Guardian: Sea level rise due to global warming will “substantially exceed” official UN projections and…
Month: December 2008
Seas will rise faster than predicted, say scientists
Times (UK): Sea levels will rise much faster than previously forecast because of the rate…
Believe it or not, this was the tenth hottest year ever
Independent: You may not have realised, as you shivered under the grey and drenching skies…
Parents Be Aware This Holiday Season: Magnets In Children’s Toys Pose Significant Health Risk
A growing number of adults know about the potential risk of swallowing magnets, but medical…
Graphical Models: New Mathematical Tool Could Unpick Complex Cancer Causes And Help Sociologists Mine Facebook
Researchers have devised a new research tool that could help unpick the complex cell interactions…
Charting HIV’s Rapidly Changing Journey In The Body
HIV is so deadly largely because it evolves so rapidly. With a single virus as…
Rare Lead Bars Discovered Off The Coast Of Ibiza May Be Carthaginian Munitions
Archaeologists have recovered three lead bars which may originate from the third century before Christ,…
Nanotubes Sniff Out Cancer Agents In Living Cells
MIT Engineers have developed carbon nanotubes into sensors for cancer drugs and other DNA-damaging agents…
Boundary Between Earth’s Upper Atmosphere And Space Has Moved To Extraordinarily Low Altitudes, NASA Instruments Document
Observations made by NASA instruments onboard an Air Force satellite have shown that the boundary…
Who Will Use North Korea’s 3G Network?
An Egyptian telecoms giant launched an advanced mobile phone network in North Korea on Monday,…