MOSCOW, Nov. 11, 2009 (Reuters) — Vitaly Ginzburg, a Russian physicist who survived Stalin's purges by working on the Soviet atomic bomb project and later won the Nobel Prize for physics, died in Moscow late on Sunday after a long illness. He was 93. ... > full story
BARCELONA, Spain, Nov. 9, 2009 (Reuters) — New uses of genetic testing can help track how animal diets may change due to global warming and are helping crack down on wildlife smuggling, experts said on Saturday. ... > full story
WASHINGTON, Nov. 6, 2009 (Reuters) — People who think they may have H1N1 flu need to stay away from work, avoid sneezing on their spouses and children and now, they have someone else to worry about infecting too -- their pets. ... > full story
JAKARTA, Nov. 6, 2009 (Reuters) — An Indonesia-based study shows carbon-rich tropical peat lands trap more greenhouse gases than first thought, driving up their potential value on the carbon market and strengthening a case for their protection. ... > full story
BEIJING, Nov. 6, 2009 (Reuters) — China supports the peaceful exploration and use of space, President Hu Jintao said on Friday, days after its top air force officials sparked concerns with talk of a "Great Wall of steel in the blue sky." ... > full story
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Nov. 5, 2009 (Reuters) — Canada will launch an investigation into why far fewer sockeye salmon than scientists had predicted returned to the Fraser River on the Pacific Coast this summer. ... > full story
LONDON, Nov. 5, 2009 (Reuters) — Scientists have managed to halt a rare and fatal brain disease with an experimental gene therapy technique using a deactivated version of the AIDS virus, a study published on Thursday showed. ... > full story
BOSTON, Nov. 5, 2009 (Reuters) — Allowing the heart to keep beating during coronary bypass surgery is riskier than stopping the heart and using a heart-lung machine to keep the patient alive, researchers reported on Wednesday. ... > full story
LONDON, Nov. 4, 2009 (Reuters) — A growing storm of debris flying around in space is dramatically increasing the risk of orbital crashes, and steps to avoid them will add greatly to the costs of future space flight, British space experts say. ... > full story
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