Provides the latest RSS feeds for Science News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Peking Press.com http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/cat/a9927dde6777aafc/ en-us Wed, 22 May 2013 00:53:28 -0400 Wed, 22 May 2013 00:53:28 -0400 30 Michelle Keegan, who was awarded Cleavage Of The Year by The Sun earlier this year, has said that she is embarrassed by her cleavage and struggles to understand her sex symbol status. The 25-year-old actress told new! magazine that it was embarrassing but also flattering, the Mirror reported. She said that she didn't wear tops that show her cleavage much, asserting that her mother joked about ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214659401/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 07:30:04 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214659401/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Three planets - Venus, Jupiter, and Mercury will present a spectacular sky show during the last week of May. So, look low in the west-northwest after sunset in late May, and you can watch Venus, Jupiter, and Mercury pirouetting through the tightest gathering of three naked-eye planets that the world will see until 2026. "Here's a beautiful chance to see three planets all together," said Alan ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214654792/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 01:50:04 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214654792/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A legal tussle in the US Supreme Court over who can own gene patents like the breast cancer gene has raised fundamental questions about what can be owned.While the combatants - the Association for Molecular Pathology and Myriad Genetics - hone their arguments, the rest of us should pause to consider how we got here and whether it's time to change the law.Patents give inventors an incentive ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214679453/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 22:47:10 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214679453/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mawson Lakes 5095 Technology firm NewSat plans to hire up to 20 space scientists as part of an expansion of its facility at Mawson Lakes in Adelaide.The Australian company is preparing to launch a satellite fleet and needs more antennae in Adelaide to support them.It provides communication services for customers including mining companies and the United States military.South Australia's ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214679454/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 22:46:56 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214679454/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Royal Horticultural Society have decided this year to relax their century-old ban and for the first time allow the "little people" into the show -- garden gnomes, that is, those tacky little statues of short bearded men with pointy ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214679443/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 22:39:27 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214679443/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Nicholas Rutledge snapped this picture of yesterday's devastating tornado as it gathered strength in Newcastle, Oklahoma. It later intensified before smashing through suburbs surrounding Oklahoma City, including the city of ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214679198/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 22:39:27 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214679198/scat/a9927dde6777aafc deadly tornado ripped through the Oklahoma City area on Monday , leaving 24 dead. As rescue crews assist victims, scientists have fanned out across the Great Plains, seeking to better understand how severe storms form, and how people may better guard against their worst ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214678512/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 21:29:52 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214678512/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tuesday was either a great day or an awful day for science research in Canada -- depending on whose story you were listening to.On one hand, Gary Goodyear, federal minister of state for science and technology, was presenting the government's commitments to science and technology research and proclaiming that discovery-driven research is a priority for the Conservatives.On the other hand, the ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214678513/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 21:21:12 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214678513/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Kenneth Froude. LONDON, Ont. - A sex offender who terrorized a London woman after breaking into her townhouse is on the loose again, police said. Repeat offender Kenneth Froude, 45, who serving a 19-month sentence for criminal harassment and breach of his supervision, has escaped from the halfway house at the Collins Bay Institution in Kingston, Ont., said Const. Brett Anderson said. In June ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214676658/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 20:23:25 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214676658/scat/a9927dde6777aafc OTTAWA -- An RCMP Staff Sgt. has filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against 13 former colleagues, claiming she was sexually assaulted, harassed and bullied during her time with the iconic Musical Ride more than 25 years ago. Caroline O'Farrell, 52, was subjected to numerous degrading incidents during her training and performances with the force's equestrian show in 1986 and 1987, ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214676844/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 20:23:23 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214676844/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Together with his colleagues, Fishel has devised a way to record and analyse the development of early embryos collected for IVF. The ability to identify embryos with the best chance of producing a healthy pregnancy is vital for couples undergoing expensive IVF treatment, which can cost up to 10,000 per ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214677465/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 20:06:04 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214677465/scat/a9927dde6777aafc NASA's Aqua satellite acquired this image of the storm at 2:40 p.m. local time. The red line depicts the tornado's track. Credit: NASA/Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214677245/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 20:05:27 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214677245/scat/a9927dde6777aafc has revealed an exciting step forward in the quest to adapt this ability for medical use in humans. Based on experiments with the tiny amphibians, researchers from the Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute at Monash University have found that elements of a salamander's immune system called macrophages play a key role in enabling the regenerative process. ';Previously, we thought ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214676364/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 19:31:57 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214676364/scat/a9927dde6777aafc meteorite breaking apart in the atmosphere about 13,000 years ago - around the time when the prehistoric pachyderms died out. By studying sediment layers from 18 archaeological sites around the world, the team found tiny spheres of carbon they say are telltale signs of multiple impacts and meteorites’ mid-air explosions, according to their study in ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214676363/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 19:31:57 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214676363/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Hambrick said . "The evidence is quite clear that some people do reach an elite level of performance without copious practice, while other people fail to do so despite copious practice." In the study, the team reviewed 14 studies involving chess players and musicians and looked explicitly at how practice routine was related to performance. They found that time spent practicing ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214676362/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 19:31:57 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214676362/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The