Durham scientists to tackle CO2 storage in global warming challenge
Scientists at Durham University (UK) are working on new ways of storing CO2 emissions underground to help in the fight against global warming.
Environment
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Why eating less can help the environment
An estimated 19 percent of total energy used in the USA is taken up in the production and supply of food. Currently, this mostly comes from non-renewable energy sources which are in short supply. It is therefore of paramount ...
Environment
Jul 23, 2008
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Artificial Lotus Effect: Carbon nanotubes with nanoscopic paraffin coating form superhydrophobic, self-cleaning surfaces
Never wash your car again? Never clean your windows? These may well become reality if it becomes possible to produce the right coatings—coatings that imitate the self-cleaning effect of the lotus blossom.
Nanomaterials
Jul 23, 2008
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Security flaws in online banking sites found to be widespread
(PhysOrg.com) -- More than 75 percent of the bank Web sites surveyed in a University of Michigan study had at least one design flaw that could make customers vulnerable to cyber thieves after their money or even their identity.
Computer Sciences
Jul 23, 2008
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Biology enters 'The Matrix' through new computer language
Ever since the human genome was sequenced less than 10 years ago, researchers have been able to access a dizzying plethora of genomic information with a simple click of a mouse. This digitizing of genomic data—and its public ...
Jul 23, 2008
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Unique fossil discovery shows Antarctic was once much warmer
A new fossil discovery- the first of its kind from the whole of the Antarctic continent- provides scientists with new evidence to support the theory that the polar region was once much warmer.
Archaeology
Jul 23, 2008
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Rutgers biologist to study worms in Amazon, glaciers
Look out, Indiana Jones. Dan Shain is redefining the term "summer action hero" with voyages to frozen glaciers and the steamy Amazon planned, all in the name of scientific research.
Jul 23, 2008
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Scientists find new clues to explain Amazonian biodiversity
Ice age climate change and ancient flooding—but not barriers created by rivers—may have promoted the evolution of new insect species in the Amazon region of South America, a new study suggests.
Jul 23, 2008
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Bovine tuberculosis in wildlife threatens endangered lynx and cattle health
In an epidemiological survey of Spain's Doñana National Park, the findings of which are published on July 23 in the journal PLoS ONE, Christian Gortázar and colleagues studied the prevalence of bovine tuberculosis (bovine ...
Jul 23, 2008
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Commercial bees spreading disease to wild pollinating bees
Bees provide crucial pollination service to numerous crops and up to a third of the human diet comes from plants pollinated by insects. However, pollinating bees are suffering widespread declines in North America and scientists ...
Jul 23, 2008
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