Easily weaponized virus goes missing from Texas lab
Photo: AFP/ Tim Sloan Whatever you do, don’t go making out with any mice for a little bit: a Texas laboratory has misplaced a small vial containing a rodent borne virus that that has...
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Welsh farmer digs sheep out of 5ft snow drifts
The heavy March snowfall has been a “disaster” for rural communities, says sheep farmer Gareth Wyn Jones as he desperately tries to dig his flock out of five-foot high drifts. Mr Wyn Jones, from...
Study warns on mobile location data privacy
Scientists say it is remarkably easy to identify a mobile phone user from just a few pieces of location information. Whenever a phone is switched on, its connection to the network means its position...
Britain on course for ‘three parent babies’
Photo: Alamy Britain is on course to become the first country in the world to legalise the creation of IVF babies with three biological “parents” after the fertility watchdog announced that the public is...
Google Glass: Orwellian surveillance with fluffier branding
Photo: The Telegraph New technology will make us all agents for Google. Nick Pickles, Director of Big Brother Watch, says the implications for privacy are profoundly worrying. In the online world – for now,...
Drug-resistant pandemic swine flu ‘community risk’
Australian experts are concerned about the threat of a new type of drug-resistant pandemic flu that is circulating in the population at large. The swine flu strain has learned how to dodge the antiviral...
Recipe for Resurrection: “Reviving Extinct Species”
Can the red-breasted American passenger pigeon, hunted to extinction a century ago, be revived from museum specimens? Yes, say geneticist George Church of Harvard University and his colleagues. See how it could be done...
China pulls nearly 6,000 dead pigs from Shanghai river
Officials say the number of pig carcasses found in Shanghai’s Huangpu River has risen to nearly 6,000. In a statement, Shanghai authorities said that 5,916 dead pigs had been removed from the river by...
Antibiotics resistance ‘as big a risk as terrorism’ – medical chief
The danger posed by growing resistance to antibiotics should be ranked along with terrorism on a list of threats to the nation, the government’s chief medical officer for England has said. Professor Dame Sally...
Antarctic Lake Vostok yields ‘new bacterial life’
Russian scientists have claimed the discovery of a new type of bacterial life in water from a buried Antarctic lake. The researchers have been studying samples brought up from Vostok – the largest subglacial...
