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'Plastic Bottle' Solution for Arsenic-Contaminated Water Threatening 100 Million People
August 31, 2011 — With almost 100 million people in developing countries exposed to dangerously high arsenic levels in their drinking water, and unable to afford purification technology, scientists described a simple, ... > full story -
Solar Industry Responsible for Lead Emissions in Developing Countries, Research Finds
August 31, 2011 — Solar power heavily reliant on lead batteries has the potential to release more than 2.4 million tons of lead pollution in China and India, according to new ... > full story -
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Cracking Cellulose: A Step Into the Biofuels Future
August 31, 2011 — Scientists from the University of York have played a pivotal role in a discovery which could finally unlock the full potential of waste plant matter to replace oil as a fuel ... > full story -
Wastewater Recycling Can Multiply Greenhouse Gas Emissions
August 29, 2011 — New research shows that wastewater recycling processes may generate more greenhouse gases than traditional water-treatment processes. Despite this finding, there are good reasons to continue keep ... > full story -
Cars Could Run on Recycled Newspaper, Scientists Say
August 25, 2011 — Here's one way that old-fashioned newsprint beats the Internet. Scientists have discovered a novel bacterial strain, dubbed "TU-103," that can use paper to produce butanol, a biofuel that can serve ... > full story -
Fundamental Discovery About Neurons May Radically Alter Current View of Neurotransmission
August 23, 2011 — A fundamental new discovery about how nerve cells in the brain store and release tiny sacs filled with chemicals may radically alter the way scientists think about neurotransmission -- the electrical ... > full story -
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Common Cause of All Forms of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Discovered
August 21, 2011 — The cause of ALS, a fatal disease that paralyzes its victims, has long eluded scientists. But a new study for the first time has identified a common cause of all forms of ALS, opening a new field to ... > full story -
Micro-Organisms Are 'Invisible' to the Immune System
August 19, 2011 — That micro-organisms have a great capacity to vary their surface structure is well known. It is one of the reasons why it is so difficult to develop vaccines against HIV and malaria, and why new ... > full story -
Human Pathogen Killing Corals in the Florida Keys
August 17, 2011 — A research team has identified human sewage as the source of the coral-killing pathogen that causes white pox disease of Caribbean elkhorn coral. Once the most common coral in the Caribbean, elkhorn ... > full story -
Gator in Your Tank: Alligator Fat as a New Source of Biodiesel Fuel
August 17, 2011 — Amid growing concern that using soybeans and other food crops to produce biodiesel fuel will raise the price of food, scientists have identified a new and unlikely raw material for the fuel: ... > full story
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