Choppers and Cheese: Wisconsin state honors sought for Harley-Davidson, cheese microbe Choppers and cheese may soon become official Wisconsin symbols. Bills to honor ...
PHYCAL: POWER FROM POND SCUM Kevin Berner, the 52-year-old CEO and founder of Phycal, is betting that green lagoons of algae are the ...
Scientists model cat's brain with huge supercomputer, a step toward a better-reasoning machine Scientists say they've made a breakthrough in their pursuit of computers that "think" like a living thing's brain — an effort that tests the limits of technology. Even the ...
A Taiwanese group has entered the running for the 10-million-dollar Archon X Prize for Genomics competition, the biggest medical prize in history, organizers said Tuesday. A statement from the X Prize Foundation in California said Cracker, based in the Taiwanese city of ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iceland's Decode Genetics Inc, a pioneer in genetic research, has filed for bankruptcy protection, weighed down by debts after 13 years of failing to make a profit. Shares in the group plunged around 83 percent on Tuesday as the ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - When it comes to infants' risk of developing a flat spot on the head, environment appears more important than genes, a new study finds. The study, published in the journal Pediatrics, looked at more than 20,000 babies ...
* Alliance sees threat of epidemic of chronic disease * To invest tens of millions of dollars in research * Focus is on "implementation science" projects By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - An alliance of the world's top public health researchers set ...
HONG KONG (Reuters) - People of Japanese and European descent who have mutant versions of five genes may be at higher risk of developing Parkinson's disease, two large teams of researchers have found. The two independent studies, published in the latest issue ...
ENID, Oklahoma (Reuters) - To the untrained eye, Pollard Farms looks much like any other cattle ranch. Similar looking cows are huddled in similar looking pens. But some of the cattle here don't just resemble each other. They are literally identical -- ...
Graphic released by Australian paleontologist Adam Yates, based at the University of the Witwatersrand, on Wednesday Nov. 11, 2009 in Johannesburg, South Africa, shows a newly discovered dinosaur species that roamed the Earth about 200 million years ago which may help explain ...
Newly discovered dinosaur species dating back 200 million years found in South Africa A newly discovered dinosaur species that roamed the Earth about 200 million years ago may help explain how the creatures evolved into the largest animals on land, scientists in ...
Say what? Scientists find gene that may be crucial in why we have language and chimps don't Chimps, our nearest relative, don't talk. We do. Now scientists have pinpointed a mutation in a gene that might help explain the difference. The mutation ...
