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New smart tire senses damage, increases safety (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2008 at 01:00:58
| WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A new type of "smart" tire developed by a Purdue University professor is able to sense damage when a tire goes flat or loses treads, making it safer for road travel.
The tire's technology also can be used to detect impending defects before a tire is mass produced.
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Veterinarian suggests top 10 holiday gift ideas for pets (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2008 at 01:00:58
| WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - As you check gifts off your holiday shopping list, consider the gift of health for your pet, says Lorraine Corriveau, a wellness veterinarian at Purdue University's School of Veterinary Medicine.
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Resolutions should include your computing life, too (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2008 at 01:00:58
| WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Changing computer habits rarely makes the list of top New Year's Resolutions, but there are three digital resolutions you should make to have a happier 2008, says Gerry McCartney, vice president for information technology and CIO of Purdue University.
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Moderate earthquake hits in Kyrgyzstan (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2008 at 10:01:01
The quake had a depth of 26.5 miles and hit 16 miles
southeast of Osh, the second-largest city in the Central Asian
republic, near the border with Uzbekistan. |
Solatubes: Power-free lighting solution (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2008 at 12:00:57
| If you're looking for an innovative and highly energy efficient daylighting system, Solatube may be the answer. These sunlight tubes combine art and science to provide beautiful and functional daylighting. This technology has actually been tauted as one of the most technologically advanced daylighting products available today. The combination of creative component integration along with a sleek design provides an abundance of pure, clean and natural light for any interior space. |
Study: Growing more rice with less water (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2008 at 12:00:57
| Tripura, India — A new method to grow rice could save hundreds of billions of cubic metres of water while increasing food security, according to a study by WWF published today.
With a focus on India — a country which faces a major water crisis, yet has the world’s largest rice cultivated area — the study found that the system of rice intensification (SRI) method has helped increase yields by over 30% — four to five tonnes per hectare instead of three tonnes per hectare, while using 40% less water than conventional methods. |
Strong quakes jolt Papua New Guinea (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2008 at 07:00:56
| SYDNEY/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two strong earthquakes, a magnitude 6.2 quickly followed by a smaller aftershock, struck northeast Papua New Guinea on Wednesday, but no damage was reported. The first quake was centered 55 miles north of the coastal town of Lae at a depth of 29.8 miles, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) reported. A nearby aftershock at magnitude 5.5 struck at 1913 GMT. |
Last year one of the safest to fly in decades (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2008 at 07:00:56
| GENEVA (Reuters) - Last year was one of the safest in more than four decades to fly, with just 136 serious accidents occurring around the world, the Aircraft Crashes Record Office (ACRO) said on Tuesday.
The private group, which documents air disasters worldwide, said that 965 people died in 2007 in accidents involving planes big enough to carry at least six passengers plus crew. That was 25 percent less than in 2006, and the lowest rate since 2004.
The total number of accidents causing severe damage to an aircraft -- 136 -- was the smallest since 1963, making 2007 "one of the safest years since the last half century" for civil aviation, the Geneva-based ACRO said in a statement.
