Health & Science

• Tuesday, May 10th 2011 - 09:37 UTC

  Conservationists claim seafood labelling ‘fails’ to support sustainable fishing

  

  The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) has accused UK supermarkets of failing to label seafood in a way that makes it easy for consumers to select sustainable sourced fish. The allegation came as the MCS published the Good Fish guide, which is being hailed as the most comprehensive sustainable seafood advice released to date.

• Tuesday, May 10th 2011 - 09:34 UTC

  Mass culling of farm animals when outbreak of FMD ‘unnecessary’ say scientists

  

  The mass cull of farm animals to control the spread of foot-and-mouth disease, FMD, may be unnecessary if there is a new outbreak, scientists suggest. A new analysis of disease transmission suggests that future outbreaks might be controlled by early detection and killing only affected animals.

• Friday, May 6th 2011 - 17:21 UTC

  US payrolls expanded in April, but jobless rate climbed to 9%

  United States employers in April added more jobs than forecast. Payrolls expanded by 244,000 last month, the biggest gain since May 2010, after a revised 221,000 increase the prior month, the Labour Department said Friday in Washington.

• Friday, May 6th 2011 - 02:42 UTC

  First body recovered from Air France wreckage in seabed four kilometres deep

  

  An undersea recovery team has retrieved a first body from the wreck of an Air France jet that crashed into the Atlantic in 2009 with the loss of all 228 on board, French police said on Thursday.

• Friday, May 6th 2011 - 01:40 UTC

  Indian lab opens facility in Argentina to act as global hub for cancer drugs

  

  India’s Glenmark Pharmaceuticals on Thursday said it has opened its new facility in Argentina which would serve as a global hub for cancer treatment drugs.

• Thursday, May 5th 2011 - 10:53 UTC

  Scientists plan to recreate Darwin’s five year voyage on HMS Beagle replica

  

  An international group of scientists plan to recreate Charles Darwin’s five-year sea voyage around the world aboard a replica of the HMS Beagle. They plan to set sail from London in 2014.

• Thursday, May 5th 2011 - 10:27 UTC

  Sixty years later NASA Gravity Probe B confirms predictions by Albert Einstein

  

  Nasa's Gravity Probe B has produced remarkable new confirmation of some key predictions by Albert Einstein. The satellite's observations show the massive body of the Earth is very subtly warping space and time, and even pulling them around with it.

• Wednesday, May 4th 2011 - 22:49 UTC

  Radioactive contamination found in Japanese cars ready to unload in Chile

  

  Last Sunday Chile’s customs agency in the northern Iquique port detained a cargo ship carrying 2,500 Hyundai cars after at least 21 of the cars were found with traces of radioactive contamination.

• Friday, April 29th 2011 - 05:10 UTC

  French Navy state of the art space tracking floating lab calls in Montevideo

  

  A French navy vessel equipped with state of the art systems for tracking missile launchings and other space objects called in Montevideo as part of its tour of the South Atlantic.

• Wednesday, April 20th 2011 - 01:15 UTC

  Phillips diversifies and cedes control of its 80 year old television unit

  

  Royal Philips Electronics from the Netherlands will cede control of its 80-year-old television unit to an Asian contract manufacturer, joining European conglomerates including Siemens AG scaling back consumer electronics as prices decline.