Kyoto University Professor Shinya Yamanaka (L) and John Gurdon of the Gurdon Institute in Cambridge John Gurdon from the UK and Shinya Yamanaka from Japan have won the 2012 Nobel Prize for medicine or physiology for their research on stem cell. Both scientists were awarded for their groundbreaking discovery of changing adult cells into stem cells, which can become any other type of cell in the body. The... 

Tensions have risen in the Greek capital city of Athens over a blasphemous American play which portrays Jesus Christ as homosexual. Late on Friday, police briefly arrested more than 30 people outside an Athens theatre, where the play Corpus Christi was staged, who were calling on authorities to ban the show. Also on Thursday, the Greece’s nationalist Golden Dawn (Chryssi Avgi) Party had sent several... 

A team of researchers at the Centre for Neuroscience (CNC) and the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Coimbra (UC), Portugal, has developed a groundbreaking test for the detection of cutaneous chemical allergen (skin sensitization assessment), which will significantly reduce the testing animals in the cosmetics industry. Coimbra – Portugal. Pioneering test developed at the University of Coimbra... 

What would it be like to schedule a ‘no food’ day for your family, because food prices are too high? As men play with God-like powers such as weather modification, parts of the world suffer from drought and famine. Coincidence or Not? In some parts of the US and the world crop yields are at all time lows since the 1970′s. In fact parts of the US have sustained record drought levels in 2012. Thus... 

Many UFO researchers working on their research in the 1970s and 1980s died under mysterious circumstances, and may have been killed. This is the conclusion reached by an amateur astronomer, a former U.S. government adviser Timothy Hood. He made this statement at an international conference in Amsterdam dedicated to search for extraterrestrial intelligence. This statement is true not so much for the... 

Lebanese television Al Manar has broadcast footage simulating how the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah sent a drone deep into the Israeli airspace, evading radar systems. Al Manar released the video on Friday after Hezbollah Secretary-General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah confirmed the flight of the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that entered Israeli airspace earlier this week. The operation code-named... 

Illustration shows cross-section view of 55 Cancri e A team of American-Franco researchers led by Yale University have discovered a nearby planet, twice as big as Earth, with a mantle that could be composed largely of diamonds. The planet, known as 55 Cancri e, is located just 40 light years away in the constellation of Cancer and is likely covered in diamond and graphite rather than water and granite,... 

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey New Zealand’s capital will be renamed after the fictional setting of Middle-earth to celebrate the world premiere of the Hobbit saga film. “The Middle of Middle-earth” is Wellington’s new unofficial name for three weeks before and after the premiere. ­The magic name will be reflected on postmarks on letters and the masthead of Wellington’s main... 

A concrete structure confirms that Julius Caesar was stabbed in the center of the Curia di Pompeo, while presiding over the meeting of the Senate in the year 44 BC… Researchers of the Spanish Superior Council of Scientific Investigations (SCSI) discovered the exact place of the assassination of Julius Caesar in the year 44 BC, the SCSI said on Wednesday. Researchers of the Spanish Superior Council... 

The United Nations has censured the Canadian government for its gross violations of the rights of children and has accused the country of “serious and widespread discrimination” against First Nations children. On Monday, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) issued its formal report on Canada’s treatment of children and the country’s commitment to the world body’s Convention... 

Moscow plans to halt its participation in the Nunn-Lugar Program, in which the US funds Russia’s dismantling of its arsenal of nuclear weapons, a Russian media outlet reported. Russia no longer requires US aid and can continue with the program unassisted, Kommersant daily newspaper reported. In addition, Moscow explained the decision by the necessity to prevent secret data leak. The Nunn-Lugar Cooperative... 

A 34-year-old woman with terminal leukemia went through the Seattle-Tacoma Airport recently to take the last trip of her life — a vacation to Hawaii. She says she was traumatized, however, after the TSA humiliated her at a security check-point. Michelle Dunaj of Roseville, Michigan eventually made her way to Hawaii after leaving the Washington State airport on October 2, but not without incident.... 

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez speaks during a press conference in Caracas on October 9, 2012. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says he will continue to support his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad and has blamed the United States for the 19-month unrest in the Arab country. Chavez made the remarks in the capital Caracas on Tuesday, two days after he won a fourth consecutive term in office, which... 

The work of Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel, was interrupted. A strange flying object appeared close to the air borders of the country. The object could be an enemy’s aircraft. Fighter jets took off, but it turned out that the object did not pose a threat to Israel’s security, Vesti.ru reports. The airport resumed its work. However, nothing has been reported about... 

US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has confirmed that US troops have been dispatched to the Jordan-Syrian border to help bolster the former’s military capabilities in case violence escalates in the volatile region. “We have been working with Jordan for a period of time now…on a number of issues that have developed as a result of what’s happening in Syria,” Panetta said. He said chief...