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UN urges collective efforts to achieve water secure world on Day for Biological Diversity

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:17:08 -0400

22 May 2013 150 Unless greater efforts are made to reverse current trends, the world will run out of freshwater, the United Nations said today marking the International Day for Biological Diversity and urging stronger scientific alliances to understand and protect natural resources. "We live in an increasingly water insecure world where demand often outstrips supply and where water quality ...

Vitamin C kills drug-resistant TB bacteria

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:50:02 -0400

In a surprising discovery, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have determined that vitamin C kills drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) bacteria in laboratory culture. The finding suggests that vitamin C added to existing TB drugs could shorten TB therapy, and it highlights a new area for drug design. TB is caused by infection with the bacterium M. ...

Warp Drive and Star Trek Physics of Future Space Travel

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:52:29 -0400

. Another "Star Trek" film just hit the screen - featuring the venerable Starship Enterprise. To enable such fantastical star flight, we need faster-than-light (FTL) flight, control over inertial and gravitational forces, extreme energy prowess, and the societal discipline to harness that much power safely. Between the sensationalistic hype and pedantic disdain, how much progress is ...

Meteoroid impact triggers bright flash on the moon

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:31:34 -0400

Hundreds of meteoroid impacts on the moon, detected by NASA's lunar monitoring program, are pictured in this undated NASA handout photo. The brightest, detected on March 17, 2013, in Mare Imbrium, is marked by the red square. The explosion on March 17 was the biggest seen since NASA began watching the moon for meteoroid impacts about eight years ago. So far, more than 300 strikes have been ...

Gigya grows after space grab

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:58:17 -0400

Gigya just grabbed more space for growth. The company is adding 6,000 square feet to its existing home at 2513 East Charleston Road in Mountain View, pumping the company's space up to 18,500 square feet. Just nine months ago, the company was sitting in 5,500 square feet at 1973 Landings Drive in Mountain View. Gigya is a social infrastructure provider -- essentially, it helps businesses ...

UPDATE 1-U.S. House votes to force approval of Keystone pipeline

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:53:06 -0400

Wed May 22, 2013 7:53pm EDT By Ros Krasny WASHINGTON May 22 (Reuters) - The House of Representatives approved a bill as expected on Wednesday declaring that a presidential permit was not needed to approve the Canada-to-Nebraska leg of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, a move that would take a decision on the project away from the Obama administration. The Republican-controlled House voted 241-175 ...

Victim of savage face-eating attack still recovering

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:48:04 -0400

Miami cannibal may have been high on 'bath salts' The Miami man who nearly had his face chewed off in a gruesome attack last May has a message for the public: "Just generally thanks for contributing and helping out. People in my predicament need to be helped out," Ronald Poppo says in a video posted by Jackson Memorial Perdue Medical Center. Poppo, 65, has been in hospital ...

RCMP has toxic work environment Ex Mountie

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:48:02 -0400

RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson made an announcement concerning the RCMP at a press conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, June 20, 2012. (Chris Roussakis/QMI ...

Thief stole purse from dead woman Cops

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:48:01 -0400

Toronto Police released this image of a suspect wanted in connection with the theft of a purse from a dead woman at a subway station. TORONTO -- Toronto Police believe they know the identity of a female who stole a dead woman's purse at a subway station during Wednesday morning's rush-hour. Police investigating the theft at College Station have a suspect "identified but not ...

NASA investing in 3-D food printer for astronauts

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:46:37 -0400

View Photo Reuters/Reuters - Tourists take pictures of a NASA sign at the Kennedy Space Center visitors complex in Cape Canaveral, Florida April 14, 2010. REUTERS/Carlos ...

Carnivorous Plant Keeps House With Ants

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:45:28 -0400

Mutualistic relationships between insects and plants are nothing new: Some insects guard their plant hosts against herbivores, while others bring in nutrients that would otherwise be unavailable to the plant. The insects get a ready source of nectar and a place to live. ...

McCandless sixth-grader earns science accolades a family tradition

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:39:32 -0400

Lyta Nicoll, 11, a sixth-grader at Montessori Centre Academy, in Shaler Township, received second place in the Pittsburgh Regional Science and Engineering Fair for her project that studied the electromagnetic field waves of cell ...

Mulcair would appear at Charbonneau inquiry if asked

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:23:14 -0400

Mulcair aided Quebec corruption probe OTTAWA - NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair would be willing to appear before the Charbonneau Commission about his meeting with former Laval, Que., mayor Gilles Vaillancourt if he gets an invite. "I was very proud to be able to help police in that matter and I continue to help in any way I possibly can," he said Wednesday. Mulcair is under fire for taking ...

