Mark Twain Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.
James Carswell Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse.
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Recently Lori Titus granted Beacon News an interview, and talks about her collection of short stories Green Water Lulllaby. Tell us about what you have written. Green Water Lullaby is a collection of short stories published earlier this year. All the stories are centered around the town of Chrysalis, South Carolina, and the unexplained events [...]
October 27, 2010 – DURHAM, N.C. – bioMérieux, Inc. on September 16, 2010, initiated a worldwide voluntary product correction of VITEK® 2 Gram Negative Susceptibility Cards containing the antibiotic Piperacillin/Tazobactam (TZPv). These cards, manufactured after March 10, 2009, are used in clinical laboratories to perform antimicrobial susceptibility testing as part of the VITEK® System. Clinical [...]
PASADENA, Calif. — The ground where NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit became stuck last year holds evidence that water, perhaps as snow melt, trickled into the subsurface fairly recently and on a continuing basis. Stratified soil layers with different compositions close to the surface led the rover science team to propose that thin films of [...]
October 27, 2010 – Sandoz Inc. announced today it has initiated a voluntary recall in the US of all 50mg/2mL and 250mg/10mL vials of Sandoz and Parenta brand Methotrexate Injection, USP product (“methotrexate”) to the consumer/user level. Consistent with its commitment to quality and patient safety, Sandoz is initiating this voluntary recall of all 24 [...]
According to a new study funded by NASA and the University of California, nearly one in four stars similar to the sun may host planets as small as Earth, The study is the most extensive and sensitive planetary census of its kind. Astronomers used the W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii for five years to search [...]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved a new indication for Sprycel (dasatinib) for the treatment of a rare blood cancer when it is first diagnosed. The cancer, called Philadelphia chromosome positive chronic phase chronic myeloid leukemia (Ph+ CP-CML), is a slowly progressing blood and bone marrow disease linked to a genetic abnormality. Sprycel, [...]
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama welcomed NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and a NASA team that assisted trapped Chilean miners to the Oval Office on Thursday for a ceremony that recognized Americans involved in the rescue. After the White House event, Bolden and Deputy Administrator Lori Garver presented NASA’s Exceptional Achievement Medal to five agency employees [...]
Over 100 people will participate in a full-scale, simulated aircraft disaster exercise at Love Field on Tuesday, November 2, 2010. The exercise is being conducted as a training activity to review operational and response procedures employed by various agencies that would respond should an on-airport accident occur at Love Field. The simulation exercise will include [...]
Eric S. Brown, Author of War of the Worlds, Plus Blood, Guts and Zombies, Bigfoot War, Season of Rot and many other titles graciously agreed to be interviewed by Beacon News. We thank him for his participation and his publisher, Coscom Entertainment for supplying the cover of his books. BN – Tell us about what [...]
A mosaic of images taken by the Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope on board the Swift Spacecraft. The Andromeda Galaxy is 2.5 million light years from the Milky Way galaxy.
