Provides the latest RSS feeds for Science News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Hong Kong Herald.com http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/cat/a9927dde6777aafc/ en-us Sun, 19 May 2013 07:33:53 -0400 Sun, 19 May 2013 07:33:53 -0400 30 The returnable capsule of a biological research satellite landed in Russia Sunday, bringing mice, Mongolian gerbils, geckos and various micro-organisms and plants back to Earth after their month-long flight, the Mission Control said. The capsule landed in Orenburg region near the border with Kazakhstan. The descent vehicle separated from the equipment module of the Bion-M spacecraft at 6.32 ... http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214612785/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sun, 19 May 2013 05:50:01 -0400 http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214612785/scat/a9927dde6777aafc NASA has revealed that a boulder-sized meteor slammed into the moon in March, causing an explosion so bright that it was visible to the naked eye on Earth. Though about 300 lunar impacts have been logged over the years, NASA scientists consider this latest impact, from March 17, much brighter than anything else observed, News.com.au reported. "We have seen a couple of others in the 'wow' ... http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214611890/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sun, 19 May 2013 03:30:01 -0400 http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214611890/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fair skinned people are known to be at higher risk for skin cancer and other problems associated with too much exposure to the sun, but experts say people of color also are vulnerable to the harmful effects of ultraviolet (UV) rays emitted by the sun and indoor tanning beds. Darker skin has more pigment-making cells, which provide some inherent protection against UV rays, but not enough, said ... http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214610673/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sun, 19 May 2013 01:40:02 -0400 http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214610673/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Excitement has been growing in recent months over the approach of Comet ISON. Like other comets, this chunk of rock and ice is following a long, elliptical orbit around the Sun, and like other comets, when it nears the Sun later this year, its trailing stream of dust and vapor will catch the sunlight and become a long, luminous, tail. Many astronomers are predicting that when this celestial ... http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214606429/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 18:15:14 -0400 http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214606429/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Martha Brockenbrough, the founder of National Grammar Day and the Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar, tells host Rachel Martin about what she has referred to as an "apostrophe catastrophe." The U.S. Board on Geographic Names has a policy against possessive apostrophes in the names of places. The ... http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214613420/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sun, 19 May 2013 06:39:17 -0400 http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214613420/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The winning Powerball numbers are shown after being drawn at the Florida Lottery studio in Tallahassee May 18, 2013. The winning numbers are 22, 10, 13, 14, 52, and the Powerball number is 11. The Powerball jackpot is a record-setting $590.5 million. (REUTERS/Philip ... http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214612803/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sun, 19 May 2013 05:35:35 -0400 http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214612803/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The objects scientists think are black holes could instead be wormholes leading to other universes, a new study says. If so, it would help resolve a quantum conundrum known as the black hole information paradox, but critics say it would also raise new problems, such as how the wormholes would form in the first ... http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214613056/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sun, 19 May 2013 05:22:01 -0400 http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214613056/scat/a9927dde6777aafc MOSCOW - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon voiced concern on Sunday over North Korea's launch of short-range missiles, urging Pyonyang to refrain from further launches and return to stalled nuclear talks with world powers.Ban, who spoke to Russian state news agency RIA Novosti during a visit to Moscow, called North Korea's launch of three short-range missiles from its east coast on ... http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214612486/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sun, 19 May 2013 04:54:00 -0400 http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214612486/scat/a9927dde6777aafc USA After spending more than $200 million, the Pentagon's advanced research branch has decided to scrap one of its key space projects, System F6, which aimed to distribute functions of a big satellite into several small ones orbiting in a tight formation. The project, fully named Future, Fast, Flexible, Fractionated Free-flying Spacecraft United by Information Exchange, was expected to go ... http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214612384/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sun, 19 May 2013 03:56:44 -0400 http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214612384/scat/a9927dde6777aafc MOSCOW, May 19 (RIA Novosti) – The returnable capsule of a biological research satellite has landed in the Russian Orenburg Region near the border with Kazakhstan, bringing mice, Mongolian gerbils, geckos and various microorganisms and plants back to Earth after their month-long flight, Mission Control said on Sunday. "The descent vehicle separated from the equipment module of the ... http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214612220/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sun, 19 May 2013 03:55:49 -0400 http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214612220/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A Russian capsule filled with 45 mice and 15 newts along with other small animals returned from a month's mission in orbit with data scientists hope will pave the way for a manned flight to Mars. Russian Mission Control said the Bion-M craft landed softly with the help of a special parachute system in the Orenburg Region about 1,200 kilometres southeast of Moscow. The capsule was ... http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214612038/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sun, 19 May 2013 03:30:55 -0400 http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214612038/scat/a9927dde6777aafc As Britain steels itself for the prospect of yet another washout summer, strawberry growers are finding themselves forced to come up with increasingly sophisticated ways of assessing the threat posed to their livelihoods by inclement weather.For fruit growers, predicting the weather is vital. It causes fruit yields to vary by as much as 70%, making for an erratic growing season if poor conditions ... http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214611582/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sun, 19 May 2013 03:11:19 -0400 http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214611582/scat/a9927dde6777aafc PC storage space is cheap these days, and if you've just bought one of the latest 4TB drives then the chances are you won't be worried about filling it any time soon. It's still important not to waste hard drive space, of course: the more clutter you have, the longer your file searches, virus scans, defrags and other system-wide operations will take. Understanding what's ... http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214611939/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sun, 19 May 2013 03:07:18 -0400 http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214611939/scat/a9927dde6777aafc More than 40 million people globally take an SSRI antidepressant, among them many writers and musicians. But do they hamper the creative process, extinguishing the spark that produces great art, or do they enhance artistic ... http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214611182/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sun, 19 May 2013 02:21:20 -0400 http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214611182/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Crisil has pitched for urgent reforms in policy and regulatory areas to ensure that benefits of the progress achieved reach the bottom of the pyramid. "Infrastructure segments like power, road and ports have significantly evolved over the years mainly due to reforms, private sector interest and strong investment flows. Today, they are at a point which calls for the next level of initiatives ... http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214611072/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sun, 19 May 2013 01:13:32 -0400 http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214611072/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Dellen Millard, left, has been charged with the first-degree murder of Tim Bosma. Cops are also probing possible between Millard and Laura Babcock's disappearance. (Handout/Facebook ... http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214610186/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sun, 19 May 2013 00:31:57 -0400 http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214610186/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Murder probe underway after Malcolm X's grandson dies Two men arrested in the fatal beating of the grandson of US civil rights activist Malcolm X were sent to prison on Saturday to await trial, a Mexico City court spokesman said. David Hernandez and Manuel Perez, waiters at the Palace nightclub near Mexico City's popular Garibaldi Square, face charges of murder and robbery, the ... http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214609301/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 22:52:05 -0400 http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214609301/scat/a9927dde6777aafc (Fotolia) The owner of a Milwaukee bowling alley and bar who was recently told to remove hundreds of bras hanging from the ceiling due to it being a fire hazard has been allowed to put them back ... http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214608706/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 21:54:53 -0400 http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214608706/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The highly respected Nature Scientific Reports journal has just published a map of the world's leading science cities and it looks pretty bad for emerging countries: It shows the planet's Northern Hemisphere full of lights and the south almost solidly ... http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214608721/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 21:48:36 -0400 http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214608721/scat/a9927dde6777aafc 1 of 4. Passengers wait to be picked-up after two commuter trains collided in Bridgeport, Connecticut causing one to derail injuring numerous passengers, May 17, 2013. Some 20 to 25 people were injured on Friday in a train accident near Fairfield, Connecticut, a Fairfield Police spokesman said on ... http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214608707/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 21:47:24 -0400 http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214608707/scat/a9927dde6777aafc (File Photo) RICHMOND, Va. - A car driven by an elderly man who may have lost consciousness plowed through a small-town parade of hiking enthusiasts in southwestern Virginia on Saturday, injuring dozens of people, nine seriously enough to be sent to hospitals, authorities said. The incident occurred in the Appalachian town of Damascus at the start of the annual Trail Days festival, as the main ... http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214608223/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 21:01:15 -0400 http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214608223/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Canadian Flag and Quebec Flag are seen over looking the Ottawa River from the Civilization Museum behind Parliament Hill in Gatineau, Que. Sept 19, 2012. (ANDRE FORGET/QMI AGENCY) MONTREAL - The Quebec government claims to be listening to the concerns of anglophones regarding a new language bill, but its actions don't reflect its words, two prominent Montreal anglo-rights activists say. ... http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214608300/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 21:01:13 -0400 http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214608300/scat/a9927dde6777aafc "We had a lot of good depth. We had a lot of good juniors who didn't get a lot of playing time because we had so much depth this year. They'll all be back next year," Hobaugh said. "We'll be OK next year. We'll be in the thick of it again, I ... http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214608594/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 20:54:17 -0400 http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214608594/scat/a9927dde6777aafc European Space Agency astronaut