Tory MP concerned over weakened CBC transparency bill

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:23:14 -0400

CBC headquarters in downtown Toronto. (File photo) OTTAWA - A Tory backbencher is pushing back against what he claims are his own party's attempts to fiddle with his private member's bill on public service and CBC disclosure. On Wednesday, MP Brent Rathgeber told a House of Commons ethics committee studying his proposed legislation the government was trying to gut Bill C-461. "I ...

New blood-donation rules put damage control ahead of sound science

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:58:01 -0400

Video: Negative stigma still haunts HIV/AIDS patients Sublimely ridiculous would be more accurate.This decision is not going to increase blood donations and it's not going to make the blood system any safer (or less safe). So what's the point?It's not so much a step in the right direction as it is shuffling forward reluctantly for damage-control purposes. Nor is it a decision ...

After science bomb student wants back

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:43:55 -0400

LAKELAND, Fla. - Standing hand-in-hand with her twin sister, Kiera Wilmot took to the podium. "I made the mistake of performing my experiment outside of the classroom, however, that is the only mistake I believe I made," she said. Wilmot, 16, generated global attention after she was arrested on two felony charges for what her family calls "a science project gone wrong." ...

Dallas reportedly will shop pick save cap space

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:40:15 -0400

Could Dirk Nowitzki and Chris Paul be the next duo in the West? The Mavs will trade their 13th pick to make it happen. (Nathaniel S. Butler/Getty Images) The NBA Draft is still more than a month away and free agency doesn’t begin until July, but the Dallas Mavericks are wasting no time in the offseason to return to title contention next year with an aging leader in Dirk Nowitzki, who turns ...

NASA Unveils Space Apps Contest Champions

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:35:06 -0400

An interplanetary weather app, a spot-the-space-station tool, and a Mars greenhouse concept are among the winners of the 2013 International Space Apps Challenge. The contest solicited mobile apps and technologies that aid space exploration and enrich life here on Earth. Today (May 22), a panel of judges from NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and partners announced the winners of the ...

Massive Galactic Merger Scoped By Several Space Observatories | Time-Lapsed Simulation

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:35:05 -0400

The Herschel Space Observatory captured imagery of colliding galaxies, called HXMM01 (~ 11 billion light-years from Earth and when our universe was about 3 billion years old.) A merger of galaxies is ...

Mile End green space gets protected status

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:29:09 -0400

Montreal's Plateau-Mont-Royal borough is turning an abandoned rail yard into a new protected green space that will be managed by a citizens' group that for years had lobbied for the land to be kept green.The land -- about the size of two soccer fields -- is in the Mile End neighbourhood, south of the Canadian Pacific Railway tracks between Henri-Julien and de Gasp Aves.Dubbed the Champ ...

Atomic weights revision changes periodic table

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:22:09 -0400

A magnificent period piece from mid-19th-century Russia has just received a bit of a renovation. Five elements at the heart of the periodic table will never look the same again, following an update to their atomic ...

Stephen Harper says sorry for Senate scandal

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:14:57 -0400

NDP wants RCMP to probe Senate expense scandal LIMA, Peru - Prime Minister Stephen Harper apologized Wednesday and said he was in the dark when his chief of staff gave $90,000 to Sen. Mike Duffy - a gift opposition MPs want investigated by the RCMP and probed by Parliament. "I'm very sorry that this has occurred," Harper said from Lima where he was on a trade mission. ...

Pizza printout NASA funds effort to make space meals on 3-D printer

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:44:04 -0400

NASA won't be printing out pizzas on Mars anytime soon, but the space agency is paying out $125,000 to study the use of 3-D printing technology for food preparation in space."We will be building the components for a prototype" over the grant's six-month period, David Irwin, principal investigator for the project at ...

Jodi Arias death penalty jury in deadlock

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:30:20 -0400

Jodi Arias looks at her family during the penalty phase of her murder trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Arizona May 20, 2013. REUTERS/Rob Schumacher/Arizona ...

Cottage where killer ex-colonel Russell Williams murdered woman is sold

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:30:16 -0400

Canadian network nixes Russell Williams movie BELLEVILLE, Ont. -- A Tweed, Ont., couple who live next door to the house convicted sex killer Russell Williams once called home -- and where he murdered one of his victims -- have bought the small bungalow. The land deal, selling the property for $165,000 to Ron and Monique Murdoch, was finalized Tuesday. The deal was made through lawyers with ...

