New Stem Cell Rules, The First Horsemen
President Obama has signed an executive order that lifts a ban on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. The ban was put in place by President Bush eight years ago. Stephen Minger, a senior lecturer in stem cell biology at King’s College, London, talks about how the new policy will affect research in the U.S. and abroad.
The EU will soon adopt much tougher controls on pesticides. Those who make and use pesticides argue the plan will hurt Europe’s food supply.
NASA has launched the Kepler Space Telescope. Astronomers hope the mission will find other habitable planets in our galaxy. We take the opportunity to remember Johannes Kepler.
Hundreds of scientists gathered this week in Copenhagen for a major climate conference. Some experts there said the latest research on global warming doesn’t bode well for the future of our planet. They urged diplomats to draft a strong climate treaty at another meeting to be held in Copenhagen later this year.
Archaeologists now believe that horses were domesticated a thousand years earlier than previously thought. Exeter University researchers have found evidence in Kazakhstan that people were riding horses as early as 5500 years ago. Dr. Alan Outram, one of the researchers, explains the findings.
For decades, historians suspected that on July 17, 1918, Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra, and their children were shot by their Bolshevik captors in Yekaterinburg, Russia, yet rumors have circulated that two of the family’s five children had escaped. Results of new DNA testing now confirm that all five children were killed.
Music:
Laid Back, Ride the White Horse
Echo and the Bunnymen, Bring on the Dancing Horses
"If there isn’t an incentive to make live tigers worth more than dead tigers, we’ll lose tigers,” says 