The biggest accident last year was the July 17 crash of a TAM Brasil flight in Sao Paolo, followed by a Kenya Airways crash on May 5 and the crash off Ujung Pandang on January 1 of an Adam Air Indonesia flight, the group said. |
Hostility tied to lower levels of antioxidants (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2008 at 07:00:57
| NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Hostility could increase people's risk of heart disease by depleting their levels of certain heart-healthy antioxidants, new research suggests. Oxidative stress occurs when production of free radicals, which are normal byproducts of metabolism, out paces the body's ability to neutralize them, resulting in tissue damage. It has been associated with heart disease, cancer and other illnesses. Antioxidant vitamins can help counteract oxidative stress, while cigarette smoking and pollution, among other factors, can increase it. |
Some sun may guard against non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2008 at 07:00:57
| NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Recreational sun exposure could help prevent a type of blood cancer involving the lymph nodes called non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL), according to pooled data from 10 studies. "These results...could be taken to suggest that if sun exposure does protect against NHL it is an intermittent pattern of sun exposure that is the most protective," Dr. Anne Kricker of the University of Sydney in New South Wales, Australia and colleagues note in the International Journal of Cancer. |
The very old may benefit from L-carnitine: study (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2008 at 07:00:57
| NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The dietary supplement L-carnitine can lessen fatigue and boost mental function in very old people, Italian researchers report. Study participants given L-carnitine also experienced significant increases in muscle mass and reductions in fat mass, Dr. Mariano Malaguarnera and colleagues from the University of Catania report in the December issue of the American Journal of Clinical nutrition. |
Deep-sea species' loss could lead to oceans' collapse, study suggests (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2008 at 09:00:59
| University of Marche, Italy - The loss of deep-sea species poses a severe threat to the future of the oceans, suggests a new report publishing early online on December 27th and in the January 8th issue of Current Biology, a publication of Cell Press. In a global-scale study, the researchers found some of the first evidence that the health of the deep sea, as measured by the rate of critical ecosystem processes, increases exponentially with the diversity of species living there. |
Lack of deep sleep may increase risk of type 2 diabetes (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2008 at 09:00:59
| Chicago - Suppression of slow-wave sleep in healthy young adults significantly decreases their ability to regulate blood-sugar levels and increases the risk of type 2 diabetes, report researchers at the University of Chicago Medical Center in the “Early Edition” of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.
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Cyclone veers away from Australia's northwest coast (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2008 at 09:00:59
| SYDNEY (Reuters) - Oil companies have begun to resume production in Australia's remote northwest coast after government meteorologists on Sunday cancelled a cyclone warning for category two tropical cyclone Melanie.
The bureau cancelled cyclone warnings along the coast as Melanie, packing winds of up to 150 kph (94 mph), was moving away from the coast and was expected to remain offshore, it said on its Web site (www.bom.gov.au).
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Beijing introduces cleaner fuel standards (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2008 at 09:00:59
| BEIJING (Reuters) - China has introduced cleaner fuel standards in its capital Beijing, its latest effort to curb the city's notorious pollution ahead of the Olympic Games in August. Under the new standards, retailers will be required to supply gasoline and diesel equivalent to the Euro IV standard, a move that will cut emissions of acid rain-causing sulphur dioxide by 1,840 tonnes, the China Daily said on Wednesday, citing Beijing's Environmental Protection Bureau. |
Politics and graft undermine African health care (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2008 at 09:00:59
| LIBREVILLE (Reuters) - The crowd of African women are tired and angry after hours waiting in the hot sun, but the officials will not vaccinate their children until the president inaugurates the campaign on state television. When he finally does so, half a day has been lost from the five-day vaccination scheme. It is a small reminder that, for health care in Africa, politics can be as decisive as poverty. |
Chile's Llaima volcano erupts, no injuries reported (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2008 at 09:00:59
| SANTIAGO (Reuters) - The Llaima volcano in southern Chile erupted on Tuesday, sending a huge plume of smoke into the air, but there were no reports of damages or injuries, emergency officials said. Local television images showed a column of smoke visible from many miles away. |
Housewives are more ecologically aware and recycle more than university students (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2008 at 11:00:56
| University of Granada - According to a new study, a high awareness of the environment does not necessarily entail the practice of ecologically responsible behaviour.Research was carried out from a sample of 525 university students and 154 housewives. The research, carried out at the University of Granada, reveals that housewives are more willing to separate glass from other garbage than students. |
Good News About Ocean Methane (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2008 at 11:00:57
| Santa Barbara, Calif. - Methane, a potent greenhouse gas, is emitted in great quantities as bubbles from seeps on the ocean floor near Santa Barbara. About half of these bubbles dissolve into the ocean, but the fate of this dissolved methane remains uncertain. |
New plant study reveals a 'deeply hidden' layer of the transcriptome (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2008 at 11:00:57
| La Jolla, CA — Cells keep a close watch over the transcriptome — the totality of all parts of the genome that are expressed in any given cell at any given time. Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and the University of Missouri-Kansas City have now teamed up to peel back another layer of transcriptional regulation and gain new insight into how genomes work. |
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