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By ADAM R. GOLD It's rare for physics to make the news, but somehow the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a particle accelerator run by the CERN laboratory on ...
Federal funding for scientific research has dropped significantly since the surge of interest in biomedical research at the beginning of the decade. ...
The chemistry Prize is usually the hardest one to guess, especially since the Nobel Committee for Medicine rewarded RNA interference two years ago. ...
On Monday the Karolinska Institute present their pick for the Medicine Prize, on Tuesday it's the Royal Academy of sciences' turn with the Physics Prize, ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks slid for a fourth straight day on Monday, leaving the Dow below 10,000 for the first time in four years, on fears the global economy was hurtling into recession despite government efforts to contain the fast-spreading financial crisis.
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Governments around the world grasped at new measures to contain the fast-spreading credit crisis on Monday but stock, bond and commodity markets saw investors betting on deepening uncertainty and a sharp global downturn.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bank of America Corp, the largest U.S. bank, on Monday reported a 68 percent drop in quarterly earnings, halved its dividend and said it would seek to raise $10 billion in additional capital.
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Wachovia Corp and suitors Wells Fargo & Co and Citigroup Inc agreed on Monday to halt all litigation until noon Wednesday in hopes of deciding the winner of the troubled North Carolina-based bank.
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama warmed up on Monday for a potentially crucial debate by unleashing another volley of personal attacks on each other's character in an increasingly ugly White House race.
BOSTON/PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Eli Lilly and Co has agreed to acquire ImClone Systems Inc for $6.5 billion, outbidding Bristol-Myers Squibb Co and potentially bringing to a close one of the most colorful corporate sagas in biotech history.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil dropped more than 6 percent to below $88 a barrel on Monday as a global market rout churned concerns that faltering fuel demand could slow further.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The United States is upsetting the nuclear arms balance by failing to offer a fully-fledged replacement for the START arms control treaty when it expires next year, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve on Monday announced a series of steps to funnel massive amounts of liquidity through clogged credit markets, including boosting the sizes of cash auctions and offering banks interest on reserves.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sen. Ted Stevens told an oil-executive friend, in recordings played on Monday at the Alaska Republican's corruption trial, they both risked going to jail -- but he didn't think it would come to that.