FRANKFURT— Bayer AG’s big push into the U.S. agrochemical market with its planned acquisition of Monsanto Co. could help it offset a growing problem on its home turf: increasingly stringent European regulation.
International Business Machines Corp. has built and tested a superfast computer chip that indicates chip makers won't hit a technological brick wall anytime soon when it comes to
A conflict over fishing rights between South Korea and Japan threatens to escalate even as cooperation between the two countries is becoming crucial to solving Korea's financial crisis. Eight South
The red, white and blue of US flags will be flying in Hong Kong's wet markets this weekend as US poultry producers try to persuade consumers it's safe to eat American
A federal appeals court in the U.S. has dealt a setback to the government's crackdown on allegedly substandard semiconductors supplied to dozens of military and space programs over the years. Citing
As health workers clean up the last, decaying remains of 1.4 million chickens slaughtered to halt the spread of a new flu strain, a troubling question remains : Has the feared virus infected southern
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Quaker Oats Co. has agreed to pay a $1.85 million settlement to people who as children were fed radioactive cereal in the 1940s and 1950s as part of a
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has warned several reproductive clinics to stop practicing a new fertility technique that involves mixing DNA from three parents.
Smoke clouds from hundreds of forest fires in Indonesia and Malaysia is expected to worsen, officials said, raising fears that 1997's regional air pollution crisis could be repeated.
Israeli scientists say they have discovered rogue proteins believed to cause mad cow disease in the urine of animals and humans. This is a breakthrough that could pave the way for a simple
A survey by the Australian government's Rural Industries Research and Development Corp. discovered that only half of all Australians had ever tried kangaroo. Kangaroo is healthier (half the fat of
