http://www.mail.com/int/subjects/88-science.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/int/subjects/88-science.html http://www.mail.com/int/news/europe/2107332-earthquake-hits-russias-east.html MOSCOW (AP) — A powerful earthquake on Friday hit Russia's Far East with tremors felt as far away as Moscow, about 7,000 kilometers (4,400 miles) west of the epicenter, but no casualties or damage were reported. Marina Kolomiyets, spokeswoman for Obninsk's seismic station of the Russian Academy of Sciences, told The Associated Press the epicenter was in t... Fri, 24 May 2013 16:35:59 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/europe/2107332-earthquake-hits-russias-east.html 2013-05-24T16:35:59Z http://www.mail.com/int/scitech/health/2105274-who-scientific-red-tape-mars-efforts-vs-virus.html GENEVA (AP) — International efforts to combat a new pneumonia-like virus that has now killed 22 people are being slowed by unclear rules and competition for the potentially profitable rights to disease samples, the head of the World Health Organization warned Thursday. Dr. Margaret Chan, in a blunt warning to the U.N. agency's annual global assembly, port... Thu, 23 May 2013 21:46:28 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/scitech/health/2105274-who-scientific-red-tape-mars-efforts-vs-virus.html 2013-05-23T21:46:28Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2102444-mais-non-french-universities-teach-english.html PARIS (AP) — In France, there's a brewing debate over whether to speak anglais in universite. The National Assembly on Wednesday was taking up an education reform bill that would allow public universities to hold some courses — like science or economics classes — in English, a plan that has alarmed language purists and the political far-right alike. ... Wed, 22 May 2013 15:32:41 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2102444-mais-non-french-universities-teach-english.html 2013-05-22T15:32:41Z http://www.mail.com/int/scitech/health/2097486-measles-surges-uk-years-flawed.html LONDON (AP) — More than a decade ago, British parents refused to give measles shots to at least a million children because of now discredited research that linked the vaccine to autism. Now, health officials are scrambling to catch up and stop a growing epidemic of the contagious disease. This year, the U.K. has had more than 1,200 cases of measles, after... Mon, 20 May 2013 14:35:54 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/scitech/health/2097486-measles-surges-uk-years-flawed.html 2013-05-20T14:35:54Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2096200-mice-return-month-space.html MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian capsule carrying mice, lizards and other small animals returned to Earth on Sunday after spending a month in space for what scientists said was the longest experiment of its kind. Fewer than half of the 53 mice and other rodents who blasted off on April 19 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome survived the flight, Russian news agencies repo... Sun, 19 May 2013 16:04:51 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2096200-mice-return-month-space.html 2013-05-19T16:04:51Z http://www.mail.com/int/scitech/news/2095934-honeybees-trained-croatia-to-find-land-mines.html ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Mirjana Filipovic is still haunted by the land mine blast that killed her boyfriend and blew off her left leg while on a fishing trip nearly a decade ago. It happened in a field that was supposedly de-mined. Now, unlikely heroes may be coming to the rescue to prevent similar tragedies: sugar-craving honeybees. Croatian researchers a... Sun, 19 May 2013 11:33:43 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/scitech/news/2095934-honeybees-trained-croatia-to-find-land-mines.html 2013-05-19T11:33:43Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/us/2091896-alaska-volcano-continues-to-erupt-with-lava-ash.html ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A remote Alaska volcano continues to erupt, spewing ash clouds and a lava fountain several hundred feet (more than 100 meters) into the air. The Alaska Volcano Observatory said Thursday a continuous cloud of ash, steam and gas from Pavlof Volcano has been seen 20,000 feet (6,090 meters) above sea level and moving to the southeast.... Thu, 16 May 2013 22:34:40 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/us/2091896-alaska-volcano-continues-to-erupt-with-lava-ash.html 2013-05-16T22:34:40Z http://www.mail.com/int/business/economy/2090864-nasa-pump-resolves-big-space-station-leak.html CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) — An impromptu spacewalk over the weekend seems to have fixed a big ammonia leak at the International Space Station, NASA said Thursday. The "gusher" erupted a week ago, prompting the hastiest repair job ever by residents of the orbiting lab. Spacewalking astronauts replaced a suspect ammonia pump on Saturday, just two days af... Thu, 16 May 2013 17:47:36 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/business/economy/2090864-nasa-pump-resolves-big-space-station-leak.html 2013-05-16T17:47:36Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2088026-space-final-frontier-viewing-movies.