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Added by C on February 27, 2010 at 11:00am — 1 Comment

COP 15 Press Conference - Retooling the Planet & Who Will Feed Us?

COP 15

Press Conference

Copenhagen, Denmark

14 December 2009

Launch of two publications by Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration (ETC) and the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation…

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Added by C on December 17, 2009 at 3:05pm — No Comments

An Advance in Superconducting Magnet Technology Opens the Door for More Powerful Colliders

Berkeley Lab

December 16, 2009

Contact: Paul Preuss

Preparing for as much as a 10-fold increase in the Large Hadron Collider’s luminosity within the next decade, U.S. scientists and engineers have demonstrated a powerful magnet based on an advanced superconducting material, which can produce magnetic fields strong enough to focus intense proton beams in the LHC’s… Continue

Added by C on December 16, 2009 at 11:30pm — No Comments

Photovoltaic cells to power biological nanorobots inside the body

(Nanowerk Spotlight) As the fields of bionanotechnologies develop, it will become possible one day to use biological nanodevices such as nanorobots for in situ and real-time in vivo diagnosis and therapeutic intervention of specific targets. A prerequisite for designing and constructing wireless biological nanorobots is the availability of an electrical source which can be made continuously available in the… Continue

Added by C on December 14, 2009 at 3:01am — No Comments

Snow coming down across much of Louisiana

Dave Cohen Reporting

Snow has been moving across Louisiana. It started to fall around 6:00pm in western portions of the state. Lafayette saw big white flakes coming down and creating a blanket of snow on everything.

A short time later, flurries made it into Baton Rouge. The precipitation became a wintery mix of sleet, snow and rain… Continue

Added by C on December 4, 2009 at 9:00pm — 3 Comments

Who Will Govern? Rome’s Food Summit may determine who decides who will eat

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The declaration coming out of the World Food Summit for Food Security in Rome is even worse than the “shameful” document adopted by world leaders in 1996, so famously criticized by Cuba’s Fidel Castro. Governments won’t promise anything to anybody. The only issue really being debated in Rome is whether control of the UN’s “Department… Continue

Added by C on November 21, 2009 at 7:00am — 1 Comment

IBM and Salerno Cooperate to Develop a Smarter City

The city of Salerno has entered into a strategic initiative with IBM (NYSE: IBM) with the aim of creating a Smart City. Salerno is the third Italian city to create an Innovation Board with IBM to identify and design a new model for a sustainable city through a range of digital solutions. Last month, IBM and the cities of Parma and Reggio Emilia announced similar initiatives.

Salerno is a modern city in southern Italy. The city's management is planning citizen-focused… Continue

Added by C on May 19, 2009 at 12:43pm — No Comments

Statement from the Center for Consumer Freedom Against CDC Nominee Thomas Frieden

Following today's announcement that President Obama nominated Dr. Thomas Frieden to head the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the Center for Consumer Freedom’s Senior Research Analyst, J. Justin Wilson, released the following statement:

“It is unfortunate that President Obama choose to put the nation's health in the… Continue

Added by C on May 15, 2009 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory, or DUSEL.

Deep concerns

The United States' flagship underground laboratory is running into challenges over its relations with local Native Americans. Rex Dalton reports.

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Deep in South Dakota's Black Hills, engineers are halfway through pumping water from a… Continue

Added by C on May 14, 2009 at 9:30pm — No Comments

Datastrip Introduces Next Generation Biometric Reader for One-Step Identity Verification of E-passports

New EasyRead™ Handheld Device Advances ID Management and Security for Airports, Immigration and Border Patrols

WAYNE, Pa. (May 13, 2009) — Datastrip has launched its next generation EasyRead™ handheld biometric reader for the secure verification of travel documents. The EasyRead is the first and only mobile biometric device offering a one-step inspection procedure for securely validating Machine Readable Travel Documents… Continue

Added by C on May 14, 2009 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Panel Votes to Outlaw Human-Animal Hybrids in Louisiana

Associated Press Reporting

A Louisiana Senate panel has voted to outlaw the creation of so-called "human-animal hybrids.''

