Category Archives: Research

BP works to replace containment cap over ruptured well

By doris | Published: July 11, 2010

Full Story atCNN.com Why can’t they get it right? This company didn’t do any research on taking a oil pipe leak until it happen.  Just like all the other businesses, wait till the horse gets out of the barn then fix the problem. What about planning ahead just in case something happens. This is just [...]

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Little spent on spill cleanup technology

By doris | Published: June 27, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com ON BARATARIA BAY, La. — While oil companies have spent billions of dollars to drill deeper and farther out to sea, relatively little money and research have gone into finding new, improved ways to respond to oil spills in deepsea conditions like those in the Gulf of Mexico. Experts say the [...]

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Breast cancer vaccine to go on trial within a year

By doris | Published: May 30, 2010

Full Story at Telegraph.co.uk The drug, which goes on trial within a year, has been shown to stop tumours ever appearing and also to attack those that are already present.If successful, researchers say GPs could offer it to women before they reach their mid-40s, when the risk of breast cancer starts to rise steeply.The drug [...]

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Egg donors offered up to $50,000

By doris | Published: March 27, 2010

Are they trying to get perfect people for the world to be perfect? That is a possible, and they are making a lot of money and getting rich off of people who just want a baby of there own.Full Story at msnbc.com Fertility companies are paying egg donors high fees that often exceed guidelines, especially [...]

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College on edge after recent wave of student suicides

By doris | Published: March 21, 2010

I know it is hard going to college. The kids are pushed in to growing up to fast to deal with the problems of college. Most of the have to deal with finical part of college. As a parent most of the time all we can do is keep in contact with them and support [...]

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US census forms arrive in the mail: What to expect

By doris | Published: March 15, 2010

Full Story at google.com More than 120 million U.S. census forms begin arriving Monday in mailboxes around the country, in the government’s once-a-decade population count that will be used to divvy up congressional seats and more than $400 billion in federal aid. Fast-growing states in the South and the West could stand to lose the [...]

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G.M. and Ford Channel Toyota to Beat Toyota

By doris | Published: March 7, 2010

Full Story at NYTimes.com JOSH SMITH is a large man with a shaved head, a goatee and a look in his eyes that can only be described as stoked. And he is never more stoked than when he talks about his job, one of the strangest at the General Motors Proving Grounds, here in this [...]

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20 jobs — no degree, but big salaries

By doris | Published: February 2, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CareerBuilder.com) — Higher education isn’t for everyone, and people have a variety of paths to choose from once they graduate from high school. They might know from the start that they want to go straight to the professional world. Other new graduates often decide to try college for a semester to [...]

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635,000 cribs recalled for risk to infants

By doris | Published: January 21, 2010

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — About 635,000 cribs sold at major discounters nationwide have been recalled by Dorel Asia SRL for strangulation and suffocation hazards that killed one child and injured 10 others, the government said Tuesday. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said that the hardware holding up the side of [...]

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GE to supply world’s largest wind farm

By doris | Published: December 11, 2009

Full Story atmoney.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — General Electric said Thursday it has secured a $1.4 billion contract to supply wind turbines and provide services for what will be the world’s largest wind farm operation when completed in 2012. The conglomerate will supply 338 of its 2.5-megawatt turbines to New York-based Caithness Energy to be [...]

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Space hotel says it’s on schedule to open in 2012

By doris | Published: November 2, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com Barcelona – A company behind plans to open the first hotel in space says it is on target to accept its first paying guests in 2012 despite critics questioning the investment and time frame for the multi-billion dollar project. The Barcelona-based architects of The Galactic Suite Space Resort say it will [...]

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NASA’s prototype rocket set for Tuesday launch

By doris | Published: October 26, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A prototype version of NASA’s newest rocket is ready for its planned Tuesday launch, mission managers said Friday. NASA is set to test the design of its next-generation rocket, Ares I, during a demonstration liftoff called Ares I-X. The launch, slated for 8 a.m. ET on Oct. [...]

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Authorities search house in ‘balloon boy’ case

By doris | Published: October 18, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Heene is the storm-chasing father whose giant Mylar balloon ascended into the sky late last week, sparking fears that his 6-year-old son Falcon was aboard. A dispatcher with the Larimer County Sheriff’s Department declined to release any information about the search, but said the office will hold a news conference at [...]

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Disney debuts do-it-yourself thrill ride

By doris | Published: October 15, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Epcot on Wednesday opened a new attraction called “Sum of All Thrills,” which lets kids use computer tablets to design a virtual roller coaster, bobsled track or plane ride. After inputting their designs, kids climb into a robotic carriage that uses virtual-reality technology to help them experience the ride they’ve created. [...]

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‘Mad scientist’ to build greener future with ‘megacrete’

By doris | Published: October 14, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Spending a day with Fisk on his 18-acre work site outside of Austin, Texas is like riding a rocket blast into the future. “To be free to do what we’re doing is absolute magic,” Fisk recently told CNN. Pliny Fisk opened the non-profit Center for Maximum Potential Building (CMPB) in 1975 [...]

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Astronomy fans left disappointed after much-touted lunar impact

By doris | Published: October 10, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com “We saw nothing,” he said. Samuels is vice president of the Fremont Peak Observatory near Monterey, California, which had invited members of the public to watch Friday’s NASA mission through its telescopes. The lunar strike happened shortly after 4:30 a.m. on the West Coast (7:30 a.m. ET). NASA had encouraged everyone [...]

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GE: Solar business is our ‘next wind’

By doris | Published: September 25, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com In 2011, the energy giant expects to produce solar panels made with cadmium telluride, a thin-film solar cell material, said Michael Idelchik, vice president of advanced technologies at GE Global Research at the EmTech conference here on Wednesday. The company now sells solar panels that use silicon solar cells, but its [...]

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India launches satellite for ocean study

By doris | Published: September 24, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com NEW DELHI, India (CNN) — India on Wednesday launched a second satellite to study oceans. The cube-shaped Oceansat-2 will monitor the interaction between oceans and the atmosphere, as part of climate studies, according to the country’s main space agency. The satellite, launched from India’s southeast coast, carried six nanosatellites from European [...]

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King: H1N1 worries increase awareness on college campuses

By doris | Published: September 20, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com STORRS, Connecticut (CNN) — At the University of Connecticut, planning for the H1N1 virus means, to begin with, clearing some serious storage space: • 15,000 surgical masks for patients who might become infected.• 28,000 doses of Advil• 28,000 doses of Tylenol• 10,000 fever thermometers• Thousands of bottles of hand sanitizers. “We [...]

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Liquid specs a bold vision for world’s poor

By doris | Published: September 18, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com But a pair of glasses developed by Joshua Silver, a physics professor at the University of Oxford, offers an affordable solution. The glasses can be adjusted to the right strength by the wearer, without the need for them to visit an optometrist. A major reason for that is a chronic shortage [...]

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