All the Buzz About the 2013 Geographic Bee

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:27:40 -0400

After many grueling rounds that tested geographic knowledge of lions in Botswana, mountain ranges in Asia, and port cities in England, 12-year-old Sathwik Karnik from Norfolk, Massachusetts, was named the winner of the 25th ...

Tornadoes and Global Warming Is There a Connection

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:27:40 -0400

Linking any particular weather event to climate change is always tricky, because weather is inherently random. But weather patterns can speak to a warming planet. Scientists can detect that extreme rain events, for instance, are already happening more often than they used to, and that a warmer atmosphere with more water vapor in it is making such events more ...

Colliding galaxies create missing link mega-galaxy

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:12:05 -0400

Two colliding galaxies have formed a fragile mega-galaxy, a short-lived phenomenon U.S. astronomers are calling a cosmic "missing link." Two young galaxies that collided 11 billion years ago rapidly formed a massive galaxy about 10 times the size of the Milky Way, University of California, Irvine, postdoctoral researcher Hai Fu says. Capturing images of the creation of this type of ...

Injured snapping turtle airlifted to turtle hospital

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:04:53 -0400

Kate Siena handles Porter, an injured male snapping turtle, at the Kawartha Turtle Trauma Centre Tuesday. Porter and another injured female turtle were flown to the Peterborough trauma centre this past weekend. FILE PHOTO / THE OBSERVER Who says turtles can’t fly? Not a group of volunteers who went the distance to help a 13 lb. snapping turtle this weekend. When a driver found Porter the ...

Science and Technology Should Contribute More to Reducing Disaster Risk Say Experts

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:40:16 -0400

GENEVA, 22 May (United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction) ‑ Experts in disaster risk reduction today urged that science and technology be applied more effectively to disaster management policy and ...

Ancient Lunar Patterns | Space Wallpaper

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:37:31 -0400

This space wallpaper shows the ray pattern of dust that was ejected from the crater over a billion years ago, when an asteroid larger than a mile (1.6 km) across slammed into the ...

The Mad Science of the National Debt

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:36:30 -0400

W elcome back to the dumb season. It's debt-ceiling time again. We've been at this two years now. It was back in 2011 when the Republican Party, seized by anti-government furor, first locked on the lifting of the federal debt ceiling – an utterly routine governmental mechanism that allows the Treasury to borrow to pay for spending already approved by the entire Congress, ...

Humans Leave Significant Carbon Footprint With Running Shoes

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:36:21 -0400

While it is nearly impossible for a running shoe not to leave a footprint, new research suggests that a typical pair of running shoes could leave behind a ...

Cal State Could Offer Online Science Labs

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:30:30 -0400

California State University is moving aggressively to offer web-based science labs, a systemwide virtual campus and online advising as remedies for "bottlenecks" that impede student progress and graduation rates, officials said Tuesday. Some of these efforts will be ready to roll out this fall. The detailed strategies were presented in a meeting of the Cal State Board of Trustees ...

Letters Engineering can be as inspiring as space

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:29:57 -0400

To boldly go , G2, 21 May) has the potential to inspire young people and boost our economy. Space travel captures the imagination of budding young inventors and engineers - it is the stuff of childhood dreams. But there are other British industries at the forefront of technology that can inspire and propel young people towards careers in engineering and science. Without changing the way we teach, ...

Anthony Scott Science funding can help us reach for the stars

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:20:00 -0400

"By the end of this decade, we will land a man on the moon and return him safely to earth. " President John F Kennedy's challenge to his country in 1961 still thrills with its ambition and imagination. New Zealand's National Science Challenges do not have the same Kennedy-esque ring, but are as ambitious for New Zealand. Those who see the 10 as "business as usual" overlook the commitment and ...

Oklahoma tornado victims astounded at how they survived

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:14:21 -0400

1 of 21. An American flag flutters in the wind amid the debris of a neighbourhood destroyed by a tornado, near the Plaza Towers elementary school in Moore, Oklahoma May 22, ...

Man hacked to death in London street in suspected militant attack

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:10:17 -0400

1 of 2. Police officers guard a cordon set up around a crime scene where one man was killed was killed in Woolwich, southeast London May 22, ...

Suicidal behaviour is a disease psychiatrists argue

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:01:54 -0400

climb steeply in the US a growing number of psychiatrists are arguing that suicidal behaviour should be considered as a disease in its own right, rather than as a behaviour resulting from a mood ...

