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Giant Microwave That Recycles Plastic Back into Diesel, Gas

... said Meddick. Not only does the process produce fuel in the form of oil and gas, it also makes it easier to extract the copper wire for recycling, he said. Similarly, running 9.1 kilograms of ground-up tyres through the Hawk-10 produces 4.54 litres of diesel oil, 1.42 cubic metres of combustible gas,...

Desertification, a Major Threat, Says UN

...y not implemented at local levels or inadvertently fuel conflict over land, water and other resources. Funding is also a problem, with major donor nations cutting funding by 29 percent at the last Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in 2005, the report sa...

War Spreading AIDS a Myth-UNHCR

...ts. It is a common belief that violence and rape fuel the HIV epidemic in countries affected by conflict, and consequently refugees fleeing humanitarian emergencies have a high prevalence of HIV infection. But the study team could find no clear evidence to support the view. The UNHCR report challenges...

Lets Care For Our Physicians A Salute to Them on Doctors Day!

...of exploitation of the poor sections of society to fuel organ trade, has marred the reputation of Indian Healthcare in the global arena. The recent strikes by doctors have cast aspersions on the reliability of healthcare in India. Healthcare is an essential service and it is simply unfathomable if doctors...

Live Earth Will Make the World More Aware of the Crisis Facing the Earth, Hopes Al Gore

...ity used to power the speakers and lights, and the fuel spent on ferrying musicians and their equipment to the venues by plane and lorry. Wall said: 'We are trying to minimise the carbon as much as possible. Most artists are coming from nearby areas. Madonna, for example, lives in London and will be per...

Indoor Air Pollution Biggest Health Threat

...els. Biogas, LPG, Kerosene are some of the cleaner fuel that could be used to reduce the air pollution....

Higher Gas Prices Leave Many Workers Running on Empty

... price of gas even companies that rely heavily on fuel for their operations," he said. Those personally affected by gas prices who did not see the company sacrificing were less committed to getting things done while at work. Compared to those who felt that their company was doing without, those who fel...

Blocking Enzyme Can Treat Breast Cancer

...th of breast cancer. The enzyme PTP1B appears to fuel tumor growth and drugs that block this enzyme may be useful in treating the disease. About 40 percent of human breast cancers have been shown to have excessively high levels of this enzyme. Michel Tremblay and colleagues at McGill University in Mon...

Deforestation Plays a Critical Role in Climate Change: Study

...hat would be released by 13 years of global fossil fuel combustion. So maintaining forests as carbon sinks...se of the equivalent of six years of global fossil fuel emissions, he said. Reducing deforestation is just one of a portfolio of mitigation options needed...

Multiple Sclerosis Could Be Checked Through Testosterone Gel

...tors are concerned that testosterone therapy might fuel the growth of prostate cancer that is already present. Still a treatment that protects the central nervous system against multiple sclerosis would be a major breakthrough for the 400,000 Americans with the disease. The average age of the partici...

UW Establishes Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center

...administrative and support capacity to effectively fuel key areas of research and education. This is especially important, the researchers note, as key campus projects such as the Interdisciplinary Research Center and the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery evolve. "We see strong links between the vari...

Teenage Self Confidence Can Translate Later into Material Wealth

... self-concept seems to act like an accelerant the fuel to the fire that leads the advantaged in our society to do better, he added. The study used data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, a nationally representative sample of 12,686 men and women who were between 14 and 22 years old when f...

Work Less to Sustain Planet Earth, Say Activists

...pulation, it accounts for 22 percent of its fossil fuel consumption, 50 percent of its solid waste, and, o...-30 percent more energy by 2050. This would impact fuel prices worldwide and boost carbon emissions, resulting in additional global warming of 1-2 degrees C...

Women in Iraq More Unsafe Than Ever

...that Sunni Arabs circulated the gruesome images to fuel anger against Yazidis and undermine the Kurdish community, which exercises a degree of autonomy in northern Iraq and is seeking more. "It seems they are trying to make it big for political purposes," said Mohsen Gargari, a Kurdish MP. In an inter...

Researchers Discover Starch Cocktail Fuel for green Car

...ide and hydrogen, and the latter can be fed into a fuel cell to run an electric car, or even used in an o...for four kilograms of hydrogen. This could also fuel a car for more than 300 miles, he said. Although the enzymes used - sourced from a chemical suppli...

Global Heartbeat Control Suggests Therapy for Beating Heart Failure

...trol most aspects of the integrated processes that fuel the heart by regulating the expression of genes involved at each step. "The receptors control some 400 genes, and probably more," Gigure said. Rather than being randomly distributed, "the genes fell into precise categories of well-defined energy pa...

Dietary Vitamin B6, B12 and Folate, may Decrease Pancreatic Cancer Risk Among Leans

...use it suggests that something in the vitamins may fuel pancreatic cancer growth, Dr. Schernhammer said. This isnt the first study to suggest that folate, and vitamin B6 and B12 − so called one carbon nutrients − are protective against pancreatic cancer if they come from food, but not if the...

Hot Flashes in Men Treated for Prostate Cancer Reduced by Non-hormonal Drug

...n-originating hormones, some of which can actually fuel their cancer. So any symptom relief these men get comes with worry about new cancer growth. "To my knowledge, this is the first nonhormonal treatment of hot flashes in men, where results from a placebo-controlled trial are positive enough to suppor...

Strict Exercise and Diet Regimens Might Lead to Osteoporosis in Women

...gh. If their diet does not supply enough energy to fuel their exercise level, though, they may be harming themselves. They need to replenish those calories, Loucks added. The findings of the study were presented at the Endocrine Society annual meeting in Toronto....

Effects of 'starvation Hormone'-Newly Identified in Low-carb Diets

...reliance on fat stores as an alternative source of fuel when glucose, the bodys primary energy source, plu...bohydrates to so-called ketone bodies as a primary fuel source. Ketone bodies are produced from fatty acids transferred from storage in fat tissue to the...

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