progress of Monday's disastrous tornado in Oklahoma was caught from space by satellites in orbit.The GOES-13 satellite, which is operated by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, imaged the movement of storm systems in the south-central United States between Sunday and Monday, including the storm that sparked ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214676042/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 19:29:14 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214676042/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue May 21, 2013 7:26pm EDT * Thousands left homeless in suburb of Oklahoma City * Tornado was a rare EF5, the most powerful * Thunder and lightning slows rescue work * Death toll lowered to 24; another 237 injured (Adds witness quotes, damage estimate details) By Carey Gillam and Ian Simpson MOORE, Okla., May 21 (Reuters) - Rescuers went building to building in search of victims and thousands ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214677239/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 19:26:54 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214677239/scat/a9927dde6777aafc malaria in 2010, with an estimated 660,000 deaths, mainly among children in Africa. Yet rates of malaria transmission are falling with the use of bed nets - Long Lasting Insecticide Treated Nets (LLINs) in particular are proving key to preventing the spread of malaria.However, distribution of these nets remains insufficient for financial and practical reasons. In addition, evidence of the growing ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214676365/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 19:25:16 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214676365/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Ontario teacher struck by lightning Tornadoes may scare you, but lightning is more likely to kill you - at least in Canada. More people die annually from lightning strikes - 80% of them from thunderstorms unaccompanied by official warnings - than from tornadoes, according to Dan Kulak, a meteorologist with Environment Canada. "Lightning is the major summer killer. More people die from ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214675652/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 19:15:20 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214675652/scat/a9927dde6777aafc (Shutterstock) OTTAWA - A new study from the University of Ottawa suggests suicide may be contagious among young people, especially when they hear stories of others killing themselves. "Suicide contagion - the idea that someone else’s suicide can influence your own suicidal thoughts and behaviours - does occur, especially among younger adolescents," according to the study, led by ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214675651/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 19:15:20 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214675651/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Space Race: Astronauts break record for quickest journey to International Space Station - making trip in less time than standard flight from London to New ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214675698/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 19:12:51 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214675698/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mulcair aided Quebec corruption probe OTTAWA -- NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair says he stayed mum for 17 years about a possible bribe offer because he never saw any cash first-hand. Mulcair took questions Tuesday for the first time since revealing last week he'd met with police investigating former Laval, Que., Mayor Gilles Vaillancourt in early 2011. According to his sworn affidavit, obtained ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214676366/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 18:51:01 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214676366/scat/a9927dde6777aafc '); A Chinese Long March 2F rocket launches on the Shenzhou 9 mission, China's first manned space docking flight and first flight of a female astronaut, on June 16, 2012 from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214675138/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 18:20:54 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214675138/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A line of thunderstorms that resembles an exclamation mark in this image from NOAA's GOES-13 satellite gave rise to the Moore, Okla. tornado on May 20, 2013. The tornado was generated near the bottom of the line of clouds, NASA officials ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214675139/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 18:20:53 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214675139/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The guitar Canadian astronaut Commander Chris Hadfield played on board the International Space Station was made in Vancouver. The three-quarter-size travel guitar, created and manufactured in the Vancouver office of Larrivee Guitars, spins around in front of the Canadian spaceman as he sings David Bowie's Space Oddity in ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214674220/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 18:03:49 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214674220/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Pope Francis blesses a child as he leaves in his papamobile after the Holy mass for Pentecost Sunday on May 19, 2013 at St Peter's Square at the Vatican. AFP PHOTO / ANDREAS SOLARO Vatican City - The Vatican on Tuesday denied that Pope Francis had performed an exorcism after an Italian religious television channel said footage of the pontiff blessing a boy in a wheelchair showed he had. ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214672488/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 18:03:41 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214672488/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Vigilante set up sting in Timmies MONTREAL - A Montreal woman paid the price after police said she took the law into her own hands when her son was allegedly attacked by a gang of assailants. Police have charged her with stabbing one of the alleged attackers. So far, she's the only one charged. As for why they didn't immediately charge other suspects, police said they were still ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214674086/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 18:03:38 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214674086/scat/a9927dde6777aafc B.C. teen busted doing 100 km/h over the limit VANCOUVER -- An 11-year-old girl was behind the wheel when a 12-year-old girl -- a passenger -- was killed in a crash in northern B.C., police say. The Jeep turned on its side as the driver lost control, according to police in Mackenzie, about 950 km north of Vancouver. A 41-year-old man was in the car supervising at the time of the accident. The ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214674087/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 18:03:38 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214674087/scat/a9927dde6777aafc NASA's GOES-13 satellite captured images of the storm system that sparked tornadoes in the middle of the country. The video includes images of the twister left dozens of people dead in Moore, ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214675137/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 17:51:41 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214675137/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Image Caption: Event week in Phoenix- Consulate of Switzerland Dinner - J. Brewer, Governor of the State of Arizona, and B. Piccard and A. Borschberg with the Clean Generation Flag. Credit: Solar Impulse |Merz| ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214671463/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 17:08:28 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214671463/scat/a9927dde6777aafc bilingual individuals switch between two different 'sound systems' in their brain when alternating between languages. "A lot of research has shown that bilinguals are pretty good at accommodating speech variation across languages, but there's been a debate as to ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214672277/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 17:08:28 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214672277/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Pica Pica Plaza has launched a new Celebrations Event Center. Pica Pica