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Seven injured in Greek landfill protest clashes: officialsAthens (AFP) March 30, 2011 Seven people were injured Tuesday in clashes near Athens as riot police and bulldozers cleared a rural highway blocked for months by residents opposed to a landfill project, officials said. Police said four officers were hospitalised with cuts and burns after being hit with stones, flares and firebombs by gangs of protesters as they tried to clear the highway leading to the port of Lavrio, some 40 kilometres (25 miles) southeast of the capital. The police made heavy use of tear gas, an AFP photo ... read more |
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  Pollution In Our Melting Snow With birds chirping and temperatures warming , spring is finally in the air. But for University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC) environmental chemist Torsten Meyer, springtime has a dark side. " ... more | .. |
  Twinkle, Twinkle, Quantum Dot - New Particles Can Change Colors And Tag Molecules Engineers at Ohio State University have invented a new kind of nano-particle that shines in different colors to tag molecules in biomedical tests. These tiny plastic nano-particles are stuffed ... more | .. |
  Rare elephant found dead in Indonesia: official A rare Sumatran elephant has died in Indonesia after blocking a village street for a week, an official said Sunday. ... more | .. |
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 Study Finds More Efficient Means Of Creating, Arranging Carbon Nanofibers Carbon nanofibers hold promise for technologies ranging from medical imaging devices to precise scientific measurement tools, but the time and expense associated with uniformly creating nanofibers o ... more | .. |
  Researchers Close In On Technology For Making Renewable Petroleum University of Minnesota researchers are a key step closer to making renewable petroleum fuels using bacteria, sunlight and dioxide, a goal funded by a $2.2 million United States Department of Energy ... more | .. |
  Qatar eyes three more AW139 choppers AgustaWestland, a subsidiary of Italy's defense giant Finmeccanica, has signed a deal with Qatar's armed forces for three AW139 combat helicopters plus a logistics support package. ... more | .. |
  Two workers at Japan plant taken to hospital Three workers at Japan's stricken Fukushima Daiichi plant were exposed to high radiation as they sought to restore power to reactor three, with two hospitalised, the nuclear safety agency said Thursday. ... more |
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  Fault-Finding Coral Reefs Can Predict the Site of Coming Earthquakes In the wake of the devastating loss of life in Japan, the urgent question is where the next big earthquake will hit. To answer it, geologist Prof. Zvi Ben-Avraham and his doctoral student Gal Hartma ... more | .. |
  K-State Research Channels Powerful Kansas Wind To Keep Electricity Running One of Kansas' most abundant natural resources may hold the key to preventing major power outages. A team of Kansas State University engineers is researching ways to use Kansas wind and other distri ... more | .. |
  Slanted Edges Favour Tiny Magnetic Vortices For Data Storage Slanted exterior edges on tiny magnetic disks could lead to a breakthrough in data processing. "By this, structures are created which were impossible in the past;" explains Jeffrey McCord, a materia ... more | .. |
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  One dead as swine flu returns to Venezuela At least one person has died from a resurgence of swine flu in Venezuela that infected 12 other people, Health Minister Eugenia Sader said Thursday. ... more | .. |
  Engineer falls to death at NASA launch pad An engineer fell to his death Monday at the launch pad where the shuttle Endeavour is set to launch next month, the US space agency said. ... more | .. |
  Celebrating 400 Years Of Sunspot Observations In March of 1611, a German medical student named Johannes Fabricius left school at Leiden in Holland carrying several of the new-fangled telescopes that were beginning to appear in the Netherlands. ... more | .. |
  Age Affects All Primates For a long time it was thought that humans, with our relatively long life spans and access to modern medicine, aged more slowly than other animals. Early comparisons with rats, mice, and other short ... more |
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Airbus CO3D satellites begin mission to generate high precision global 3D map
NASA teams with India to launch Earth-tracking satellite
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Rains, floods threaten royal disaster tour Australian towns were cut off and scores of homes deluged by floodwaters Friday, as officials warned that torrential rain could disrupt Prince William's tour of the disaster zone. ... more | .. |
  At least three exposed to radiation after quake: reports At least three residents evacuated from a Japanese town near a quake-hit nuclear plant have been exposed to radiation, media reports said Saturday. ... more | .. |
Celebrating 400 Years Of Sunspot Observations In March of 1611, a German medical student named Johannes Fabricius left school at Leiden in Holland carrying several of the new-fangled telescopes that were beginning to appear in the Netherlands. ... more | .. |
  Transmitting Data And Power Wirelessly Through Submarine Hulls Steel walls are no match for Tristan Lawry. The doctoral student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has developed and demonstrated an innovative new system that uses ultrasound to simultaneously tr ... more |
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  Patients Are Willing To Undergo Multiple Tests For New Cancer Treatments Cancer patients are willing to undergo many tests to receive advanced experimental treatment in clinical trials, according to a new study by Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale Healthcare and the Translational ... more | .. |
  Clashes as Libya rebels deny counter-offensive report Air strikes targeted rebel positions on Sunday and outgunned insurgents were forced to retreat but Libyan TV reports that Moamer Kadhafi's forces had retaken a swathe of key towns were swiftly denied. ... more | .. |
  New Frozen Smoke May Improve Robotic Surgery, Energy Storage A spongy substance that could be mistaken for packing material has the nanotechnology world buzzing. University of Central Florida Associate Professor Lei Zhai and postdoctoral associate Jianh ... more |
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Light driven visual microphone offers new tool for silent sound detection
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 Surgeon creates new kidney on TED stage A surgeon specializing in regenerative medicine on Thursday "printed" a real kidney using a machine that eliminates the need for donors when it comes to organ transplants. ... more | .. |
  Germany, France with Cabinet reshuffle Germany and France both replaced their defense ministers in the past four days in decisions that could shake up an armed forces reform in at least one of the European countries. ... more | .. |
 In surprise appearance, Jobs unveils iPad 2 Apple chief executive Steve Jobs emerged from medical leave on Wednesday to unveil a new version of the iPad designed to tighten the company's grip on the booming tablet computer market. ... more | .. |
 Student Innovation Holds Key To Safer Remote Detection Of Dangerous Materials Benjamin Clough has developed a novel method for eavesdropping on terahertz information hidden in invisible plasma acoustic bursts. The doctoral student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has demon ... more |
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