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BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL team of scientists will cooperate for the next five years in a Euro 7 million research project developing odour traps and effective repellents to keep malarial mosquitoes away from potential human hosts. This Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative will unite US, Dutch, Tanzania and Gambia researchers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SCIENTISTS worldwide are re-assessing risks posed worldwide to nuclear power reactors by flooding from tsunamis, after last December’s giant waves shut down a plant in India. Delegates to an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) conference staged at this Kalpakkam power station heard how it withstood the disaster.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AIR traffic management research teams have been asked to bid for a share of Euro 53 million to be spent by the European Union (EU) on aeronautics and space research. In a formal call for proposals, the European Commission has outlined a series of priority research topics affecting ATM.…

BY MARK ROWE
IT is difficult to separate the present-day Czech paint industry from the industrial heritage of the country. While the rest of the world made jokes about Skoda cars during the Communist era, the Czechs fumed as they saw a once great engineering industry reduced to a laughing stock.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
EARTHQUAKE insurance is an odd business in that the human scale of a disaster is sometimes wildly in excess of the economic losses and the latter in turn often far exceed the level of cover and therefore claims.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU)-supported research project has warned that the drought parching many parts of southern Europe this summer could compound global warming by releasing additional CO2 into the atmosphere. The CarboEurope project has found that dying crops, desiccated soil and forest fires are releasing millions of tonnes of the greenhouse gas.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE JOINT Research Centre (JRC) of the European Union (EU) is to commission an assessment of existing research on the health effects and related risks from hair dyes. This project will focus on animal and human studies during the last decades on hair dye-related health problems, including skin allergies, hair loss, genetic toxicity, carcinogenicity, reproductive difficulties and gender genetic changes (endocrine effects) and others.…

KEITH NUTHALL
TESTING facilities for companies and utilities seeking to evaluate hydrogen production and fuel cell technologies have been opened at the European Union’s (EU) Institute for Energy in Petten, the Netherlands. Part of the EU’s Joint Research Centre (JRC), its scientists will simulate operational lifetime conditions on fuel cells under all foreseeable conditions, from arctic to tropical weather, and from motorway driving to forest tracks.…

BY MARK ROWE
WEATHER forecasters have always come in for criticism but the reality is that today’s forecasts are more reliable than ever, and predictions are just as accurate for five days ahead as they were for one day ahead even just a decade ago.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
EMBARASSMENT about body shape and bias against obese patients by health care providers are some reasons why fat people receive significantly less preventative health care such as mammograms, cervical smears and flu shots than thin people, according to a recent US study.…