Scientific researchers in some areas have tried to create human embryonic stem cells by placing human DNA into animal cells. Harvard University researchers have tried to clone human embryonic cells in rabbit eggs. But the effectiveness and the ethics of such research… Continue

Added by C on May 12, 2009 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Race for Deep-Sea Gold Under Way

There's gold in that thar sea floor. Silver, copper, zinc and lead, too. The problem is, it's a mile or two underwater and encased in massive mineral deposits that layer a dark, mysterious world. However, new technology and worldwide demand have combined to make mining for these metals economically feasible for the first time.

A breakthrough project is moving forward in New Guinea, and new rules to govern deep ocean mining are being set by an international authority. Scientists,… Continue

Added by C on May 10, 2009 at 10:00pm — 1 Comment

Animetrics, Inc: Facial Identification iPhone Application - iFace

iFace is a facial identification application that leverages the iPhone's unique capabilities and innovative user interface. iFace is a native iPhone application using standard internet protocols to send facial imagery to the Animetrics Face Identity Management System (FIMS) server for face biometric processing. iFace has two primary functions: 1) as an interface to a biometrics identification system for use by security, including law… Continue

Added by C on May 9, 2009 at 11:30am — No Comments

New Bill to Fund Climate Change and Public Health Preparedness Praised by Environmental and Health Groups

H.R. 2323

Legislation will support research, surveillance, planning and interagency coordination

Posted: 08-May-2009

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Dr. John Balbus, 202-572-3316, jbalbus@edf.org

Jennifer Andreassen, 202-572-3387, jandreassen@edf.org

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Added by C on May 8, 2009 at 7:00pm — 3 Comments

Gates Foundation Funds Research on Virus-Fighting Tomato

Foundation Invests in 81 Unconventional Global Health Research Projects

$100,000 grants will explore how unique approaches, including the use of tomatoes, cows and magnets, can be used to prevent infectious disease

SEATTLE -- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced 81 grants of US$100,000 each to explore bold and largely… Continue

Added by C on May 5, 2009 at 9:30pm — No Comments

Obama’s Support for Digital Health Records May Increase Identity Theft

Identity Finder Introduces Initiative to Secure Patient Health Information

NEW YORK, May 5, 2009 — President Obama has proposed sweeping reform of the nation’s healthcare system and said he believes all medical records should be computerized and standardized within five years. The President hopes this will result in increased quality of care, decreased costs, and… Continue

Added by C on May 5, 2009 at 5:24pm — No Comments

iData Research: U.S. Market for Female Sterilization Devices to Grow 36% in 2009

According to two market research reports by iData Research (www.idataresearch.net) - an international medical device, dental and pharmaceutical market research firm - the U.S. market for female sterilization devices will almost triple in value by 2015. Within this market, transcervical sterilization devices, which grew over 54% in 2008, will account for the majority of the growth.

Transcervical sterilization involves the… Continue

Added by C on May 5, 2009 at 5:02pm — No Comments

Food security: It Starts With Seed

Madison, WI, May 1, 2009 -- With each passing year, the human population of our planet continues to expand. This growth has created a wide ranging strain on our water and soil resources, as well as our environment, creating an unprecedented urgency to address the issue of food security. One way that scientists are working towards this goal is through the genetic modification of seeds, both as a method of improving crop yields as well as enhancing the nutritional composition of foods. A new book… Continue

Added by C on May 4, 2009 at 2:30pm — No Comments

M. D. Anderson Study Predicts Dramatic Growth in Cancer Rates Among U.S. Elderly, Minorities

Over the next 20 years, the number of new cancer cases diagnosed annually in the United States will increase by 45 percent, from 1.6 million in 2010 to 2.3 million in 2030, with a dramatic spike in incidence predicted in the elderly and minority populations, according to research from The… Continue

Added by C on April 30, 2009 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Nanoneedle is Small in Size, But Huge in Applications

James E. Kloeppel, Physical Sciences Editor

217-244-1073; kloeppel@illinois.edu

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a membrane-penetrating nanoneedle for the targeted delivery of one or more molecules into the cytoplasm or the nucleus of living cells. In addition to ferrying tiny amounts of cargo, the nanoneedle can also be used as an electrochemical probe and as an optical… Continue

Added by C on April 29, 2009 at 12:33pm — No Comments