The climate deal planned for Copenhagen in 10 weeks time is in grave danger of failure, the prime minister says.

SHREVEPORT, La. -- The space shuttle Discovery is stopped for the night at Barksdale Air Force Base in Shreveport, La., as part of its cross-country flight to Florida.

Though rare, IV contrast material administration can sometimes result in patient injury. However researchers have developed a modified catheter that may prevent such events from occurring, according to a study in the October issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.

ZURICH (AP) -- Switzerland's top technology institute says a U.S. chemist has resigned as head of research after scientific data were found to have been manipulated....

The number of people with dementia and Alzheimer's disease is soaring around the world and will nearly double in the next 20 years, according to a report published today.The report, by a team of researchers led by Professor Martin Prince of the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London, says that by next year there will be 35 million people globally with dementia. By 2030, that will have risen to 65.7 million and the steep rise will continue to more than 115 million by 2050.The burden on those with the disease, on their carers and on society is immense, according to the report, which is published by Alzheimer's Disease International (ADI). It calls on the World Health Organisation to make dementia a world health priority in the hope that this will spur countries to produce national plans for coping with the disease and encourage research into treatments.The true scale of dementia around the world is hard to establish because many low- and middle-income countries do not keep good

SCRAPER, Okla. (AP) -- David Overbey is no scientist, but he says a person doesn't have to be to see how much the Illinois River has improved in recent years....

One of the UK's rarest bats has been found further west than ever before - in a wooded valley in Pembrokeshire.

The symbol H+ is the code sign used by some futurists to denote an enhanced version of humanity. The plus version of the human race would deploy a mix of advanced technologies, including stem cells, robotics, cognition-enhancing drugs, and the like, to overcome basic mental and physical limitations.The notion of enhancing mental functions by gulping down a pill that improves attention, memory and planning--the very foundations of cognition--is no longer just a fantasy shared by futurists. The 1990s, proclaimed the decade of the brain by President George H. W. Bush, has been followed by what might be labeled “the decade of the better brain.” [More]

“The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else.”In the opening of the classic 1961 short story “Harrison Bergeron,” novelist Kurt Vonnegut depicted a future in which people who had been born superior in some way over “average” people could not use those gifts to take “unfair” advantage. The strong lugged handicapping weights, the beautiful wore hideous masks and the clever were not permitted to think for stretches longer than 20 seconds or so. “A little mental handicap radio” transmitted earsplitting sounds such as a buzzer, a 21-gun salute or a ball-peen hammer striking a milk bottle. In response, “thoughts fled in panic, like bandits from a burglar alarm.” [More]

Asthma, nasal symptoms and eczema are major public health problems in Sweden, not least among young people. Half of all teenagers are affected in Västra Götaland County in West Sweden. This is shown in a study conducted in 2008 by the Sahlgrenska Academy at the university of Gothenburg, on the request of the Public Health Committee, Region Västra Götaland, Sweden.