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Malaysia urged to force big oil to produce biofuel
Mar 12, 2009 |
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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 (w/ Video)
Dec 08, 2009 |
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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
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Aug 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Can computers solve the logistical nightmare of planning English football fixtures?
New screening halves the number of children born with Down syndrome
Nov 28, 2008 |
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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
Mar 17, 2009 |
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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
Oct 19, 2005 |
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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
Dec 22, 2008 |
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(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
Oct 08, 2008 |
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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
Nov 06, 2008 |
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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
Oct 14, 2009 |
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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
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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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