By Sharon Begley NEW YORK (Reuters) – After more than 15 years of failures by scientists around the world and one outright fraud, biologists have finally created human stem cells by the same technique that produced Dolly the cloned sheep in 1996: They transplanted genetic material from an adult cell into an egg whose own [...]
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Scientists create human stem cells through cloning
By admin on Friday, May 17th, 2013 | Comments Off
Scientists Agree On Climate Change, Why Doesn’t The Public?
By admin on Friday, May 17th, 2013 | Comments Off
A new study confirms that the vast majority of scientists who research the climate accept that the planet is warming and human beings are largely responsible. Yet a large slice of the American public believes that scientists are deeply split about global warming. Environment
Read More...The next generation of computer scientists
By admin on Tuesday, May 14th, 2013 | Comments Off
After graduating from UC-Berkeley in 2002 with a degree in electrical engineering and computer science, he turned down industry jobs to teach in the Bay Area. Science News
Read More...Scientists Use Radar to Locate Clandestine Graves
By admin on Monday, May 13th, 2013 | Comments Off
It's hard to convict someone of murder if their victim's body is never found. And it's hard to find a body once it's underground. Science News Headlines – Yahoo! News
Read More...Scientists ‘create new wheat type’
By admin on Sunday, May 12th, 2013 | Comments Off
The National Institute of Agricultural Botany has combined modern varieties with an ancient ancestor of wheat to produce a new strain, according to an episode of BBC1′s Countryfile to be aired on Sunday night. Science News
Read More...Wanted: Citizen Scientists to Hunt ‘Space Warp’ Galaxies
By admin on Sunday, May 12th, 2013 | Comments Off
Astronomers are calling for volunteers to help them search for "space warps," rare and distant galaxies that bend light around them like enormous lenses. Science News Headlines – Yahoo! News
Read More...UK scientists ‘develop superwheat’
By admin on Saturday, May 11th, 2013 | Comments Off
British scientists at a research centre in Cambridge say they have developed a new type of wheat which could increase productivity by 30%. BBC News – Science & Environment
Read More...Scientists identify dog-sized dinosaur that once roamed southern Alberta
By admin on Tuesday, May 7th, 2013 | Comments Off
A newly identified species of dome-headed dinosaur roughly the size of a large dog once roamed the plains of southern Alberta, a team of Canadian scientists announced Tuesday. Science News
Read More...Gamma ray burst shocks scientists
By admin on Monday, May 6th, 2013 | Comments Off
Meg Urry says the April 27 event was likely the collapse of a massive star into a black hole and will yield much for astronomers to analyze CNN.com – Top Stories
Read More...Scientists warn of Arctic Ocean’s rapid acidification
By admin on Monday, May 6th, 2013 | Comments Off
Scientists expressed alarm on Monday over the rapid acidification of the Arctic Ocean caused by carbon dioxide emissions, which could have dire consequences on the region's fragile ecosystem. Environment News Headlines – Yahoo! News UK
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