Kiwis booked on worlds first commercial space flight

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:32:30 -0400

A number of Kiwis have already stumped up a total of more than $1.8 million to book a place on the world's first commercial space flight. Virgin Galactic hopes to be taking commercial flights outside of the earth's atmosphere by 2014. Eight New Zealanders have signed up with House of Travel already. Expert agent Stephen Parsons has visited the operating port of the ...

Braggs Pie Factory Transforms Its Gallery Space and Brings Back the Pie

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:24:40 -0400

At long last, there's pie again at Bragg's Pie Factory. A new vegan cafe has opened in the very spot out of which the Bragg family originally sold cakes and pies in the '40s and ...

Topless protest at church after historians suicide

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:07:22 -0400

Topless protest at church A Femen activist protested in Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral on Wednesday, one day after far-right historian Dominique Venner committed suicide inside. Venner shot himself at the altar in front of around 1,500 visitors. Venner condemned both same-sex marriage and Islamist influence in France in writings before his death. The now infamous topless protesters released ...

Harper denies prior knowledge of chief of staffs cheque for Sen. Mike Duffy

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:07:19 -0400

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper (L) shakes hands with Peru's President Ollanta Humala upon his arrival to the government palace in Lima May 22, 2013. Prime Minister Harper is on a one day official visit to Peru. REUTERS/Mariana ...

Vancouver guitar maker ramps up after space station video

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:07:18 -0400

For Larrive Guitars, the publicity was quite literally out of this world, and the dollar value from it continues to add up.Images of Canadian astronaut Commander Chris Hadfield playing its Vancouver-made Parlor guitar sparked enough interest for the company to put the model back into production for a limited edition. The company has $100,000 in orders already for the commemorative model, which ...

Lessons From Joplin’s Tornado Recovery Effort

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:04:55 -0400

The Monday tornado that leveled a 20-mile stretch south of Oklahoma City, with winds exceeding 200 miles per hour, brings back harrowing memories of the deadly tornado that ripped apart Joplin, Missouri, exactly two years ago ...

Some 100 Species of Fungus Live on Our Feet

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:04:54 -0400

There's a fungus among us --a hundred different species in fact--and nearly all take up residence on our feet, according to a study that appears in the ...

Wired Space Photo of the Day Fiery Ribbons in Orion

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:02:50 -0400

In today's business world, disruption is a constant force that never lets up. At the annual WIRED Business Conference: Disruptive by Design, we celebrate the creative power of bold new ideas and the people that make them happen. See the event ...

Swarm of drones to give early warning of flash floods

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:01:02 -0400

Existing forecasting models are good at predicting roughly when an area might experience the right mix of conditions to create a flash flood, but they can't say precisely when or where a flood will strike. Christian Claudel at ...

Merger of ancient galaxies could explain the origin of today’s giants

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:54:03 -0400

The elliptical galaxy NGC 4150. Observation of a merger between two galaxies early in the life of the Universe could explain the origin of large elliptical ...

Russia’s New Reusable Spacecraft Good for up to 5 Flights

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:53:39 -0400

TOMSK, May 22 (RIA Novosti) – Russia’s new reusable spacecraft that is being developed by the Energia Rocket and Space Corporation will be able to make up to five space flights, the rocket maker said on Wednesday. The spacecraft’s technical design has been finalized but is yet to be officially approved, Energia deputy general designer Alexander Chernyavsky said on the sidelines ...

Earths tides are shoving the moon away faster

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:49:50 -0400

EARTH is shoving the moon away faster now than it has done for most of the past 50 million years, says a new model for the way tides influence the lunar orbit. The result helps solve a mystery concerning the moon's age that has long vexed ...

String theory may limit space brain threat

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:49:49 -0400

LEGIONS of disembodied brains floating in deep space threaten to undermine our understanding of the universe. New mathematical modelling suggests string theory and its multiple universes may just provide our salvation - and that could win the controversial theory a few more ...

Thousands take to streets for Quebec daycare strike

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:42:45 -0400

Owners and teachers of the Association of Private daycares in Quebec (AGPQ), on strike Wednesday, May 22, 2013 in Montreal, Que. (MAXIME DELAND / QMI AGENCY) MONTREAL - Thousands of private daycare owners and workers flouted possible sanctions Wednesday and held a massive rally to protest provincial budget cuts. About 10,000 demonstrators gathered at a downtown park and marched through the ...

Toronto Coun. Doug Ford says brother Mayor Rob Fords alleged crack smoking untrue

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:42:40 -0400

Councillor Doug Ford addresses crack cocaine video allegations against his brother at Toronto City Hall Wednesday, May 22, 2013. (VERONICA HENRI/QMI ...

Study Allosaurus Ate Less Like A Crocodile More Like A Falcon