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Toll from two Philippine storms rises to 70
The combined death toll from Tropical Storm Nock-ten and Typhoon Muifa in the Philippines has risen to 70, with threats of yet another storm in the rain-battered country, the government said Tuesday. The toll, previously at 54, rose as two children were reported killed by a landslide at a quarry…
Federal court rules human genes can be patented
The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled in a 2 to 1 decision Friday that human genes can be patented because the DNA extracted from cells is not a product of nature. The court held (PDF) that Myriad Genetics can patent two human genes used to…
Record-breaking U.S. drought in July: data
WASHINGTON — July was a record-breaking dry month in parts of the United States, with 12 percent of the country under an “exceptional” drought causing crop losses and water shortages, authorities said Monday. The “exceptional” drought level, the highest on a five-step scale, spanned the largest amount of US territory…
Lab-on-a-chip a game-changer in disease detection
A cheap, highly portable blood test kit has proven as accurate as expensive hospital-based analyses in detecting HIV, syphilis and other infectious diseases, according to a new study. Researchers tested prototypes of the creditcard-sized lab-on-a-chip with hundreds of patients in Rwanda, reporting nearly 100 percent accuracy. The so-called “mChip”, they…
EPA proposes new rules on fracking
Prohibited from regulating hydraulic fracturing under the Safe Drinking Water Act, the EPA took to the air, proposing federal regulations to reduce smog-forming pollutants released by the fast-spreading approach to gas drilling. If approved as currently written, the rules would amount to the first national standards for fracking of any…
Burglars hunt down rhinos in museums
It was a daring daytime robbery at the natural science museum. The two thieves snuck into the rhino gallery and ripped a stuffed head off the wall. They carried it to a restroom, opened a window, and dropped the 30-kilo (66-pound) trophy two stories down to an accomplice waiting in…
Japan floods claim first victim
Floods claimed their first victim in Japan and nearly 300,000 people were urged to flee their homes Saturday as a weather system that killed dozens on the Korean peninsula swept the country. Local governments in the central province of Niigata and tsunami-hit Fukushima issued the guidance after the national weather…
Scientists create DNA ‘brain’ in a test tube
A research team at the California Institute of Technology has created an artificial neural network which is capable of solving a puzzle that involves identifying which of four pioneering IT scientists — Rosalind Franklin, Alan Turing, Claude Shannon, and Santiago Ramon y Cajal — is described by a series of…
Chronic fatigue scientists get ‘death threats’
British researchers looking at the causes of chronic fatigue syndrome have received death threats from protesters angry at their focus on possible mental triggers, a report said Friday. Several scientists researching the condition, which is also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), say they are being subjected to a campaign of…
World’s largest radio telescope gears up in Chile
SANTIAGO — The world’s largest network of radio telescopes is ready to begin the first phase of operations in northern Chile’s Atacama Desert, an observatory announced Thursday. The ALMA complex, under construction for over a decade, received on Wednesday the 16th of 66 total antennas, enough to “begin its first…
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