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It Takes a Solar Village
Oct 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Rain didn't ruin the 2009 Solar Decathlon in Washington, D.C. University teams successfully operated 20 net-zero, grid-connected solar power homes for a week on the National Mall. Some used ...
How monkey murder brought British coastal towns together
Jan 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- How two British coastal communities, hundreds of miles apart, came to be associated with a centuries-old tale of monkey murder has been investigated as part of a new study.
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The missionary doctor
Nov 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Dr. Kenneth Chang has built one of the nation's finest digestive disease centers for UC Irvine Healthcare with a drive and passion inspired by doctors he assisted in a poor Taiwanese fishing ...
Island village hit by suspected swine flu
Nov 07, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Suspected swine flu is sweeping a traditional Eskimo whaling village on a remote Alaska island - prompting an urgent medical mission to deliver help.
Team tracks infamous conquistador through southeast
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Nov 05, 2009 |
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Archaeologists at Atlanta's Fernbank Museum of Natural History have discovered unprecedented evidence that helps map Hernando de Soto's journey through the Southeast in 1540. No evidence of De Soto's path ...
Toward home-brewed electricity with 'personalized solar energy'
Nov 04, 2009 |
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New scientific discoveries are moving society toward the era of "personalized solar energy," in which the focus of electricity production shifts from huge central generating stations to individuals in their ...
Review: $99 WikiReader is a pocket encyclopedia
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Oct 28, 2009 |
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(AP) -- When I was a kid, my dad bought a copy of the Encyclopedia Britannica. It had 32 volumes and took up 4 feet in the book case. I loved to sit on the couch and flip through it, reading articles at random.
Surveys for major neglected tropical diseases in sub-Saharan Africa can be integrated
Oct 27, 2009 |
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It is possible to simultaneously survey a number of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) in the challenging environment of Southern Sudan, according to a new study published October 27 in the open-access journal PLoS Neglected Tr ...
From ecological Soviet-era ruin, a sea is reborn
Oct 25, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Standing on the shore under the relentless Central Asian sun, Badarkhan Prikeyev drew on a cigarette and squinted into the distance as one fishing boat after another returned with the day's catch.
Boys with urogenital birth defects are 33 percent more common in villages sprayed with DDT
Oct 23, 2009 |
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Women who lived in villages sprayed with DDT to reduce malaria gave birth to 33 per cent more baby boys with urogenital birth defects (UGBD) between 2004 and 2006 than women in unsprayed villages, according to research published ...
Solar lantern lights up rural India's dark nights
Oct 23, 2009 |
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For more than 100 Indian villages cut off from grid electricity, life no longer comes to an end after dark thanks to an innovative solar-powered lantern that offers hope to the nation's rural poor.
It takes two to tutor a sparrow
Oct 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It may take a village to raise a child, and apparently it takes at least two adult birds to teach a young song sparrow how and what to sing.
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