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City's population is counted from spaceLondon (UPI) May 24, 2012 The population of an entire city has been estimated from space to speed up medical and disaster relief efforts, British researchers say. The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, working with the charity Doctors Without Borders, has led a project to estimate the population of Am Timan in Chad using satellite images, NewScientist.com reported Thursday. The entire population is to receive meningitis vaccinations and the charity wants to know how many doses to order. "Popul ... read more |
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  Quantum dots appear safe in pioneering study on primates A pioneering study to gauge the toxicity of quantum dots in primates has found the tiny crystals to be safe over a one-year period, a hopeful outcome for doctors and scientists seeking new ways to b ... more | .. |
  New discoveries about severe malaria Researchers from Seattle Biomedical Research Institute (Seattle BioMed), the University of Copenhagen and the University of Edinburgh have uncovered new knowledge related to host-parasite interactio ... more | .. |
  Pakistani jailed for 33 years over bin Laden hunt A Pakistani surgeon recruited by the CIA to help find Osama bin Laden was Wednesday sentenced to 33 years in prison for treason, sparking a warning from US senators over American aid. ... more | .. |
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  Stanford bioengineers create rewritable digital data storage in DNA Sometimes, remembering and forgetting are hard to do. "It took us three years and 750 tries to make it work, but we finally did it," said Jerome Bonnet, PhD, of his latest research, a method for rep ... more | .. |
  North Korea releases Chinese fishermen North Korea has released 28 Chinese fishermen along with their three vessels detained since May 8, China's state run news agency Xinhua reported. ... more | .. |
  Outside View: America's future An 18th-century Scottish-born British lawyer and writer forewarned the disease eventually would strike. More than two centuries ago, he even explained the sequence by which it would occur. While his warning wasn't specific to the United States, today we see signs it is spreading quickly within the Western world. ... more | .. |
  Iraq anti-terror officer, family shot dead An Iraqi anti-terror officer, his wife and three children have been shot dead by gunmen in north Baghdad, security and medical officials said on Saturday. ... more |
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 Baghdad pet market bombs kill five: officials Three near-simultaneous bomb blasts at a pet market in east Baghdad killed five people on Friday, officials said, just hours after an attack in the city's southeast left five dead. ... more | .. |
  Farewell to the Sun The crew of the French-Italian Concordia research base in the Antarctic saw their last rays of Sun for over four months last weekend. Near the South Pole, the outpost will now continue its research ... more | .. |
  Ultrasensitive biosensor promising for medical diagnostics Researchers have created an ultrasensitive biosensor that could open up new opportunities for early detection of cancer and "personalized medicine" tailored to the specific biochemistry of individua ... more | .. |
  Trapped China miner found after 17 days: state media A miner who was buried underground for 17 days following a colliery flood in northeast China was found alive on Saturday, state media said. ... more |
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  Eclipsall Awarded Contract to Supply Solar Panels to Ugandan Government Eclipsall has announced that the company has entered into an agreement to supply 3MW of solar panels to the Government of Uganda, Ministry of Health. The panels will be used for planned solar ... more | .. |
  Astronaut Launches into Texas Tech Doctorate Program The College of Education at Texas Tech announced a NASA astronaut has been accepted to its doctoral program in education. Joseph Acaba launched May 14 for a four-month tour of duty aboard the Russia ... more | .. |
  China wrests back control after Chen debacle More than 10 days after Beijing and Washington reached a tentative agreement on his departure, Chen Guangcheng remains confined to a hospital bed as China seeks to show it controls the blind activist's fate. ... more | .. |
  A Solution for Medical Needs and Cramped Quarters in Space Imagine you're an astronaut exploring the surface of Mars, when suddenly you fall ill or injure yourself. As your team struggles to get you safely back to base, you become seriously dehydrated. With ... more |
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NASA advances space based tracking of marine debris
Trump-era trade stress leads Western powers to China
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 Iraq's fugitive VP has medical checks in Turkey Iraq's Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi, who faces trial in absentia in Baghdad on charges of running a death squad, has undergone "routine" medical checks in Turkey, his office said on Friday. ... more | .. |
 Hip implant for long-term use Hip replacement is one of the most frequent operations carried out in Germany. Each year, doctors implant some 200,000 artificial hip joints. Often the artificial hips need to be replaced just ten y ... more | .. |
  40 die in Chinese hailstorm Forty people were killed when a brief but violent hailstorm and torrential rain swept through a mountainous region of northwestern China, the local government said Sunday. ... more | .. |
  1,500 children in Nigeria village suffer lead-poisoning International medical aid group Doctors Without Borders said Thursday that 1,500 children in a mining village in northwest Nigeria have suffered lead-poisoning and are not receiving care. ... more |
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 Increasing speed of Greenland glaciers gives new insight for rising sea level Changes in the speed that ice travels in more than 200 outlet glaciers indicates that Greenland's contribution to rising sea level in the 21st century might be significantly less than the upper limi ... more | .. |
 Twin attacks kill four in central Iraq Insurgents killed four people, including a man and his son, in two attacks in Diyala province in central Iraq on Wednesday, police and medical officials said. ... more | .. |
  Critics question lese-majeste death Government critics are questioning whether a man jailed for criticizing the monarchy died in hospital because he was given inadequate medical attention. ... more | .. |
 Vietnam 'cancer-cure' horn habit threat to world rhinos For desperate Vietnamese cancer patients ground rhinoceros horn is seen as an elixir of life - a medically unproven and illegal obsession that threatens the very survival of the world's wild rhinos. ... more |
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  Modern hybrid corn makes better use of nitrogen Today's hybrid corn varieties more efficiently use nitrogen to create more grain, according to 72 years of public-sector research data reviewed by Purdue University researchers. Tony Vyn, a professo ... more | .. |
  Africa's last rhinos threatened by poaching Decades of conservation efforts to save rhinos are coming undone, as surging demand for their horns in Asian traditional medicine has spawned a vast criminal trade powered by poaching. ... more | .. |
Fundraising blitz in South Africa to save the rhino The battle against rhino poaching is at a fever pitch in South Africa, the country hardest hit by the scourge, spawning scores of fundraising campaigns running from glamorous to gory. ... more | .. |
  Darwinian selection continues to influence human evolution New evidence proves humans are continuing to evolve and that significant natural and sexual selection is still taking place in our species in the modern world. Despite advancements in medicine and t ... more |
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 Penn Scientists Develop Large-scale Simulation of Human Blood Having a virtual copy of a patient's blood in a computer would be a boon to researchers and doctors. They could examine a simulated heart attack caused by blood clotting in a diseased coronary arter ... more | .. |
  Smart gas sensors for better chemical detection Portable gas sensors can allow you to search for explosives, diagnose medical conditions through a patient's breath, and decide whether it's safe to stay in a mine. These devices do all this b ... more | .. |
China demands apology as activist leaves US embassy Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng has left the US embassy to seek medical care and join his family, officials said Wednesday, as Beijing demanded a US apology on the eve of key talks between the two powers. ... more | .. |
  NEMA Welcomes Legislation on Federal Helium Policy NEMA welcomed introduction of the Helium Stewardship Act (S 2374) by Senators Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) and John Barrasso (R-WY), which will modernize and reform federal policy to better secure future su ... more |
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