In a surprise U-turn, China’s Ministry of Agriculture has decided not to continue with a program which developed genetically-modified rice and corn. Some environmentalists say public concerns about GM crops played a key role in […]

‘In California, people with Alzheimer’s will be given transfusions of young blood to see if improves their cognition – there’s good reason to hope it might IT SOUNDS like the dark plot of a vampire […]

‘A Michigan State University professor is working on a fingerprint recognition method to track the vaccination schedules of infants and toddlers, which will boost immunization coverage and ultimately save the lives of children in developing […]

From a report on Yahoo!News: “Some 12,000 foreign jihadists from 50 countries, including Americans, have gone to fight in Syria since the conflict began, the US State Department said Thursday.  A US official, speaking on […]

From Yahoo! News: “The U.S. government has raised concerns about Israel’s arrest of a Palestinian teenager with American citizenship whose cousin was burned to death by Israeli extremists earlier this summer.  The State Department says […]

From an article in Yahoo! News: “Antarctica, the coldest place on Earth, teems with microscopic life. Tiny organisms dwell on the ice and live inside glaciers, and now, researchers confirm, a rich microbial ecosystem persists […]

From an article in The Irish Times: “THE WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange who has spent over two years inside Ecuador’s London embassy to avoid extradition to Sweden, plans to walk out a free man.  According […]

A great article by CityLab about the current code orange volcano in Iceland: “The millions of air travelers that were stranded for a week during the 2010 Eyjafjallajokull eruption should avoid booking any getaways now […]