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Dinosaur Deaths Outsourced To India
Princeton NJ (SPX) Oct 30, 2007A series of monumental volcanic eruptions in India may have killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, not a meteor impact in the Gulf of Mexico. The eruptions, which created the gigantic Deccan Traps lava beds of India, are now the prime suspect in the most famous and persistent paleontological murder mystery, say scientists who have conducted a slew of new investigations honing down eruption t ... more Human-Generated Ozone Will Damage Crops 
Cambridge MA (SPX) Oct 30, 2007A novel MIT study concludes that increasing levels of ozone due to the growing use of fossil fuels will damage global vegetation, resulting in serious costs to the world's economy. The analysis, reported in the November issue of Energy Policy, focused on how three environmental changes (increases in temperature, carbon dioxide and ozone) associated with human activity will affect crops, pastures ... more New Insights Into How Lasers Cut Flesh 
Nashville TN (SPX) Oct 30, 2007Lasers are at the cutting edge of surgery. From cosmetic to brain surgery, intense beams of coherent light are gradually replacing the steel scalpel for many procedures. Despite this increasing popularity, there is still a lot that scientists do not know about the ways in which laser light interacts with living tissue. Now, some of these basic questions have been answered in the first investigat ... more Researchers Find Origin Of Breathable Atmosphere Half A Billion Years Ago 
Columbus OH (SPX) Oct 30, 2007Ohio State University geologists and their colleagues have uncovered evidence of when Earth may have first supported an oxygen-rich atmosphere similar to the one we breathe today. The study suggests that upheavals in the earth's crust initiated a kind of reverse-greenhouse effect 500 million years ago that cooled the world's oceans, spawned giant plankton blooms, and sent a burst of oxygen into ... more Nitrogen Fertilizers Deplete Soil Organic Carbon 
Urbana IL (SPX) Oct 30, 2007The common practice of adding nitrogen fertilizer is believed to benefit the soil by building organic carbon, but four University of Illinois soil scientists dispute this view based on analyses of soil samples from the Morrow Plots that date back to before the current practice began. The research, also drawing upon data from other long-term trials throughout the world, was conducted by U o ... more |
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Los Angeles (AFP) Oct 29, 2007Firefighters have tamed the handful of wildfires still burning in California, but officials on Monday warily stopped short of declaring outright victory in their battle with the blazes. The devastating wildfires which erupted on October 21 were among the worst in Californian history, leaving seven people dead, destroying 2,000 homes and displacing 640,000 people as they tore through tinder-d ... more California fire victims get lush treatment in shelter 
Del Mar, California (AFP) Oct 28, 2007Dozens of tables are stacked with potato chips, granola bars, baby formula, diapers, toothpaste and toilet paper. A hot lunch buffet sends the odor of fried coconut shrimp wafting across the room as a handful of people crowd computers marked "Free Internet Access." Upstairs at a two-story race track building decorated with murals of horses which has become a fire victims' shelter at the ... more European steelmakers seeking anti-dumping action on Chinese imports 
Brussels (AFP) Oct 29, 2007European steelmakers called on Monday for EU anti-dumping action against imports from China, Taiwan and South Korea, which they claim are flooding the European market at unfair prices. The European steel and iron confederation Eurofer said it had filed two dumping complaints with the European Commission targetting cold-rolled, stainless flat steel from China, South Korea and Taiwan and galva ... more Tropical Storm Noel kills 11 
Santo Domingo (AFP) Oct 29, 2007At least eleven people were killed and 13 were missing as Tropical Storm Noel lashed the Caribbean island of Hispaniola shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic, officials said on Monday. As Noel made its way across Haiti, drenching the vulnerable country and stirring fears of dangerous floods and landslides, authorities in the Dominican Republic blamed at least eleven deaths on the storm' ... more US navy ship heads to Africa to help boost maritime security 
Madrid (AFP) Oct 29, 2007A US Navy ship will depart Spain on Tuesday for a seven-month deployment to central and west Africa designed to help nations around the oil-rich Gulf of Guinea beef up maritime security, officials said. The amphibious ship USS Fort McHenry will provide training to officials on how to fight crime ranging from unlawful fishing to human and drug trafficking. It will be joined later by anoth ... more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Oct 30, 2007The research and development component of the U.S. Department of Energy's Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP), a program that aims to reprocess spent nuclear fuel which could then be shared with partner countries, should not go forward at its current pace, says a new report from the National Research Council. DOE's Office of Nuclear Energy, of which GNEP is a part, should instead assign the ... more Leading Aviation Companies Form Alliance To Advance System Wide Information Management For National Airspace 
Rockville MD (SPX) Oct 30, 2007Lockheed Martin, along with Boeing, Computer Sciences Corporation, and Harris Corporation, has announced the formation of an industry alliance to help advance the transformation of the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) System Wide Information Management (SWIM) initiative. The SWIM Alliance, which is led by Lockheed Martin, is being established to help improve the efficiency of the Na ... more Mars Ice Shaken Not Stirred 
Boulder, CO (SPX) Oct 28, 2007Mars, like Earth, is a climate-fickle water planet. The main difference, of course, is that water on the frigid Red Planet is rarely liquid, preferring to spend almost all of its time traveling the world as a gas or churning up the surface as ice. That's the global picture literally and figuratively coming into much sharper focus as various Mars-orbiting cameras send back tomes of unprecedented ... more Protecting Earth Against Asteroids 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 29, 2007Anatoly Perminov, the Russian Space Agency chief, announced at a recent news conference that there were plans to develop a space system that could protect the Earth from a potential asteroid impact by 2040. Members of the scientific community are unanimous in that the asteroid danger is real and that some measures should be taken to prevent it. The discovery of Apophis three years ago made them ... more Russia Plans To Test Fire 2 Ballistic Missiles 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 29, 2007A missile brigade from the Siberian military district will test fire two SS-21 Scarab short-range ballistic missiles during Nov. 13-17 exercise at a test site in south Russia, a Ground Forces spokesman said Thursday. The SS-21, or Tochka, is a road-mobile single-warhead ballistic missile designed for tactical deployment. It has been in service with missile units of the Russian Ground Forces sinc ... more
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