SCIENCE: Watch Those ‘Beasts’ Beneath Your Feet

Tread respectfully on those little beasts beneath your feet. Tomorrow they might save you.

TECHNOLOGY-VENEZUELA: Low-cost Inventions Show Practical Potential

A robotic arm for handling laboratory test tubes, a device made from spare parts, won the Venezuelan national prize for low-cost technological inventions, competing against other innovative designs that indicate there is potential in this South American country for confronting its own development challenges.

TECHNOLOGY-VENEZUELA: Low-cost Inventions Show Practical Potential

A robotic arm for handling laboratory test tubes, a device made from spare parts, won the Venezuelan national prize for low-cost technological inventions, competing against other innovative designs that indicate there is potential in this South American country for confronting its own development challenges.

DEVELOPMENT-CUBA: Cloning of "Miracle Cow" Remains a Dream

The unlimited duplication of Ubre Blanca is the dream hounding a team of scientists in Cuba, bent on cloning the "supercow" that in January 1982 produced 109.5 litres of milk in a single day, quadrupling an average cow's daily output.

DEVELOPMENT-CUBA: Cloning of “Miracle Cow” Remains a Dream

The unlimited duplication of Ubre Blanca is the dream hounding a team of scientists in Cuba, bent on cloning the "supercow" that in January 1982 produced 109.5 litres of milk in a single day, quadrupling an average cow's daily output.

POLITICS: U.N. Tries to Break Deadlock on Human Cloning Treaty

A committee meeting here hopes to break a deadlock in the next two days so the United Nations can continue negotiating an international treaty to ban human cloning.

SCIENCE-EGYPT: Earthquake Fear Brings Tremors

The tremors that rocked Cairo in August have left the city fearing for its future if another earthquake were to hit.

POLITICS: U.N. Tries to Break Deadlock on Human Cloning Treaty

A committee meeting here hopes to break a deadlock in the next two days so the United Nations can continue negotiating an international treaty to ban human cloning.

SCIENCE-EGYPT: Earthquake Fear Brings Tremors

The tremors that rocked Cairo in August have left the city fearing for its future if another earthquake were to hit.

CULTURE-U.S.: Scientists Win Fight to Study ‘Native’ Skeleton

Later this month a group of scientists will submit a plan on how they want to study the 350 bones of a 9,000-year-old skeleton found near the Columbia River in Kennewick, Washington state.

CULTURE-U.S.: Scientists Win Fight to Study ‘Native’ Skeleton

Later this month a group of scientists will submit a plan on how they want to study the 350 bones of a 9,000-year-old skeleton found near the Columbia River in Kennewick, Washington state.

DEVELOPMENT: Cheaper Solutions Available to Fight Malaria – Sachs

The fight against malaria, a plague that kills at least one person every 30 seconds in sub-Saharan Africa, was boosted this week by news that scientists have decoded the genetic blueprint of the malaria parasite and the mosquito that spreads it.

DEVELOPMENT: Biotech Bypass of the South Costs Millions of Lives

Developing a handful of biotechnologies to prevent and treat diseases could save millions of lives in developing countries each year, say the authors of a study released Monday in Nature Biotechnology magazine.

ENVIRONMENT: Ozone Hole Divides in Two

The hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica divided in two last week, an unprecedented phenomenon that caught the scientific community by surprise, say officials at the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO).

ENVIRONMENT: Ozone Hole Divides in Two

The hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica divided in two last week, an unprecedented phenomenon that caught the scientific community by surprise, say officials at the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO).

DEVELOPMENT: Biotech Bypass of the South Costs Millions of Lives

Developing a handful of biotechnologies to prevent and treat diseases could save millions of lives in developing countries each year, say the authors of a study released Monday in Nature Biotechnology magazine.

POLITICS-YUGOSLAVIA: DNA Lab to Solve Mysteries of the Missing

A new DNA laboratory has been opened in Belgrade in an effort to close the cases of more than 40,000 people still reported missing in former Yugoslavia.

WSSD: New Fund Will Pay to Safeguard Crop Diversity

While the world awaits an action plan to emerge from the United Nations summit on sustainable development, a group of plant specialists are drumming up support here for a particular venture - an international trust to safeguard the world's varied food crops.

/CORRECTED REPEAT/ENVIRONMENT: Global Warming Already Transforming Oceans – Report

Coastal and marine ecosystems, already stressed by human development, pollution and over-fishing, are going to face significant pressure from climate change, says a new report from the Pew Centre on Global Climate Change.

ENVIRONMENT: Global Warming Already Transforming Oceans – Report

Coastal and marine ecosystems, already stressed by human development, pollution and over-fishing, are going to face significant pressure from climate change, says a new report from the Pew Centre on Global Climate Change.

TECHNOLOGY-AFRICA: A Long Way to Bridge the Digital Divide

As Non-government organisations (NGOs) become more reliant on Information and Communications Technology (ICT), two emphases are being taken to computer use.