Paedophiles are to be electronically tagged in the UK for the first time in a move that could prompt a revolution in the treatment and monitoring of sex offenders.
A British company is to hold talks with Ministers in the next few weeks with a view to launching a Home Office-backed trial involving between 100 [...]

U.S. researchers said on Sunday they had used cloned cells to treat a Parkinson-like disease in mice and said it provided a good experimental basis for testing whether so-called therapeutic cloning will work.
While they did not clone each individual mouse, the cells they used were from cloned embryos and relieved the symptoms of artificially induced [...]

Homes on the Arctic tip of Norway started getting power from the moon on Saturday via a unique subsea power station driven by the rise and fall of the tide.
A tidal current in a sea channel near the town of Hammerfest, caused by the gravitational tug of the moon on the earth, started turning the [...]

China is to contribute to a new global satellite navigation system being developed by European nations.
The Galileo satellite system will offer a more accurate civilian alternative to the Global Positioning System (GPS), operated by the US military. China will provide 230m Euros ($259m) in funding and will cooperate with technical, manufacturing and market development.
“China will [...]

Countless research projects around the world into cancer and other major diseases are producing bogus or misleading results because investigators are studying the wrong type of cell.
The mistakes arise when fast-growing “rogue cells” contaminate cell cultures and swamp the correct cells. A team’s work on prostate cancer, for example, might turn out to be worthless [...]