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Huge growth at largest wind farm

A massive expansion is to take place at Europe's largest onshore wind farm, which is situated in East Renfrewshire. "Whitelee wind farm is already the largest onshore wind farm in Europe and this extension pushing the overall capacity to 539MW will make it one of the largest in the world."
- Simon Christian, UK director of ScottishPower Renewables

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New Vaccine Development Provides Potent Long-Lasting Immunity

Terra Daily, 4 years, 3 months, 1 week, 4 days, 21 hours, 27 minutes ago, comment
Pittsburgh, PA - The field of vaccine development is getting a boost from new research that has identified a promising vaccine delivery approach, which in animal studies produced long-term immune protection after just one immunization.

Robot hand controlled by thought alone

New Scientist, 4 years, 3 months, 1 week, 5 days, 1 hour, 35 minutes ago, comment
Tokyo, Japan - A robotic hand controlled by the power of thought alone has been demonstrated by researchers in Japan.

Shingles vaccine for older adults gets FDA approval

LA Times, 4 years, 3 months, 1 week, 5 days, 5 hours, 37 minutes ago, comment
Washington, DC - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved the first vaccine to prevent shingles, a painful virus believed to strike one in five adults at some point in their lives, particularly the elderly.

Heat ‘batteries’ dramatically cut energy use

EDIE, 4 years, 3 months, 1 week, 5 days, 11 hours, 49 minutes ago, comment
London, England - Heat storage tanks that can cut energy used for heating by 50-70%, and are becoming an increasingly profitable investment as energy prices shoot up.

Consumer Demand for Healthy Fabrics Boosts Green Textile Certification

Green Biz, 4 years, 3 months, 1 week, 5 days, 18 hours, 53 minutes ago, comment
Greensboro, NC - The popularity of organic foods is increasing and corresponding consumer demand is perking up in the textile industry.

Graphic images to deter smokers

BBC, 4 years, 3 months, 1 week, 5 days, 22 hours, 56 minutes ago, comment
London, England - The public are being asked to choose a series of picture warnings to appear on cigarette packets from next year.

If all drivers were polite, they would get where theyre going faster

University of Michigan, 4 years, 3 months, 1 week, 6 days, 1 hour, 42 minutes ago, [PRESS RELEASE] comment
Ann Arbor, MI - A new study from the University of Michigan found that traffic metering systems that incorporate new algorithms for merging could reduce the seriousness of traffic slowdowns that originate near freeway on-ramps.

FSU research produces images of AIDS virus that may shape vaccine

Florida State University , 4 years, 3 months, 1 week, 6 days, 2 hours, 8 minutes ago, [PRESS RELEASE] comment
Tallahassee, FL - As the world marks the 25th year since the first diagnosed case of AIDS, groundbreaking research by scientists at Florida State University has produced remarkable three-dimensional images of the virus and the protein spikes on its surface that allow it to bind and fuse with human immune cells.

AIDS Origin Traced to Chimp Group in Cameroon

National Geographic, 4 years, 3 months, 1 week, 6 days, 3 hours, 19 minutes ago, comment
Cameroon - Chimpanzees living in dense jungles in Africa have been confirmed as the probable source of the HIV virus which caused the human AIDS pandemic.

Mission to target highest clouds

BBC, 4 years, 3 months, 1 week, 6 days, 7 hours, 25 minutes ago, comment
Hampton, Virginia - A Nasa satellite mission will be launched this year to study the highest and most mysterious clouds on Earth.

‘Dead’ Everest man safe at camp

BBC, 4 years, 3 months, 1 week, 6 days, 12 hours, 43 minutes ago, comment
Mount Everest - An Australian man left for dead as he descended Mount Everest has left the "death zone" near the summit and has spoken by phone to his relieved wife.

Grasses growing again in the bay, researchers say

Richmond Times Dispatch, 4 years, 3 months, 1 week, 6 days, 12 hours, 53 minutes ago, comment
Annapolis, Md - The Chesapeake Bay's ecologically important underwater grass beds gained 7 percent last year to cover 78,260 acres, according to the Chesapeake Bay Program office in Annapolis, Md.

Invisibility: a first draft

New Observer, 4 years, 3 months, 1 week, 6 days, 16 hours, 45 minutes ago, comment
Durham, North Carolina, USA - Ever wish to slip unseen into forbidden places the way Harry Potter does under his invisibility cloak? Or to materialize with no warning like Romulan warships in a Star Trek universe? Now scientists at Duke University and Imperial College in London say such dreams are nearly within reach.

Organics go mainstream

Minnesota Public Radio, 4 years, 3 months, 1 week, 6 days, 20 hours, 12 minutes ago, comments (1)
St. Paul, Minn - For years, organic foods were marketed primarily to socially-minded, health-conscious foodies who had the money to pay premium prices for free-range chicken and apples grown without pesticides.

EU consortium working for ‘child labour free’ label in imports

The Hindu, 4 years, 3 months, 1 week, 6 days, 23 hours, 15 minutes ago, comment
Hyderabad, Inda - Intensifying its campaign against child labour, the consortium of voluntary organisations headed by an Ireland-based concern are working for securing a "child labour free" label on all the imports into Europe.

Deep-Sea Volcano Erupts on Film—A First

National Geographic, 4 years, 3 months, 2 weeks, 4 hours, 22 minutes ago, comment
Northern Mariana Islands - Billowing ash plumes, molten sulfur droplets, feisty shrimp feasting on fish killed by noxious gases, red lava jetting from a ventthey're all part of the action recently filmed at an underwater volcano in the western Pacific Ocean.

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