Health & Science

• Friday, October 29th 2010 - 04:04 UTC

  With “Milky Way” China claims top of the list of world supercomputers

  

  China has claimed the top spot on the list of the world's supercomputers. The title has gone to China's Tianhe-1A supercomputer that is capable of carrying out more than 2.5 thousand trillion calculations a second.

• Tuesday, October 26th 2010 - 02:30 UTC

  Unasur begins shipping medicines and aid to fight outbreak of cholera in Haiti

  

  The Union of South American nations, Unasur agreed to ship to Haiti medicines, drinking water and other needed aid to help combat the outbreak of cholera in the Caribbean island.

• Monday, October 25th 2010 - 03:18 UTC

  Haiti: A devastated country in the time of cholera

  

  With few signs of recovery nine months after Haiti’s earthquake, the country’s government and its main foreign-aid donors were forced to tout a rather underwhelming achievement—the absence of water-borne diseases like typhoid, diphtheria and cholera—as evidence of progress.

• Saturday, October 23rd 2010 - 03:03 UTC

  Radar system in the Falklands to monitor the “Southern Lights”

  

  Physicists and engineers at the University of Leicester and the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have installed a radar system on the Falkland Islands to monitor the upper atmosphere activity which creates the ‘Southern Lights’.

• Saturday, October 9th 2010 - 00:32 UTC

  Tuesday, should be Rescue Day for the 33 Chilean trapped miners

  

  Chilean rescue teams hope to start evacuating next Tuesday the 33 miners who have been trapped 700 metres underground for two months in a survival story that has gripped the world.

• Wednesday, October 6th 2010 - 22:51 UTC

  Strong controversy in US over possible approval of genetically modified salmon

  

  The possible approval of genetically modified salmon has led to vigorous dispute in the USA. The recommendation by experts that that further testing should be conducted for the time being was the conclusion of a hearing arranged by the American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and echoed broadly in the media. The salmon would have been the first genetically modified animal approved for human consumption.

• Wednesday, October 6th 2010 - 19:15 UTC

  Japan requests OIE free of FMD status; Korea de-listed resumes pork exports

  

  Japan formally requested the World Organization for Animal health, OIE, to declare the country free of foot and mouth disease do it can resume beef exports. Japan suffered an outbreak of FMD which forced the termination of 289.000 livestock.

• Tuesday, October 5th 2010 - 21:50 UTC

  Catholic Church insists in questioning Nobel Prize to in vitro fertilization

  

  International Federation of Catholic Medical Associations has declared its disagreement with Prof. Robert Edwards being awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine for his work in developing in vitro fertilization. The problems of infertility, the group said in an official statement, must be solved within an ethical framework which respects the dignity of the embryo as a human being.

• Friday, October 1st 2010 - 05:12 UTC

  Fossil of giant penguin, double the size of an Emperor, found in Peru

  

  The fossil of a giant penguin that lived 36 million years ago has been discovered in Peru. Scientists say the find shows that key features of the plumage were present quite early on in penguin evolution.

• Thursday, September 30th 2010 - 02:14 UTC

  Milky Way neighbours? US astronomers discover potentially habitable Earth-size planet

  

  United States astronomers have found a new, potentially habitable Earth-sized planet. It is one of two new planets discovered around the star Gliese 581, some 20 light years away, report the Carnegie Institution and the Santa Cruz, University of California.