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An oil palm plantation covers a swath of land where a forest once stood in the Miri interior

Malaysia urged to force big oil to produce biofuel

Technology / Energy

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Malaysia must force major oil firms to produce biofuel if the once-vaunted biodiesel industry is to have any future, industry experts told a conference Thursday.





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Solar energy powers Marines on battlefield

Solar energy powers Marines on battlefield (w/ Video)

Technology / Energy

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

A year ago, U.S. Marines operating in the Arabian Desert only viewed the sun as the source of the region's relentless heat. Recently, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Advanced Power Generation Future Naval ...


Computer software that could plan English football fixtures

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Can computers solve the logistical nightmare of planning English football fixtures?


New screening halves the number of children born with Down syndrome

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 28, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

A new national screening strategy in Denmark has halved the number of infants born with Down's syndrome and increased the number of infants diagnosed before birth by 30%, according to a study published on bmj.com today.


Mechanism of Alzheimer's suggests combination therapy needed

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Mar 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine have discovered a mode of action for mysterious but diagnostic protein snarls found in the brains of Alzheimer's patients that suggests a one-two punch ...


ASU professor to explore DNA based computing

Nanotechnology /

created Oct 19, 2005 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Arizona State University School of Life Sciences professor Wayne Frasch was recently awarded a $1.2 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the U.S. Air Force Office of Science Research to fund ...


Economist: 'Blending wall' stands in way of ethanol growth

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 22, 2008 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ethanol production opened the door to the renewable fuels industry. The industry now must get past an imposing wall of federal regulations and market conditions if it hopes to grow, said a Purdue University ...


Population growth puts dent in natural resources

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 08, 2008 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (12) | comments 2

It's a 500-pound gorilla that Robert Criss, Ph.D., professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, sees standing on the speaker's dais at political rallies, debates and ...


Age is not a key factor in cancer survival, but clinical trials exclude older patients

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 06, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Age is not an independent factor in cancer survival rates and should not influence decisions about how to treat older patients, according to a study in the November issue of IJCP, the Independent Journal of Clinical Practice. ...


Saving labor: Political scientist says our system of improving factory conditions around the world is broken

Saving labor: Political scientist says our system of improving factory conditions around the world is broken

Other Sciences / Economics

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 1

The existence of harsh labor conditions in factories around the world is a pressing moral issue. But to improve those conditions, we should regard it as a logistical issue, too.


Year's Best Gift Could Be A Job From Santa

Year's Best Gift Could Be A Job From Santa

Other Sciences / Other

created 11 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In this year's myriad discussions of stimulus and jobs programs, no one has yet publicly raised the idea to ask Santa Claus to take Christmas Eve off. Outsourcing his job by asking mere mortals to deliver ...



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