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Athens GA (SPX) Nov 05, 2007How did chemical constituents essential to life arise on primitive Earth? A University of Georgia team suggests a new answer. Experiments show that simple molecules can combine chemically rather than biologically to form the building blocks of DNA, the key component of all life forms. These processes might have taken place on primitive earth, but how they occur is an unsolved puzzle. ... more Divers Find New Species In Aleutians 
Fairbanks AL (SPX) Nov 05, 2007There are unknown creatures lurking under the windswept islands of the Aleutians, according to a team of scientific divers from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. This summer, while completing the second phase of a two-year broad scientific survey of the waters around the Aleutian Islands, scientists have discovered what may be three new marine organisms. This year's dives surveyed the western ... more Deadly HIV-TB co-epidemic sweeps sub-Saharan Africa: report 
Paris (AFP) Nov 2, 2007Drug-resistant tuberculosis and HIV have merged into a double-barreled epidemic that is sweeping across sub-Saharan Africa and threatening global efforts to eradicate both diseases, according to a report released Friday. Over-burdened health systems are unable to cope with the epidemic and risk collapse, said the report, which calls for urgent measures to curb its spread. A third of the ... more Indonesia volcano eruption imminent despite false alarm: scientist 
Blitar, Indonesia (AFP) Nov 4, 2007A day after a false alarm on Indonesia's Mount Kelut led to panic among residents on its slopes, the volcano is showing signs of an imminent eruption, a scientist said Sunday. "An eruption is now very, very much possible, although so far it has not yet happened," said Agus Budianto, a geologist monitoring the activities of the volcano in the densely populated East Java province. On Satur ... more Crewmen freed in Somalia after five months 
Seoul (AFP) Nov 4, 2007A group of 24 Asian sailors held hostage by pirates in Somalia for more than five months was freed Sunday off the Somali coast and has left for Yemen, the South Korean foreign ministry said. The two South Korean-owned fishing boats were hijacked on May 15. The Mavuno 1 and Mavuno 2 were manned by four South Koreans, 10 Chinese, four Indonesians, three Vietnamese and three Indians. The sa ... more |
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Troy NY (SPX) Nov 05, 2007Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is leading a $3 million research project that will pair two of the world's most powerful supercomputers to boost the safety and reliability of next-generation nuclear power reactors. The three-year project, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, will call upon a diverse team of researchers and institutions to create highly detailed computer models of a new prop ... more PetroChina to debut Monday in Shanghai 
Shanghai (AFP) Nov 2, 2007PetroChina said Friday it will begin trade on the Shanghai bourse on November 5 after raising nearly nine billion dollars in the nation's largest ever initial public offering (IPO). China's biggest oil and gas producer said three billion shares of the retail portion of the issue, which are not subject to lock-up periods, will start trading Monday, according to a statement with the Shanghai S ... more Nine missing Chinese miners now believed dead 
Beijing (AFP) Nov 4, 2007Rescuers said on Sunday that nine Chinese miners missing for a week since their mine shaft flooded were almost certainly dead, though no bodies have been found, state media reported. Clothing and tools that belonged to the miners have been found but the men remain missing and were likely buried under debris or swept to the bottom of the eastern China mine by the floodwaters, rescuers told Xi ... more Nuclear power a way to cut EU reliance on outside suppliers: Estonia 
Tallinn (AFP) Nov 2, 2007EU members should use nuclear power as a tool to reduce reliance on outside energy suppliers, Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet said Friday, amid concern over Russia's political use of its market clout. "EU countries should consider using more nuclear power to decrease their dependence on third countries," Paet told reporters during a visit to Estonia by Jean-Pierre Jouyet, European affai ... more Egypt seeks to head table of 'Arab nuclear family' 
Cairo (AFP) Nov 3, 2007Egypt has emerged at the forefront of a new push by Arab nations to build nuclear power plants in the volatile Middle East even as the West is locked in a standoff with Iran over its atomic drive. President Hosni Mubarak announced on Tuesday that Egypt planned to construct a series of nuclear power plants, relaunching a programme shelved 20 years ago following the Chernobyl disaster. Egy ... more |
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Chicago IL (SPX) Nov 01, 2007A scientist slides on a pair of plastic 3-D glasses and an unearthly blue multi-armed creature -- an image right out of a sci-fi horror flick -- seems to leap out of the computer screen into the laboratory. But this is no movie director's fantasy. The horror image is real. The eerie "creature" is from the deadly anthrax bacteria -- specifically one of its proteins. Scientists at Northwestern Uni ... more Research Project May Revolutionize Apparel Industry 
Mount Pleasant MI (SPX) Nov 02, 2007Who hasn't wished for clothing constructed to fit his or her own body more effectively? Or for clothing that did a better job wicking away moisture? Or even garments that could keep the warmest areas of your body a little cooler and the coolest spots a little warmer? "Exploration of Functional Design Issues that Interface with the Human Body," a recently funded project led by Central Michi ... more Kenya's new monkey population puts climate change in perspective 
Nairobi (AFP) Oct 31, 2007The discovery of a new population of monkeys in Kenya, away from their normal habitat, could have been caused by climate change that may be affecting Africa, a conservation group warned Wednesday. Kenyan conservationists discovered the De Brazza monkey population in the country's arid north, yet the species is largely known to live in the wet areas west of the Rift Valley, Nairobi-based Wild ... more Flying Lemurs Are The Closest Relatives Of Primates 
University Park PA (SPX) Nov 02, 2007While the human species is unquestionably a member of the Primate group, the identity of the next closest group to primates within the entire class of living mammals has been hotly debated. Now, new molecular and genomic data gathered by a team including Webb Miller, a professor of biology and computer science and engineering at the Penn State University, has shown that the colugos -- nicknamed ... more One third of Europe's freshwater fish face extinction: IUCN 
Geneva (AFP) Nov 1, 2007More than one third of European freshwater fish species are threatened with extinction, according to a study released by the World Conservation Union (IUCN) on Thursday. Twelve of the 522 species are already extinct, mainly due to population growth and the accompanying use of water, pollution and overfishing over the past 100 years, the IUCN said in a statement. "With 200 fish species in ... more
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