Health & Science

• Wednesday, February 1st 2012 - 00:01 UTC

  System of rivers beneath Antarctica’s frozen surface found by Brazil/Chile team

  

  A team of Brazilian and Chilean scientists set out to investigate the effects of global climate change deep in the Antarctic continent say they have discovered a surprising system of rivers beneath the frozen surface.

• Monday, January 30th 2012 - 22:24 UTC

  Study on dietary habits (what and where) of Atlantic sharks

  

  A team of scientists of Chelonia Association and the University of Marseille (France) chose the port of Vigo to initiate a study on dietary habits and intake areas of Atlantic sharks.

• Saturday, January 28th 2012 - 10:02 UTC

  Mexico inaugurates Latam’s second supercomputer by size and speed

  

  Mexican scientists inaugurated Latin America's No. 2 supercomputer by size and speed, with the ability to process 24.9 trillion operations per second, authorities said.

• Wednesday, January 25th 2012 - 07:32 UTC

  Most Cuban trained doctors fail basic test to practice medicine in Chile

  

  Almost 80% of Chilean doctors with overseas degrees failed in 2011 the mandatory National medical knowledge Test, Eunacom, demanded to practice medicine in the country or have work opportunities at the government national health scheme.

• Monday, January 23rd 2012 - 15:03 UTC

  British explorer becomes first woman to cross the Antarctic continent

  

  British explorer Felicity Aston has reached Antarctica's Hercules Inlet, becoming the first woman to cross the continent alone. “Congratulations to the 1st female to traverse Antarctica SOLO.V proud,” her UK support team tweeted late on Sunday.

• Tuesday, January 17th 2012 - 06:35 UTC

  Australian experts link carbon dioxide emissions effects on fish brain and nervous system

  

  Rising human carbon dioxide emissions may be affecting the brains and central nervous systems of sea fish, with serious consequences for their survival, according to Australian research.

• Monday, January 16th 2012 - 02:37 UTC

  Pieces of failed Russian Mars probe plunged into mid Pacific

  

  Pieces of a failed Russian Mars probe plummeted into the Pacific Ocean far off the Chilean coast on Sunday, Russian news agencies cited a military official as saying.

• Saturday, January 14th 2012 - 06:01 UTC

  Link between eating processed meat and pancreatic cancer in Swedish research

  

  A link between eating processed meat, such as bacon or sausages, and pancreatic cancer has been suggested by researchers in Sweden. They said eating an extra 50g of processed meat, approximately one sausage, every day would increase a person's risk by 19%.

• Friday, January 13th 2012 - 22:37 UTC

  Brazil's orange juice threatened by the discovery of the fungicide carbendazim

  

  Orange-juice futures rebounded from the biggest two-day slump since 2008 on renewed concern that a US government probe of imports from Brazil will tighten supplies. The Food and Drug Administration said it will detain all imports that contain carbendazim, a fungicide that isn’t approved for oranges in the US.

• Thursday, January 12th 2012 - 21:48 UTC

  ICANN opens registry for new generic top-level domains; application fee 185.000 dollars

  

  Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has begun accepting applications for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). Currently, there are 22 top-level domain endings, such as .com, .info and .org.