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  • Israel stunned by Hawking snub Israel stunned by Hawking snub

    It is an event "of cosmic proportions", said one Palestinian academic, a befitting description of Stephen Hawking's decision to boycott an Israeli academic conference slated for next June. It was also a decisive moral call which was communicated by the Cambridge University, where Hawking is a professor, on May 8. Hawking is a world-renowned cosmologist and physicist. His scientific work had ...

  • Wireless signals can stunt plant growth

    A Danish science experiment by a group of 9th-graders has gained worldwide interest, after they showed that wireless signals can stunt plant growth. Five girls from Hjallerup Skole, a primary education school in Denmark, began the experiment after noticing that when they slept with their cellphones near their heads overnight, they had trouble focusing the next day, according to Danish News site ...

  • Spanish art gets privileged space in New York museum

    New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has reopened its European paintings galleries after a two-year renovation, giving a privileged space to Spanish masters Velazquez, El Greco and Goya. Prior to the overhaul, the Met's large collection of works by Velazquez, Goya, Ribera, Murillo and El Greco had been distributed in different galleries organized either by artistic movement or ...

  • Russia plans four spacecraft launches in 2014

    Russia's Energia Rocket and Space Corporation will make four launches next year from the Pacific Ocean-based Odyssey platform under the Sea Launch programme, an official said. Corporation president Vitaly Lopota said that after 2014, Energia will be able to make five or more launches a year. Next year's launches will be the first since one of Sea Launch's Zenit vehicles carrying an Intelsat-27 ...

  • Leading scientist attacks university over outrageous IVF treatment patent

    Fertility experts say the patent, which covers the duration of the first three cell cycles in a human embryo, encroaches on a naturally occurring phenomenon. Photograph: ...


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The Last Emperor [DVD]

The Last Emperor [DVD]

Bernardo Bertoluccis The Last Emperor is a grand sweep of a film--a massive, overflowing, almost ridiculously ambitious epic that covers more than six decades of turbulent political and social history. Bertolucci has a love of the intimate, which informs his best films, but h ... ...

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  • Brampton Ont. familys bitter money dispute

    Shanti Devi's son, Admon Devi-Biller, is left to comfort his mother and maintains that his cousin Boodhoo is a crook (STAN BEHAL/Toronto Sun). Shanti Devi’s health is a wreck and her personal life is hardly better. The single Brampton woman may lose her home after being financially ripped off for years by a nephew who also stole her identity. The 69-year-old retiree has lent her ...

  • Why penguins dumped flight for flippers

    Robert Ricklefs at the University of Missouri at St Louis and his colleagues studied 41 murres in flight, they found the birds consumed 146 watts per kilogram of body weight. That is almost three times as much energy as the bar-headed goose, previously considered the least efficient flying ...

  • B vitamins may slow the advance of Alzheimers

    We already know that a high level of the amino acid homocysteine in the blood is a risk factor for Alzheimer's, and that B vitamin supplements help reduce homocysteine levels. But it was unclear whether or not these supplements would slow the progression of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to ...

  • Gliding robot mimics flying fish

    IT MIMICS the leaping glides of flying fish and needs no external power. The Jump Glider could be the first in a new generation of robots, harnessing aerodynamic lift to travel further than it would if it simply hopped, and without using additional ...

  • Syrian opposition struggles to find unity as battle rages on

    Demonstrators shout Islamic slogans as they wave Syrian opposition flags during a protest against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad at the courtyard of Fatih mosque in Istanbul May 24, 2013. (REUTERS/Murad ...

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