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EU to ban pesticides in bee scare

The European Commission will restrict the use of pesticides linked to bee deaths by researchers, despite a split among EU states on the issue.

New Research Finds Mercury Fillings Are Safe

Boston, MA - wo new studies that found amalgam fillings to be safe are sure to revive the debate over whether or not "silver" fillings can harm other parts of the body.

Yahoo! Energy Buy Supports Renewables Development in Silicon Valley

Santa Clara, CA - Global internet service leader Yahoo! has joined the Santa Clara Green Power renewable energy program.

Peace agreement for Darfur within reach, UN Security Council told

Abuja, Nigeria - Though the parties to the conflict in Darfur, Sudan - which has already cost nearly 200,000 lives, mainly civilians - have not yet compromised on key issues, a peace agreement is within reach by the 30 April deadline set by the African Union (AU), the chief mediator from that organization told the United Nations Security Council today, urging support for the AU mission in the country.

New Predictive Model To Assess Individual’s Risk Of Prostate Cancer

San Antonio, TX - Researchers have developed a model to predict prostate cancer for men who undergo a prostate biopsy. The details of the risk calculator appear in the April 18 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

Cell studies show promise for ginger as potential ovarian cancer treatment

Ann Arbor, MI - Ginger is known to ease nausea and control inflammation. But researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center are investigating a new use for this age-old remedy: treating ovarian cancer.

New project to end child labour

New Delhi, India - In a move to eliminate child labour, 80,000 working children will be integrated with mainstream education by 2007 under an Indo-US project.

Some Good Earthquake News: Fault Mellows with Age

Corvallis, Oregon, USA - The three major tectonic plates off the Pacific Northwest are shifting, and the site of their convergence is migrating in a southeasterly direction, scientists say.

Great American Cleanup goal: Involve 2.5 million volunteers

USA - In 2006, the Great American Cleanup is expected to involve close to an estimated 2.5 million people volunteering more than 8 million hours to clean, beautify and improve 16,000 communities during 30,000 events from coast to coast in all 50 states.

Quest for home started with big red paper clip

Montreal, Quebec, Canada - Kyle MacDonald had a big red paper clip and a dream: Could he use the community power of the Internet to barter that paper clip for something better, and trade that thing for something else -- and so on and so on until he had a house?

Fervor flowing as L.A. looks to revive river

Los Angeles, California, USA - The historic river that gave birth to this city is flickering back to life after decades as an open storm drain encased in concrete and littered with trash.

Telescope bid to spot alien beams

Boston, MA - A new optical telescope designed solely to detect light signals from alien civilisations has opened for work at an observatory in Harvard, US.

In the 70s he was a TV fantasy. Now the bionic man is real - and he even plays sax

Stanford University, California - The 1970s gave us the six-million-dollar man. Thirty years and quite a bit of inflation later we have the six-billion-dollar human: not a physical cyborg as such, instead an umbrella term for the latest developments in the growing field of technology for human enhancement.

Unexpected detail in first-ever Venus south pole images

Paris - ESA's Venus Express has returned the first-ever images of the hothouse planet’s south pole from a distance of 206 452 kilometres, showing surprisingly clear structures and unexpected detail. The images were taken 12 April during the spacecraft’s initial capture orbit after successful arrival on 11 April 2006.

Bear-attack victim is given China’s first face transplant

Beijing, China - A Chinese man whose face was disfigured in an attack by a bear has been given a partial face transplant in a procedure thought to be a first for China.

Thousands enjoy Easter respite on Skid Row

Los Angeles, California, USA - Just about the last thing Richard Ramirez expected when he ducked in out of the rain for an early Easter dinner and a new pair of shoes was to have his feet washed by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.

Milestone In Quest For Cheap Antimalarial For Developing World

Berkeley, CA - Researchers striving to create a less expensive version of a life-saving antimalarial drug, artemisinin, have cleared a major hurdle, according to a new report in the journal Nature.

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