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UN talks: Rich nations must make big emission cuts (AP)

UN talks: Rich nations must make big emission cuts

Space & Earth / Environment

created 15 hours ago | popularity 2.6 / 5 (5) | comments 2

(AP) -- Wealthy nations would commit to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the next decade, and the world should strive to nearly eliminate them - or at least cut them in half - by 2050 under ...


Patenting melon juice? Not if India gets its way...

Technology / Business

created 19 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Fed up with foreign companies patenting traditional medicine from India, the country's top scientific body is compiling a giant database of everything from yoga positions to medicinal fruit juice.


Glasgow's joking computer

Glasgow's joking computer

Technology / Computer Sciences

created 21 hours ago | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Glasgow Science Centre in Scotland is exhibiting a computer that makes up jokes using its database of simple language rules and a large vocabulary.


Governments turn to cloud seeding to fight drought (AP)

Governments turn to cloud seeding to fight drought

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 2

(AP) -- On a mountaintop clearing in the Sierra Nevada stands a tall metal platform holding a crude furnace and a box of silver iodide solution that some scientists believe could help offer relief from searing ...


Expel chocolate milk from school lunches: activist

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Chocolate milk is "soda in drag" and should be booted out of US school cafeterias, a former celebrity chef turned school lunch lady has said.


Earth

Earth's atmosphere came from outer space, find scientists

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (24) | comments 14

(PhysOrg.com) -- The gases which formed the Earth's atmosphere - and probably its oceans - did not come from inside the Earth but from outer space, according to a study by University of Manchester and University ...


Successful stem cell therapy for treatment of eye disease

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Newly published research, by investigators, at the North East England Stem Cell Institute (NESCI) in the journal Stem Cells reported the first successful treatment of eight patients with "Limbal Stem Cell Deficiency" (LSCD) ...


Adobe founders bound together by friendship as well as profits

Technology / Business

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

I can't imagine there is any more room for awards on the mantels at John Warnock's and Chuck Geschke's homes. The Adobe co-founders have been honored by trade groups, engineering societies, magazines and universities. But ...


Dinosaur

Dinosaurs hop, skip and jump into 21st century

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Dinosaurs have literally been put through their paces by a new supercomputer, allowing scientists to get closer to understanding how they once moved.


Energy efficiency technologies offer major savings

Technology / Energy

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Energy efficiency technologies that exist today or that are likely to be developed in the near future could save considerable money as well as energy, says a new report from the National Research Council. Fully adopting ...



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