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2008-10-07 00:46:00

GENEVA (AFP) - Human error was likely to blame for the breakdown of the world's largest atom-smasher, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) said Monday. One of the 10,000 connections that join the 27-kilometre (16.9-mile) Large Hadron Coll

2008-10-06 21:36:00

STOCKHOLM (AFP) - French and German scientists credited with the discovery of the viruses behind AIDS and cervical cancer won Monday the Nobel Medicine Prize, the first of the prestigious awards to be announced this year. France's Francoise Barre-Sinoussi

2008-10-06 16:51:00

STOCKHOLM (AFP) - French and German scientists credited with the discovery of the viruses behind AIDS and cervical cancer won Monday the Nobel Medicine Prize, the first of the prestigious awards to be announced this year. France's Francoise Barre-Sinoussi

2008-10-06 16:18:00

JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israeli scientists said on Monday they have discovered a way to genetically enhance the scent of flowers, a development that could also be used to breed extra-tasty fruits and vegetables. "Recent developments will help to create flowers

2008-10-06 13:01:00

STOCKHOLM (AFP) - French and German scientists credited with the discovery of the viruses behind AIDS and cervical cancer won Monday the Nobel Medicine Prize, the first of the prestigious awards to be announced. France's Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc M

2008-10-06 12:09:00

STOCKHOLM (AFP) - France's Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier shared the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for their discovery of the HIV virus, along with a German scientist for his groundbreaking research into cervical cancer. Barre-Sinoussi and M

2008-10-06 11:58:00

STOCKHOLM (AFP) - France's Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier shared the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for their discovery of the HIV virus, along with a German scientist for his groundbreaking research into cervical cancer. Barre-Sinoussi and M

2008-10-06 11:42:00

STOCKHOLM (AFP) - Harald zur Hausen of Germany and France's Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier won the Nobel Medicine Prize Monday for separate discoveries of two viruses causing HIV and cervical cancer, the Nobel jury said. The Nobel Medicine Pr

2008-10-06 09:25:54

YELD FARM (Reuters) - There hasn't been a glacier in England since the Ice Age so Antarctic scientists flock to a muddy field here to learn how to survive on the world's coldest continent. Camped in tents and sometimes sharing a field with horses or geese

2008-10-06 05:27:00

MINNERIYA, Sri Lanka (AFP) - Asian elephants are renowned as highly social animals and the reservoir meetings demonstrate their complex group dynamics in action. As evening falls, a female elephant and her pink-skinned baby emerge from the jungle for a le