Plaza, a 130,000-square-foot retail/entrepreneur incubator on San Antonios South Side is adding a new service the Celebrations Event Center. The newly completed event center will be open for any kind of event, be it formal or casual. Celebrations will also provide such services as catering, party planning and floral ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214674133/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 16:55:11 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214674133/scat/a9927dde6777aafc PARIS - An 78-year-old French far-right activist committed suicide at the altar of the Notre Dame cathedral on Tuesday by shooting himself in the mouth, three days after a law legalising same-sex marriage came into effect. Police evacuated the cathedral, one of Paris’ biggest tourist draws, after Dominique Venner - a historian known for his hard-right political essays and a fierce opponent ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214670720/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 16:50:31 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214670720/scat/a9927dde6777aafc In today's business world, disruption is a constant force that never lets up. At the annual WIRED Business Conference: Disruptive by Design, we celebrate the creative power of bold new ideas and the people that make them happen. See the event ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214671346/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 16:46:07 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214671346/scat/a9927dde6777aafc LOS ANGELES -- A crew of Mongolian gerbils may have gone where no Mongolian gerbil has gone before, but they did not come back alive. A Russian spacecraft filled with mice, lizards and other animals has returned to Earth -- but with the majority of its furred passengers apparently dead. The Bion-M experiment, launched from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on April 19, carried 45 mice, 15 geckos, 18 ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214671660/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 16:35:02 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214671660/scat/a9927dde6777aafc crowd-powered delivery system dreamed up by a group of Microsoft researchers. Fictional Jane never has to deviate from her normal route to pick up her package. Instead, it is sent via a chain of people - an algorithm calculates the fastest route using aggregated location data from New York tweeters. Eric Horvitz ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214672278/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 16:33:06 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214672278/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A potato leaf specimen from the Kew Garden herbarium, collected in 1847, during the height of the Irish famine. Credit: Marco Thines/Senckenberg Gesellschaft fr ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214671624/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 16:32:13 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214671624/scat/a9927dde6777aafc CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - It has been almost 20 years since the first genetically modified foods showed up in produce aisles throughout the United States and the rest of the world, but controversy continues to surround the products and their ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214671102/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 16:26:51 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214671102/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Toronto Mayor Rob Ford leaves city hall without speaking to reporters after the Casino Vote at City Hall in Toronto May 21, 2013. (Dave Abel/QMI ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214672279/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 16:24:57 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214672279/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Osama bin Laden is shown in this video frame grab released by the U.S. Pentagon on May 7, 2011. (REUTERS/Pentagon/Handout) WASHINGTON - A federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that the U.S. government had properly classified top secret more than 50 images of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden taken after his death, and that the government did not need to release them. The unanimous ruling by three ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214669226/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 15:38:13 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214669226/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Gary Goodyear, Minister of State (Science and Technology). Andre Forget/QMI Agency OTTAWA - Canada gets a B- average when it comes to being at the forefront of science and technology innovation, according to a new report. In fact, the government advisory body that released Tuesday's report says as a nation - despite brimming with talent - we "continue to tread water as a mid-level ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214669739/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 15:38:12 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214669739/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Richard Bain said he didn't want Pauline Marois to speak on election night MONTREAL - Accused separatist rally shooter Richard Henry Bain waived his preliminary hearing Tuesday and was ordered to stand trial for murder. The 62-year-old fishing lodge owner is accused of murdering stage technician Denis Blanchette outside a Parti Quebecois rally on Sept. 4. Premier Pauline Marois was inside ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214669438/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 15:38:09 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214669438/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Geo, a little boy killed when an SUV crashed into the busy patio of Rics Grill, at 23 Avenue and Rabbit Hill Road the evening of Sunday, May 19. (IAN KUCERAK/QMI Agency) EDMONTON - The grief-stricken mother of a two-year-old boy who was killed Sunday when an alleged drunk driver crashed into him on a restaurant patio had a meltdown at the courthouse Tuesday. After the accused's first court ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214669439/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 15:38:08 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214669439/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Time-lapse photo mosaic of Curiosity’s Cumberland drilling operation, showing what appears to be a disembodied arm shifting places. It’s actually just the rover doing its job ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214669462/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 15:33:04 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214669462/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Cannes Film Festival 2013 The company has committed to a multi-million dollar guarantee and will spend a minimum $25 million on marketing the release. Developed by Reeves ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214669536/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 15:29:03 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214669536/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Ralph's Killer Muenster , players use the science of genetics to restore the killer cheese to its former edible state. It's all in a bid to make medical innovation enticing and accessible to youngsters. It's kind of a San Francisco thing. "It had to be something that felt relevant to this area," says Josh Rogers, the head of marketing and advertising at Ideo. "And ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214669595/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 15:27:44 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214669595/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Snapping a picture with a camera that doesn't exist is pretty spooky, but doing it in stereo is doubly so. A strange kind of photography known as ghost imaging has been extended to work in three ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214670515/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 15:19:49 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214670515/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Are you bad at sums? Never remember your times tables? Now you can simply zap your brain with a pulse of electricity to make mental arithmetic a whole lot ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214669518/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 15:19:48 