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

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Researchers at Southern Methodist University are expanding a study that shows promise for reducing both the expense and suffering associated with chronic asthma. A four-week program teaches asthmatics how to better control their condition by changing the way they breathe. Funded with a four-year, $1.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, 120 Dallas County patients will participate in four weeks of breathing training by the study's projected end in July 2011.

The united states can become more energy efficient and create more "green" jobs by adopting some of the strategies used by the European Union and Australia to rate and disclose the performance of commercial and government-owned buildings, according to a new RAND Corp. study issued today.

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.

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.

This week in Physics: Photonic devices promise advances in applications ranging from computing to high-speed communication; and a new toolkit of equations will help theorists determine whether a potential agreement between particle physics and string theory is fact or fancy.

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

Scientists have found the "Rosetta Stone" of supervolcanoes. A fossil supervolcano has been revealed in a rare uplift of the Earth's crust in the Sesia Valley of the Italian Alps. The discovery by a team led by geologist James E. Quick at Southern Methodist University will advance scientific understanding of active supervolcanoes, such as Yellowstone, which is the second-largest supervolcano in the world and which last erupted 630,000 years ago.