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  • Wireless signals can stunt plant growth

    A Danish science experiment by a group of 9th-graders has gained worldwide interest, after they showed that wireless signals can stunt plant growth. Five girls from Hjallerup Skole, a primary education school in Denmark, began the experiment after noticing that when they slept with their cellphones near their heads overnight, they had trouble focusing the next day, according to Danish News site ...

  • Spanish art gets privileged space in New York museum

    New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has reopened its European paintings galleries after a two-year renovation, giving a privileged space to Spanish masters Velazquez, El Greco and Goya. Prior to the overhaul, the Met's large collection of works by Velazquez, Goya, Ribera, Murillo and El Greco had been distributed in different galleries organized either by artistic movement or ...

  • Russia plans four spacecraft launches in 2014

    Russia's Energia Rocket and Space Corporation will make four launches next year from the Pacific Ocean-based Odyssey platform under the Sea Launch programme, an official said. Corporation president Vitaly Lopota said that after 2014, Energia will be able to make five or more launches a year. Next year's launches will be the first since one of Sea Launch's Zenit vehicles carrying an Intelsat-27 ...

  • Private firms may travel to lunar surface NASA report

    A study of future human missions has indicated corporate researchers could be living on the moon by the time NASA astronauts head off to visit an asteroid in the 2020s. The study by Bigelow Aerospace, commissioned by NASA, shows "a lot of excitement and interest from various companies" for such ventures, Daily Mail quoted Robert Bigelow, founder and president of the Las Vegas-based firm, as ...

  • Russia wants US to pay for astronaut flights to Space Station

    Russia will ask the United States to contribute more toward the costs of flying US astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS), a spokesman for the Russian space agency said Thursday.Roskomos spokesman Vyacheslav Davydenko told AFP that since the US space shuttles stopped supplying the jointly manned station in the wake of the February 2003 Columbia disaster Russia had been shouldering ...


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We Need to Talk About Kevin

We Need to Talk About Kevin

Lynne Ramsays We Need to Talk About Kevin is the second film this year to deal with the aftermath of an adolescent boys massacre of his fellow students, but it differs sharply from Shawn Kus Beautiful Boy, which was more of a straightforward psych ... ...

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  • Taiwans space programme offers tsunami satellite images to aid relief

    Taiwan's national space programme offered Wednesday its satellite images of the damage caused by powerful tsunamis that ravaged Asia at the weekend to affected countries and aid groups for free.The National Space Programme Office (NSPO) normally charges 3,000 euros (4,080 dollars) for each photograph covering an area of 600 square kilometres (240 square miles), the office said.The images ...

  • Pan-African parliamentary science forum launched

    An Africa-wide forum for parliamentarians which aims to give science, technology and innovation a more central role in the policy-making process was launched this ...

  • Canada revokes passport of doc accused in US medicare fraud

    Dr. Jacques Roy is seen in a court room sketch in Dallas Texas Monday March 5, 2012. (CBSDFW.COM photo) MONTREAL - The Canadian government has quietly revoked the passport of a Quebec doctor accused of defrauding the U.S. Medicare system of $375 million - before he's even had a trial. QMI Agency has learned that Passport Canada rescinded the passport of Dr. Jacques Roy, the Quebec ...

  • Weinsteins theory of everything is probably nothing

    A discussion? Even if we'd been invited, that would have been hard without prior disclosure of the nitty-gritty mathematical details. Grand claims like Weinstein's would - in the normal course of science - be accompanied by a technical paper explaining their foundations. We could then take a deep breath and puzzle over whether they're consistent with the vast knowledge of nature ...

  • We can let fission fizzle out in a renewable world

    Why would anyone choose to reinvest in a form of power that seems not to have been harnessed properly? At Chernobyl and Fukushima the world had two very close shaves. Not a very impressive safety record for a technology that has been pampered with billions of dollars of investment over 60 ...

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