more than two years ago and has been waiting for a space mission since then.It was feared the former army helicopter pilot might be given a short-duration mission because the UK only makes modest contributions to Esa's manned space programme. Major contributors such as France, Germany and Italy were expected to have priority.However, ... http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214607044/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 19:20:07 -0400 http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214607044/scat/a9927dde6777aafc , a maths fellow at Queen Mary, University of London, who moonlights as a stand-up comedian. "In my new show I'm going to be showing my all-time favourite. It's pretty spectacular. You may have your own favourite spreadsheet, I don't ... http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214607425/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 19:20:06 -0400 http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214607425/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The time we have at our disposal each day is elastic, Proust claimed. It sounds an odd remark. Surely we have precisely 24 hours, no more and no less. Even the occasional leap second - introduced to keep calendars accurate - hardly changes the fixed time we have every day on ... http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214607029/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 19:20:05 -0400 http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214607029/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Cognitive scientist and philosopher Daniel Dennett is one of America's foremost thinkers. In this extract from his new book, he reveals some of the lessons life has taught ... http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214607030/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 19:20:04 -0400 http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214607030/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Angelina Jolie who has revealed she had decided to have a preventive double mastectomy after testing for the ''faulty'' gene BRCA1. Photograph: Dan ... http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214607035/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 19:20:01 -0400 http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214607035/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Arctic frontier town of Salekhard, in Siberia. I was there to film an expedition to recover a new mammoth specimen with a crew from the BBC. We were keen to head north into the tundra of the Yamal peninsula, where we'd heard that new mammoth carcasses had been discovered. After sharing a large Mi-8 helicopter with a load of Siberian hunters, we landed at a reindeer herders' camp, ... http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214607426/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 19:20:00 -0400 http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214607426/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, left, speaks in front of his brother Coun. Doug Ford at City Hall in Toronto on February 25, 2013. (DAVE ABEL/QMI ... http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214606959/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 19:11:54 -0400 http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214606959/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A 20-year-old spectator is dead after a stunt went wrong at a show and shine event in Edmonton. (DAVID BLOOM/QMI Agency) ... http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214607104/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 19:11:54 -0400 http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214607104/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Paul Godfrey speaks with the media about being fired as the head of the OLG in Toronto on May 16, 2013. (DAVE THOMAS/QMI Agency) TORONTO - ... http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214607103/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 19:11:53 -0400 http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214607103/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Play video OTTAWA - Tory MPs may not be in the mood for fireworks and barbecues over the Victoria Day weekend, amid a Senate expense claim scandal that forced Senators Mike Duffy and Pamela Wallin to leave the party caucus. "I'm getting calls from loyal Conservatives furious over the Senate," one MP told QMI Agency on condition of anonymity. "And I'm mad with rage, ... http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214606555/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 18:18:00 -0400 http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214606555/scat/a9927dde6777aafc ABU DHABI // The wait for the start of Ramadan is always an anxious one. After weeks of guesses and rumours about what the date will be, astronomers haul their telescopes to the highest point in their emirate and watch for the new crescent moon to usher in the Holy Month. But last week the French Muslim Council voted to do away with that, basing the start of Ramadan on astronomical calculations ... http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214606007/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 17:38:46 -0400 http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214606007/scat/a9927dde6777aafc The Large Hadron Collider was built in the pursuit of pure science, but research into quantum mechanics might soon yield enormous benefits for computing. Photograph: Rex ... http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214606337/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 17:30:51 -0400 http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214606337/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A male elephant seal opens wide at sea. Scientists have found the H1N1 virus strain in northern elephant seals off the coast of California, the first such detection in marine ... http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214605866/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 16:38:13 -0400 http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214605866/scat/a9927dde6777aafc News from the biggest beat in the cosmos, going out 13.7 billion light-years and taking in everything from astronomy to zoology. Join the adventure ... http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214605334/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 16:38:13 -0400 http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214605334/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Members of the military police and security gather at the scene of an explosion in front of the Greek embassy, right, in Tripoli on May 18, 2013. (REUTERS/Ismail Zitouny) OTTAWA - Greek foreign affairs officials report no injuries following a small