From California web site, a gene call
A California start-up company is introducing a web site this week that will recruit people to donate their DNA to help find genes that cause disease. The company, called DNA Sciences, has James
A California start-up company is introducing a web site this week that will recruit people to donate their DNA to help find genes that cause disease. The company, called DNA Sciences, has James
The American West is a checkerboard of fires this summer, with some 66 large wildland fires, currently burning in 11 Western states, many of them out of control. So far, some 4 million acres are
American and British officials have accused the presidents of Liberia and Burkina Faso of taking a personal role in trading arms for diamonds in violation of a UN embargo. They also said the two
Rising sands are part of a new desert forming in Lagan on the eastern edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. The spread of wastelands on these 9,000-foot high steppes, and across the pastures and farmed
The rapid spread of HIV and AIDS in southeast Asia is threatening to undermine the health, security and economic growth of the region, Western and Asian officials warned. "There is no greater danger
Legislation allowing the British government to track e-mails and seize encrypted Internet communications has passed its final hurdle in Parliament. The law, hailed by the government as a bulwark
In the face of economic and environmental warning signs, Virginia fishery authorities have taken the drastic step of declaring a vast 665-square-mile fishermen free sanctuary through the heart of the
The United States kept up pressure on Japan to abandon a decision to expand its scientific whaling program to two new policies, warning that the move could result in U.S. sanctions. The decision to
A summer of unusually arid weather has turned much of America's Western wilderness into a tinderbox, with fires raging in a dozen states, including a 44,000-acre blaze in the Idaho backcountry and a
British scientists have said the incidence of the deadly human form of "mad cow" disease was rising by a "statistically significant" 20 to 30 percent a