WASHINGTON – Closure of the strategically important Strait of Hormuz, which Iran has threatened while holding military exercises there since Dec. 23, will not be tolerated, Pentagon Press Secretary George Little said yesterday.
PHILADELPHIA — Mutations in the ATM gene may increase the hereditary risk for pancreatic cancer, according to data published in Cancer Discovery, the newest journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.
Around 1:15 a.m., January 1, 2012, Anchorage Police received a 911 call reporting that two pedestrians had been struck by a Dodge pick-up near West 11th Avenue and I Street. Witnesses were also reporting that the driver of the vehicle was attempting to leave the scene but was unable to because it had become stuck […]
Troy, N.Y. – Scientists in the New York Center for Astrobiology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have used the oldest minerals on Earth to reconstruct the atmospheric conditions present on Earth very soon after its birth. The findings, which appear in the Dec. 1 edition of the journalNature, are the first direct evidence of what the […]