Health & Science

• Wednesday, September 8th 2010 - 01:53 UTC

  Paraguay vaccinating against FMD; fears about Bolivia’s cattle sanitary condition

  

  Paraguay has already vaccinated 74% of its cattle heard against foot and mouth disease FMD, which is considered very positive, but there are lingering doubts about the sanitary situation in Bolivia that remains a threat for Mercosur, the world’s leading exporter of beef.

• Friday, September 3rd 2010 - 05:03 UTC

  Sweet busting: eleven indicted for biggest food smuggling case in US history.

  

  US authorities have indicted 11 German and Chinese executives for conspiring to illegally import 40 million US dollars of honey from China. The executives were accused of being part of an operation which mislabelled honey and tainted it with antibiotics in an attempt to avoid import duties.

• Thursday, September 2nd 2010 - 06:31 UTC

  Tiny marine animals reveal a possible ancient sea passage in Antarctica

  

  Scientists have found evidence for an ancient sea passage linking currently isolated areas of Antarctica. The evidence comes from a study of tiny marine animals living either side of the 2km thick Western Antarctic ice sheet.

• Monday, August 30th 2010 - 06:59 UTC

  UK scientists decode wheat genome; vital to help feed growing population

  

  British scientists have released draft sequences of the wheat genome, which they think could make a vital contribution to securing global food supplies. The researchers say their efforts could help British farmers to develop new strains with greater yields.

• Friday, August 27th 2010 - 07:59 UTC

  European Southern Observatory In Chile Discovers New Solar System

  

  Some 127 light years away in the constellation of Hydrus, a new solar system has been discovered by a team of astronomers at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) on Cerro La Silla in Chile’s Coquimbo Region (IV).

• Thursday, August 26th 2010 - 02:21 UTC

  Chile asks NASA for technology and rations to keep trapped miners healthy

  

  Chile has appealed to the US space agency NASA for help in keeping 33 trapped miners alive during a rescue attempt which could take four months. Health officials compared the cramped conditions the men are in to those astronauts experience during long stints on the International Space Station.

• Wednesday, August 25th 2010 - 04:18 UTC

  Violence in some Latin American countries is an “epidemic” says OAS

  

  Organization of American States (OAS) chief José Miguel Insulza, said that the violence in some Latin American countries with high homicide rates can be compared to an “epidemic.”

• Monday, August 23rd 2010 - 03:41 UTC

  Chile celebrates contact with trapped miners; rescue “will take months”

  

  Thirty-three miners who have been trapped underground in a northern Chile mine for the past 17 days are all alive, President Sebastian Piñera announced Sunday. Rescuers heard hammering noises when they sent a new probe into the mine.

• Wednesday, August 18th 2010 - 03:47 UTC

  Harvard consolidates as top US academic research institution

  

  Harvard University took sole possession of first place in U.S. News & World Report’s 2011 rankings of top United States academic research institutions. Princeton University, which tied with Harvard for the lead last year, fell to second place.

• Monday, August 16th 2010 - 05:05 UTC

  Argentina developing satellite launcher; ready by 2013 in Puerto Belgarno

  

  Argentina is in the process of developing a satellite launcher which could become operational in three years time, making it the sixth country in the world with that capacity, according to a Sunday edition report in La Nacion.