2019-03-01
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Destruction of World?s Largest Coral Reef
April 25, 2002An epidemic of coral bleaching is effecting the world?s largest coral reef: the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. An extensive survey of the Great Barrier Reef carried out over the last month has revealed "widespread bleaching", says Terry Done, chief... continued
Cancer From Food You Eat Everyday
April 25, 2002Bread, biscuits, potato chips and french fries contain alarmingly high quantities of acrylamide, a substance believed to cause cancer, according to Swedish scientists. The research carried out at Stockholm University in cooperation with Sweden's National Food Administration, a government food... continued
Ice Shelf Collapse May Cause Antarctica Starvation
April 24, 2002As parts of Antarctica are fall into the sea, new satellite data shows that these dramatic changes are affecting the growth of small organisms important to the local food chain. Icebergs that have broken off from the Ross Ice Shelf... continued
Sunshine Brings Good Health
April 24, 2002Weather fluctuations can have subtle and dangerous effects on your health, including a small increased risk of stroke, cancer or mental illness. After looking at 3,289 first-time stroke sufferers in Dijon, France, researchers found there were fewer strokes in warmer... continued
Star Wars May Make Space Too Crowded
April 24, 2002Space-based missile defenses systems could produce dangerous space debris that would make low-Earth orbits permanently unusable, according to Joel Primack of the University of California at Santa Cruz. The orbiting anti-missile battle stations proposed by the U.S. could result in... continued
Double Trouble: Asteroids Come in Pairs
April 24, 2002When Earth is next hit by an asteroid, the impact may well be doubled, since a new study estimates that 16 percent of asteroids in the region of space shared by Earth's orbit are actually double asteroids, called binaries. Evidence... continued
Dyslexia Breath Test
April 23, 2002Children may soon be able to take a simple breath test to see if they have dyslexia. The breath test, developed by Dr. Alexandra Richardson of the University of Oxford, works by measuring biochemical imbalances in the body that are... continued
Our Ancestors Much Older Than We Thought
April 23, 2002There are popular cartoons of cavemen co-existing with dinosaurs, even though we know we didn?t come along until well after all the dinosaurs were gone. Now it?s been discovered that the common ancestor of humans, monkeys, apes and other primates... continued
Booze Binges Cause Brain Damage
April 23, 2002New research shows that rats given large bingeing doses of alcohol every eight hours for four consecutive days experienced brain damage. The area of the brain responsible for smell was damaged after only two days of heavy drinking and other... continued
Anthrax Victims Slow to Recover
April 23, 2002Lena H. Sun reports in the Washington Post that six months after inhaling anthrax spores, several of the mail workers who survived the deadly disease have yet to make a full recovery and are experiencing serious fatigue and memory loss.... continued