 Sharp, Enel to tie-up in solar power November 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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Japan's Sharp Corp. said Thursday it would team up with Italian utility Enel to develop solar power plants in the Mediterranean region, seeking to cash in on growing interest in clean energy. | |
 Space shuttle unlocks from ISS November 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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The space shuttle Endeavour successfully unlocked from the International Space Station on Friday to begin its return journey to Earth, NASA said. | |
 Germany says well on track to meet Kyoto goals November 28, 2008 | User rating: 3.3 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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The German government released data for 2007 greenhouse gas emissions on Friday that it said showed it was well on track to meet its international climate change commitments under the Kyoto Protocol. | |
 Amazon deforestation up almost 4.0 percent November 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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Brazil's Amazon jungles, known as the lungs of the world, lost almost 12,000 square kilometres (4,800 sq. miles) in just 12 months, a rise of almost 4.0 percent, new figures showed Friday. | |
 Group seeks Pickens' wife's help to save rangeland November 29, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | User comments: 2
(AP) -- Conservationists are looking to the wife of Texas oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens to help push for federal reforms that they say will help thousands of wild horses and save rangeland in the West. | |
 Wash. biologist hazes swans away from deadly lead November 29, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Years of collecting dead carcasses and examining lead-poisoned livers have convinced Mike Smith of this: to save Pacific Coast trumpeter swans, he has to haze them. | |
Combining targeted therapy drugs may treat previously resistant tumors November 30, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | User comments: 2
A team of cancer researchers from several Boston academic medical centers has discovered a potential treatment for a group of tumors that have resisted previous targeted therapy approaches. | |
Salmon-tracking network challenges conventional wisdom November 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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They were two of the 1,000 juvenile salmon implanted with almond-sized transmitters as they headed out of the Rocky Mountains, down the Snake River bound for the sea. | |
 Space shuttle glides to safe landing in California (Update) November 30, 2008 | User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Space shuttle Endeavour slipped out of a brilliant desert sky and touched down safely in California after a nearly 16-day mission to repair and upgrade the international space station. | |
Mandates driving surge to the river for hydropower 19 hours ago | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Many decades ago, cost-conscious Henry Ford turned to hydroelectric plants to power his car factories like the one by the Great Miami River, near this Cincinnati suburb. That assembly plant is long gone, but the ... | |
 Drivers make more errors when talking on cell phone than to a passenger 19 hours ago | User rating: 2.6 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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Drivers make more mistakes when talking on a cell phone than when talking to passengers, new research shows. | |
ACP recommends routine HIV screening for all patients 14 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | User comments: 2
On World AIDS Day, the American College of Physicians (ACP) is giving doctors a call-to-action to routinely encourage HIV screening to all of their patients older than 13 years. This new practice guideline appears on the ... | |
A picture paints more than a petabyte of data 13 hours ago | User rating: 2.3 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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In the age of the petabyte, we all need help digesting and understanding massive amounts of information. In this month's Physics World, a series of features celebrates the ascendance of visual methods that are being ... | |
Rivers are carbon processors, not inert pipelines 13 hours ago | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Microorganisms in rivers and streams play a crucial role in the global carbon cycle that has not previously been considered. Freshwater ecologist Dr. Tom Battin, of the University of Vienna, told a COST ESF Frontiers of Science ... | |
Antioxidants are unlikely to prevent aging, study suggests 11 hours ago | User rating: 3 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Diets and beauty products which claim to have anti-oxidant properties are unlikely to prevent ageing, according to research funded by the Wellcome Trust. Researchers at the Institute of Healthy Ageing at UCL (University College ... | |
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