TOKYO - JAPANESE scientists said on Wednesday they had developed a surgical 'nano-sheet' one thousand times thinner than Cellophane that can patch up internal wounds and later dissolves inside the body.
SAN FRANCISCO - GOOGLE has plans for its own personal computer operating system, the company announced on its official blog, setting up another clash between the Internet search king and software giant Microsoft.
'We're announcing a new project,' said the Mountain View, California-based company, revealing the system would be based on its Chrome browser and would be an open source operating system initially targeted at netbooks.
NEW YORK - IT'S not your average library collection: Bits of scorpions and snakes. Tissue from jaguars. Leeches from a hippopotamus.
And on Tuesday, officials of the American Museum of Natural History and the US National Park Service signed an agreement for samples from endangered species in America's parks to be added to the museum's existing DNA collection.
OTTAWA - A 'NOVEL' influenza type A virus was confirmed in two hog farm workers in the central Canadian province of Saskatchewan, health authorities said on Tuesday, stressing the virus was 'non-pandemic.'
'A novel non-pandemic influenza A virus has been confirmed in two hog farm workers in Saskatchewan and a third case is under investigation,' the provincial authorities said, noting the workers had fully recovered.
