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TwitterA flu shot is prepared in Chicago, Illinois. US President Barack Obama has vowed to fight for his budget proposals that include investments in clean energy and healthcare as he faces a tough battle moving the measures through Congress. (AFP/Getty Images/File/Tim Boyle)From Yahoo News/Reuters:WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Virtually all cases of the most common strain of flu circulating in the United States now resist the main drug used to treat it, the U.S.
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Resistance To Flu Drug Widespread In U.S.: Study
March 3rd, 2009 
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February 27th, 2009 admin Red Mars from Spirit (Image from NASA)From Breitart/AFP:The European Space Agency (ESA) on Friday named a Frenchman and a German who will join four Russians in an innovative 105-day isolation experiment to test whether humans can one day fly to Mars.From March 31, the six “crew” will be locked inside a special facility in Moscow that replicates conditions of a space trip to Mars.The simulation will be followed by a 520-day experiment, starting later this year, that would last as long as a real mission to Mars.The two Europeans are Oliver Knickel, 28, a mechanical engineer in the German army, and Cyrille Fournier, 40, a captain with Air France who flies A320 airliners, ESA said in a press release.Read more ….
Posted in Science News Tags: Afp, Air France, Airliners, Cyrille, European Space Agency, Europeans, Fournier, Frenchman, German Army, Isolation, Mars Mission, Mechanical Engineer, Mission To Mars, Moscow, Nasa, Red Mars, Russians, Space Simulation, Space Trip, Trip To Mars Comments OffBiotechnology’s Potential Barely Exploited: Scientists
February 16th, 2009 admin This picture released by the Seoul research institute Maria BioTech shows human embryonic stem cells. New research tools will bring a boom in biotechnology that will unlock the enormous potential of using synthetic life to cure disease and develop environmentally friendly fuels, scientists say. (AFP/HO/File)From Yahoo News/AFP:CHICAGO (AFP) – New research tools will bring a boom in biotechnology that will unlock the enormous potential of using synthetic life to cure disease and develop environmentally friendly fuels, scientists say.”If you look at all the things biology can do with technology, we have not yet scratched the surface,” said Drew Endy, assistant professor of bioengineering at Stanford University.The past 35 years of biotech development have introduced a number of “tremendous applications,” particularly in the area of bioengineered drugs, Endy said at the annual conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science here.Read more ….
Posted in Science News Tags: 35 Years, Advancement Of Science, Afp, American Association For The Advancement Of Science, Assistant Professor, Association For The Advancement Of Science, Bioengineering, Biology, Biotechnology, Boom, Drugs, Embryonic Stem Cells, Exploited, Human Embryonic Stem Cells, New Research Tools, Scientists, Seoul, Stanford University, Synthetic Life, Yahoo Comments OffPlumbing The Planet: The 5 Biggest Projects Taking On The World’s Water Supply
February 7th, 2009 admin An Israeli employee inspects membranes that extract salt from the water at Ashkelon’s seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) plant, south of Tel Aviv. Ashkelon’s desalination plant is one the biggest in the world. (Photograph by David Buimovitch/AFP/Getty Images)From Popular Mechanics:As nations and regions all over the globe face too much polluted water and too little fresh water, they are turning to some of the largest, most technologically complex projects the world has ever seen.
Posted in Science News Tags: Afp, Ashkelon, Desalination Plant, Fresh Water, Getty Images, Globe, Good Water, Panelists, Plumbing, Polluted Water, Popular Mechanics, Reverse Osmosis, Sanitation, Seawater, Taps, Tel Aviv, United Nations, Water Supplies, Water Supply, World Photograph Comments OffBiofuels More Harmful To Humans Than Petrol And Diesel, Warn Scientists
February 3rd, 2009 admin A jatropha nursery in the Ivory Coast. Photograph: Kambou Sia/AFP/Getty ImagesFrom The Guardian:Corn-based bioethanol has higher burden on environment and human health, says US studySome biofuels cause more health problems than petrol and diesel, according to scientists who have calculated the health costs associated with different types of fuel.The study shows that corn-based bioethanol, which is produced extensively in the US, has a higher combined environmental and health burden than conventional fuels.
Posted in Science News Tags: Afp, Bioethanol, Combined Health, Conventional Fuels, Diesel, Environmental Costs, Gasoline, Getty Images, Guardian, Health Burden, Health Problems, High Hopes, Human Health, Ivory Coast, Marginal Land, Next Generation, Organic Waste, Petrol, Photograph, Scientists Comments OffScientists To Solve Astronomical Riddle Using Galileo DNA
January 19th, 2009 admin NASA image shows hot blue stars deep inside an elliptical galaxy. Italian scientists are trying to get Galileo’s DNA in order to figure out how the astronomer forged groundbreaking theories on the universe while gradually becoming blind, a historian said Monday. (AFP/NASA/File)From Yahoo News/AFP:ROME (AFP) – Italian scientists are trying to get Galileo’s DNA in order to figure out how the astronomer forged groundbreaking theories on the universe while gradually becoming blind, a historian said Monday.Scientists at Florence’s Institute and Museum of the History of Science want to exhume the body of 17th Century astronomer Galileo Galilei to find out exactly what he could see through his telescope.The Italian astronomer — who built on the work of predecessor Nicolaus Copernicus to develop modern astronomy with the sun as the centre of the universe — had a degenerative eye disease that eventually left him blind.Read more ….
Posted in Science News Tags: 17th Century, Afp, Astronomer Galileo, Blue Stars, Centre Of The Universe, Degenerative Eye Disease, Dna Image, Elliptical Galaxy, Florence, Galileo Galilei, Historian, History Of Science, Italian Astronomer, Italian Scientists, Nasa, Nasa Image, Nicolaus Copernicus, Predecessor, Riddle, Telescope Comments OffNatural Disasters ‘Killed Over 220,000′ In 2008
December 29th, 2008 admin From Yahoo News/AFP:BERLIN (AFP) – Natural disasters killed over 220,000 people in 2008, making it one of the most devastating years on record and underlining the need for a global climate deal, the world’s number two reinsurer said Monday.Although the number of natural disasters was lower than in 2007, the catastrophes that occurred proved to be more destructive in terms of the number of victims and the financial cost of the damage caused, Germany-based Munich Re said in its annual assessment.”This continues the long-term trend we have been observing. Climate change has already started and is very probably contributing to increasingly frequent weather extremes and ensuing natural catastrophes,” Munich Re board member Torsten Jeworrek said.Read more ….
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December 24th, 2008 admin From Time Magazine:1. Large Hadron ColliderJean-Pierre Clatot / AFP / GettyGood news! The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) — the massive particle accelerator straddling the Swiss-French border — didn’t destroy the world! The bad news: The contraption didn’t really work either. In September, the 17-mile collider was switched on for the first time, putting to rest the febrile webchatter that the machine would create an artificial black hole capable of swallowing the planet or at least a sizeable piece of Europe — a bad day no matter what.
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