Archive for the ‘science’ Category

Church to make posthumous apology to Charles Darwin - Telegraph

Sunday, September 14th, 2008

Survival of the fittest. Church apologizes to Darwin.Read the full story

Energy Probe - The Deniers: Our spotless sun

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

The battle over who has control of the thermostat in your house could become even greater.Read the full story

Bush signs bill to prevent discrimination based on genetic testing

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act was signed into law today by President Bush. With genetic tests available over the internet at a price many people can afford, there has been a strong lobby for a law that will help safeguard how that information is being used. The law will make ...

MPs vote for human-animal hybrid embryos - Telegraph

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

In a debate that covered the range from pure science to bioethics to science fiction images, British legislators voted earlier this week to allow stem cell researchers to work with animal-human embryos. This means that researchers will be able to inject human DNA into empty cow or rabbit eggs. Depending ...