
AFP - US biotech firm Genentech said Monday its board urged shareholders to reject a takeover offer from Swiss pharmaceutical group Roche as "inadequate and not in the best interests of stockholders."
trackback:http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090223/ts_alt_afp/switzerlanduscompanymergerpharmarochegenentechAP - Beauty is in the brain of the beholder. Go to any museum and there will be men and women admiring paintings and sculpture. But it turns out they are thinking about the sight differently. Men process beauty on the right side of their brains, whil
trackback:http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090223/ap_on_sc/sci_beauty_and_the_brainAP - The Earth won #039;t have to warm up as much as had been thought to cause serious consequences of global warming, including more extreme weather and increasing threats to plants and animals, says an international team of climate experts.
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AFP - Genes from genetically-engineered corn have been found in traditional crop strains in Mexico, according to a new study likely to reignite a bitter controversy over biotech maize.
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AFP - NASA readied the launch early Tuesday of a satellite that will produce the first complete map of the Earth s human and natural sources of carbon dioxide, CO2, the gas most closely linked to climate change.
trackback:http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090223/sc_afp/climateusspacenasaLiveScience.com - A bizarre deep-water fish called the barreleye has a transparent head and tubular eyes. Since the fish s discovery in 1939, biologists have known the eyes were very good at collecting light. But their shape seemed to leave the fish
trackback:http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090223/sc_livescience/strangefishhasseethroughheadAP - Weather around the U.S.A.
trackback:http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090223/ap_on_we_us/us_tempsLiveScience.com - Every mom knows that pregnancy and birth really sap your energy. To get some back, many rattlesnake mothers will eat some of their non-surviving offspring, a new study finds.
trackback:http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090223/sc_livescience/cannibalisticrattlesnakeseatdeadoffspringAP - Former Vice President Al Gore says lower oil prices shouldn t stall efforts to put a price on carbon emissions to combat climate change and reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil.
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AP - A winter storm system will produce mixed precipitation over the Northeast on Monday as it treks toward Canada, while another storm system barreled into California.
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AP - NASA delayed the launch of space shuttle Discovery for a fourth time on Friday amid valve concerns, and managers are uncertain when the flight will take place.
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AP - If we don t deal with climate change decisively, "what we re talking about then is extended world war," the eminent economist said.
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AP - A parka-clad band of environment ministers landed in this remote corner of the icy continent on Monday, in the final days of an intense season of climate research, to learn more about how a melting Antarctica may endanger the planet.
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