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2008-10-08 12:21:00

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Two Americans and a Japanese researcher won the 2008 Nobel prize for chemistry on Wednesday for the discovery of a glowing protein in jellyfish that helps scientists spot the onset of maladies such as cancer and Alzheimer's disease.

2008-10-08 11:58:00

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Two Americans scientists and a Japanese researcher won the 2008 Nobel prize for chemistry for their discovery of a green fluorescent protein that has become a key tool in bioscience, the prize committee said on Wednesday. The prestig

2008-10-07 20:56:00

BRUSSELS (AFP) - A European parliamentary committee on Tuesday broadly approved ambitious proposals to tackle climate change, refusing to bow to industry pressure to water down the measures. The global financial crisis and the closure of German auto facto

2008-10-07 19:44:00

PARIS (AFP) - Humans like the comfort of symmetry -- the identical image in the mirror, the matching wings of the baroque mansion, the equal numbers in opposing football teams. So it comes as a bit of a shocker when physicists say the Universe is built on

2008-10-07 19:03:00

BRUSSELS (AFP) - The European parliament environment committee on Tuesday refused to let the global financial crisis sway them to ease the polluter pays principle to battle global warming. The EU committee voted 44 to 20, with one abstention, to mandate a

2008-10-07 18:41:00

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Two Japanese scientists and a Tokyo-born American shared the 2008 Nobel Prize for physics for helping explain why the universe is asymmetrical and thus fit for life, the prize committee said on Tuesday. The Nobel committee lauded Yoi

2008-10-07 15:23:00

ROME (AFP) - Italy's fishing of bluefin tuna is "totally out of control," the Worldwide Fund for Nature charged Tuesday, calling for a three-year moratorium on fishing for the species in the Mediterranean. In a statement, the Italian section of the WWF de

2008-10-07 14:54:00

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Two Japanese scientists and a Tokyo-born American shared the 2008 Nobel Prize for physics for discoveries in sub-atomic particles, the prize committee said on Tuesday. The Nobel committee lauded Yoichiro Nambu, a Tokyo-born American

2008-10-07 14:35:00

STOCKHOLM (AFP) - Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa of Japan and Yoichiro Nambu of the United States won the 2008 Nobel Physics Prize Tuesday for groundbreaking theoretical work in fundamental particles. The three were lauded for their work in explai

2008-10-07 01:10:00

WASHINGTON (AFP) - A US space probe successfully flew by Mercury on Monday to photograph the solar system's smallest planet, in the second of three planned passes, the US space agency NASA said. The spacecraft MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment