http://www.interndaily.com/index.html Sat, 04 FEB 2012 21:40:02 AEST Sat, 04 FEB 2012 21:40:02 AEST en-us A week of ferociously cold temperatures in Ukraine has now claimed 101 lives, the Ukrainian emergencies ministry said Friday as the prime minister admitted the country was enduring "difficult times". Substantially raising the previous toll of 63, it said that 11 people had died in hospital as a result of hypothermia sustained in the cold snap, 26 in their homes and 64 in the streets. Alm]]> Sat, 04 FEB 2012 21:40:02 AEST A photograph of a polar bear in captivity, no matter how sharp the resolution, can never reveal as much about behavior as footage of that polar bear in its natural habitat. The behavior of cells and molecules can prove even more elusive. Limitations in biomedical imaging technologies have hampered attempts to understand cellular and molecular behavior, with biologists trying to envision dynamic ]]> Sat, 04 FEB 2012 21:40:02 AEST A Sumatran rhino which is 10-months pregnant is receiving special medical care after suffering two miscarriages, a conservationist said Thursday, fuelling hope for the critically-endangered species. The nine-year old rhino, named Ratu, is expected to give birth in July to only the fourth Sumatran rhino born in captivity and the first in Indonesia. Her partner Andalas, born in the United]]> Sat, 04 FEB 2012 21:40:02 AEST Among medical mysteries baffling many infectious disease experts is exactly how the deadly pneumonic plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, goes undetected in the first few day of lung infection, often until it's too late for medical treatment. New research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine has opened a door to the answer. Researchers led by William E. G]]> Sat, 04 FEB 2012 21:40:02 AEST Snow blanketed Italy on Wednesday on what is forecast to be the coldest week in 27 years, forcing the closure of tracts of motorway and snarling traffic in the cities of Bologna and Milan. Heavy goods lorries were banned from the roads in the central regions of Marche, Tuscany and Umbria until further notice and schools were shut in several areas, while a major hospital in Turin was also clo]]> Sat, 04 FEB 2012 21:40:02 AEST Russia's state space agency Roscosmos has launched a cosmonaut selection competition, Roscosmos said on its web site on Friday. Candidates should apply with the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. A lucky few will be selected for cosmonaut training by a commission made up of representatives of the training center, rocket and space corporation Energia and the Institute of Biomedical Pro]]> Sat, 04 FEB 2012 21:40:02 AEST A cold snap that killed 30 people in Ukraine over the past five days spread Tuesday to swathes of eastern and central Europe with record lows in Bulgaria and heavy snow in Switzerland and parts of Italy. Emergency services in Ukraine said most of the dead were homeless people who froze to death on the streets, four were found in their homes, and more than 600 people sought medical help for f]]> Sat, 04 FEB 2012 21:40:02 AEST The earth is alive, asserts a revolutionary scientific theory of life emerging from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. The trans-disciplinary theory demonstrates that purportedly inanimate, non-living objects-for example, planets, water, proteins, and DNA-are animate, that is, alive. With its broad explanatory power, applicable to all areas of science and medicine, this novel pa]]> Sat, 04 FEB 2012 21:40:02 AEST Lab scientists and international collaborators have created the shortest, purest X-ray laser pulses ever achieved, fulfilling a 45-year-old prediction and ultimately opening the door to new medicines, devices and materials. The researchers, reporting in Nature, aimed radiation from the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), located at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), at a cell c]]> Sat, 04 FEB 2012 21:40:02 AEST A suicide bomber set off an explosives-packed car outside a Baghdad hospital on Friday, killing 31 people in the capital's deadliest day in a month, amid a political crisis that has stoked tensions. The attack in a predominantly Shiite neighbourhood, which also left 60 people wounded, came days after Al-Qaeda warned it would continue targeting Shiite Muslims and barely a month after US troop]]> Sat, 04 FEB 2012 21:40:02 AEST Eighty-five percent of HIV-positive people in Democratic Republic of Congo have no access to AIDS treatment, while international funding has been cut, according to Doctors Without Borders. The Belgian wing of Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF-B) said in a statement released Wednesday that "the conditions of access to care of people living with HIV/AIDS are catastrophic." The medical charity ]]> Sat, 04 FEB 2012 21:40:02 AEST Scientists have developed a new way to create electromagnetic Terahertz (THz) waves or T-rays - the technology behind full-body security scanners. The researchers behind the study, published recently in the journal Nature Photonics, say their new stronger and more efficient continuous wave T-rays could be used to make better medical scanning gadgets and may one day lead to innovations similar to]]> Sat, 04 FEB 2012 21:40:02 AEST A 5.5-magnitude earthquake struck the area of the city of Neyshabour in northeast Iran on Thursday, injuring at least 100 people and damaging several houses, state media reported. The jolt hit at 1235 GMT, the reports said. "In the quake, 100 people were injured. Eighty-three were treated as out patients and the rest have been admitted to hospital. We have no reports of any deaths," Khor]]> Sat, 04 FEB 2012 21:40:02 AEST Hopes of at last controlling malaria in Africa could be dashed by the emergence of poor-quality and fraudulent antimalarial medicines, warn experts writing in 'Malaria Journal'. Unless urgent action is taken both within Africa and internationally, they argue, millions of lives could be put at risk. In a study published in the journal, an international team of researchers report that some c]]> Sat, 04 FEB 2012 21:40:02 AEST Robotics experts at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the University of Washington (UW) have completed a set of seven advanced robotic surgery systems for use by major medical research laboratories throughout the United States. After a round of final tests, five of the systems will be shipped to medical robotics researchers at Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, University o]]> Sat, 04 FEB 2012 21:40:02 AEST