Canadian health authorities are looking for new ways to crack down on natural health products and businesses. According to Health Canada, it’s all about safety. The bought-and-paid-for Canadian government is attempting to amend the Food and Drugs Act to increase onerous regulations against natural health products. These regulations threaten the very existence of natural product businesses, will... 

South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) has been forced to delete a Twitter message which called all whites in that country “murderers” and demanded the seizure of all land and minerals by nonwhites. According to a report in Johannesburg’s Citizen newspaper, the tweet appeared last Thursday on the ANC’s official Parliamentary Twitter account, and read “The biggest mistake... 

Scientists have virtually denied the existing hypothesis about the formation of the Earth’s core. It was believed that the metal core of all celestial bodies is formed under the same scheme. However, recent experiments demonstrated that there are other ways to form the core. It turns out that this process should be seen as unique to each celestial body. Scientists base the hypotheses of formation... 

Asteroid Cruithne with serial number 3753 has attracted a lot of attention of scientists recently. The asteroid moves around the sun in orbit similar to that of the Earth, and is located at a more or less same distance from the Earth throughout the year, which makes it a so-called quasi-satellite of our planet. What does it mean for us? Cruithne’s diameter is five kilometers, and its weight... 

NASA scientists reported on Thursday that the robot Curiosity will study the recently discovered bright particles on the Martian surface after it was ruled out that they could be from any cables of the ship that carried the android. In October, it showed transmitted while collecting samples of Martian soil. Scientists at the U.S. space agency NASA (by acronym) announced that the robot Curiosity will... 

Police officers clash with anti-mining protesters in Andahuaylas, Peru on November 10, 2011. The Peruvian government has declared a state of emergency in southern Espinar province to curb seven days of violent anti-mining protests in the highland region. The 30-day state of emergency was imposed after two people were killed and scores more, including police officers, were injured in clashes over controversial... 

Recently, scientists from Bristol University (UK) and the Carnegie Institution (USA) found that virtually the entire globe is involved in the “production” of diamonds, except, perhaps, the nucleus. In a Brazilian mine minerals were discovered that appear to have formed at the depths of 400-660 kilometers from the surface of our planet.
 Even those who never touched a diamond know that... 

A rare earth mine in China, which this week announced that it would cut its annual export quota for rare earths in 2011. China, which has been blocking shipments of crucial minerals to Japan for the last month, has now quietly halted some shipments of those materials to the United States and Europe, three industry officials said this week. The Chinese action, involving rare earth minerals that are...