Health & Science

Tuesday, October 23rd 2012 - 20:51 UTC
Australian icebreaker ‘Aurora Australis’ caught in packed Antarctic ice

The Australian icebreaker Aurora Australis is stuck in ice 80 nautical miles from the Antarctic coast. The vessel is heading to the frozen continent with 50 scientists from around the world to study the relationship between sea ice and marine life.
Monday, October 22nd 2012 - 23:37 UTC
Brazil purchases high-tech oceanographic research vessel

The Brazilian government announced on Monday that it will invest 162 million Reais (81 million dollars) in the purchase of a high-tech oceanography research vessel.
Thursday, October 18th 2012 - 18:14 UTC
Astronomers working from Chile discover Earth ‘clone’ in ‘our backyard’

Astronomers have found a new planet, the closest yet outside our solar system and just an astronomical stone's throw away at four light years, raising the chances of finding a habitable planet in Earth's neighbourhood.
Thursday, October 18th 2012 - 16:04 UTC
Protector catches stunning sonar imagery and bathymetric survey off St Helena

The Royal Navy Ice patrol HMS Protector heading for another Antarctic season previous visit to South Africa and Falkland Islands has produced stunning sonar imagery of the wreck of a wartime RFA tanker to help salvage experts study the state of it.
Thursday, October 18th 2012 - 01:32 UTC
US consumers increasingly demanding antibiotic-free meat and poultry

Pushing its ‘Meat Without Drugs’ campaign, the US Consumers Union recently delivered more than 500,000 signatures to Trader Joe’s in Manhattan, New York.
Tuesday, October 16th 2012 - 07:23 UTC
Fungal meningitis from contaminated steroid injections keeps expanding in the US

Fungal meningitis outbreak linked to contaminated steroid injections expanded in the United States to 15 states as Pennsylvania reported its first case of the disease that has killed 15 people nationwide.
Monday, October 15th 2012 - 22:06 UTC
NASA IceBridge on its fourth edition to study Antarctica’s polar ice changes

Scientists and flight crew members with Operation IceBridge, NASA's airborne mission to study Earth's changing polar ice have started another campaign over Antarctica. Now in its fourth year, IceBridge's return to the Antarctic comes almost a year after the discovery of a large rift in the continent's Pine Island Glacier.
Thursday, October 11th 2012 - 07:56 UTC
British team to drill sub-glacial Antarctic lake and define limits of life in the planet

After 16 years of planning the countdown is on for one of the most ambitious scientific missions to Antarctica. In October a 12-man team of British scientists, engineers and support staff will make the 16.000 km journey from the UK to go deep into the heart of the frozen continent to collect samples of water and sediments from an ancient lake buried beneath three kilometers of ice.
Thursday, October 11th 2012 - 04:04 UTC
Nobel in chemistry for advancing inner workings of G-protein-coupled receptors

Two US scientists won the 2012 Nobel Prize for chemistry for research into how cells respond to external stimuli that is helping to develop better drugs to fight diseases such as diabetes, cancer and depression.
Wednesday, October 10th 2012 - 08:40 UTC
US outbreak of fungal meningitis triggers debate on pharmaceutical compounding

A rare US outbreak of fungal meningitis linked to steroid injections has claimed four more lives with Florida the latest state to report at least one death linked to the illness in a widening health scare, authorities said on Tuesday.