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Can Nature's Beauty Lift Citizens From Poverty?Washington DC (SPX) May 02, 2012 Using nature's beauty as a tourist draw can boost conservation in China's valued panda preserves, but it isn't an automatic ticket out of poverty for the humans who live there, a unique long-term study shows. Often those who benefit most from nature-based tourism are people who already have resources. The truly impoverished have a harder time breaking into the tourism business, according to the paper, "Drivers and Socioeconomic Impacts of Tourism Participation in Protected Areas," published in the ... read more |
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  Orangutans harbor ancient primate Alu Alu elements infiltrated the ancestral primate genome about 65 million years ago. Once gained an Alu element is rarely lost so comparison of Alu between species can be used to map primate evolution ... more | .. |
 Not all altruism is alike Not all acts of altruism are alike, says a new study. From bees and wasps that die defending their nests, to elephants that cooperate to care for young, a new mathematical model pinpoints the enviro ... more | .. |
  Impaired recovery of Atlantic cod - forage fish or other factors? In a rapid communication just published in the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, biologist Douglas Swain of the Gulf Fisheries Centre and Robert Mohn, emeritus scientist, at the Be ... more | .. |
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  A middle-ear microphone Cochlear implants have restored basic hearing to some 220,000 deaf people, yet a microphone and related electronics must be worn outside the head, raising reliability issues, preventing patients fro ... more | .. |
 Old maps and dead clams help solve coastal boulder mystery Perched atop the sheer coastal cliffs of Ireland's Aran Islands, ridges of giant boulders have puzzled geologists for years. What forces could have torn these rocks from the cliff edges high above s ... more | .. |
  Lockheed Martin Completes Key Integration Milestone on GeoEye-2 Lockheed Martin has successfully mated the spacecraft bus and the imaging payload for GeoEye's (NASDAQ: GEOY) next-generation, high-resolution imaging satellite, known as GeoEye-2. Lockheed Martin S ... more | .. |
  Lockheed Martin Completes GOES-R Weather Satellite CDR The Lockheed Martin team developing NASA and NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R series (GOES-R) satellite has successfully completed the spacecraft Critical Design Review (CD ... more |
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 Risat-1 satellite raised to its final intended orbit India's own Radar Imaging Satellite (Risat-1), launched on Thursday, has been placed in its final intended orbit, said the country's space agency said Saturday. In a statement issued here, the ... more | .. |
 NASA Image Gallery Highlights Earth's Changing Face In celebration of this year's Earth Day on April 22, NASA's Global Climate Change website has unveiled a new version of its popular image gallery, "State of Flux." The gallery presents stunnin ... more | .. |
 Why bigger animals aren't always faster New research in the journal Physiological and Biochemical Zoology shows why bigger isn't always better when it comes to sprinting speed. "Typically, bigger animals tend to run faster than smaller an ... more | .. |
  On Top of the Smokies, All Covered in Light Rain If you walk into a cloud at the top of a mountain with a cup to slake your thirst, it might take a while for your cup to fill. The tiny, barely-there droplets are difficult to see, and for scientist ... more |
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  Facebook to promote organ donations Facebook on Tuesday unveiled an initiative to use the vast social network to connect organ donors with people who need life-saving transplants. ... more | .. |
  China, US in talks to allow Chen to leave: activist Beijing and Washington are working on a deal to allow rights activist Chen Guangcheng to leave China for the United States with his family after he fled house arrest, a fellow activist said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  New Zealand gas research to help farmers' bottom line Scientists have long accepted that gas from farm animals is a major factor in climate change, but how do you stop cattle and sheep from doing what comes naturally? ... more | .. |
 Brazil cracks down on lucrative wild animal trade Blue-and-yellow macaws from Amazonia, green parrots, monkeys, turtles, anacondas and pumas: wild animal trafficking is a very lucrative business that spares no species in Brazil, including those facing extinction. ... more |
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Top U.S. defense contractor L3 Tech to pay $62M to settle claims of deceptive practices