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214669518/scat/a9927dde6777aafc lifelogger . It keeps track of the user's location and surroundings, taking low-resolution pictures several times a minute, and collects the information from the biosensor over a Bluetooth ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214670516/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 15:19:47 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214670516/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Got a memory like a fish? The first study to visualise live memory retrieval in the whole brain has not only debunked the "three-second memory" myth, but also sheds light on the brain processes involved in forming long-term ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214670517/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 15:19:46 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214670517/scat/a9927dde6777aafc , the eyes of many nations are turning north. This week, the eight member states of the Arctic Council decided at their meeting in Kiruna, Sweden, to admit six non-Arctic nations as observers, most notably China. New Scientist examines the ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214669691/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 15:19:45 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214669691/scat/a9927dde6777aafc , psychologist Graduation season is upon us and that means a slew of uplifting commencement speeches trying to motivate young adults to greatness. Science and experience tell us that everyone is motivated differently, so how do speakers, coaches and business managers inspire ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214668994/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 14:41:06 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214668994/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The Knotty Pine at 1765 W. Third Ave. in Grandview Heights will undergo improvements and become the third Rude Dog Bar & Grill. The Knotty Pine has gone to the dogs. The site of the long-time Grandview Heights area restaurant will become the Rude Dog Bar and Grill. The restaurant at 1765 W. Third Ave. fell into receivership last year and then closed. It was acquired by 1765 West Third Avenue ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214668981/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 14:18:35 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214668981/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Radley Horton of Columbia University in New York and colleagues have now calculated the net effect. They matched daily temperature data for Manhattan with death rates between 1982 and 1999 to estimate how sensitive the city's population is to temperatures, then used future temperature forecasts to estimate future death rates. In all their 16 models, temperature-related deaths increased ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214668977/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 14:16:31 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214668977/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A camera on board NASA's Aqua spacecraft captured Oklahoma from more than 400 miles up at 2:40 pm local time yesterday, the same time the tornado warnings went out. Sixteen minutes later, the tornado touched down outside of Newcastle, and from there proceeded eastward through the heart of Moore. The red line shows the tornado's path. Lawton and the Red River (the boundary between ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214668996/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 14:14:11 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214668996/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Packing winds of up to 320km, the killer tornado that laid waste to Oklahoma on Monday grasped at the deadliest end of what is termed the Enhanced Fujita (EF) scale. The twister has been categorised as an EF4 tornado - the second strongest on the scale - and capable of pushing over airplanes, trains and trucks, hurling cars large distances and reducing strongly-built homes to piles of debris. ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214678611/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 14:00:45 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214678611/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Science has been a black hole for taxpayers' money. Governments of all stripes agree that science is something they should fund without knowing very much about it. They maintain Crown research institutes for the needs of primary industries and for studying the country's weather, geology, minerals and the like. They also fund research in universities and hospitals with few questions ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214668339/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 13:30:00 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214668339/scat/a9927dde6777aafc ABU DHABI // When Majid Al Qassimi landed his first job, at Al Ain Zoo in 2011, one word came into his mind - "jackpot". To young Emiratis more used to seeking high-paid government positions, his reaction might seem strange but, for Mr Al Qassimi, the job was perfect as it enabled him to use the veterinary medicine degree he earned from years of study in Britain and Hungary. It also ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214667236/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 13:28:13 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214667236/scat/a9927dde6777aafc TERC , a not-for-profit group based in Cambridge, Mass., has announced the start of online voting to select a winner for its third annual Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214667237/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 13:24:56 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214667237/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sauer Inc. of Jacksonville has won a $6.5 million NASA task order to renovate the B-2 space rocket test stand at Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. Sauer expects to break ground in late spring and complete the project in 10 months, the company said in a news release. The B-2 Test Stand at Stennis was originally built to test Saturn rocket stages that propelled astronauts to the moon, NASA said ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214668755/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 13:24:31 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214668755/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Laura Fernee, 33, says she is too pretty to work. (Video screenshot) A London woman has made headlines after going public with her decision to quit her job because she's too attractive. Laura ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214664987/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 13:04:43 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214664987/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Diego Hernandez. (Handout) Family members of a Vancouver-area man living in Mexico have reached out to media after he went missing in Puerta Vallarta because they believe he's been kidnapped. Diego Hernandez, 22, and his American business partner Craig Silva, 31, disappeared on May 8 from the resort town, Vancouver media reported. Hernandez, a Canadian citizen, had recently staged a ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214665850/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 13:04:42 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214665850/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A train derailed near Jansen, Sask. Tuesday morning and crude oil appears to be leaking from one of the cars, police say. (QMI Agency) CALGARY - Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd said five tankers containing oil derailed on Tuesday morning near Jansen, Saskatchewan, and one of the cars is leaking crude, the third spill for the company in two months. Ed Greenberg, a spokesman for ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214665851/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 13:04:40 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214665851/scat/a9927dde6777aafc tornado roared through the suburbs of Oklahoma City on Monday, destroying entire neighborhoods and leveling an elementary school, according to the Associated Press. ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214666709/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 13:01:34 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214666709/scat/a9927dde6777aafc , words that speak of a delicate sensibility and an ephemeral existence. Viewing the retrospective currently being hosted at the Musee Tomo in Tokyo’s central Toranomon district in celebration of the 100th birthday of Toko Shinoda, the first word that comes to mind is ';power.'; The power is observed in the elements that constitute Shinoda’s paintings — the strength ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214665484/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 12:54:21 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214665484/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The tornado that ripped through Moore, a suburb of Oklahoma City, on Monday was not a record-breaker in terms of its size, strength or duration. So why was it so ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214666731/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 12:46:19 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214666731/scat/a9927dde6777aafc fossil skulls - but these are the first copies of real human hearts. Constructed from plastic, they are exact anatomical replicas of the hearts of patients with unusual complications. This one is being held ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214665577/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 12:46:13 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214665577/scat/a9927dde6777aafc ORLANDO - Thousands of people have protested against the prosecution of an 18-year-old Florida high school senior after her parents launched an Internet petition claiming she was charged with sex crimes only because her lover, a then 14-year-old schoolmate, was another girl.By late Monday afternoon, almost 100,000 people had signed ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214666897/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 12:44:18 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214666897/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Jodi Arias stands and looks as the jury is excused for the lunch break during her trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, April 4, 2013. Arias is on trial for the killing of her boyfriend Travis Alexander in 2008. (REUTERS/David Wallace/The Arizona ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214667238/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 12:38:12 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214667238/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Darwin's 'lost' fossils found A scientist has discovered an extinct lobster-like creature that lived off the coast of B.C. and has named it after Johnny Depp in honour of its scissor-like claws. The fossil, dubbed Kooteninchela deppi by Imperial College London researcher David Legg, is believed to be 505 million years old. "When I first saw the pair of isolated claws in the ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214667239/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 12:38:10 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214667239/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Toronto Mayor Rob Ford. (STAN BEHAL/QMI Agency) Councillors are expected to hammer the final nail in the coffin of the downtown casino Tuesday. A special council meeting to debate the casino issue will start at 9:30 a.m. While a downtown casino has been declared "dead" by even those who were pro-casino, a spirited debate is expected over whether council will support a gaming expansion ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214667240/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 12:38:09 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214667240/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A stent is a tiny mesh tube implanted during an angioplasty procedure improve blood flow. A Hong Kong-based medical device manufacturer thats been accusing Boston Scientific Corp. (NYSE:BSX) of patent infringement since at least 2009 upped the ante last week, seizing more than 190 heart stents from a BSX site in Germany with the help of police. OrbusNeich Medical Inc., which has U.S. offices in ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214665357/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 12:24:51 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214665357/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue May 21, 2013 12:18pm EDT * Children found alive in destroyed school * Thunder and lightning slows rescue work * Tornado death toll lowered to 24 from 51 (Updates number of children killed, adds Tuesday storm forecast, new quotes) By Carey Gillam and Ian Simpson MOORE, Okla., May 21 (Reuters) - Emergency workers pulled more than 100 survivors from the rubble of homes, schools and a hospital ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214666712/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 12:18:40 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214666712/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A Comparative Climatology Symposium held at NASA Headquarters on May 7 focused on new approaches to climate research by highlighting the similarities and contrasts between the environments of the rocky worlds Venus, Earth, Mars and Saturn’s smoggy moon Titan. The symposium also included discussions ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214664789/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 12:13:40 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214664789/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Stephan Lautenschlager , a postgraduate Geology researcher, has demonstrated how the brain and inner ear developed rapidly in young dinosaurs. Lautenschlager collaborated with Tom Hbner from the Niederschsische Landesmuseum in Hannover, Germanyto pick the brains of 150-million-year-old dinosaurs. They studied two different fossils of ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214664781/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 12:12:06 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214664781/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Amazon rainforest is known as the lungs of the planet because it inhales carbon dioxide and exudes oxygen into the atmosphere. The plants of the forest use the carbon dioxide to promote leafy growth, which eventually falls to the ground and decomposes or washes away by the region's plentiful rainfall. Until recently, the belief was that most of the rainforest's carbon floated away on ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214664784/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 12:12:06 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214664784/scat/a9927dde6777aafc This kit overcomes one of the main challenges for teaching anatomy by adopting a build-it-yourself approach. The book is concise, well-written and engaging and the kit is accurate and interesting and will provide many hours of enjoyment as children and adults work together to build the human ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214664785/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 11:56:53 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214664785/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A massive tornado that tore through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on Monday and killed scores of people was unusual not for its size or ferocity, but for the path it took, experts ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214664393/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 10:52:47 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214664393/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Audubon Connecticut , for his perspective. Here's some advice for Sir Patrick and anyone else who encounters a bird, baby or adult, in need of help. Could a baby bird just take care of ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214664763/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 10:52:47 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214664763/scat/a9927dde6777aafc This stunning space wallpaper reveals Supernova 1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Glittering stars and wisps of gas create a backdrop for the self-destruction of a massive star. The supernova remnant in the center of the picture, looking like a trio of red, linked rings will continue to heat and excite the gas around it for a ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214664786/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 10:50:20 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214664786/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Once you are registered, New Scientist will send you our weekly newsletter, as well as occasional relevant information via email from New Scientist about our content, services, products, events, offers and