Study blames gulls, not storks, for bringing in bird flu A study has found that the bird that carried the influenza virus H5N1 into Thailand was a gull, not the openbill stork. [News Source]

Biosafety Laboratory could not be constructed in 3 years By Our Staff Reporter Bhopal, Sept 2: Construction work of high level Biosafety Laboratory being constructed under expansion plan of High Security Animal Disease Lab (HSADL) situated at Hataikheda has not yet started even after three years have passed. [News Source]

At Raytheon, where engineering rules Road Trip 2010: The defense giant encourages openness among its 40,000-plus engineers as it tackles tech issues in areas from missiles to radar to semiconductors. Originally posted at Geek Gestalt [News Source]

Halliwell quits Bernard Matthews Jeff Halliwell, managing director of turkey giant Bernard Matthews, is leaving the company just over a year after being appointed. [News Source]

“Data Is the New Soil” Journalist and designer David McCandless gave an inspiring TED talk last month, just posted online last week. In it, he shows off some of his favorite visualizations of data and explains why visualization is increasingly vital, the more information we as media consumers are exposed to. [News Source]

WPI researchers: Cranberry juice cocktail blocks strain of S. aureus Expanding their scope of study on the mechanisms of bacterial infection, researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute have reported the surprise finding from a small clinical study that cranberry juice cocktail blocked a strain of Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) from beginning the process of infection. [News Source]