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Monsoon rains all round
Monsoon Wedding or The Day After Tomorrow - climate scientists decide. Presbycusis
Fact sheet on presbycusis, the loss of hearing that gradually occurs in most individuals as they grow older. Discusses symptoms, causes, prevention, hearing aids, communication tips, and related topics. From the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health. A Really Inconvenient Truth: Divorce Is Not Green
The data is in. Divorce is bad for the environment. A novel study that links divorce with the environment shows a global trend of soaring divorce rates has created more households with fewer people, has taken up more space and has gobbled up more energy and water. Gene Therapy Reverses Genetic Mutation Responsible For Heart Failure I
University of Pittsburgh investigators have for the first time used gene therapy to successfully treat heart failure and other degenerative muscle problems in an animal model that is genetically susceptible to a human muscular dystrophy. Reporting in the Oct. 25 edition of the journal Circulation, the authors say that this is the first successful attempt to deliver a therapeutic gene throughout the body. Interlingua
This site documents the life and death of the International Auxiliary Language Association (IALA), an American organization that flourished from 1924 to 1951, and the associated Interlingua Institute, which was dissolved in 2000. The IALA was founded to promote and develop an international language. Features a history and a discussion of why the Interlingua Institute ceased. From the Executive Director of the Interlingua Institute from 1973-2000. Bigger Solar System? Astronomers Debate Definition Of 'Planet' And 'Pl
The world's astronomers, under the auspices of the International Astronomical Union (IAU), have concluded two years of work defining the difference between "planets"and the smaller "solar system bodies"such as comets and asteroids. If the definition is approved by the astronomers gathered 14-25 August 2006 at the IAU General Assembly in Prague, our Solar System will include 12 planets, with more to come. The Role of the Wildlife Rehabilitator in Disaster Preparedness and Re
This paper explores how government and private agencies help animals after a disaster, the problems wildlife can pose for disaster and relief workers, how disasters affect wild animals and what behavior can result, how wildlife rehabilitators fit "into the capture, medical care and temporary sheltering of wildlife,"and how to help the public avoid injury from and provide assistance to wild animals. From the disaster manager for the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). Emory Eye Center Implants Its First Retinal Chips In Patients With Ret
An expanded clinical trial conducted by Optobionics Corporation involving the implantation of a retina mircrochip has allowed Emory Eye Center and the Atlanta Veterans Affairs Rehabilitation Research &Development Center to implant the device in several patients. EBay Bans Live 8 Ticket Scalpers
Music fans bid for tickets to next month's London megaconcert, prompting some saboteurs -- apparently offended by the money-grubbing sellers -- to disrupt the auctions in the name of charity. By Ryan Singel. NYU's Dvali Says Change In Laws Of Gravity, Not 'Dark Energy,' Source
New York University physicist Georgi Dvali concludes that the cosmic acceleration of the universe may be caused by the modification of standard laws of gravity at very large distances, and not by "dark energy,"as posited by many in the field. This modification, Dvali argues, could be triggered by extra space dimensions to which gravity "leaks"over cosmic distances.
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