Health & Science

Tuesday, March 23rd 2010 - 03:39 UTC
Unsafe water kills more people than war, Ban says on World Day

More people die from unsafe water than from all forms of violence, including war, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Monday, calling for better protection and sustainable management of one of the Earth’s most precious resources on the occasion of World Water Day.
Tuesday, March 23rd 2010 - 03:13 UTC
Drug abuse among teenagers in several South American countries

The Organization of American States (OAS), through its Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD), and the United Nations (UN), through its Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), presented in Vienna the latest joint study on drug consumption among student populations in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Peru and Uruguay.
Monday, March 22nd 2010 - 21:01 UTC
Pepsi promises to help with campaign to fight childhood obesity

The world's second-largest food and beverage company says it will reduce the saturated fat, sodium, and sugar in its products to make them more nutritious.
Monday, March 22nd 2010 - 11:18 UTC
US Congress passes Barack Obama's historic health care reform bill

Barack Obama has convinced Democrats in the US Congress to pass his historic health care reform bill, handing the president a victory that will give nearly every American the right to health coverage and could define his time in office.
Friday, March 19th 2010 - 00:07 UTC
Inventor of the Web says WWW is a fundamental right for a democracy

The World Wide Web is becoming as important to the future of mankind as free speech, the inventor of the Web Sir Tim Berners-Lee has said. Because the network is neutral and access to data open, the Web is becoming a vital tool to ensure open government, and as such it should be considered a right.
Wednesday, March 17th 2010 - 22:52 UTC
Astronomers detect outer solar system planet with “moderate” temperatures

European astronomers have found a planet outside our solar system with a relatively moderate temperature, far cooler than other “exoplanets” discovered to date. The planet Corot-9b has an estimated surface temperature between 160 C and -20 C. It has about 80% of the mass of Jupiter and its orbit is similar to that of Mercury.
Wednesday, March 17th 2010 - 22:30 UTC
Facebook beats Google as the most visited website in the US

Facebook has beaten Google to become the most visited website in the US for the first time. The social networking website knocked the search engine off the top spot for the week ending March 13, according to industry analysts Experian Hitwise.
Wednesday, March 17th 2010 - 00:50 UTC
“Shrimp surprise” for NASA 200 metres below Antarctica ice

At nearly 200 meters below the ice, there is no light, the temperature is way below zero degrees, and scientists were expecting to find nothing more than a handful of microbes - and for good reason. So it’s easy to understand why they were so surprised to find not a single (evolved) life form, but actually two such creatures.
Monday, March 15th 2010 - 21:49 UTC
Canada suffers 17th case of mad cow and is categorized as “controlled risk”

The president of Canada Beef Export Federation says the country's 17th case of mad cow disease has not affected markets. The beef cow was born in 2004 in Alberta, and the fatal degenerative brain disease was confirmed on Feb. 25, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency reported on its website.
Monday, March 15th 2010 - 19:58 UTC
Internet celebrates 25th anniversary of dotcom domain name

It was not until the late 1990s that it really took off but today the internet celebrates the 25th birthday of the dotcom domain name. On 15 March 1985, the first company to add dotcom to its name was a computer maker named Symbolics.