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US pledges 70 mln dlrs for Ethiopia food aid
Addis Ababa (AFP) June 10, 2008The United States on Tuesday pledged 70 million dollars (45 million euros) in food aid for Ethiopia where 4.5 million people are in need of emergency food aid. Some 95,000 metric tonnes of food is expected in the Horn of Africa nation next month, a statement from the US Agency for International Development (USAID) said. Ethiopia will receive an additional 10 million dollars in medical ... more Study Of Glacial Earthquakes Shakes Up Idea Of How Ice Streams Move 
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 11, 2008New research that integrates seismic recordings with Global Positioning System (GPS) measurements indicates that a 7,000-square-mile region of the Whillians Ice Stream in West Antarctica moves more than two feet twice every day in an earthquake-like pattern equivalent to a Magnitude 7 temblor. The findings were published in this week's edition of the journal Nature by a group of scientists ... more Scientists From Granada Develop A New Methodology For Landfill Management 
Granada, Spain (SPX) Jun 11, 2008Scientists of the University of Granada (Spain) have designed a novel and versatile environmental diagnostic method of landfills which is able to adapt to different places of the world and contributes to quantify the environmental impact. The doctoral thesis "Landfill environmental diagnosis methodology. Adaptation to computerization using fuzzy techniques and its application in Andalusian ... more Scientists Examine Ecosystem Connectivity Using Long-Term Studies 
Washington, DC (SPX) Jun 11, 2008Ecosystems are constantly exchanging materials through the movement of air in the atmosphere, the flow of water in rivers and the migration of animals across the landscape. People, however, have also established themselves as another major driver of connectivity among ecosystems. In the June 2008 Special Issue of Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, titled "Continental-scale ecology ... more Barren Seafloor Teeming With Microbial Life 
Los Angeles, CA (SPX) Jun 11, 2008Once considered a barren plain with the odd hydrothermal vent, the seafloor appears to be teeming with microbial life, according to a paper being published May 29 in Nature. "A 60,000 kilometer seam of basalt is exposed along the mid-ocean ridge spreading system, representing potentially the largest surface area for microbes to colonize on Earth," said USC geomicrobiologist Katrina Edwards ... more |
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Stanford CA (SPX) Jun 11, 2008One of the most critical processes in biology is the transcription of genetic information from DNA to messenger RNA (mRNA), which provides the blueprint for the proteins that form the machinery of life. Now, researchers have discovered new details of how the cell's major transcriptional machinery, RNA polymerase II (Pol II), functions with such exquisite precision. With almost unerring ... more Fruits, Vegetables And Teas May Protect Smokers From Lung Cancer 
Los Angeles, CA (SPX) Jun 11, 2008Tobacco smokers who eat three servings of fruits and vegetables per day and drink green or black tea may be protecting themselves from lung cancer, according to a first-of-its-kind study by UCLA cancer researchers. UCLA researchers found that smokers who ingested high levels of natural chemicals called flavonoids in their diet had a lower risk of developing lung cancer, an important ... more Switzerland plans first nuclear power station for 20 years 
Geneva (AFP) June 10, 2008Switzerland on Tuesday announced plans for its first new nuclear power station in more than 20 years to secure energy supplies over the coming decades. Energy group Atel said it has submitted plans to the government for a new plant near Olten in northern Switzerland, not far from the German border and the existing Goesgen facility. But the plan is not without its opponents, and the ... more Ukraine reactor stopped after water leak: officials 
Kiev (AFP) June 10, 2008A leak of radioactive water on Tuesday caused the shutdown of a nuclear reactor in western Ukraine but posed no risk to the environment, officials said. A senior official at the Rivne nuclear power plant who declined to give his name said 1.3 cubic meters of water escaped from the pipe used to cool the reactors, but remained within a sealed area. The leakage "did not exceed permitted ... more Key oil pipeline in China quake zone suspended: state media 
Beijing (AFP) June 10, 2008The operation of a key oil pipeline in China's quake-hit Sichuan province was suspended Tuesday while authorities drained a dangerous 'quake lake' in the area, company officials said. The pipeline, located 60 kilometres downstream from the Tangjiashan lake, halted operations as drainage work on the body of water was accelerated out of concerns for safety, China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) ... more |
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Stuttgart, Germany (SPX) Jun 10, 2008A broken cable or a soiled connector? If a machine in a factory goes on strike, it could be for any of a thousand reasons. Self-sufficient sensors that provide their own power supply will soon make these machines more robust. When a factory machine breaks down, it's hard to know what to do. Production often comes to a standstill until the error has finally been pinpointed - and that can ... more Sun Goes Longer Than Normal Without Producing Sunspots 
Bozeman MT (SPX) Jun 10, 2008The sun has been laying low for the past couple of years, producing no sunspots and giving a break to satellites. That's good news for people who scramble when space weather interferes with their technology, but it became a point of discussion for the scientists who attended an international solar conference at Montana State University. Some 100 scientists from Europe, Asia, ... more Interfering With The Global Positioning System 
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 10, 2008You can't always trust your GPS gadget. As scientists have long known, perplexing electrical activity in the upper atmospheric zone called the ionosphere can tamper with signals from GPS satellites. Now, new research and monitoring systems are clarifying what happens to disruptive clouds of electrons and other electrically charged particles, known as ions, in the ionosphere. The work may ... more New search for alien life is planned 
Baltimore (UPI) Jun 9, 2008 U.S. astronomers say they are developing plans to use the new Allen Telescope Array to search for extraterrestrial intelligence in the Milky Way Galaxy. Johns Hopkins University Professor Richard Conn Henry is joining forces with Seth Shostak of the SETI Institute and Steven Kilston of the Henry Foundation Inc., a Maryland think tank, to searc ... more Moscow Making Plans For GLONASS Part One 
Moscow (UPI) Jun 9, 2008 The Russian displays at the ILA-2008 International Aerospace Exhibition, held in Berlin from May 27 to June 1, can be described as epoch-making. And it is not due to the space they occupied or the names present, such as Energia, the Khrunichev Center, Progress, Energomash, Lavochkin Association, and others. Should Russia's Federal Space Agency - Roscosmos - implement even some of the ... more
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