 The Department for International Development… Read More ›
NHS hospitals sending your confidential notes to India to be typed up
A series of hospitals have admitted using cheap secretarial agencies in India By Sophie Borland PUBLISHED:10:53 EST, 10 September 2012| UPDATED:19:25 EST, 10 September 2012 Hospitals are sending hundreds of thousands of confidential letters about patients to India to be… Read More ›
Excess pneumonia deaths linked to engine exhaust
Repost File 2008 Contact: Rachael Davies rdavies@bma.org.uk 44-020-738-36529 BMJ-British Medical Journal Atmospheric pollutants and mortalities in English local authority areas Engine exhaust fumes are linked to excess deaths from pneumonia across England, suggests research published in the Journal of Epidemiology… Read More ›
Are restrictions to scientific research costing lives? ” doctors and researchers are denied full access “
Contact: Katie Baker katie.baker@sagepub.co.uk 020-732-48719 SAGE Publications Are restrictions to scientific research costing lives? London, UK (05 September 2012) – In ‘Censors on Campus’, Index on Censorship asks whether lives might be saved by making vital research freely available. As… Read More ›
BP executives sought to blame “blue collar rig workers”: U.S.: “”This was a decision designed to ensure that the public and legal lines of accountability would be focused exclusively on blue collar rig workers and other contractor/defendants – but at all cost, not upon BP management and the inexplicable behaviors that coursed through the pages” of the internal BP emails.”
By David IngramPosted 2012/09/06 at 7:25 pm EDT WASHINGTON, Sep. 6, 2012 (Reuters) — BP executives wanted to concentrate blame for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster on “blue collar rig workers” in order to save themselves, U.S. government lawyers… Read More ›
Christians should ‘leave their beliefs at home or get another job’:” such as wearing a cross, means they might have to resign and get another job, government lawyers have said”
Christians should leave their religious beliefs at home or accept that a personal expression of faith at work, such as wearing a cross, means they might have to resign and get another job, government lawyers have said. Nadia Eweida Photo:… Read More ›
High doses of Vitamin D help tuberculosis patients recover more quickly: 23 days vs 36 days
Contact: Emma Mason e.mason@qmul.ac.uk Queen Mary, University of London For decades before antibiotics became generally available, sunshine was used to treat tuberculosis, with patients often being sent to Swiss clinics to soak up the sun’s healing rays. Now, for the… Read More ›
High-fructose corn syrup sugar makes maturing human fat cells fatter, less insulin-sensitive
Contact: Aaron Lohr alohr@endo-society.org 240-482-1380 The Endocrine Society Fructose, the sugar widely used as high-fructose corn syrup in soft drinks and processed foods, often gets some of the blame for the widespread rise in obesity. Now a laboratory study has… Read More ›
Over-activity of the serotonin system may relate to mood disorders such as depression and anxiety
Contact: Mary Kohut Press@plos.org 415-568-3457 Public Library of Science Why serotonin can cause depression and anxiety Mood disorders could be caused by a loss of our inherent, reflexive avoidance of aversive events, according to a study published in PLoS Computational… Read More ›
Amazon tribe massacre alleged in Venezuela
Village of 80 people was firebombed from the air, say activists, by illegal gold miners based in neighbouring Brazil Virginia Lopez in Caracas and agencie guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 29 August 2012 21.13 EDT A massacre has taken place of Yanomami… Read More ›
Sanctions block Iran gamers from World of Warcraft
By RAPHAEL SATTER | Associated Press – 4 hrs ago LONDON (AP) — They’ve vanquished elves, trolls, and all manner of magical monsters. But one select group of online gamers is facing an even more formidable foe: The U.S. sanctions… Read More ›
Poor evidence on WHO-backed haemorrhage drug: study – ( misoprostol , Cytotec ) WHO Still Pushes it Hard
LONDON (Reuters) – The World Health Organisation should review its approval of a drug used to prevent life-threatening bleeding in women in childbirth because there is not enough evidence that it is effective, a study published on Monday said. … Read More ›
Russia jailed three members of punk band Pussy Riot for criticising President Vladimir Putin: Britain: Sentencing is a ‘disproportionate response’
By Agence France-Presse Friday, August 17, 2012 16:12 EDT Britain added its voice to the international chorus of criticism of Russia on Friday after a court jailed three members of punk band Pussy Riot for criticising President Vladimir Putin Alistair… Read More ›
Why sex could be history – George Orwell maybe Right
From artificial wombs to men and women being able to reproduce entirely alone, Aarathi Prasad says science is rewriting the rules of sex and human reproduction. What would that mean for our ideas of family and parenthood Over tea at… Read More ›
Glaxo chief: Our drugs do not work on most patients
Request Reprint From 2003: By Steve Connor, Science Editor The Independent Monday 08 December 2003 A senior executive with Britain’s biggest drugs company has admitted that most prescription medicines do not work on most people who take them. Allen Roses,… Read More ›
London Mayor Boris Johnson admits paying cash ‘a lot’ after minister says families who settle bills cash-in-hand are as bad as tax avoiders
Tory minister David Gauke said he disapproves of the practice He said non-taxed house services such as plumbing, cleaning and gardening is ‘a large part of the hidden economy’ Labour MP John Mann, accused the Treasury of operating ‘double standards’… Read More ›
Anger after Bill Gates gives £6m to British lab to develop GM crops
Nina Lakhani Monday 16 July 2012 The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has given British scientists a multi-million pound grant to develop GM crops in what could be the most significant PR endorsement for the controversial technology. The John Innes… Read More ›
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