WASHINGTON, Mar. 3, 2010 (Reuters) — Atrazine, one of the most commonly used and controversial weedkillers, can turn male frogs into females, researchers reported on Monday. ... > full story
STAR CITY, Russia, Mar. 3, 2010 (Reuters) — Russia announced a halt to space tourism on Wednesday, saying it would struggle to ferry professional crews to the International Space Station after the U.S. mothballs its shuttle fleet this year. ... > full story
CAIRO, Mar. 3, 2010 (Reuters) — Archaeologists have unearthed the intact sarcophagus of Egypt's Queen Behenu inside her 4,000-year-old burial chamber near her pyramid in Saqqara, chief archaeologist Zahi Hawass announced Wednesday. ... > full story
DUBAI, Mar. 3, 2010 (Reuters) — Virgin Galactic is aiming to launch test flights into space in 2011, but does not need additional financing after selling a stake to Abu Dhabi's Abaar last year, its chief executive said on Wednesday. ... > full story
LONDON, Mar. 2, 2010 (Reuters) — Families in some poor nations are trapped in cycles of illness and poverty as authorities fail to tackle chronic health problems or meet goals on child health and tuberculosis, scientists said on Tuesday. ... > full story
VANCOUVER, Mar. 2, 2010 (Reuters) — Sustainable Energy Technologies Ltd, a solar equipment maker that recently relocated to Toronto from Calgary, may soon land its first large-scale orders in its new home province, the world's newest "go-to" region for solar power. ... > full story
CAIRO, Feb. 28, 2010 (Reuters) — A colossal 3000-year-old red granite head of Amenhotep III, the grandfather of Tutankhamun, has been discovered in Luxor, Egypt's Culture Minister Farouk Hosni said Sunday. ... > full story
NUSA DUA, Indonesia, Feb. 26, 2010 (Reuters) — An independent board of scientists is to review the work of a U.N. climate panel, whose credibility came under attack after it published errors, a U.N. environment spokesman said on Friday. ... > full story
SINGAPORE, Feb. 25, 2010 (Reuters) — The pace of global warming continues unabated, scientists said on Thursday, despite images of Europe crippled by a deep freeze and parts of the United States blasted by blizzards. ... > full story
LONDON, Feb. 24, 2010 (Reuters) — More than three-quarters of scientists in China use the search engine Google as a primary research tool and say their work would be significantly hampered if they were to lose it, a survey showed on Wednesday. ... > full story
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