US biotech giant Monsanto said Wednesday it was considering legal action against Germanys decision to ban a type of genetically modified maize — MON 810 — manufactured by the firm.
MON 810 is “safe for human health, animals and the environment, which has been proved by an overwhelming number of scientific studies,” the firm added.
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We tend to think of Neanderthals as one species of cavemen-like creatures, but now scientists say there were actually at least three different subgroups of Neanderthals.
The evidence points to a subgroup of Neanderthals in Western Europe, another in Southern Europe near the Mediterranean, a third in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, and possibly a fourth in Western Asia.
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NASA on Tuesday named its new living quarters on the International Space Station “Tranquillity,” denying television comedian Stephen Colbert his attempt to get the new Node 3 named after himself.
But the U.S. space agency did make one concession. It said it will make a new Combined Operational Load-Bearing External Resistance Treadmill (COLBERT) — a fancy way of saying “exercise treadmill” — a key fixture in the space station.
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Climate change will force bone-weary birds migrating to Europe from Africa to log extra mileage, with possibly devastating consequences, according to a study released on Wednesday.
“Marathon migrations for some birds are set to become even longer,” said Stephen Willis, a professor at Durham University in Britain and the main architect of the study.
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A reported tornado hit central Tennessee, injuring at least 13 people as a line of storms creeps into the South from the Midwest.
Elsewhere, a tornado touched down in southwestern Kentucky, injuring two people and destroying a mobile home.
Dispatchers at the Rutherford County Emergency Management Agency say the area had been “heavily impacted” and it was in “response phase” after several eyewitness reports of a tornado on the ground at about midday.
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A famed paleontologist who discovered the world’s best preserved dinosaur pleaded guilty Tuesday to stealing dinosaur fossils from federal land in Montana.
U.S. Magistrate Keith Strong initially refused to accept the plea after Murphy said he made a “mistake” in not accurately mapping where fossils were recovered, said the prosecutor, assistant U.
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NASA risked the wrath of millions of comedy fans across cosmos, announcing it had named the International Space Stations next module “Tranquility”, rather than after TV host Stephen Colbert
Astronaut Sunita Williams appeared on the Comedy Central channel on Tuesday to announce the results of the contest dubbed the “Help Name Node 3″ poll.
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A particular type of stem cell transplantation using the patients own cells led to short-term freedom from insulin injections in 20 of 23 patients newly diagnosed with type 1 diabetes participating in an experimental protocol in Brazil.
The patients also kept their blood sugar under control, which is key to preventing complications from diabetes.
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Big Business, greens and lawmakers are all bracing for an announcement from the Environmental Protection Agency this week on regulating greenhouse gases.
Joe Mendelson, global warming policy director for the National Wildlife Federation, said the expected announcement would be a “game changer” for climate policy.
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Displaying both a sense of history and humor, NASA on Tuesday revealed “Tranquility” as the name of its newest space station module, while christening a new astronaut exercise device after comedian Stephen Colbert, whose name led their public opinion poll for what to name the orbiting outposts new room.
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