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Fri, 16 May 08
Asbestos cancer chemo doubts
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/health/7402650.stm
Chemotherapy does not help people with asbestos-related cancer, according to UK researchers.
Mon, 3 Aug 09
Quartz precision
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/technology/8178580.stm
How one mine supports the whole computer industry
Wed, 5 Dec 07
Computer Calls Can Talk Couch Potatoes Into Walking, Study Finds
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071204122000.htm
Computer-generated phone calls may be an effective, low-cost way to encourage sedentary adults to exercise, according to a recent study. What most surprised researchers was that the computer calls were almost as effective as the calls by a real person.
Wed, 30 Sep 09
Senate Democrats to offer climate bill
http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE58S5X320090929?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews
Reuters: A climate change bill circulating in the Senate on Tuesday is slightly more ambitious than one passed in the House of Representatives, but still has many details to be worked out on how to encourage companies to reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases. The legislation by Senators Barbara Boxer and John Kerry to be formally unveiled on Wednesday aims to reduce smokestack emissions of carbon dioxide by 20 percent by 2020 and 83 percent by 2050 -- from 2005 levels. A ...
Fri, 1 Jan 10
Quelling Casimir: Scientists to control quantum mechanical force
http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/vY1t7kWG2hs/091210153657.htm
Scientists are developing a way to control the Casimir force, a quantum mechanical force that attracts objects when they are only hundred nanometers apart.
Thu, 20 Nov 08
Globe-warming CO2 already in danger zone.
http://news.smashits.com/318730/Globe-warming-CO2-already-in-danger-zone.htm
Asian News International: A revised theory by a group of 10 prominent scientists has suggested that the level of globe-warming carbon dioxide (CO2) in the air has already reached the danger zone, and the levels must decline, not just stabilize. According to the scientists, the CO2 has probably already reached a point where world climate will change disastrously unless the level can be reduced in coming decades. The study, done by scientists from the United States, United Kingdom and France, is a ...
Fri, 8 May 09
Australia delays emissions scheme
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8032126.stm
BBC: The Australian government says it will push back a planned carbon emissions trading scheme (ETS) by a year. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said the delay was necessary because of the poor economic climate. But he also suggested that Australia could pursue tougher emissions reductions targets if an international deal was reached. The ETS, which has been criticised by both industrial and environment groups, was due to launch in July 2010. Business say the scheme will ...
Wed, 3 Sep 08
Value Of Direct-to-consumer Drug Advertising Oversold, Study Finds
http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/381899349/080901205629.htm
In the first-ever controlled study measuring the effectiveness of pharmaceutical direct-to-consumer advertising, researchers found only a modest effect on drug sales. In some cases, DTCA had no effect at all.
Thu, 9 Apr 09
EU exec okays UK aid for carbon capture study
http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE53758320090408?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews
Reuters: European Union antitrust regulators approved on Wednesday British financial aid for two feasibility studies on two carbon capture and storage demonstration projects. "Carbon capture and storage is an important element in the EU's climate change policy and needs to be demonstrated at industrial scale," Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes said in a statement. The aid will be in the form of a grant.
Sun, 5 Aug 07
US House passes clean energy bill
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/americas/6931767.stm
US legislators adopt a radical new energy bill, supporting renewable fuels and cutting tax breaks to oil firms.
Sat, 8 Mar 08
Nanoswitches Toggled By Light
http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/247681848/080305104850.htm
Microscopic fissures in a tiny crystal open and close—on command. Researchers have successfully used an ultrafast electron microscopy to observe switchable nanochannels, which could be useful for future nanoelectronics and nanoscopic "machines."
Fri, 30 May 08
Has Decreased Infection Load Of Infants Led To Increased Allergic And Autoimmune Diseases?
http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/300568680/080528095732.htm
The starting point of the hygiene hypothesis is that the decreasing infection load of infants in the developed countries leads to an increase in allergic and autoimmune diseases. Such development has been observed practically in all industrialized countries after the Second World War. Now an extensive research project begins to establish how the living environment affects the development and maturation of a child's immune system.
Sat, 27 Feb 10
Decongesting rail traffic is a major step to raise fuel efficiency
http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/02/25/25climatewire-decongesting-rail-traffic-is-a-major-step-to-73475.html
ClimateWire: When the Department of Transportation doled out $1.5 billion in infrastructure grants last week, one of the largest checks went to a rail overhaul in the Chicago area. Almost all of the country's freight railroads converge there. The region handles so much cargo that only three cities outrank it: Hong Kong, Singapore and Shanghai. And like O'Hare, Chicago's infamous airport, it's reviled for its traffic. "When there's delays at O'Hare, it impacts the whole nation's air ...
Sun, 25 Oct 09
China: Hope of cleaner skies as Beijing residents switch from coal to electricity
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/earth-environment/article6888175.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=3392178
Times (UK): The brick walls are grey, the sky is leaden, the alley is choked with dust and rubble as workmen fill in a long channel running along Tanggong Hutong, in the heart of old Beijing (Jane Macartney writes). The men have just finished laying an electricity cable as part of the sweeping campaign by China to clean up its act. Residents of this alley will no longer have to rely on filling their squat iron stoves with coal briquettes. Now their homes are equipped with electric ...
Thu, 7 Aug 08
Jupiter And Saturn Full Of Liquid Metal Helium
http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/358040631/080806184907.htm
A strange metal brew lies buried deep within giant gaseous planets such as Jupiter and Saturn. A new study demonstrates that metallic helium is less rare than was previously thought, and is produced under the kinds of conditions present at the centers of giant gaseous planets such as Jupiter and Saturn, mixing with metal hydrogen to form a liquid metal alloy.