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GLOBAL WARMING QUESTIONED
BY DEIRDRE MASON
A RESEARCH paper from the respected University of Uppsala, in Sweden, has set off an intense debate amongst climate change specialists by claiming that there are not enough recoverable oil and gas reserves worldwide to lead to previously predicted disastrous global warming scenarios.…
SWEET TOOTH STUDY
BY PHILIP FINE
SWEET drinks are helping to increase daily caloric averages, according to a study published in the USA’s Obesity Research. The research found average world consumption up by 74 calories a day, with sugar making up a larger proportion of that increase.…
ARTIFICIAL VIRUSES
BY MONICA DOBIE
AMERICAN scientists have successfully developed a synthetic virus in only two weeks, creating a breakthrough technique encouraging researchers to believe that they may within 10 years be able to create viruses large enough to eat pollution and even create hydrogen fuel as a by-product.…
BLUEBERRY RESEARCH
BY PHILIP FINE
THERE is evidence that wild blueberries, native to the USA’s Maine, Atlantic Canada and Quebec, can lower the risks of cardiovascular disease. A University of Maine study is the first using rats to demonstrate a relationship between consumption of whole wild blueberries and calming reactions that can lead to high blood pressure.…
USA WORKPLACE
BY MONICA DOBIE
SUB-PAR job performance due to pain, rather than absenteeism, costs US employers more than US$60 billion per year in lost productivity, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
Headaches were the most frequently cited medical condition causing problems at work, followed by back pain, foot pain, arthritis and other joint and muscle aches.…
EU ROUND UP
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have been asked to approve a detailed fishing access deal allowing EU fishing boats access to the Atlantic fishing waters off west Africa’a Guinea Bissau until June 2006. Under the agreement, licences to fish shrimp will be granted to Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Greek vessels, with boats from Spain (enjoying the overwhelming majority of rights), Italy and Greece being allowed to take fin-fish/cephalopods.…
MICROENCAPSULATION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A CONSULTING, training and research institute into microencapsulation has been launched in Europe, funded by Euro 1.8 million of European Union money. The ncapsolutions group will advise on turning capsule technologies into viable business products, with the cosmetics market a key target.…
NANOTECHNOLOGY CRITICISM (ROUND UP)
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INNOVATIVE nanotechnology technology has been trialled in the United States, effectively spraying a protective crystal crust on a New Mexico mountainside that had been left exposed to erosion by a fire. Its flames destroyed 5,000 acres of land considered sacred by the Taos Pueblo Native Indian group.…
ALUMINIUM RINGS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A FRANCO-ITALIAN research team have developed a faster and cheaper manufacturing process for fine aluminium rings used in rocket boosters, replacing existing vertical lathes and milling machines with a single system. The old process involves moving rings between machines, requiring additional equipment to secure them during shaping.…
E TENS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has approved a European Commission plan to increase the amount of European Union (EU) funding for cross-border telecommunications infrastructure installation via its e-TEN (trans-European networks) programme. MEPs backed boosting the maximum proportion of a project’s deployment costs that can be sourced from e-TENs budgets from 10 to 30 per cent.…