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US biotech company offers to clone man's best friend
Washington (AFP) May 21, 2008A US biotech company on Wednesday announced it will auction off the right for five dog owners to have their furry best friend cloned, with bidding starting at 100,000 dollars. "BioArts International ... will sell five dog cloning service slots to the general public via a worldwide online auction," the California-based biotech start-up said in a statement. Registration for the auctions ... more Seeing Clearly Despite The Clouds 
Richland WA (SPX) May 22, 2008Satellites taking atmospheric measurements might now be able to see blue skies as clearly as optimists do. Researchers have found a way to reduce cloud-induced glare when satellites measure blue skies on cloudy days, by as much as ten-fold in some cases. The result might lead to more accurate estimates of the amount of sunlight penetrating the atmosphere. Because clouds represent one of th ... more Scientists Find First Dinosaur Tracks On Arabian Peninsula 
Athens OH (SPX) May 22, 2008Scientists have discovered the first dinosaur tracks on the Arabian Peninsula. In this week's issue of the journal PLoS ONE, they report evidence of a large ornithopod dinosaur, as well as a herd of 11 sauropods walking along a Mesozoic coastal mudflat in what is now the Republic of Yemen. "No dinosaur trackways had been found in this area previously. It's really a blank spot on the map," ... more Integrating Restoration And Conservation Within The Ecosystem Approach 
Washington DC (SPX) May 22, 2008The Society for Ecological Restoration International (SER) released its May 2008 Briefing Note on the "Opportunities for Integrating Ecological Restoration and Biological Conservation within the Ecosystem Approach" at the Convention on Biological Diversity's Ninth Conference of the Parties held in Bonn, Germany, May 19-30, 2008. The SER Briefing Note states that the Ecosystem Approach, as ... more China scrambles to help homeless as quake death toll climbs 
Mianzhu, China (AFP) May 21, 2008China scrambled on Wednesday to provide shelter and prevent disease among five million people made homeless by last week's earthquake, as the number of dead and missing climbed above 74,000. With hope virtually extinguished of finding more survivors amid the rubble of the devastated towns and villages across mountainous Sichuan province, soldiers and relief workers focused on the desperate ... more |
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Baltimore MD (SPX) May 22, 2008Religious leaders have contended for millennia that burning incense is good for the soul. Now, biologists have learned that it is good for our brains too. In a new study appearing online in The FASEB Journal, an international team of scientists, including researchers from Johns Hopkins University and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, describe how burning frankincense (resin from the Bosw ... more Do Chemicals In The Environment Affect Fertility 
Nottingham, UK (SPX) May 22, 2008Our day-to-day exposure to chemicals is on the increase. From food packaging to the air we breathe, every day contact with potentially-toxic substances could be affecting our health - and our fertility. Researchers at The University of Nottingham are set to take part in one of the first studies of the effect of environmental chemicals on female mammals. Part of the Reproductive Effec ... more Clue To Mystery Crustacean In Parasite Form 
Washington DC (SPX) May 22, 2008First identified in 1899, y-larvae have been one of the greatest zoological mysteries for over a century. No one has ever found an adult of these puzzling crustaceans, despite the plethora of these larvae in plankton, leading generations of marine zoologists to wonder just what y- larvae grow up to be. A study published in BioMed Central's open access journal, BMC Biology, reports the tran ... more Children's Gardens Mushrooming 
Ithaca NY (SPX) May 22, 2008Researchers have discovered the secrets to enhancing youth participation in school- and community-based garden programs. A 3-year study entitled "Greener Voices" proves that children will engage in learning more readily when given responsibility for decisionmaking and planning. Children's gardens have mushroomed during the past two decades. Gardens are popping up in schools, communities, ... more Broadband Access Opens Doors To Networking And Economic Development For Rural Areas 
University Park PA (SPX) May 22, 2008Proactive policies are needed to facilitate broadband Internet access and adoption in rural areas so that rural hospitals, schools and businesses can drive social and economic development and better position themselves to compete, say Penn State researchers in a recently released report from the Center for Rural Pennsylvania. The report, "Broadband Internet Use in Rural Pennsylvania," exam ... more |
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Copenhagen (AFP) May 21, 2008Denmark's foreign minister called Wednesday for international law to prevail over territorial claims in the oil-rich Arctic ahead of a meeting next week on the region's disputed borders. Canada, Denmark, Norway, Russia and the United States are at odds over 1.2 million square kilometers (460,000 square miles) of Arctic seabed, thought to hold 25 percent of the world's undiscovered oil and ga ... more US ethanol policy under siege in food-for-fuel debate 
Washington (AFP) May 21, 2008Amid a surge in food prices blamed in part on US expansion of corn-based ethanol production, lawmakers, experts and industry officials are urging the government to rethink a new law mandating alternative fuels. The United States is the world's top producer of corn-based ethanol, which the administration of President George W. Bush sees as a way of reducing dependence on foreign oil and curb ... more Pair held for planning sabotage at Swedish nuclear plant: police 
Stockholm (AFP) May 21, 2008Swedish police Wednesday arrested two contractors for allegedly preparing to sabotage a nuclear power plant, after traces of explosives were found on one of the men, police said. "Two Swedish men were arrested ... The prosecutor suspects them of sabotage," Sven-Erik Karlsson of the Kalmar county police told AFP. He said both men were contractors who had been working at the Oskarshamn nuc ... more Italy to make garbage dumps 'military zones': Berlusconi 
Naples, Italy (AFP) May 21, 2008Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi announced Wednesday that garbage dumps in Naples would be declared "military zones" and guarded by troops, in a bid to resolve the city's rubbish crisis. "Sites and facilities linked to waste disposal will be declared zones of strategic national interest, becoming in effect, military zones guarded by members of the armed forces," Berlusconi told repor ... more Indonesia looks to Papua to expand palm oil plantations: official 
Jakarta (AFP) May 21, 2008The government of Indonesia, the world's largest palm oil producer, is now looking at its vast easternmost provinces in Papua to expand its palm oil plantations, a senior official said Wednesday. "After Sumatra and Kalimantan became too dense for new palm oil plantations, the only land available is in Papua," the agriculture ministry's Director General for Plantations, Achmad Manggabarani ... more
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