Health & Science

• Saturday, January 30th 2010 - 14:19 UTC

  Chile hopes to host the world’s “Largest Eye In The Sky

  

  Chile is now competing with Spain for the right to host one of the most important astronomy projects the world has known: the extremely large E-ELT telescope.

• Thursday, January 28th 2010 - 05:52 UTC

  Santiago de Chile pollution has doubled in eight years

  

  A new study by Universidad de Santiago de Chile (USACH) shows fine particulate matter from construction and traffic has more than doubled in the Santiago metropolitan region over the past eight years.

• Wednesday, January 20th 2010 - 09:14 UTC

  Jessica sails past the Falklands greeted by an RAF Typhoon fighter

  

  The aerial visitors keep on coming for Australia’s Jessica Watson, who has now sailed past the Falkland Islands in her bid to become the youngest person to sail solo, non-stop and unassisted, around the world.

• Tuesday, January 19th 2010 - 10:52 UTC

  Mosquito “egg-traps” confirm Buenos Aires City is widely exposed to dengue

  

  Over half the surface of the Argentine capital Buenos Aires is exposed to the mosquito that carries and transmits dengue, according to research from the University of Buenos Aires published last Sunday.

• Friday, January 15th 2010 - 09:45 UTC

  One out of three US adults are obese and 17% of children age 2 to 19

  

  Obesity rates in the United States are still sky-high, but for the moment they appear to have stopped climbing higher, according to new data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

• Friday, January 15th 2010 - 09:40 UTC

  Haiti sits on two seismic fault lines and a major disaster was expected

  

  Seismologists have known for years that a devastating earthquake was likely to hit Haiti. They just did not know when. Although Tuesday’s devastation was wreaked by the most severe quake to hit Port-au-Prince since 1751, the island has been the victim of major seismic activity several times since.

• Friday, January 15th 2010 - 06:19 UTC

  South Korea confirms second outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease

  

  South Korean authorities confirmed Thursday the second outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) on a cattle farm close to where the first outbreak in eight years erupted a week ago.

• Friday, January 15th 2010 - 06:16 UTC

  Jobs of the future: space pilot, human body part maker or climate change averter

  

  Tomorrow's job hunters could be applying for the position of space pilot, human body part maker or climate change averter, according to a British government commissioned report.

• Wednesday, January 13th 2010 - 21:38 UTC

  Falkland Islands: Ocean Watch ‘Around the Americas’ scientists moor in Stanley

  

  AROUND the Americas yacht Ocean Watch moored in Stanley on Monday as part of its 24,000 nautical mile journey aimed at collecting data sets in a bid to raise global awareness of the oceans.

• Monday, January 11th 2010 - 13:17 UTC

  Vargas Llosa calls for the decriminalizing of drugs’ consumption

  

  Peruvian renowned writer Mario Vargas Llosa proposed “decriminalizing” consumption of drugs as a way to stop the narcotics trade, in a column published in Lima’s most influential daily El Comercio Sunday edition.