competitions. Please read ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214664004/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 10:35:59 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214664004/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Ontario premier apologizes for gas plant decisions Ontario New Democrat Leader Andrea Horwath indicated Tuesday that her party will support the Liberals' budget. Horwath - whose support is critical to the survival of the minority Kathleen Wynne government- is responding to the latest Liberal concessions to NDP demands. Wynne has agreed to create a financial accountability office, has ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214664787/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 10:28:15 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214664787/scat/a9927dde6777aafc In this historical photo from the U.S. space agency, NASA aerospace engineers Pete Zell (left) and Dr. William Clifton Horne (right), project director are shown preparing a laser light sheet for a flow visualization test on June 3, 1993. The subject of their test is Pratt & Whitney's Advance Ducted Propulsor (ADP) demonstrator engine in the Full-Scale Aerodynamic Complex (NFAC) 40 x ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214663151/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 10:01:41 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214663151/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Three planets are coming together in the evening sky at the moment, putting on a celestial show that won't be seen again for more than a ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214663150/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 10:01:41 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214663150/scat/a9927dde6777aafc United Paradyne Corporation, a California based rocket fuel supplier, is moving in to a former shuttle building. The building will be retrofitted to provide aerospace fuel for commercial space projects at KSC. ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214662737/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 09:47:51 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214662737/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Jodi Arias stands and looks as the jury is excused for the lunch break during her trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, April 4, 2013. Arias is on trial for the killing of her boyfriend Travis Alexander in 2008. (REUTERS/David Wallace/The Arizona ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214661947/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 09:40:37 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214661947/scat/a9927dde6777aafc (Image: CTV) Usually, when a wave of water several metres high crashes ashore you don't stop to take a photo. But when the wave is a creeping wall of ice, there's ample time to stand back and watch the slow-motion destruction. Last Friday, ice floes on the surface of Dauphin Lake in Manitoba, Canada, were pushed ashore by high winds. Once on land, the ice tsunami - as witnesses have ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214663140/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 09:20:50 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214663140/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The U.S. Air Force is expected to pick a winner this summer to build an advanced radar system capable of tracking an estimated half a million pieces of manmade space junk, floating in orbit, before it can threaten satellites used for navigation, weather and communication. Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) have competing proposals for the project, the Boston Globe reports. Both ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214662692/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 08:49:01 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214662692/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Bangladesh will recommend that nine people detained in connection with the disaster be sentenced to life in prison, the panel's chief said on Tuesday. The six-member committee, due to submit its conclusions to the government on Thursday, has singled out shoddy construction and the improper issue of building permits as the main reasons for the accident which killed more than 1,100 people. ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214661114/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 08:27:07 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214661114/scat/a9927dde6777aafc '); Tom Costello from NBC News moderates a panel discussion titled "Sally Ride: How Her Historic Space Mission Opened Doors for Women in Science" at the National Air and Space Museum on Friday, May 17, 2013 in ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214660395/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 07:39:11 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214660395/scat/a9927dde6777aafc '); Jeffrey O. Johnson took this photo of dwarf barred irregular galaxy, NGC 4214 on Feb. 13 and March 14, 2013 from Las Cruces, New Mexico. He used a Takahashi TOA-130F at f/7.7 telescope, Takahashi EM200 Temma II mount, QSI 540wsg @ -15C camera, Astrodon Tru-Balance I-Series LRGB Gen 2 filters and SX Lodestar ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214660396/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 07:39:10 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214660396/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Researchers have known for a long time that blind and visually impaired people rely on other senses. A new study led by the University of Southampton, however, now shows that they have the potential to ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214660391/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 07:38:06 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214660391/scat/a9927dde6777aafc earthquakes for only the past decade, but little has been understood about them. However, new tools may help explain what triggers these quakes. Scientists thought slow earthquakes were related to the type of rock in the fault, believing that clay minerals are important in slip behavior. A team writing in the ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214660392/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 07:38:06 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214660392/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Two baby girls who shared a liver have been separated by doctors in Lima, Peru. The three-month-olds are recovering a month after the surgery, which took more than 30 medical staff eight hours to complete. Orfelinda Vasquez Sanchez and Segundo Vargas Fuentes are expected to recover fully but will need monitoring throughout their ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214659816/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 07:31:01 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214659816/scat/a9927dde6777aafc In today's business world, disruption is a constant force that never lets up. At the annual WIRED Business Conference: Disruptive by Design, we celebrate the creative power of bold new ideas and the people that make them happen. See the event ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214660393/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 07:15:44 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214660393/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue May 21, 2013 9:27am EDT * Schools, homes and hospital destroyed * Authorities warned town 16 minutes before tornado hit (Adds officials lowering the death toll to 24 from 51) By Carey Gillam and Ian Simpson MOORE, Okla., May 21 (Reuters) - Emergency workers searched for survivors in the rubble of homes, schools and a hospital in an Oklahoma town hit by a powerful tornado, but officials on ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214662835/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 07:02:16 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214662835/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Irrationality in science is every bit as extreme as we see in media events, perhaps more so because of the increased demands in science. Very little science is visible to the public. The carbon dioxide issue is an example of science which has come to the surface of public concerns, and it shows a lack of objectivity which can only be called religion and a lack of standards to a point of outright ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214660178/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 06:54:42 