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Portuguese wave-power snake dead in the water
Mar 24, 2009 |
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Opened in September as a world "first" in producing electricity from waves, a pioneering installation here is dead in the water having functioned for only a few weeks in a stormy process of research and development.
How a cometary boulder lit up the Spanish sky
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Last July, people in Spain, Portugal and France watched the brilliant fireball produced by a boulder crashing down through the Earth’s atmosphere. In a paper to be published in the journal ...
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Briefs: Sonea bid for Portugal Telecom rejected
Feb 08, 2006 |
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Portugal Telecom Wednesday formally rejected what it characterized as a lowball and hostile takeover bid by conglomerate Sonae.
Liver disease responsible for most alcohol-related illness and deaths
Apr 23, 2009 |
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Liver disease is the most prevalent cause of alcohol-related deaths, followed by car accidents and cancer, according to new research conducted in Portugal and presented today at EASL 2009, the Annual Meeting of the European ...
HIV's march around Europe mapped
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
May 20, 2009 |
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Those travelling abroad should take seriously advice to pack their condoms and keep their needles to themselves: research published today in the open access journal Retrovirology shows that tourists, travel ...
In Brief: Brazil's Vivo moving toward 3G wireless
Jul 03, 2006 |
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Brazil's largest cell-phone operator Vivo is establishing a GSM network to help pave the way to third-generation (3G) wireless services.
Sonae bid wobbles Portugal Telecom outlook
Feb 07, 2006 |
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Sonae's unsolicited bid for Portugal Telecom was seen in a somewhat dim light by financial analysts who feared the telco could be saddled with unwelcome debt.
Reverse evolution in real-time
Biology /
Jan 11, 2009 |
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Evolutionary biology tells us that replaying life's tape will not not look at all like the original. The outcome of evolution is contingent on everything that came before. Now, scientists at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia ...
1755, 2007 European earthquakes compared
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 02, 2007 |
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An Italian-led team of seismologists has conducted a study comparing a 2007 earthquake off southwestern Portugal with a similar 1755 earthquake.
6 out of 10 doctors aren't frustrated that patients can't lower cholesterol
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jul 16, 2007 |
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Family doctors don’t always feel that they can achieve healthy cholesterol levels in their patients even though they are aware of the dangers of cardiovascular disease, according to an international survey of practitioners ...
A sudden Tropical Storm Grace explodes in far Eastern Atlantic
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 05, 2009 |
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The latest tropical storm in the Atlantic Ocean may have escaped the notice of most when it formed just before midnight last night so far north and east in the Atlantic, away from where forecasters usually ...
How 'Mother of Thousands' Makes Plantlets
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Oct 01, 2007 |
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New research shows how the houseplant "mother of thousands" (Kalanchoe diagremontiana) makes the tiny plantlets that drop from the edges of its leaves. Having lost the ability to make viable seeds, the plant has shifted some ...
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