News tagged with minefield
Simple test could offer cheap solution to detecting landmines
Scientists have developed a simple, cheap, accurate test to find undetected landmines.
Nov 16, 2009 |
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Numerically-challenged consumers hit in the pocket by loans
(PhysOrg.com) -- Consumers with poor financial skills pay over the odds for loans and are eight times more likely to use highly expensive credit such as payday loans and home credit, new research has revealed.
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Mar 09, 2012 |
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New device exposes explosive vapors
Decades after the bullets have stopped flying, wars can leave behind a lingering danger: landmines that maim civilians and render land unusable for agriculture. Minefields are a humanitarian disaster throughout the world, ...
Aug 15, 2011 |
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Bio-prospectors probe Australian Aboriginal lore
When Aboriginal elder John Watson was bitten by a crocodile while fishing in the remote Australian Kimberley region, there was no doctor he could call, no medical kit on hand to stem the blood.
Jun 08, 2011 |
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Fox tactics could inspire territorial design
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study into the exclusion tactics adopted by urban foxes suggests that the transient nature of animal territory is a result of a complex system of individual-level interactions.
Mar 11, 2011 |
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Uni death expert warns of crisis as baby-boomers reach old age
An expert in death studies at the University of Bath is warning that Britain is not prepared for the death of the post-war baby-boomers.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 10, 2011 |
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Rush for patents is choking US stem cell research
Cures for paralysis, blindness and diabetes could all be in reach with embryonic stem cell research, but the pursuit of medical progress is being choked by the US rush to secure patents, experts say.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 25, 2011 |
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150 years of dieting fads and still no quick fix
(AP) -- Before there was Dr. Atkins, there was William Banting. He invented the low-carb diet of 1863. Even then Americans were trying out advice that urged fish, mutton or "any meat except pork" for breakfast, ...
Jan 24, 2011 |
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Forest plan hangs in balance at climate conference
(AP) -- Pedro Chuc May climbs a big zapote tree, braces himself against the trunk with a rope sling and uses his sharp machete to slash v-shaped cuts in the rough bark to let the tree's resin - the base for ...
Dec 10, 2010 |
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Sniffer 'hero rats' saving lives in war zones
A baby rat in a tiny red and black harness twitches its pointed nose incessantly, probing a grassy field where it is being trained by a pioneering Dutch NGO to smell out deadly landmines.
Nov 08, 2010 |
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D.C. hacking raises questions about future of online voting
For the upcoming election, Washington, D.C., was preparing to allow some voters to send their ballots in over the Internet. It's a good thing election officials tested the system first.
Nov 01, 2010 |
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