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July 12, 2010
CIVIL NUCLEAR
Canadian medical reactor gets nod to restart
Ottawa (AFP) July 7, 2010
Canada's nuclear safety commission authorized Wednesday the restarting of a reactor that produced one-third of the world's supply of medical isotopes before it closed for repairs last year. The half-century old National Research Universal reactor in Chalk River, Ontario, 185 kilometers (115 miles) northwest of Ottawa, could be restarted at the end of the month. It was shut down in May 2009 after a leak of radioactive water inside the reactor. Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) had initia ... read more

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AFRICA NEWS

Chinese-built hospital risks collapse in Angola: state radio
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THE PITS

Carbon monoxide kills nine miners in China
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WOOD PILE

Biodiversity's Holy Grail Is In The Soil
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SPACE TRAVEL

Business ideas may be patentable, US Supreme Court says
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ROBO SPACE

Machines that understand us on the rise
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TERROR WARS

New Medical Weapons To Protect Against Anthrax Attacks
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MILPLEX

Chinese military buys traditional medicine
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DISASTER MANAGEMENT

India unveils new 280-mln-dollar Bhopal disaster response
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TECH SPACE

Radio Signals Research Scans New Horizons
FARM NEWS

Organic farming gains ground in China
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INTERN DAILY

New lung cancer drug promising
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WATER WORLD

Arsenic in water poisoned 77 million Bangladeshis: report
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ENERGY NEWS

Fury over Iraq power rationing spreads in harsh heat
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FLORA AND FAUNA

India seizes third shipment of tiger parts on way to China
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TECH SPACE
Medical phone, vibrating earphone shine at trade show
Singapore (AFP) June 17, 2010
Are you having chest pains and wondering if you should rush to hospital? The EPI Life, one of the gadgets on show at a Singapore trade fair, could be what you need. At first glance, the 106-gram (3.7-ounce) touch-screen phone looks like any other fancy smartphone, but its tiny frame also holds an electrocardiogram (ECG) machine, which can put your heart reading literally at your fingertips. ... more

WATER WORLD
New Research Into The Deep Ocean Floor Yields Promising Results For Microbiologists
Knoxville TN (SPX) Jun 17, 2010
Research by a small group of microbiologists is revealing how marine microbes live in a mysterious area of the Earth: the realm just beneath the deep ocean floor. The ocean crust may be the largest biological reservoir on our planet. Beth Orcutt, a post-doctoral fellow at Aarhus University in Denmark and the University of Southern California, presented her new findings about this little re ... more

EPIDEMICS
HIV: Nurse-monitored treatment gets OK in S.African trial
Paris (AFP) June 16, 2010
HIV drugs can be administered as effectively by nurses as by doctors, a finding that could yield major benefits in the fight against AIDS in Africa, researchers said on Wednesday. In a trial carried out at two South African front-line clinics, 408 patients with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) were assigned to antiretroviral (ART) drugs monitored by doctors, and 404 others to drugs mon ... more

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AFRICA NEWS

US donates tuberculosis facility to Nigeria



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NUKEWARS
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First Directly Imaged Planet Confirmed Around Sun-Like Star

VLT Detects First Superstorm On Exoplanet

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Facebook deal means virtual 'credits' can be bought in shops

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Apple to issue patch for iPhone 4 antenna woes

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New System Helps Locate Car Park Spaces

Skyhook Wireless Partners With Samsung Electronics For Leading Location System

Telogis Expands Reach Into Construction And Heavy Lifting Sectors

NUKEWARS
China Contributes To Space-Based Information Access A Lot

China Sends Research Satellite Into Space

China eyes Argentina for space antenna

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Russia And Europe May Join Forces To Protect Earth From Asteroids

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Australian scientists find Timor Sea meteorite crater

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Rosetta Spacecraft Returns Unique Glimpses Of Asteroid Lutetia

Rockbreaking In Space

European probe Rosetta successfully flies by asteroid: ESA

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AFRICA NEWS
Six months after quake, Haitians frustrated by aid trickle

New BP cap, ships could capture all leaking oil: US

China to begin major quake reconstruction effort

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AFRICA NEWS
New System Helps Locate Car Park Spaces

Skyhook Wireless Partners With Samsung Electronics For Leading Location System

Telogis Expands Reach Into Construction And Heavy Lifting Sectors

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AFRICA NEWS
Timor-Leste warms to Australia asylum idea

U.S. government challenges Ariz. law

Tibetan Adaptation To Altitude Took Less Than 3,000 Years

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AFRICA NEWS
Canada needs more, bigger parks to protect wildlife: study

Marine Scientists Return With Rare Creatures From The Deep

China to launch global search for panda keepers

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AFRICA NEWS
Zimbabwe lacks AIDS drugs to expand treatment: official

Breakthrough antibodies neutralize most known AIDS strains

11.5 percent HIV/AIDS prevalence in Mozambique: report

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