explosion Saturday outside the Embassy of Greece in Libya's capital Tripoli. Officials say a "low power explosive device" was placed ... http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214605318/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 16:26:49 -0400 http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214605318/scat/a9927dde6777aafc (Fotolia) One fisherman has been found dead and the search is on for two others after their boat hit a sandbar off the coast of New Brunswick Saturday. The Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre in Halifax said it received a distress call from the men at around 5:30 a.m. A spokesman said the dead man was found near the sandbar and the Canadian Coast Guard is looking for the other two men who were ... http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214605451/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 16:26:46 -0400 http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214605451/scat/a9927dde6777aafc After a relatively calm few weeks, North Korea fired three short-range missiles Saturday, a South Korean Defense Ministry spokesman said. NPR's Louisa Lim reports that North Korea fired the missiles in defiance of international sanctions. She filed this report for our Newscast ... http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214605275/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 15:27:44 -0400 http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214605275/scat/a9927dde6777aafc (Fotolia) NEWARK, N.J. - A US Airways flight made an emergency landing on its belly at Newark Liberty International Airport early on Saturday after the plane’s landing gear failed to deploy, but no one was injured, airline and government officials said. Piedmont Airlines flight 4560, operating for US Airways from Philadelphia with 34 passengers and three crew members, landed safely at 1 ... http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214604207/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 14:31:21 -0400 http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214604207/scat/a9927dde6777aafc AUSTIN, Texas - The Powerball jackpot being drawn on Saturday night could be even higher than the record $600 million being advertised, pushing it near or above the largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history, a Texas Lottery official said on Saturday. "Oftentimes, the advertised amount is lower than what the actual jackpot ends up being," said Kelly Cripe, a spokeswoman for the Texas ... http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214603581/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 13:31:58 -0400 http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214603581/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Da Mao, one of the Toronto Zoo's two new giant pandas, on display for the first time on May 16, 2013. (DAVE ABEL/QMI Agency) TORONTO - The pandas make their public debut at the Toronto Zoo Saturday. Join the Toronto Sun's Shawn Jeffords with live ... http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214603749/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 13:31:52 -0400 http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214603749/scat/a9927dde6777aafc NASA said in a statement , "the impact site was glowing like a 4th magnitude star." It was nearly ten times as bright as any other previously recorded impact. Unlike our safely cocooned planet, the moon has no atmosphere to protect it, and meteoroids do not burn up as they approach the surface. Over the past eight years, NASA scientists have observed more than 300 impacts, some of ... http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214603483/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 12:22:38 -0400 http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214603483/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Plane catches rire upon landing at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport. Russia's deplorable air safety record just got worse. Moscow's Vnukovo Airport was temporarily closed on Saturday morning after a plane carrying about 140 people from the southern Russian city of Stavropol caught fire after landing, a law enforcement source told the Russian news site RIA Novosti. No one was reported ... http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214602344/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 11:30:14 -0400 http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214602344/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Fire ants are an invasive species in the warmer areas of the US, and we here at Weird Science are told by people who have experienced the invasion personally that their fearsome reputation is well deserved. So, normally, you'd expect said people to be happy to hear that the fire ants population seems to be going down. Unfortunately, it's going down because an even more deranged ant is ... http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214602435/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 11:18:49 -0400 http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214602435/scat/a9927dde6777aafc January 1981 issue of National Geographic , describes how, in the week running up to the disaster, he and others were drawn into a "strange kind of Russian roulette" with the mountain. While Findley lived to tell the tale, others were not so lucky, and the article includes richly drawn character studies of some of the mountain's ... http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214601299/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 09:24:23 -0400 http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214601299/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Climate Consensus image via Skeptical Science, click image for more data and details. If you're old enough, you remember hearing about missile gaps that reportedly posed danger. Here's another perilous chasm: the Consensus Gap. There ... http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214601664/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 09:17:30 -0400 http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214601664/scat/a9927dde6777aafc In today's business world, disruption is a constant force that never lets up. At the annual WIRED Business Conference: Disruptive by Design, we celebrate the creative power of bold new ideas and the people that make them happen. See the event ... http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214600667/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 07:18:42 -0400 http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214600667/scat/a9927dde6777aafc A whole generation has been born since Canada's first "test tube baby" saw daylight in Vancouver almost 30 years ago.And it's been 20 years since B.C.'s Patricia Baird issued a royal commission report on the murky ethics of