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WHO
Aims to Rid Africa of Sleeping Sickness by 2015
August
26, 2005
The
World Health Organization has launched a five-point plan for eradicating the
deadly sleeping sickness from Africa.
Source:
SciDev.net
New
Hope for People Infected With Severe Malaria
August
26, 2005
Plant-based
drug is far more effective than quinine in adults, but may not work for
children, say researchers.
Source:
SciDev.net
Blood
Test Detects Deadly Prions
August
28, 2005
For
years, experts have feared that thousands of people are unknowingly carrying and
transmitting the human form of mad cow disease: new-variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob
disease. Now a blood test could help to ease their worries, or confirm their
worst nightmare.
Source:
Nature.com
Envisat
Sees Whirling Hurricane Katrina From Ocean Waves To Cloud Tops
August
29, 2005
ESA’s
multi-sensor Envisat satellite has gathered a unique view of Hurricane Katrina
in the Gulf of Mexico. While an optical image shows characteristic spiralling
cloud patterns, a simultaneous radar observation pierces through the clouds to
show how Katrina’s 250-kilometre-an-hour winds scour the sea surface.
Source:
European Space Agency
World’s
First ‘Trashy’ Island
August
29, 2005
Welcome
to Semakau, which the Singapore government believes to be the world’s first
island made almost entirely from trash. But instead of the stench of rubbish, it
is the salty tang of the sea that greets visitors to this unique eco-tourism
attraction in the Strait of Singapore.
Source:
News24.com
‘Glow’
Dye to Spot Early Dementia
August
29, 2005
US
scientists are developing a “glowing” dye to help spot signs in the brain of
early dementia.
Source:
BBC News
Most
Scientific Papers Are Probably Wrong
August
30, 2005
Most
published scientific research papers are wrong, according to a new analysis.
Assuming that the new paper is itself correct, problems with experimental and
statistical methods mean that there is less than a 50% chance that the results
of any randomly chosen scientific paper are true.
Source:
NewScientist.com
China’s
Reverse Brain Drain Plan ‘Risks Backfiring’
August
30, 2005
A
senior mathematician has said that ‘overseas Chinese’ researchers lured to
China by large salary offers are often “irresponsible” and unproductive.
Source:
SciDev.net
‘What
Hiroshima Looked Like’--Katrina’s Full Wrath Still Being Felt, Death Toll
Soars Past 100
August
31, 2005
Rescuers
along the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast pushed aside the dead to reach the living
Tuesday in a race against time and rising waters, while New Orleans sank deeper
into crisis and Louisiana’s governor ordered storm refugees out of this
drowning city.
Source:
Environmental News Network
Famed
Glacier Is Shrinking
August
31, 2005
A
glacier on the Snaefellsjokull mountain, one of Iceland’s most famous sights,
is shrinking due to warm weather.
Source:
News24.com
Extra-Virgin
Olive Oil Mimics Painkiller
August
31, 2005
Good
news for lovers of extra-virgin olive oil: besides being delicious on salads, it
also contains a compound that mimics the effects of ibuprofen. So a
Mediterranean-style diet might give you the supposed long-term benefits of that
drug, such as a reduced cancer risk.
Source:
Nature.com
Robotic
Space Penguin to Hop Across the Moon
August
31, 2005
The
first lunar colonists may not be humans, but compact robots capable of jumping
more than a kilometer in a single bound.
Source:
NewScientist.com
Cancer
Hope Over Breast Gene Find
September
1, 2005
The
discovery of a gene involved in breast development may help in the fight against
cancer, scientists say.
Source:
BBC News
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