The National Institutes of Health may temporarily resume funding for research involving human embryonic stem cells, an appeals court ruled Thursday — though uncertainty over the future of the field remains, scientists said.
The fight over Proposition 23 , a November ballot initiative to suspend California's global warming law, turned ugly this week, with personal attacks and emotionally charged rhetoric on both sides.
FDA warns of deadly side effect with imaging drugs
Contrast agents containing the chemical gadolinium used in MRI scans can cause a rare and sometimes fatal syndrome in patients with kidney disease. Stronger warning labels are being added to the drugs.
Federal health regulators are warning doctors that a class of injectable drugs used in MRI medical imaging scans can cause a rare and sometimes fatal condition in patients with kidney disease.
BP report on well disaster faults mechanical, human failures
The oil company accepts a share of the responsibility for the deadly explosion and oil spill but also takes aim at contractors Transocean and Halliburton, setting off additional finger-pointing.
An internal investigation released Wednesday by BP concluded that a series of mechanical and human failures by its own crews and its contractors led to the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, which killed 11 men and set in motion one of the world's worst oil spills.
Eureka's future could hinge on dormant pulp mill
An attempt to reopen a wood processing plant that closed two years ago seems to be going nowhere, with potentially dire implications for the local port and economy.
The timber industry has suffered a long decline in Eureka, an isolated community about five hours north of San Francisco.
Final seal on BP oil well delayed for additional work
A new blowout preventer is in place, giving experts time to analyze the gulf well, retrieve a broken pipe and perhaps apply another cement seal for added insurance, Thad Allen says.
The ultimate sealing of BP's gulf oil well may not get underway until late this month or early October because experts want more time to analyze the well, fish out a broken pipe and possibly apply another cement seal on the top for "more insurance" against unlikely troubles, a top federal official said.
Abengoa Mojave Solar Project cleared for construction
State regulators unanimously approve the 250-megawatt project, to be set up in San Bernardino County. The go-ahead brings the state closer to approving 4,300 megawatts of solar power by the end of 2010.
State regulators on Wednesday unanimously cleared the Abengoa Mojave Solar Project for construction, pushing California closer to approving 4,300 megawatts of solar power by the end of the year.
Oxygen levels fell significantly in deep-sea areas of the Gulf of Mexico contaminated by the BP oil spill, researchers said Tuesday, but not enough to create biological "dead zones" that cannot harbor marine life.
Column One: Carnivorous plants losing ground in the U.S.
Scientists are on the trail of the little-understood meat-eaters like the California cobra lily and Venus' flytrap, in decline amid rampant poaching and other human encroachment.
"This is the easy part," says Barry Rice, half-sliding, half-falling down a ravine through a latticework of dead branches.
U.S. smoking rate hasn't changed, CDC says
One in five Americans lights up regularly. If all states had prevention programs like those in California and Utah, 5 million fewer people would be smoking, the agency says.
After 40 years of continual declines, the smoking rate in the United States has stabilized for the last five years, with one in every five Americans still lighting up regularly, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday.
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