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UQ Researchers Discover Some Of The Oldest Forms Of Life
Brisbane, Australia (SPX) Aug 08, 2007University of Queensland researchers have identified microbial remains in some of the oldest preserved organic matter on Earth, confirmed to be 3.5 billion years-old. The UQ team, led by School of Physical Sciences scientists Dr Miryam Glikson and Associate Professor Sue Golding as well as Associate Professor Lindsay Sly from the School of Molecular and Microbial Sciences, are the first to concl ... more Electric Fields Have Potential As A Cancer Treatment 
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 08, 2007Low-intensity electric fields can disrupt the division of cancer cells and slow the growth of brain tumors, suggest laboratory experiments and a small human trial, raising hopes that electric fields will become a new weapon for stalling the progression of cancer. The research, performed by an international team led by Yoram Palti of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, is explai ... more Our Earliest Animal Ancestors 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 08, 2007The Cambrian "explosion" that occurred 543 million years ago is one of the biggest mysteries of biology. It is at this point in the fossil record that a multitude of animal forms suddenly appears, for reasons that are not well understood. The first animals preceded the explosion, but they were presumably small, fragile and ephemeral, containing little or nothing able to fossilize. "The sma ... more Tourism The Casualty For Radiation Leak City 
Kashiwazaki, Japan (AFP) Aug 07, 2007Staring at the few carefree teenagers frolicking about in the water, beach worker Hitoshi Arakawa was full of resentment over a leak at a nearby nuclear plant. "They say the exposure level won't harm people's health, but the very fact that there was radiation leakage kills businesses like ours," Arakawa said furiously, with unsold stocks of corn piled up under his table. Arakawa, 42, is one of t ... more Putin Says Recent North Pole Mission To Back Russian Claim To Arctic 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 08, 2007The results of the Russian North Pole mission last week should be central to the country's case for ownership of a vast section of the Arctic, President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday. Russian researchers made the first-ever dive below the North Pole in two mini-submarines last Thursday, taking rock samples from the seabed to gather proof that Russia's continental shelf stretches out into the Arcti ... more |
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Boulder CO (SPX) Aug 08, 2007A reversal of tectonic plate motion between Acapulco and Mexico City in the last half of 2006 probably didn't ease seismic strain in the region or the specter of a major earthquake anticipated there in the coming decades, says a University of Colorado at Boulder professor. Instead of creeping toward Mexico City at about one inch per year - the expected speed from plate tectonic theory - th ... more The Turkish Crisis 
Paris (UPI) Aug 08, 2007Three crises are coming to a head at once in Turkey. And despite its powerful mandate from last month's elections, the re-elected government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is ill-placed to tackle any one of them. The first crisis is the appearance in Parliament of 18 elected new members of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party, accused of links to the outlawed separatist guerilla move ... more Locked In Glaciers And Ancient Microbes May Return To Life 
New Brunswick, NJ (SPX) Aug 08, 2007The DNA of ancient microorganisms, long frozen in glaciers, may return to life as the glaciers melt, according to a paper published online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by scientists at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and Boston University. The article is scheduled to appear in the print edition on Tuesday, Aug. 14. The finding is significan ... more 3-D Brain Centers Pinpointed 
Leuven, Netherlands (SPX) Aug 08, 2007In studies with monkeys, researchers have identified in detail the brain regions responsible for the unique ability of primates, including humans, to process visual 3D shapes to guide their sophisticated manipulation of objects. Specifically, the researchers delineated regions of the parietal cortex responsible for extracting 3D information by integrating disparities in information from the two ... more UN Warns Of Looming Health Crisis In South Asia Flooding 
Geneva (AFP) Aug 07, 2007Millions of people marrooned by severe floods in South Asia face a looming health crisis unless they receive clean water supplies within days, United Nations agencies said Tuesday. The UN children's fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organisation said that stagnant flood waters were breeding grounds for diarrhoeal and waterborne diseases, including cholera as well as insect-borne diseases such a ... more |
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Dhaka (AFP) Aug 07, 2007Bangladesh's seven-month-old military-backed government is facing its toughest test yet, with millions of people displaced and the economy badly damaged by the worst floods to hit the country in a decade. Nearly two weeks of flooding has killed hundreds and destroyed crops and infrastructure worth hundreds of millions of dollars, forcing Bangladesh's rulers to turn to the country's besieged poli ... more Time To Withdraw Iraq Oil Law 
Washington (UPI) Aug 07, 2007Iraq's citizens suffer from the August heat, little electricity and fuel. Death is seemingly around every corner. So the time may not be right for an oil law, especially the one the Bush administration wants. United Press International has found a recurring theme over recent months during coverage of the Iraq oil law: creating a law governing the bloodline to Iraq's economy should be less of a p ... more A Venezuelan Oil Takeover 
Miami (UPI) Aug 08, 2007Efforts to nationalize Venezuela's oil and gas sector have increased government revenue by $5.8 billion a year since 2004, according to President Hugo Chavez. In a national address last week, Chavez said, "You can't have a socialist economist model - without including oil," a reference to his recent efforts to wrest greater state control of the country's petroleum sector. On May 1, Venezuela's s ... more The Iran Nuke Industry Row 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 07, 2007A group of inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency arrived in Iran to visit a heavy-water reactor being built near Arak, in the center of the country. This time, the Iranians are ready to give the IAEA exhaustive answers to questions about their experiments with plutonium and their uranium-enrichment program. This is a real breakthrough in Tehran's long-running dispute with the nu ... more Car Satellite Navigation Systems Can Be Steered The Wrong Way 
Las Vegas (AFP) Aug 3, 2007Satellite navigation systems in cars can be hijacked remotely with relative ease, allowing hackers to feed drivers bogus directions, two experts told a major security conference here. Andrea Barisani and Daniele Bianco from the website Inverse Path demonstrated Thursday how antennas and a patchwork of commonly available electronics can be employed to replace the legitimate traffic information ra ... more
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