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Sept. 1, 2009 -- Sci-fi proposals to cool the planet are laden with risk but may be Earth's only hope if politicians fail to tackle global warming, scientists said on Tuesday in their biggest evaluation to date of "geo-engineering" concepts.
The ...
From RICHARD INGHAM, AFP,
Discovery Channel,
1 Sep 2009
Nov. 4, 2008 -- Scientists believe they have found a way of protecting astronauts from a dangerous source of space radiation, thus lifting a major doubt clouding the dream to send humans to Mars.
Their breakthrough takes forward ideas born in the ...
From RICHARD INGHAM, AFP,
Discovery Channel,
4 Nov 2008
Nov. 4, 2008 -- A reddish microbe found on the inside of a tree at a secret location in the rain forests of northern Patagonia could unlock the biofuel of the future, say scientists.
Its potential is so startling that the discoverers have coined the ...
From RICHARD INGHAM, AFP,
Discovery Channel,
4 Nov 2008
Oct. 8, 2008 -- Osamu Shimomura of Japan and U.S. duo Martin Chalfie and Roger Tsien on Wednesday won the Nobel Chemistry Prize for a fluorescent protein derived from a jellyfish that has become a vital lab tool.
Green fluorescent protein (GFP) has ...
From RICHARD INGHAM AND BORIS CAMBRELENG, AFP,
Discovery Channel,
8 Oct 2008
Oct. 7, 2008 -- Humans like the comfort of symmetry -- the identical image in the mirror, the matching wings of the baroque mansion, the equal numbers in opposing football teams.
So it comes as a bit of a shocker when physicists say the universe is ...
From RICHARD INGHAM AND BORIS CAMBRELENG, AFP,
Discovery Channel,
7 Oct 2008
July 9, 2008 -- How about this for the next installment of the Indy franchise: "Indiana Jones and the Dodgy Antiques Dealer"?
Less than three months after the Quai Branly Museum in Paris discovered that a crystal skull once proclaimed as a mystical ...
From RICHARD INGHAM, AFP,
Travel Channel ,
9 Jul 2008
Nagris wasn't an isolated incident: Hurricane Katrina laid waste to parts of the U.S. Gulf Coast in 2005.
And in 2007, the Arabian peninsula was hit by a super-cyclone, Gonu.
Are these events -- massively costly in lives and treasure -- all ...
From RICHARD INGHAM AND ANNE CHAON, AFP,
Travel Channel ,
6 May 2008
March 24, 2008 -- In a vast circular underground tunnel below the French-Swiss border, the final pieces of a gigantic machine are being set in place for an extraordinary investigation into the infinitely small at CERN: Europe's atom-smashing laboratory. ...
From RICHARD INGHAM, AFP,
Travel Channel ,
24 Mar 2008
March 10, 2008 -- "The sea was driven back, and its waters flowed away to such an extent that the deep sea bed was laid bare and many kinds of sea creatures could be seen," wrote Roman historian Ammianus Marcellus, awed at a tsunami that struck the ...
From VON RICHARD INGHAM, AFP,
Travel Channel ,
10 Mar 2008
March 5, 2008 -- Venturing into the preserve of science fiction and stage magicians, scientists in the United States on Wednesday said they had made extraordinary progress towards reading the brain.
The researchers said they had been able to decode ...
From RICHARD INGHAM, AFP,
Travel Channel ,
5 Mar 2008