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214660178/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Former U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Douglas Shulman speaks during an interview with Reuters at his office in Washington in this October 8, 2009 file photo. REUTERS/Hyungwon Kang/Files WASHINGTON - A U.S. Senate panel will try on Tuesday to pry more details out of current and former officials of the Internal Revenue Service about the agency’s targeting of conservative ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214656548/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 03:58:38 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214656548/scat/a9927dde6777aafc U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (R) and Attorney General Eric Holder (2nd R) lead a news conference to announce Medicare Fraud Strike Force law enforcement actions at the Justice Department in Washington, May 14, 2013. Also pictured is FBI Assistant Director Ron Hosko (L). REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst WASHINGTON - With the White House already reeling from three major ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214656549/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 03:58:37 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214656549/scat/a9927dde6777aafc MOORE, Oklahoma (Reuters) - At least 91 people, including 20 children, were feared killed when a 2 mile wide tornado tore through an Oklahoma City suburb, trapping victims beneath the rubble as one elementary school took a direct hit and another was ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214656843/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 03:50:27 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214656843/scat/a9927dde6777aafc (Fotolia) A pair of donkeys will be put down after they chased down a pensioner on his motor scooter, dragged him off and killed him. Sandor Horvath, 65, a retired firefighter, was visiting a pal's farm in Magyarszecsod, Hungary, last week when he was attacked by killer donkeys Muki and Szamoca. The animals bit and trampled him to death after dragging him about 50 ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214657280/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 03:34:56 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214657280/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Webcomics are a popular, diverse and increasingly widespread format that most people are blissfully unaware. To address this, an interview was conducted with the team behind the popular UK-based webcomic Exterminatus ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214655688/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 03:03:50 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214655688/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Qualifying high school and college students will have the opportunity to learn the basics of biology field studies while earning college credit at a free science program.Jarvis Christian College is accepting applications to its national Science Foundation Summer Science Institute, which will run from June 9 to July 18, according to a news release from the college.The institute is offering a field ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214656383/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 02:40:02 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214656383/scat/a9927dde6777aafc US tech giant Yahoo has snapped up Tumblr in a major US deal that will reportedly net the blogging site's 26-year-old founder a 250 million US dollar (£164 million) fortune six years after he started ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214654653/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 00:52:44 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214654653/scat/a9927dde6777aafc In vitro fertilization, seen above, is the process of fertilizing an egg before placing it back in a mother's womb as treatment for infertility. Some say the government should cover the costs. (SUBMITTED) Fertility awareness advocates are arguing infertility should be treated as a medical condition and covered by B.C. government health care, pointing to a recent online survey showing broad ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214654190/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 00:47:20 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214654190/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Calgary storm Just after it was revealed Alberta accounted for the majority of severe weather damage in Canada last year, forecasters are calling for one hail of a summer. While the southern and central parts of the province are expected to see hotter-than average temperatures, they’ll also be susceptible to more severe storms, said Jack Boston, a senior meteorologist with AccuWeather.com. ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214654189/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 00:47:20 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214654189/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne in the legislature for this month's provincial budget. (STAN BEHAL, Toronto Sun) Wynne is winning and Hudak’s a dud. Premier Kathleen Wynne and New Democrat’s Andrea Horwath are the most popular leaders in Ontario, leaving the Progressive Conservative’s Tim Hudak in the dust, according to a new Abacus Data poll. "I think Wynne has a lot ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214654655/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 00:23:27 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214654655/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper speaks at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, May 16, 2013. (REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton) OTTAWA - Prime Minister Stephen Harper will make his first public comments Tuesday morning on the Senate expense scandal that has become one of his most serious political crises since taking office in 2006. Harper is scheduled to jet to Peru Tuesday afternoon ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214654654/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Tue, 21 May 2013 00:23:27 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214654654/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Former MLA, MP, and aboriginal leader Elijah Harper has died. Elijah Harper - The Man Who Said No, to many Canadians - was remembered as much more by friends and family at funeral events Monday. Harper, a former Manitoba MLA and MP who was a key figure in shutting down the failed Meech Lake Accord, died Friday as a result of heart failure stemming from diabetes ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214653252/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 23:43:35 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214653252/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Alexandra-Kim Martin-Roberge is seen in this QMI Agency file photo. MONTREAL - The Quebec soldier whose stolen sex tape ruined her military career said she hoped to reach an "accommodation" with army officials. Alexandra-Kim Martin-Roberge said the Canadian army will present her with an offer on Tuesday at CFB Valcartier, just north of Quebec City. In 2010, while on a 12-month ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214653253/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 23:43:35 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214653253/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Yahoo's purchase of blogging site Tumblr wasn't the only news from the company Monday: It also rolled out its redo of photo-sharing service Flickr, adding a new layout, a refreshed Android app, and perhaps most temptingly, a full terabyte of storage free to all users.The update couldn't be more welcome, although some may say it's too little, too late: Flickr was among the ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214651936/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 21:48:09 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214651936/scat/a9927dde6777aafc By Kim Dixon and Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON | Mon May 20, 2013 9:30pm EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two senior White House aides knew weeks ago that a probe of the Internal Revenue Service had found that the U.S. tax agency had inappropriately targeted conservative groups, but did not tell President Barack Obama, a White House spokesman said on Monday. A Treasury Department official ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214652364/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 21:30:20 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214652364/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The days of traditional post-mortem examinations for infants could be numbered. Bereaved parents agonising over whether to subject their dead child or stillborn baby to a full post-mortem now have an alternative that is potentially far less traumatic. For fetuses and infants under the age of one, MRI scans combined with minimally invasive procedures including blood tests are as effective as an ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214651937/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 21:16:09 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214651937/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Prime Minister Stephen Harper speaks during a business round table at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York, May 16, 2013. