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UNC Faculty And Students To Develop Plan To Get Clean Water In Poorer Homes
Chapel Hill IN (SPX) Oct 08, 2007Faculty and students from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are setting out to discover whether applying business principles to public health problems can result in solutions that will save lives in developing countries with limited access to safe drinking water. The Carolina Global Water Partnership has been established to bring together experts from UNC's School of Public Health, ... more Fair Play In Chimpanzees 
Leipzig, Germany (SPX) Oct 08, 2007New research from the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany shows that unlike humans, chimpanzees conform to traditional economic models. The research, conducted by Keith Jensen, Josep Call and Michael Tomasello, used a modification of one of the most widely used and accepted economic tools, the ultimatum game (SCIENCE, October 5, 2007). In the ultimatum gam ... more Satellite Methods For Monitoring Volcanic Activity In The Andes Cordillera 
Paris, France (SPX) Oct 08, 2007The central part of the Andes situated between southern Peru and Chile bears 50 active or potentially volcanoes, spread along a 1500 km-long arc. These volcanic structures mostly rise to between 4000 and 7000 m, are very remote with abrupt slopes and are often cloaked in snow. Few studies have been made on them as such conditions make field surveying extremely difficult. A team of IRD researcher ... more Canada takes measures to assert sovereignty in Arctic 
Ottawa (AFP) Oct 5, 2007Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Friday a series of scientific projects designed to assert Canada's claim of sovereignty over the Arctic. "Scientific inquiry and development are absolutely essential to Canada's defense of its North, as they enhance our knowledge of, and presence in, the region," said Harper, speaking in the town of Churchill, Manitoba. "Like I've said so ... more Deadly storm Krosa weakens, but still lashes China 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 7, 2007Tropical storm Krosa lashed China's heavily populated southeastern coast on Sunday with torrential rains and powerful winds after leaving a path of death and destruction on nearby Taiwan. Krosa made landfall near the border of Fujian and Zhejiang provinces Sunday afternoon, packing winds of 126 kilometres (78 miles) per hour, Xinhua news agency said, quoting authorities in Zhejiang. Howe ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Oct 7, 2007Amid much intrigue, China is gearing up for the ruling Communist Party's five-yearly gathering at which President Hu Jintao is expected to make bold power plays and cement his own agenda for the nation. At the party's 17th Congress beginning on October 15, careers of top cadres will be killed off and rising stars could emerge as successors to Hu, while revamped economic and political bluepri ... more US scientist heralds 'artificial life' breakthrough 
Washington (AFP) Oct 6, 2007Controversial celebrity US scientist Craig Venter has announced he is on the verge of creating the first ever artificial life form which he hails as a potential remedy to illness and global warming. Venter told Britain's The Guardian newspaper Saturday that he has built a synthetic chromosome using chemicals made in a laboratory, and is set to announce the discovery within weeks, possibly as ... more Negativity Is Contagious 
Bloomington IN (SPX) Oct 08, 2007Though we may not care to admit it, what other people think about something can affect what we think about it. This is how critics become influential and why our parents' opinions about our life choices continue to matter, long after we've moved out. But what kind of opinions have the most effect" An important new study in the Journal of Consumer Research reveals that negative opinions cause the ... more Toxic waste dump killing children in Kenya: UN report 
Nairobi (AFP) Oct 5, 2007One of Africa's largest dumping sites is threatening the lives of thousands of children in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, a new United Nations report warned Friday. The 30-acre (12 hectares) Dandora Municipal Dumping Site, located at the centre of three slum settlements home to about a million people, receives around 2,000 tonnes of waste generated by the capital's 4.5 million people everyday. ... more US Lacks Data On Supply Of Minerals Critical To Economy And National Security 
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 08, 2007To make the products people use every day, from mobile phones and computers to toothpaste, TVs, and cars, the United States relies on a variety of nonfuel minerals that have limited global availability. However, a new report from the National Research Council finds that neither the federal government nor industry leaders have enough accurate information to know how secure the supplies of these m ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Oct 5, 2007 Since 1991 the United States and Russia have been involved in a conflict to exploit the Caspian's vast energy reserves. Now, however, Moscow seems to be gaining the upper hand by proposing an agenda with neighboring Kazakhstan that could see the issue of Caspian energy exports westward largely dominated by Russia for the next three to five decades. A hint of the grandiosity of the propo ... more China to raise coal output, open 'super' mines 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 5, 2007Energy-starved China will boost coal output by 400 million tonnes a year by 2010 by streamlining the industry and opening a string of new "super" pits, state media reported Friday. Widespread closures and mergers will leave fewer than 20 firms, including six to eight new "super coal production enterprises' with a yield of 100 million tonnes each, accounting for more than 50 percent of the co ... more Analysis: C. Asia's last oil, gas frontier 
Washington (UPI) Oct 5, 2007 While Western attention in the search for hydrocarbons in the Commonwealth of Independent States has until now focused largely on the Caspian Sea, the race is heating up to exploit Central Asia's last significant body of water, the Aral Sea. Unlike the Caspian, the subject of rancorous debate among Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Iran and Turkmenistan, the Aral's waters are divided sole ... more Iran says oilfields 'too attractive' for France to quit 
Tehran (AFP) Oct 6, 2007Iran on Saturday rejected the possibility of a French investors' pullout of its oil and gas sector amid calls by Paris for tougher sanctions on Tehran over its nuclear programme, the ISNA news agency reported. "Iran's resources and market are too attractive for the French to give up," deputy oil minister Gholam Hossein Nozari said. He was commenting on whether French oil and gas companie ... more New Transparent Plastic Strong As Steel 
Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Oct 08, 2007By mimicking a brick-and-mortar molecular structure found in seashells, University of Michigan researchers created a composite plastic that's as strong as steel but lighter and transparent. It's made of layers of clay nanosheets and a water-soluble polymer that shares chemistry with white glue. Engineering professor Nicholas Kotov almost dubbed it "plastic steel," but the new material isn' ... more
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