North Korean warship has 'serious accident' at launch
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  Sodden Britain braced for more floods Southern England and Wales were on high flood alert Tuesday, with thousands of homes at risk from a deluge that has killed one person after Britain's wettest April in over 100 years. ... more | .. |
 'Inhabitants of Madrid' ate elephants' meat and bone marrow 80,000 years ago Humans that populated the banks of the river Manzanares (Madrid, Spain) during the Middle Palaeolithic (between 127,000 and 40,000 years ago) fed themselves on pachyderm meat and bone marrow. This i ... more | .. |
  Warm Ocean Currents Cause Majority of Ice Loss from Antarctica Warm ocean currents attacking the underside of ice shelves are the dominant cause of recent ice loss from Antarctica, a new study using measurements from NASA's Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satell ... more | .. |
 Antibiotic resistance flourishes in freshwater systems The author Dr. Seuss may have been on to something when he imagined that microscopic communities could live and flourish on small specs of dust, barely visible to the naked eye. In fact, such vibran ... more |
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 New study sheds light on debate over organic vs. conventional Can organic agriculture feed the world? Although organic techniques may not be able to do the job alone, they do have an important role to play in feeding a growing global population while minimizin ... more | .. |
 Wind pushes plastics deeper into oceans, driving trash estimates up While working on a research sailboat gliding over glassy seas in the Pacific Ocean, oceanographer Giora Proskurowski noticed something new: The water was littered with confetti-size pieces of plasti ... more | .. |
 Boron-Nitride Nanotubes Show Potential in Cancer Treatment A new study has shown that adding boron-nitride nanotubes to the surface of cancer cells can double the effectiveness of Irreversible Electroporation, a minimally invasive treatment for soft tissue ... more | .. |
 Intense light prevents, treats heart attacks There are lots of ways to treat a heart attack - CPR, aspirin, clot-busters and more. Now CU medical school researchers have found a new candidate: Intense light. "The study suggests that stro ... more |
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SpaceX mega-rocket Starship 9 cleared for launch following earlier mission failures
Rocky road geology reveals billion year story inside Martian crater
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 Slicing mitotic spindle with lasers, nanosurgeons unravel old pole-to-pole theory The mitotic spindle, an apparatus that segregates chromosomes during cell division, may be more complex than the standard textbook picture suggests, according to researchers at the Harvard School of ... more | .. |
 Eating more berries may reduce cognitive decline in the elderly Blueberries and strawberries, which are high in flavonoids, appear to reduce cognitive decline in older adults according to a new study published in Annals of Neurology, a journal of the American Ne ... more | .. |
 First evaluation of the Clean Water Act's effects on coastal waters reveals major successes Levels of copper, cadmium, lead and other metals in Southern California's coastal waters have plummeted over the past four decades, according to new research from USC. Samples taken off the co ... more | .. |
  Jordan's king walks a tightrope on reform King Abdullah II, a key U.S. ally in the Arab world, has gone through three prime ministers in 18 months as he struggles to avoid the kind of Arab Spring political upheaval that toppled four presidents in 2011. ... more |
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 EU hands extra 20 mln euros to Pakistan flood victims Brussels on Monday announced a further 20 million euros in aid to victims of Pakistan's 2011 monsoon floods, as well as people displaced by conflict, bringing funding this year to 55 million euros. ... more | .. |
 Australia to protect most vulnerable koalas Australia moved Monday to protect its most vulnerable koalas, listing the much-loved furry tree-dwellers as a threatened species in parts of the country. ... more | .. |
 Just a few cell clones can make heart muscle Just a handful of cells in the embryo are all that's needed to form the outer layer of pumping heart muscle in an adult zebrafish. Researchers at Duke University Medical Center used zebrafish embryo ... more | .. |
 Hong Kong delays China patriotism lessons Hong Kong said Monday it would delay the introduction of mandatory "national education" classes, which have been criticised as a bid to brainwash children with Chinese patriotism. ... more |
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