Model of Suns magnetic field created

Researchers at the Universities of Leeds and Chicago have reported that they have uncovered an important mechanism behind the generation of astrophysical magnetic fields such as that of the Sun. Scientists have known since the 18th century that the Sun regularly oscillates between periods of high and low solar activity in an 11-year cycle, but have been unable to fully explain how this cycle is ...

Keppinger delivers White Sox walk-off winner in 11th

Sox walk off on Keppinger's single in 11th CHICAGO -- The first pitch from John Danks during Friday's 4-3 White Sox victory over the Marlins in 11 innings registered as an 88-mph fastball outside the zone to Adeiny Hechavarria before 20,393 at U.S. Cellular Field. Danks' last pitch stood as an 82-mph changeup laced into left for a double by Marcell Ozuna leading off the ...

Antibiotics in livestock raising concerns up the food chain

Sam Spitz's family began raising chickens after he contracted an antibiotic-resistant strain of campylobacter seven years ago. Spitz, now 22, blames the infection on eating a chicken Caesar salad. "I watched myself and my baseball career wither away. … I thought antibiotics were supposed to work. But they didn’t and that was ...

Another concern Drug residues in meat

Although much of the alarm over the use of antibiotics on livestock focuses on its contribution to bacterial resistance, the presence of drug residues and other chemicals in U.S. meat is also causing concern.Last year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued 78 warning letters (up from nine in 2002) to livestock producers or brokers whose meat samples bore traces of illegal drugs or of ...

What would our war dead think of the freedom for which they died

This weekend's Memorial Day proclamation from President Barack Obama was like so many other gracious sentiments commemorating America's war dead.And like all the others, whether delivered by a president or by some junior councilman from the smallest burg, it mentioned the magic ...