Tue, 08/24/2010 - 07:47 by harsheeb
Washington -- The world is running out of helium, a resource that cannot be renewed, and supplies could run out in 25 to 30 years, a U.S. researcher says.
Nobel-prize winning physicist Robert Richardson warns that the inert gas is being sold off far to cheaply -- so cheaply there is no incentive to recycle it -- and world supplies of the gas, a vital component of medical MRI scanners, spacecraft and rockets, could be gone in just decades, Britain's The Telegraph reported Monday.
Around 80 per cent of the world's reserves are in the U.S. Southwest at the the U.S. National Helium Reserve, located in Amarillo, Texas, but a recently passed law has ruled the reserve must be sold off by 2015 regardless of market price, Britain's Independent said.
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Tue, 07/20/2010 - 23:28 by Motley Fool
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Thu, 03/25/2010 - 08:11 by harsheeb
Leicster -- British and U.S. scientists say they are excited by the discovery of a 425-million-year-old fossil of a water creature with its soft body parts preserved.
Professor David Siveter of the University of Leicester worked with Professor Derek Siveter at Oxford University's Museum of Natural History, U.S. Professor Derek Briggs of Yale University and Mark Sutton at Imperial College London on the discovery.
The researchers said the specimen that was, found in rocks near Hereford represents a new species of ostracod and has been named Nasunaris flata. They said the find is important because the fossil has been found with its soft parts preserved inside the shell.
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Thu, 03/11/2010 - 12:24 by Jaspreet Virk
In a convincing sign that the nation’s economy is rebounding, the national unemployment rate has fallen to 9.7 percent in January from 10.0 percent in December, according to a report released by Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Fri, 01/29/2010 - 03:28 by harsheeb
Livermore-- U.S. scientists say they have discovered that compression makes a diamond so strong it can withstand nearly a million times atmospheric pressure.
Scientists from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the University of Rochester and the University of California-Berkeley noted that most natural diamonds result from the compression of carbon-containing minerals under high-temperature conditions at depths of 87 to 120 miles over periods ranging from 1 billion to 3.3 billion years.
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Sat, 01/23/2010 - 08:01 by harsheeb
Corvallis -- The discovery that soil clings to the first rain after a dry summer upends nearly a century of thinking in soil science, Oregon researchers said.
We used to believe that when new precipitation entered the soil, it mixed well with other water and eventually moved to streams. We just found out that isn't true," said researcher Jeff McDonnell of Oregon State University, Corvallis.
Studies in the Pacific Northwest showed soil clings so tenaciously to the first rain after a dry spell that the precipitation almost never mixes with other water, McDonnell and his team wrote in a recent issue of the journal Nature Geoscience.
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Tue, 01/12/2010 - 07:48 by harsheeb
United Nations-- A failure to protect the world's natural resources is a wake-up call for people everywhere, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Monday.
The secretary-general called for a global alliance in announcing 2010 as the International Year of Biodiversity.
"We must counter the perception that people are disconnected from our natural environment. Biodiversity is life. Biodiversity is our life," he said in a statement from New York.
A special U.N. General Assembly meeting in September will give the international community the opportunity to demonstrate "much needed leadership" on global biodiversity, Ban said.
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Wed, 12/30/2009 - 09:02 by harsheeb
Sacramento -- Geologists say they've found more than 350 ancient granite basins used by California's Miwok tribe to produce salt for trade.
The Miwok were a hunting and gathering tribe who lived in the northern Sierra Nevada mountains for nearly 5,000 years before contact with European Americans in 1769.
They were one of the first groups America Indian tribes to begin producing salt for trade, said Jim Moore, a researcher with the U.S. Geological Survey.
The basins Moore's team found were carved in granite in an area the size of a football field, each basin several feet in diameter. The basins were carved near a salt spring and the water carried to the basins to dry and leave a salt residue.
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Thu, 10/22/2009 - 11:09 by Ishita Sood
Washington, October 22 -- The Obama administration plans to cut the pay packages of 25 top executives of companies that received billions of dollars during the government bailouts.
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Tue, 09/22/2009 - 01:22 by Rich Duprey
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Fri, 04/03/2009 - 11:47 by rcrchauhan
Washington, April 3 -- US lawmakers Thursday approved a $3.5-trillion budget outline for 2010 that closely mirrors President Barack Obama's priorities for the country.
The vote in the House of Representatives was 233-196, largely along party lines, and came after weeks of polarising debate that exposed deep differences between majority Democrats and opposition Republicans over how to resuscitate the US economy.
The Senate voted 55 to 43 on a slightly different version of the 2010 budget proposal, which will require lawmakers from both chambers to forge a compromise in the coming weeks.
Senate majority leader Harry Reid said that the "responsible" budget "will start cleaning up the mistakes of the past and make critical investments in our future".
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Wed, 03/11/2009 - 16:03 by Jamie Anderson
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