Outsider works to widen access to bird-flu data

Outsider works to widen access to bird-flu data
By Nicholas Zamiska
The Wall Street Journal Europe
31 Aug 2006

HONG KONG—While scientists around the globe have been racing to unravel the mysteries behind a deadly avian-influenza virus that could potentially threaten the world’s population, Peter Bogner was organizing a sailboat race in the Mediterranean. In the... read more...

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Gas clouds in outer space may indicate dark matter

Gas clouds in outer space may indicate dark matter
BY SCOTT MALONE
Vancouver Sun
23 Aug 2006

BOSTON — A team of U. S. scientists has found the first direct evidence of the existence of “ dark matter,” a little- understood substance with a huge influence on gravity, the team’s leader said on Tuesday. Scientists still do not know what exactly... read more...

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Pluto survives as solar system acquires three more planets

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Pluto survives as solar system acquires three more planets
Alok Jha Science correspondent
The Guardian
16 Aug 2006

Science textbooks will have to be ripped up; the solar system is about to get a bunch of new planets. Astronomers want to redefine our home in the Milky Way as a place with 12 — rather than nine — planets orbiting the sun. The proposal comes from a... read more...

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When is a planet not a planet? Judgment day looms for Pluto

When is a planet not a planet? Judgment day looms for Pluto
Ian Sample Science correspondent
The Guardian
14 Aug 2006

Nearly 400 years after Galileo first peered at the heavens through a rudimentary telescope, the world’s top astronomers have called an urgent meeting to decide once and for all the meaning of the word “planet”. The answer, which will be mulled over by... read more...

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Surgical instruments could spread vCJD, researchers warn

Surgical instruments could spread vCJD, researchers warn
Ian Sample Science correspondent
The Guardian
02 Aug 2006

Surgical instruments should be tracked to reveal how often they are used in different operations, according to scientists who say the information is crucial to predict the risk of future outbreaks of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the human form of... read more...

Nuclear panel suggests contest for waste burial

Nuclear panel suggests contest for waste burial
Ian Sample Science correspondent
The Guardian
01 Aug 2006

The burial site for Britain’s stockpile of nuclear waste should be decided by a country-wide contest in which regions bid to become home to the hole, a government advisory panel said yesterday. In return for housing the underground repository, which... read more...