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The crew of the International Space Station is boldly going where no one has gone before — to see the new "Star Trek" film. The three astronauts were offered a sneak peak of "Star Trek Into Darkness" days before it opens Thursday on Earth, seeing it not in 3-D, but Zero-G. NASA spokesman Kelly Humphries said the movie was beamed up to th... Wed, 15 May 2013 18:16:38 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2088026-space-final-frontier-viewing-movies.html 2013-05-15T18:16:38Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/europe/2087430-cyprus-moon-rock-40-years.html NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus may finally get its piece of the moon. Some 40 years ago, the Mediterranean island nation was supposed to receive a 1.1 gram piece of moon rock from the United States. The rock was one of 270 such lunar samples U.S. astronauts brought back from Apollo moon missions in 1969 and 1972 that the Nixon administration gave as gifts ... Wed, 15 May 2013 16:57:13 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/europe/2087430-cyprus-moon-rock-40-years.html 2013-05-15T16:57:13Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2083894-angelina-jolies-double-mastectomy-qa.html Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie disclosed Tuesday that she had a preventive mastectomy after learning she had a gene mutation that significantly raised her risk of breast cancer. A look at the procedure: Q: What kind of surgery did Jolie have? A: Jolie had a preventive double mastectomy, meaning she chose to have both her breasts removed even though ... Tue, 14 May 2013 17:15:07 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2083894-angelina-jolies-double-mastectomy-qa.html 2013-05-14T17:15:07Z http://www.mail.com/int/scitech/health/2084476-turkish-womb-transplant-patient-loses-baby.html ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A hospital says a Turkish woman who was the first to get pregnant with a transplanted donor womb has had her pregnancy terminated. Derya Sert was born without a womb and had one transplanted in August 2011. The 22-year-old became pregnant after doctors placed an embryo into her womb, using one of her own eggs.  A statement from Akden... Tue, 14 May 2013 14:48:18 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/scitech/health/2084476-turkish-womb-transplant-patient-loses-baby.html 2013-05-14T14:48:18Z http://www.mail.com/int/business/economy/2083326-3-man-space-crew-returns-safely-to-earth.html MOSCOW (AP) — A Soyuz space capsule with a three-man crew returning from a five-month mission to the International Space Station landed safely Tuesday on the steppes of Kazakhstan. Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, American Thomas Marshburn and Russian Roman Romanenko landed as planned southeast of the town of Dzhezkazgan at 8:31 a.m. local time Tuesday ... Tue, 14 May 2013 08:32:15 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/business/economy/2083326-3-man-space-crew-returns-safely-to-earth.html 2013-05-14T08:32:15Z http://www.mail.com/int/business/economy/2082154-hospital-to-probe-east-german-medical-trials.html BERLIN (AP) — Berlin's renowned Charite hospital said Monday it plans to investigate allegations that patients in communist East Germany were used as unwitting guinea pigs in medical trials for Western drug companies. Claims that the dictatorship allowed tests that would have been considered unethical or even illegal in the West were first made shortly af... Mon, 13 May 2013 19:18:06 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/business/economy/2082154-hospital-to-probe-east-german-medical-trials.html 2013-05-13T19:18:06Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/music/2081356-astronaut-exits-space-station-with-music-video.html CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) — In a high-flying, perfectly pitched first, an astronaut on the International Space Station is bowing out of orbit with a musical video: his own custom version of David Bowie's "Space Oddity." It's believed to be the first music video made in space, according to NASA. Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield's personalized rendition... Mon, 13 May 2013 16:59:43 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/music/2081356-astronaut-exits-space-station-with-music-video.html 2013-05-13T16:59:43Z http://www.mail.com/int/scitech/news/2081700-uk-retailers-relax-rules-gm-poultry-feed.html LONDON (AP) — Three major British grocery chains have ended their bans on providing genetically modified feed to chickens. Sainsbury's, the Co-operative Group and Marks & Spencer cited short supplies of non-GM feed as the reason for the change. A Co-operative Group statement released Monday said it is no longer "feasible" to insist on non-GM feed. ... Mon, 13 May 2013 13:39:11 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/scitech/news/2081700-uk-retailers-relax-rules-gm-poultry-feed.html 2013-05-13T13:39:11Z http://www.mail.com/int/scitech/news/2081660-2-diseases-spark-global-outbreaks.html LONDON (AP) — Two respiratory viruses in different parts of the world have captured the attention of global health officials — a novel coronavirus in the Middle East and a new bird flu spreading in China. Last week, the coronavirus related to SARS spread to France, where one patient who probably caught the disease in Dubai infected his hospital roommate. ... Mon, 13 May 2013 13:36:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/scitech/news/2081660-2-diseases-spark-global-outbreaks.html 2013-05-13T13:36:00Z http://www.mail.com/int/scitech/news/2080748-project-to-track-megacities-carbon-footprints.