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What If If Virginia Lifts Ban on Uranium Mining? Report Identifies Health and Environmental Issues
December 19, 2011 — A number of health and environmental issues and related risks need to be addressed when considering whether to lift the almost 30-year moratorium on uranium mining in Virginia, a new report ... > full story -
Tool Detects Patterns Hidden in Vast Data Sets
December 15, 2011 — Researchers have developed a tool that can tackle large data sets in a way that no other software program can. Part of a suite of statistical tools called MINE, it can tease out multiple patterns ... > full story -
Mercury Releases Into the Atmosphere from Ancient to Modern Times
December 14, 2011 — In pursuit of riches and energy over the last 5,000 years, humans have released into the environment 385,000 tons of mercury, the source of numerous health concerns, according to a new study that ... > full story -
Cumulative Impact of Mountaintop Mining Documented
December 12, 2011 — Increased salinity and concentrations of trace elements in one West Virginia watershed have been tied directly to multiple surface coal mines upstream by a detailed new survey of stream chemistry. ... > full story -
Study of Strong Ground Motion May Show Need to Modify Building Codes
December 5, 2011 — New testing conducted in a steep, mountainous region of Utah, using mining induced events, is providing a new set of data necessary for better predictions on building codes, especially when ... > full story -
New Class of Antimalarial Compounds Discovered
November 17, 2011 — Scientists have discovered a family of chemical compounds that could lead to a new generation of antimalarial drugs capable of not only alleviating symptoms but also preventing the deadly ... > full storyMore: -
Twitter Tweets Chart the Social Whirl
November 8, 2011 — The senior project of two computer science students aggregates Twitter 'tweets" into a real-time events ... > full story -
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Australian Technology Aims to Make Storing Radioactive Waste Safer
November 2, 2011 — Australian researchers have developed new technology capable of removing radioactive material from contaminated water and aiding clean-up efforts following nuclear ... > full story -
Novel Research Seeks to Locate Scotland's Next Gold Mine; Geologists Apply New Scientific Methods to Gold Prospecting
October 27, 2011 — There really is gold in those hills – enough for a king’s ransom. Scotgold Resources Ltd has just been given planning permission to open Scotland’s first gold mine since gold was ... > full story -
New Evidence for the Oldest Oxygen-Breathing Life on Land
October 19, 2011 — New research shows the first evidence that oxygen-breathing bacteria occupied and thrived on land 100 million years earlier than previously ... > full storyMore:
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