creating life in a petri dish.Now almost 10,000 babies are born in Canada each year through in vitro fertilization, or IVF, as the unheard of has ... http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214600136/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 06:18:49 -0400 http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214600136/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Once you are registered, New Scientist will send you our weekly newsletter, as well as occasional relevant information via email from New Scientist about our content, services, products, events, offers and competitions. Please read ... http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214600198/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 06:04:11 -0400 http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214600198/scat/a9927dde6777aafc two nuclear plants in Fukushima reported no new irregularities after the quake, Kyodo news agency said. Onagawa nuclear plant in Miyagi prefecture further north also detected no irregularities, operator Tohoku Electric Power Co said. In Miyagi prefecture, where the shaking was the strongest, there were no information on injuries, Kyodo added. The United States Geological Survey recorded the quake ... http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214599397/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 05:24:14 -0400 http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214599397/scat/a9927dde6777aafc SEOUL – North Korea fired three short-range missiles from its east coast on Saturday, South Korea’s Defence Ministry said, but the purpose of the launches was unknown. Launches by the North of short-term missiles are not uncommon, but the ministry would not speculate whether these latest launches were part of a test or training exercise. "North Korea fired short-range guided ... http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214599394/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 05:17:18 -0400 http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214599394/scat/a9927dde6777aafc People have a craving for knowledge about the lives of the great composers. Instrumental music is unequalled among the arts in its magnificent, even defiant abstractness. It suggests infinite possibilities, without offering any definitive answers. What could be more tantalising?But Schumann's music excites further curiosity, because it is not only lofty, but personal. Excruciatingly ... http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214598928/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 04:24:14 -0400 http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214598928/scat/a9927dde6777aafc From Da Vinci to a stuffed walrus to glass models of underwater worlds, a rich selection of objects is about to go display at the Turner Contemporary, as curator Brian Dillon ... http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214598929/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 04:24:12 -0400 http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214598929/scat/a9927dde6777aafc View Photo Reuters/Reuters - People gather outside Marseille's town hall to attend a demonstration to support the passage of the same-sex marriage bill in Marseille, April 23, 2013. REUTERS/Jean-Paul ... http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214599074/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 04:12:57 -0400 http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214599074/scat/a9927dde6777aafc 18-year-old Eesha Khare (left), a senior at Lynbrook High School, is one of two runners up at the 2013 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Phoenix. ... http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214598883/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 04:01:36 -0400 http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214598883/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Virgin Galactic's Richard Branson and pilot Mark Stucky celebrating the successful flight of SpaceShip2 under rocket power. (AFP PHOTO / Handout / Mark Greenberg) British billionaire Richard Branson said Monday that rocket-powered space tourism flights by his firm Virgin Galactic would have only a minor impact on climate change. More than 500 people have already reserved seats -- and paid ... http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214599271/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 03:51:35 -0400 http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214599271/scat/a9927dde6777aafc An automated telescope monitoring the moon has captured images of an 88-pound (40 kg) rock slamming into the lunar surface, creating a bright flash of light, NASA scientists said on Friday.The explosion on March 17 was the biggest seen since NASA began watching the moon for meteoroid impacts about eight years ago. So far, more than 300 strikes have been recorded."It exploded in a flash ... http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214598739/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 03:06:00 -0400 http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214598739/scat/a9927dde6777aafc People can successfully change their moods and try to be happier. Elijah Wood (L) and Robin Williams, cast members in the animated motion picture comedy "Happy Feet Two", attend the premiere of the film at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles on November 13, 2011. UPI/Jim ... http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214597606/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 01:49:05 -0400 http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214597606/scat/a9927dde6777aafc mental health will face its greatest upset in years on Saturday with the publication of the long-awaited and deeply-controversial US manual for diagnosing mental disorders.Early drafts of the book, the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM-5, have divided medical opinion so firmly that authors of previous editions are among the most prominent ... http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214596972/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 01:10:03 -0400 http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214596972/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Source: Reuters An automated telescope monitoring the moon has captured images of a 40kg rock slamming into the lunar surface, creating a bright flash of light, NASA scientists have said. The explosion on March 17 was the biggest seen since NASA began watching the moon for meteoroid impacts about eight years ago. So far, more than 300 strikes have been recorded. "It exploded in a flash ... http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214597455/scat/a9927dde6777aafc Sat, 18 May 2013 01:04:14 -0400 http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214597455/scat/a9927dde6777aafc