Health & Science

• Monday, September 5th 2011 - 01:16 UTC

  Brazilian university students fined for promoting a “rodeo of fat girls”

  

  Two Brazilian university students who organized a “rodeo of fat ladies” in the social network under the name of Orkut will have to donate 20 minimum salaries (approximately 6.650 dollars) to organizations that combat chemical dependencies and gender violence.

• Wednesday, August 31st 2011 - 19:49 UTC

  US doctors performed STD experiments with Guatemala patients killing at least 83

  

  Medical experiments performed by United States doctors deliberately infected more than 1,000 Guatemalans vulnerable patients with syphilis and gonorrhoea in the late 1940s, killing 83 of them, a US presidential panel said this week.

• Wednesday, August 31st 2011 - 00:40 UTC

  FAO urges readiness against possible major resurgence of H5N1 avian influenza

  

  FAO urged heightened readiness and surveillance against a possible major resurgence of the H5N1 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza amid signs that a mutant strain of the deadly Bird Flu virus is spreading in Asia and beyond, with unpredictable risks to human health.

• Friday, August 26th 2011 - 13:01 UTC

  Lager beer yeast arrived in Europe from Patagonia 500 years ago

  

  The mystery behind the birth of lager beer has been solved. Scientists have successfully traced the origin of the popular alcoholic beverage to a type of yeast, believed to have travelled 11,000 kilometres from Patagonia, (Argentina) to Bavaria 500 years ago.

• Thursday, August 25th 2011 - 06:26 UTC

  Australian entomologists find cheap way of neutralizing dengue virus mosquitoes

  

  By infecting mosquitoes with bacteria from flies that commonly live in kitchen fruit bowls, researchers have stopped the insects spreading the dengue virus.

• Thursday, August 25th 2011 - 06:01 UTC

  World’s largest camera to survey 300 galaxies from an observatory in north Chile

  

  “The camera that we built is really very similar to the digital cameras you can buy at Walmart or wherever” Brenna Flaughter told US National Public Radio. “But this camera is big — its guts fill a shiny cylinder that's about the size of a car engine”.

• Friday, August 19th 2011 - 09:59 UTC

  First complete map of Antarctica ice flow speed and direction

  

  The first complete map of the speed and direction of ice flow in Antarctica will help scientists to track future sea-level increases, according to the team behind the project.

• Wednesday, August 17th 2011 - 07:22 UTC

  Conference to upgrade international movement of horses in South America

  

  The FEI (International Equestrian Federation) and the World Animal Health Organization (OIE) will jointly host a conference in Guadalajara, Mexico on 24 October focusing on modernizing international movement of horses in South America.

• Wednesday, August 17th 2011 - 07:14 UTC

  African swine fever outbreak in southern Russia: 12.000 pigs to be culled

  

  A state of emergency has been imposed in a district in the Krasnodar Region in south Russia amid a major out-break of the African swine fever, the regional emergencies centre announced Sunday.

• Tuesday, July 26th 2011 - 19:13 UTC

  Brazil second scientific station in Antarctica, 500 km from the South Pole

  

  Brazil is planning to set up its second scientific station in Antarctica and its first fully automatic data collecting module close to the Southern pole, revealed Jefferson Simoes coordinator of the country’s National Science and Technology Institute.