WASHINGTON - GLOBAL warming seems to be shrinking sheep.
On average, wild Soay sheep on Scotland's island Hirta are 5 per cent smaller today than they were in 1985, according to a team of researchers led by Tim Coulson of Imperial College London.
SYDNEY - PEOPLE who live on vegetarian diets have slightly weaker bones than their meat-eating counterparts, Australian researchers said on Thursday.
A joint Australian-Vietnamese study of links between the bones and diet of more than 2,700 people found that vegetarians had bones five per cent less dense than meat-eaters, said lead researcher Tuan Nguyen.
KOUROU (French Guiana) - A EUROPEAN rocket on Wednesday placed the world's biggest commercial telecommunications satellite into geostationary orbit, launch operator Arianespace said.
The 6.9-tonne TerreStar-1, operated by US telecoms services firm TerreStar Networks Inc, was launched by Ariane-5 heavy rocket from the European space base in Kourou, French Guiana, after four delays caused by stormy weather.
WASHINGTON - RESEARCHERS have identified the early master cells that make up the human heart and said on Wednesday they could someday be used to make patches to fix damaged hearts.
The discovery, published in the journal Nature, also sheds surprising light on how human hearts develop in the womb, and how congenital heart disease develops.
