An innovative treatment for HIV patients developed by McGill University Health Centre researchers has passed its first clinical trial with flying colours. The new approach is an immunotherapy customized for each individual patient, and was developed by Dr. J-P. Routy from the Research Institute of the MUHC in collaboration with Dr. R. Sékaly from the Université de Montréal....

AFP - Two giant pandas due to begin a 10-year stay at an Australian zoo could give the local economy a bigger boost than recent visits by Tiger Woods or Lance Armstrong, officials said...

When I think of computer security vulnerabilities, I imagine a hacker crouched over a keyboard as a single drop of sweat slowly slides down her face (hackers tend to be female in my imagination -- I blame Joss Whedon for ...

AFP - Indonesia detained 14 mostly foreign Greenpeace activists Wednesday as they protested against a big pulp and paper company in this country known for its greenhouse gas emissions, the group...

LiveScience.com - The brain's fear center apparently has a built-in chemical sensor triggered by a primordial terror - threat of suffocation.

Shuttle Atlantis undocked from the International Space Station early Wednesday and headed home with one astronaut eager to hold his newborn daughter for the first time and another who's been away from her young son since the summer. Before signing off from Mission Control, flight director Mike Sarafin wished the seven crew members a happy Thanksgiving and a good landing on Friday. "We'll do...

SPACE.com - Incredibly powerful waves of plasma rippling across the surface of the sun and dubbed "solar tsunamis" were first observed years ago, but were thought to be an optical illusion. Scientists have now confirmed, though, that they are really real.

(AP) -- China has detected eight cases of swine flu mutation, a health official said Wednesday, amid longstanding concerns among scientists that the virus could change into a more dangerous form.

Dentists can help to identify patients who are in danger of dying of a heart attack or stroke, reveals a new study from the Sahlgrenska Academy. Thanks to the study, six men who thought they were completely healthy were able to start preventive treatment in time.

When you eat may be just as vital to your health as what you eat, found researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Their experiments in mice revealed that the daily waxing and waning of thousands of genes in the liver -- the body's metabolic clearinghouse -- is mostly controlled by food intake and not by the body's circadian clock as conventional wisdom had it.

On September 11, firefighters, police officers and ambulance workers faced a terrifying rescue effort in the World Trade Center complex. They battled to save people from the collapsing Twin Towers, searched for survivors, tackled fires and evacuated as many people as they could in an area which contained an estimated 17,000 people. And making their jobs even harder was the problem of poor...

(PhysOrg.com) -- Several research security firms have reported a new worm attack against jail broken iPhones, dubbed "Ikee.B or "Duh", this worm searches for personal and banking information.

Over the course of a lifetime, the heart pumps some 250 million liters of blood through the body. In the order to do this, the muscle fibers of the heart have to be extremely durable. The research group headed by Dr. Wolfgang Rottbauer, vice chair of the Department of Medicine III at Heidelberg University Hospital (Germany), has discovered a protein that is responsible for the stability of the...

A team of Spanish scientists, studying recent, active deformations in the Baetic mountain range, have shown that the activity of smaller tectonic structures close to larger faults in the south east of the Iberian Peninsula partially offsets the risk of earthquakes.

President Obama is to pledge to cut greenhouse gas emissions in several stages, beginning with 17% by 2020, officials say.

LiveScience.com - Imagine wrapping paper that could be a gift in and of itself because it lights up with words like "Happy Birthday." That is one potential application of a new biodegradable battery made of cellulose, the stuff of paper.

AP - An environmental group and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency are seeking to settle a lawsuit aimed at getting Utah to change its air pollution regulations.

Saul Loeb)" border="0" />AP - President Barack Obama will attend a widely anticipated global climate summit in Copenhagen next month to spell out the U.S. goal for curbing greenhouse gas...

A Swiss daredevil attempting to fly across the Strait of Gibraltar using just a homemade, jet-powered wing fell short of his goal and was rescued from the water on Wednesday.

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research into Alzheimer's disease seems an unlikely approach to yield a better way to fight urinary tract infections (UTIs), but that's what scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and elsewhere recently reported.

Thousands of 2010 fans could offer rich pickings for increasingly aggressive monkeys in search of snacksViolent crime. Transport chaos. Over-priced hotels. Visitor anxieties about next year's World Cup in South Africa. These could be as nothing compared with a new menace: marauding baboons.The light-fingered primates have learned how to open car doors and jump through windows in pursuit of...

Naturalist Mark Fraser is back to share his latest video on katydids. Mark tells me, "Katydids are true masters of the art of camouflage. As they graze in grasses and wild meadows on plant matter, they do so trusting that ...

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"Dinosaur Park" in Prince Georges County, Maryland, has only been open for two weekends, but it's already led to a probable noteworthy find. (Image: Ribbon cutting ceremony for Dinosaur Park, MD. Credit: Prince George's County Department of Parks and Recreation ...