News tagged with alternative
Researchers evaluate highway rest areas for wind power
Illinois is the Prairie State and home to the Windy City. And sometimes, when standing out in that prairie and feeling the wind racing across the state, you begin to wonder if there is anything between here and Kansas that ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Mar 20, 2009 |
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ONR and GM partner to test advanced fuel cell vehicles of the future (w/Video)
As the global automobile industry considers alternative energy sources to replace the traditional internal combustion engine, Jessie Pacheco, a mail clerk at Camp Pendleton, has been making his rounds to Marines ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Mar 18, 2009 |
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German researchers testing veggie Viagra: reports
German researchers are testing an impotency treatment for men made using only natural ingredients that in some cases works better than Viagra, newspapers reported Monday.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Mar 16, 2009 |
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Survey explores medical care for children with autism using complementary alternative medicine
In a national survey conducted by the University of Minnesota, primary care physicians report that they are more likely to ask patients with autism about complementary alternative medicine (CAM) use and desire more CAM education ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 12, 2009 |
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Atmospheric 'sunshade' could reduce solar power generation
The concept of delaying global warming by adding particles into the upper atmosphere to cool the climate could unintentionally reduce peak electricity generated by large solar power plants by as much as one-fifth, ...
Mar 11, 2009 |
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Getting into hot water: Solar water heating pays for itself five times over
An analysis of the engineering and economics for a solar water-heating system shows it to have a payback period of just two years, according to researchers in India. They report, in the International Journal of Global En ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Mar 09, 2009 |
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Support for adjunctive vitamin C treatment in cancer
Serious flaws in a recent study, which concluded that high doses of vitamin C reduce the effectiveness of chemotherapeutic drugs in the treatment of cancer, are revealed in the current issue of Alternative and Complementary Th ...
Mar 06, 2009 |
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Team Visits Chile on Quest for Rare Fuel-Producing Microorganism
(PhysOrg.com) -- Three Yale graduate students recently were part of an expedition to Chile to find a rare microorganism that can produce diesel fuel.
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Feb 20, 2009 |
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Easing Atmospheric CO2 Levels Using Nanotubes and Sunlight
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at The Pennsylvania State University have determined a way to use arrays of nanotubes in a solar-based process to convert carbon dioxide and water into methane and other hydrocarbon ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Feb 16, 2009 |
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Solar industry faces head winds but remains hopeful
Solar-industry executives paint a bright future for their industry, one where photovoltaic panels adorn roofs of homes and businesses and huge power plants capture the sun's rays to generate electricity. But the industry ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jan 22, 2009 |
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'Green' gasoline on the horizon?
University of Oklahoma researchers believe newer, more environmentally friendly fuels produced from biomass could create alternative energy solutions and alleviate dependence on foreign oil without requiring changes to current ...
Jan 13, 2009 |
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Researchers find mechanism underlying alt. splicing of premessenger RNA into messenger RNA
An international research team led by Tim Nilsen, Ph.D., a professor of medicine and biochemistry and the director of the School of Medicine's Center for RNA Molecular Biology, has discovered an unexpected mechanism governing ...
Biology /
Dec 24, 2008 |
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