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US expected to extend Grand Canyon mining ban

The US administration scheduled an announcement Monday widely expected to implement a long-term ban on mining around the Grand Canyon, a move praised by environmental activists.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 3

Physicists build inexpensive land mine detection system using off-the-shelf components

Anyone who is an online shopper and humanitarian might find this research project appealing. Physics professor John Scales is working on a low-cost, human-focused, high technology effort to stop the devastation of unexploded ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 16, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 2

New testing facility helps researchers improve land mine detection equipment

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have built a test facility to evaluate and enhance sensors designed to detect buried land mines. The unique automated system measures the response of individual ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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Climate risk of toxic shock

The effects of climate change could expose Australians to greater risks from toxic contamination, a leading scientist has warned.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Mission to land on a comet

Europe’s Rosetta spacecraft is en route to intercept a comet– and to make history. In 2014, Rosetta will enter orbit around comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenkoand land a probe on it, two firsts.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Warning of unrest, new study shows millions risk losing lands in Africa

New studies released in London today suggest that the frenzied sell-off of forests and other prime lands to buyers hungry for the developing world's natural resources risk sparking widespread civil unrest—unless national ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

'Extinct' monkey rediscovered in Borneo by new expedition

An international team of scientists has found one of the rarest and least known primates in Borneo, Miller's Grizzled Langur, a species which was believed to be extinct or on the verge of extinction. The team's ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Railroad hyperbole echoes all the way down to the dot-com frenzy

There are critics and readers who say American historian Richard White should not have made fun of rich people in his new book, Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America.

Other Sciences / Other

created Jan 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

When your criminal past isn't yours

(AP) -- A clerical error landed Kathleen Casey on the streets.

Technology / Other

created Dec 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 4

Shooting for the moon -- to mine it

Most people don't take it literally when they're told to shoot for the moon - but thinking small isn't Naveen Jain's way. The 52-year-old Internet entrepreneur is a co-founder of Moon Express Inc., one of ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 20

Can marcellus shale gas development and healthy waterways sustainably coexist?

(PhysOrg.com) -- Amity, Pennsylvania. Epicenter of the natural gas-containing geological formation known as the Marcellus Shale.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 4

New trials show land mine technology can give women fast, accurate breast cancer screening

A safe, low-cost system that would allow women of all ages to be screened for breast cancer in GP surgeries, or alternative high street locations, has come a step closer following a third clinical trial.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

India's uranium mines cast a health shadow

Gudiya Das whines as flies settle on her face, waiting for her mother to swat them while she lies on a cot in Ichra, one in a cluster of villages around India's only functioning uranium mines.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1


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