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Arsenic in water poisoned 77 million Bangladeshis: reportDhaka (AFP) June 20, 2010 Up to 77 million Bangladeshis have been exposed to toxic levels of arsenic from contaminated drinking water, and even low-level exposure to the poison is not risk-free, The Lancet medical journal reported. Over the past decade, more than 20 percent of deaths recorded in a study that monitored nearly 12,000 people in the Araihazar district of the capital Dhaka appear to have been caused by arsenic-tainted well water. By some estimates, between 35 and 77 million people in Bangladesh have been chro ... read more |
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Leicester, UK (SPX) May 28, 2010The mysteries of the Universe and how we came to be are set to be unlocked by a technique for modelling fluids, similar to one which is becoming increasingly popular within the film industry to improve the realism of special effects. Theoretical Astrophysics student, Fergus Wilson from the University of Leicester, is currently utilising a fluid modelling technique within his doctoral resea ... more Two wounded in Israeli air strike on Gaza: medics
Gaza City (AFP) May 27, 2010Two Palestinians were wounded on Thursday in an Israeli air strike east of Gaza City, Palestinian medics and witnesses said. Muawiya Hassanein, the head of Gaza emergency services, said two wounded people were brought to hospital after the strike, which witnesses said came during an exchange of fire after militants launced a mortar round. Hours after the reported incident, the Israeli mi ... more STEREO, SOHO Spacecraft Catch Comet Diving Into Sun
Berkeley CA (SPX) May 26, 2010Solar physicists at the University of California, Berkeley, have tracked a comet through the low solar atmosphere, deeper into the sun than ever before, before it presumably evaporated in the 100,000-degree heat. Using instruments aboard NASA's twin STEREO spacecraft, four post-doctoral fellows at UC Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory were able to track the comet as it approached the sun ... more |
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