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — Every time Los Angeles exhales, odd-looking gadgets in the mountains above the city trace the invisible puffs of carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases that waft skyward. Halfway around the globe, similar contraptions atop the Eiffel Tower and elsewhere around Paris keep watch on emissions from smokestacks and automobile tai... Mon, 13 May 2013 04:47:09 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/scitech/news/2080748-project-to-track-megacities-carbon-footprints.html 2013-05-13T04:47:09Z http://www.mail.com/int/scitech/news/2080814-project-aims-to-track-big-city-carbon-footprints.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — Every time Los Angeles exhales, odd-looking gadgets anchored in the mountains above the city trace the invisible puffs of carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases that waft skyward. Halfway around the globe, similar contraptions atop the Eiffel Tower and elsewhere around Paris keep a pulse on emissions from smokestacks and aut... Mon, 13 May 2013 00:02:29 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/scitech/news/2080814-project-aims-to-track-big-city-carbon-footprints.html 2013-05-13T00:02:29Z http://www.mail.com/int/business/economy/2077812-spacewalk-planned-to-space-station-leak.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Two astronauts will make a hastily planned spacewalk Saturday to try to fix an ammonia leak in the International Space Station's power system. Officials emphasized that the six-member crew is not in danger. The leak in a cooling system was discovered Thursday when "snowflakes" of ammonia were seen flying away from the station. Spacewalks... Sat, 11 May 2013 00:04:26 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/business/economy/2077812-spacewalk-planned-to-space-station-leak.html 2013-05-11T00:04:26Z http://www.mail.com/int/business/economy/2077918-icy-arctic-rising-economic-security-hot-spot.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The icy Arctic is emerging as a global economic hot spot — and one that is becoming a security concern for the U.S. as world powers jockey to tap its vast energy resources and stake out unclaimed territories. Diplomats from eight Arctic nations, including U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, will meet next week over how to protect the tha... Fri, 10 May 2013 22:46:06 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/business/economy/2077918-icy-arctic-rising-economic-security-hot-spot.html 2013-05-10T22:46:06Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2076232-london-zoo-seeks-female-mate-near-extinct-fish.html LONDON (AP) — The London Zoo is urgently seeking a female mate for the last-known males of a critically endangered fish species. Zoo officials say the Mangarahara cichlid is thought to be extinct in the wild and that two of the last known individuals — both male — are in the zoo's aquarium. A third is in the Berlin zoo. Officials say the species' habitat ... Fri, 10 May 2013 10:23:38 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2076232-london-zoo-seeks-female-mate-near-extinct-fish.html 2013-05-10T10:23:38Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2074170-uk-budget-airline-to-test-ash-cloud-detector.html LONDON (AP) — A U.K. budget airline will create an artificial volcanic ash cloud over Europe this summer to test ash detection technology. The experiment aims to avoid the kind of chaos that paralyzed air traffic during eruptions three years ago. Thursday's announcement was made by easyJet, which acquired a ton of ash collected in Iceland by scientists in... Thu, 09 May 2013 18:26:43 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2074170-uk-budget-airline-to-test-ash-cloud-detector.html 2013-05-09T18:26:43Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/uk/2070840-stephen-hawking-backs-boycott-israeli-academics.html LONDON (AP) — British physicist Stephen Hawking has dropped plans to attend a major international conference in Israel in June, citing his belief that he should respect a Palestinian call to boycott contacts with Israeli academics. The University of Cambridge released a statement Wednesday indicating that Hawking had told the Israelis last week that he wo... Wed, 08 May 2013 22:19:10 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/uk/2070840-stephen-hawking-backs-boycott-israeli-academics.html 2013-05-08T22:19:10Z http://www.mail.com/int/scitech/news/2069640-europeans-common-ancestors-1000-years-ago.html BERLIN (AP) — Europeans appear to be more closely related than previously thought. Scientists who compared DNA samples from people in different parts of the continent found that most had common ancestors living just 1,000 years ago. The results confirm decade-old mathematical models, but will nevertheless come as a surprise to Europeans accustomed to thin... Wed, 08 May 2013 00:28:59 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/scitech/news/2069640-europeans-common-ancestors-1000-years-ago.html 2013-05-08T00:28:59Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2061134-kazakh-man-linked-to-boston-suspect-normal-teen.html ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AP) — Former teachers of one of the students from Kazakhstan arrested in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings described him on Friday as an easygoing teenager who distinguished himself mainly by his failing grades in math and science. Dias Kadyrbayev was a university friend of bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. He and another 1... Fri, 03 May 2013 18:59:30 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2061134-kazakh-man-linked-to-boston-suspect-normal-teen.html 2013-05-03T18:59:30Z