Oslo, where roughly half the city and most of its schools are heated by burning garbage, is forced to import garbage to supply its waste-to-energy incinerating plants.
“We will be going to space at the end of this year,” Richard Branson, the founder of Virgin Galactic, said after the vessel, the SpaceShipTwo, made its first powered flight.
Hugh Herr lost both of his legs below the knee in 1982. Today he designs computerized prostheses and artificial body parts as director of the biomechatronics research group at the M.I.T. Media Lab.
Sequestration could hinder progress on federally sponsored research projects for two years, putting the United States at risk of falling behind in science, President Obama told the National Academy of Sciences on Monday.
Diners who ordered from menus that listed the amount of brisk walking required to work off each dish were less likely to overeat than those with menus that listed calories, according to a recent study.
Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo made its first powered flight Monday, breaking the sound barrier in a test over the Mojave Desert that moves the company closer to its goal of flying paying passengers on brief hops into space.
There is no way of knowing which H.I.V. patients might kill the virus before it sinks deeper into their bodies, but experts agree on the clear benefits of early treatment.
May-Britt and Edvard I. Moser are exploring the way the brain records and remembers movement in space, which they speculate may be the basis of all memory.
Children who do not show physical symptoms of konzo, a crippling disease caused by the cyanide in improperly prepared cassava, may still have mental impairments.
A group of roboticists has developed a robot arm that moves and finds objects by touch, a vital ability if robots are ever to begin to undertake tasks in human environments.