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid OTTAWA - "People who work hard, pay their taxes, and play by the rules want accountability from their political leaders. We don't expect politicians to be perfect. But we do want to know that our tax dollars - money we've worked for - ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214651938/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 21:08:41 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214651938/scat/a9927dde6777aafc OTTAWA - New Democrats tried to deflect questions about leader Thomas Mulcair's ethics Monday amid apparent contradictory statements he made about an alleged attempt to bribe him in 1994. "What's really clear is that our leader had nothing to do with secret cash payments, whereas the prime minister hasn't explained his role in secret cash payments," NDP MP Charlie Angus ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214651939/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 21:08:40 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214651939/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Victoria DayIt may be the birthday of Queen Victoria, but most of us know the May long weekend as the unofficial kick-off to summer. (File ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214650338/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 20:27:53 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214650338/scat/a9927dde6777aafc leopard seals at the water's edge would also be easier if penguins could take flight-so scientists have often wondered why and how the birds lost that ability. A popular theory of biomechanics suggests that the birds' once-flight-adapted wings simply became more and more efficient for swimming and eventually lost their ability to get penguins off the ground. More efficient diving, on ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214650964/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 20:25:40 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214650964/scat/a9927dde6777aafc While officials start to tally injuries, wrecked homes, and upturned lives, tornado researchers and chasers are swinging into high gear. Despite a suite of sophisticated instruments at their disposal, ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214650963/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 20:25:40 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214650963/scat/a9927dde6777aafc WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama will bestow the Medal of Freedom posthumously on Sally Ride, the first American woman to fly in space. Obama says Ride was a role model to young women and showed that achievement has no limits. He says Ride advocated for innovation in science, engineering and math. Ride rode on the space shuttle Challenger on June 18, 1983. She died in July 2012 at 61 after a ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214650339/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 20:17:35 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214650339/scat/a9927dde6777aafc "Kepler was my North, my South, my East and West, my working week, no weekend rest, my noon, my midnight, my talks, my song; I thought Kepler would last forever: I was ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214650972/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 20:11:21 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214650972/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Bosma's widow: 'I am broken' TORONTO -- Hamilton, Ont., police continued their investigation on the farm owned by Tim Bosma's accused killer amid reports that more remains had been found. Aviation dynasty heir Dellen Millard is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Tim Bosma, 32, whose charred remains were discovered last week by police on the accused man's ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214650973/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 20:04:00 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214650973/scat/a9927dde6777aafc One of the many idiosyncrasies of humanity is our desire to domesticate otherwise wild animals and keep them around as pets. This has generally worked out well for us in regards to small birds, cats, dogs and fish. There are those, however, who push the limits of this domesticity too far and end up endangering the very animal they claim to care for so much. Last week, US Representatives Howard ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214649813/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 19:31:06 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214649813/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A Vancouver company says it will re-start production of a guitar used by Chris Hadfield in space, prompting dozens of new orders. The Canadian astronaut gained worldwide attention when he performed David ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214649238/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 19:14:12 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214649238/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The European Space Agency says a former army helicopter pilot is to be Britain's first official astronaut to go to the International Space Station. Major Tim Peake, 41, is set for a five-month mission to the ISS in 2015 in a move being called a major boost for Britain's space industry, The Daily Telegraph reported Monday. Peake has been awaiting a mission assignment since graduating ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214649129/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 19:12:47 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214649129/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The public has no shortage of enthusiasm for fictional spacefarers, as this weekend's box-office win by the newest "Star Trek" film proves. Yet the real-life U.S. space agency finds itself strapped for cash these days. With federal budgets tightening and NASA feeling the pinch, some space advocates are asking, "Can ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214649814/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 19:09:43 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214649814/scat/a9927dde6777aafc 18 year old Eesha Kha-RAY from Saratoga, Calif., is one of the best young scientists in the world. She received the Young Scientist Award for her research in chemistry. Eesha: "My project, I developed a new supercapacitor, which is basically an energy storage device which can hold a lot of energy in a small amount of volume." Sharon Chin ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214648916/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 19:02:39 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214648916/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Malaria parasites give mosquitoes a keener sense of smell, it seems. A small-scale study in the lab finds that mosquitoes infected by the parasite are three times as likely as uninfected mosquitoes to respond to human odours. If the same results are seen in malaria-carrying mosquitoes in the wild, it could lead to new ways to combat the ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214649815/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 18:55:33 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214649815/scat/a9927dde6777aafc never graced a Labour MP . But as the first astronaut who will spacewalk with bona fide British credentials, he can surely achieve a Tim take-off. Not every namesake will scale the same giddying popularity peaks, but for all a page will be turned - opening, what ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214644733/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Mon, 20 May 2013 18:17:59 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214644733/scat/a9927dde6777aafc