Open Richard III DNA evidence for peer review A good case has been made that a skeleton unearthed from a car park is that of the last Plantagenet king of England - it's time to share the dataUniversal bug sensor takes guesswork out of diagnosis A machine that can identify all bacteria, viruses and fungi known to cause disease in humans should speed up diagnosis and help to reduce antibiotic...
Boeing Dreamliner to make special one-time flight
Labels: Technology WASHINGTON: A Boeing 787 Dreamliner will fly for the first time in three weeks in a so-called ferry flight after the company won permission on Wednesday from US regulators.In the special one-time flight, the plane -- with no passengers and just the minimum crew needed to fly it -- will travel on Thursday from Forth Worth, Texas, where it was being painted, back to Boeing's assembly plant...
Obama agrees to give drone documents to Congress
Labels: LifestyleBy Lesa Jansen, CNNupdated 8:27 PM EST, Wed February 6, 2013The U.S. MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aircraft vehicle has been used to take out key targets in the war on terror. STORY HIGHLIGHTSThe move comes on the eve of confirmation hearings for CIA director nominee John BrennanThe drone program has been shrouded in secrecy, which has been criticized by senatorsThe policy paper will go to congressional intelligence...
Sequestration already cutting into national defense
Labels: Health (CBS News) WASHINGTON -- There is a much bigger Washington fiscal crisis coming in three weeks, when automatic, across-the-board budget cuts go into effect unless Congress finds another way. In Washington lingo, the budget cuts are called sequestration, and they're already cutting into national defense. Watch: Scott Pelley speaks with President Barack Obama about sequestration, at left. Late Wednesday...
Galaxy May Be Full of 'Second Earths'
Labels: Business You may look out on a starry night and get a lonely feeling, but astronomers now say our Milky Way galaxy may be thick with planets much like Earth -- perhaps 4.5 billion of them, according to the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.Astronomers looked at data from NASA's Kepler space telescope in orbit, and conclude that 6 percent of the red dwarf stars in the Milky...
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Today on New Scientist: 5 February 2013
Labels: World Engineering light: Pull an image from nowhere A new generation of lenses could bring us better lighting, anti-forgery technology and novel movie projectors Baby boomers' health worse than their parents Americans who were born in the wake of the second world war have poorer health than the previous generation at the same ageNew 17-million-digit monster is largest known prime A distributed computing...
China radar-lock on Japan ship 'dangerous': PM Abe
Labels: Technology TOKYO: The radar-lock that a Chinese frigate put on a Japanese warship was "dangerous" and "provocative", Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Wednesday, as tensions in a territorial row ratcheted up."It was a dangerous act that could have led to an unpredictable situation," Abe told parliament. "It is extremely regrettable. We strongly ask for their self-restraint in order to avoid...
FBI: Bombs found in Alabama kidnapper's bunker
Labels: LifestyleSTORY HIGHLIGHTSNEW: Two bombs found in kidnapper's bunker, FBI saysState police: Ethan released from hospitalHostage taker was difficult to deal with from Day 1, source saysLaw enforcement used a secret camera to see inside bunker, source saysMidland City, Alabama (CNN) -- Two bombs were discovered Tuesday inside the bunker where an FBI team rescued a 5-year-old boy from his kidnapper, the agency...
Triple amputee vet takes on skydiving, alligator wrestling
Labels: Health (CBS News) HIRAM, Ga. -- When CBS News met Todd Love last year, he was learning how to kayak, and that's no small accomplishment, because Love is a triple amputee. As a U.S. Recon Marine in Afghanistan two years ago, he lost both legs and his left forearm to a landmine. Love said then that kayaking didn't completely satisfy his need for adventure. Watch: CBS News first met Todd Love when he was...
Sierra's Family Selling Photos to Cover Funeral, Kids
Labels: Business The family of Sarai Sierra, an amateur New York photographer slain while on a trip to Turkey, put her photos up for sale today and quickly sold enough photographs to pay forher funeral, the woman's brother said today.The photos remain on sale and the profits will now be going to her two young sons, the family said.Sierra, 33, was found bludgeoned to death near a highway in Istanbul...
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