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European Space Agency Launches New Project To Protect Biodiversity
The world's biodiversity is vanishing at an unprecedented rate -- around 100 species every day -- due to factors such as land use change and pollution. Addressing this threat, world governments agreed through the UN Convention on Biological Diversity to reduce significantly the current rate of biodiversity loss by 2010. To support this initiative, ESA has kicked off its new DIVERSITY project. Experts Predict High Mortality Rates From Pulmonary Fibrosis Will Cont
Mortality rates from pulmonary fibrosis have increased significantly in recent years, and are predicted to continue to rise, according to researchers. Between 1992 and 2003, the age-adjusted mortality rate from PF -- an often fatal disease which involves scarring of the lung -- rose by nearly 28.4 percent in men, and 41.3 percent in women. Over the same time period, an increasing percentage of patients with PF died of the disease itself rather than of coexisting conditions. Sandia Imagists Overcome Maelstrom Obscuring Z Machine's Drive Force
Peering into the center of Sandia National Laboratory's Z machine as it fires had been a feat unachievable for a decade. Other than a nuclear bomb, Z is the most powerful generator of X-rays on the planet. Last year, its central mechanism, called a Z-pinch, fused isotopes of hydrogen to create nuclear fusion. [Scary] Man Accused of Poisoning Company's Coffee
A man was accused of placing hazardous chemicals in his company's coffeepot, according to authorities. Kemarat Vathananand was angry at a vice president of Schiller Park-based Castle Metal Finishing Corp. who told him he could not drink coffee in the shop area, investigators said. NSA Suits Head to San Francisco
Multiple lawsuits against telecommunications companies for allegedly helping the National Security Agency wiretap Americans will all move to the judge who didn't buy the government's "state secrets" argument. In 27B Stroke 6. Study Identifies Molecular Process Underlying Leukemia
New research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has identified a molecular process in cells that is crucial to the development of two common leukemias. The findings help explain how fundamental cell processes go awry during cancer development and represent a first step toward new, targeted treatments for leukemia. Huge Flock Of Critically Endangered Sociable Lapwings Discovered
Hopes are rising for one of the world's rarest birds after the discovery of the largest flock seen for more than 100 years. More than 3,000 critically endangered sociable lapwings have been found in the Ceylanpinar district of south-eastern Turkey after a satellite tag was fitted to one of the birds migrating from breeding grounds in Kazakhstan. Mutant Gene Shatters Nerves: Was Abe Lincoln Affected?
If you bend a knee or an elbow, the nerves in your limbs stretch but do not break. A University of Utah study suggests why: A gene produces a springy protein that keeps nerve cells flexible. When the gene was disabled in tiny nematode worms, their nerve cells literally broke. The discovery may provide a new explanation for spinocerebellar ataxia type 5 (SCA5) -- a disease previously tied to a human version of the gene and identified in 11 generations of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln's family, starting with his paternal grandparents. SCA5 may have afflicted Lincoln himself. The new study suggests how. Brown Grad Student's Seismic Study Shakes Up Plate Tectonics
In a surprising study in Nature, a team led by a Brown University graduate student shows that a sharp boundary exists between the Earth's hard outermost shell and a more pliable layer beneath, a difference in geological strength underpinning plate tectonic theory. The findings are strong evidence that temperature alone can't account for differences between the regions, which allow plate tectonics to occur. Greenland's Ice Loss Accelerating Rapidly, Gravity-measuring Satellite
A new analysis of data from twin satellites has revealed that the melting of Greenland's ice sheet has increased dramatically in the past few years, with much of the loss occurring primarily along one shoreline potentially affecting weather in Western Europe.
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