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Warning issued as Typhoon Krosa heads towards Taiwan
Taipei (AFP) Oct 4, 2007Weathermen in Taiwan on Thursday urged ships and residents to take precautions against Typhoon Krosa which is gaining momentum and heading towards the island. "Typhoon Krosa is gaining strength and expanding its radius while approaching Taiwan," the official Central Weather Bureau said in its first warning of the typhoon at 5:30 pm (0930 GMT.) It called on ships sailing off Taiwan to hei ... more How Emotionally Charged Events Leave Their Mark On Memory 
Cold Spring Harbor NY (SPX) Oct 05, 2007Researchers have uncovered new evidence in mice that may explain how emotionally charged situations can leave such a powerful mark on our memories. Surges of the stress hormone norepinephrine (also known as noradrenaline) that often accompany strong emotions spark a series of molecular events that ultimately strengthen the connections between neurons, the team reports in the October 5, 2007, iss ... more Typhoon Lekima pounds Vietnam, 3 dead 
Ky Hai Commune, Vietnam (AFP) Oct 4, 2007Typhoon Lekima smashed into central Vietnam overnight, flooding thousands of homes, disrupting air travel and leaving at least three people dead and 58 injured, officials said Thursday. Packing maximum sustained winds of 117 kilometres (72 miles) an hour, the typhoon made landfall in provinces where tens of thousands of people had been evacuated in advance. Two people drowned and a 13-ye ... more UF Researchers Devise Way To Calculate Rates Of Evolution 
Gainesville FL (SPX) Oct 05, 2007"Survival of the fittest" has popularly described evolution for more than a century, but a new study published in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters provides further evidence that random genetic mutations over millions of years may also play a powerful role. Writing online this week, Florida and California scientists are the first to link the evolution of proteins - the organic compounds ... more Indonesian villagers brace for potential volcanic eruption 
Jakarta (AFP) Oct 4, 2007Indonesian residents living near a rumbling volcano in East Java have begun evacuation drills, officials said Thursday as they warned activity was increasing at the site. Volcanologists lifted an alert for Mount Kelut to the third of a four-level warning system last Sunday. Hiking the warning to the four level means scientists fear an eruption is imminent. "The volcano could erupt at any ... more |
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Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Oct 05, 2007University of Utah scientists discovered a strange method of reproduction in primitive plants named cycads: The plants heat up and emit a toxic odor to drive pollen-covered insects out of male cycad cones, and then use a milder odor to draw the bugs into female cones so the plants are pollinated. The unusual form of sexual reproduction used by some species of cycads - primeval plants known as "l ... more Microsoft creates online 'vault' for health records 
San Francisco (AFP) Oct 4, 2007Microsoft went live on Thursday with a free online "HealthVault" billed as a US website where personal medical records can be stored and managed safe from snooping. The move puts the technology giant on delicate terrain as it tries to lure people into trusting sensitive health information will be secure on an Internet prowled by hackers, scammers and data miners. It also gives Microsoft ... more Geologists Recover Rocks Yielding Unprecedented Insights Into San Andreas Fault 
Stanford CA (SPX) Oct 05, 2007For the first time, geologists have extracted intact rock samples from 2 miles beneath the surface of the San Andreas Fault, the infamous rupture that runs 800 miles along the length of California. Never before have scientists had available for study rock samples from deep inside one of the actively moving tectonic plate-bounding faults responsible for the world's most damaging earthquakes. Now, ... more ORNL Resilience Plan To Help Tennessee, Mississippi And South Carolina Communities Beat Disaster 
Oak Ridge TN (SPX) Oct 05, 2007A new Oak Ridge National Laboratory initiative could help avert disasters in Tennessee, Mississippi and South Carolina and also lead to more information about climate change. The new Community and Regional Resilience Initiative (CARRI) will be implemented in Gulfport, Miss., Memphis, and Charleston, S.C., to increase "resilience" - the ability to prepare for, respond to and quickly recover from ... more US lawmaker warns of scary lead levels in Halloween items 
Washington (AFP) Oct 4, 2007Just weeks before children take to the streets October 31 to collect Halloween treats, a US lawmaker warned Thursday that some of the buckets they will put them into contain scarily high levels of lead. Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio commissioned the head of a university chemistry department to test 22 Halloween items for lead. Three of those items -- a Frankenstein cup and two buckets fo ... more |
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Jakarta (AFP) Oct 4, 2007Indonesia is to begin studying the possibility of building a bridge which would have the longest suspended stretch in the world, an official said Thursday. Under proposal is a six-lane bridge which would be at least 29 kilometres (18 miles) long and link the earthquake-prone islands of Java and Sumatra, the official said. It would cross three islands dotting the strait, have two railway ... more New York taxi cabs sound the horn for second strike 
New York (AFP) Oct 3, 2007New York taxi drivers signalled Wednesday they will go on strike for the second time this year to protest new GPS systems in their cabs and plans to allow credit card payments. "On October 22 we are going out again on strike for 24 hours," said Bhairavi Desai, leader of the Taxi Workers Alliance, which represents about 8,000 of the city's 44,000 professional drivers. Drivers would also b ... more Taiwan to showcase military 'deterrent' in rare parade: minister 
Taipei (AFP) Oct 3, 2007Taiwan's defence minister Lee Tien-yu said Wednesday that the military will exhibit its "deterrent" against arch rival China in a rare parade next week. Lee's remarks drew special attention as military analysts expected the ministry to unveil for the first time Hsiung-feng (Brave Wind) 2-E, a locally developed cruise missile which could be used to strike the Chinese mainland. "The displa ... more Bush ties North Korea, Iran nuclear crises 
Lancaster, Pennsylvania (AFP) Oct 3, 2007US President George W. Bush on Wednesday tied his North Korea strategy to the Iran nuclear dispute, saying he might hold direct talks with Tehran if it first froze sensitive atomic work. Bush, who emphasized that "each case is different," told a questioner at an overwhelmingly friendly town hall-style gathering here that the White House would also have to be sure that such dialogue would pay ... more Carbon Dioxide Did Not End The Last Ice Age 
San Diego CA (SPX) Oct 04, 2007Carbon dioxide did not cause the end of the last ice age, a new study in Science suggests, contrary to past inferences from ice core records. "There has been this continual reference to the correspondence between CO2 and climate change as reflected in ice core records as justification for the role of CO2 in climate change," said USC geologist Lowell Stott, lead author of the study, slated for ad ... more
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