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This is definitely the best time of the year to be generous and worry about the fate of misfortunate people. Google is fully aware of this, since it announced its eagerness to offer some substantial grants to boost education, favor larger access to technology and help abolish modern slavery.
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15 December 2011
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A cute cat suffering from a rare anomaly can change the fate of the The Milwaukee Animal Rescue Center in Greendale. Cute Daniel has 26 toes and this does not stop it from becoming famous worldwide. The shelter encourages people do donate $26 (€19.4) in its honor, to make sure the facility will stay open an... |
9 December 2011
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Japan's whaling fleet is preparing for an ambitious goal. Participants plan to kill 900 minke whales and 50 fin whales this year, relying on taxpayers' money. This rumor has raised the anger of conservation groups, whose members say the unwanted, unnecessary operation is wasting an approximately 2.28 billio... |
7 December 2011
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The frog prince could actually exist, and the character might not be interested in human princesses. Or at least that's what the people behind FrogMatchMaker.com hope for.
The project was created to find appropriate matches for the lonely, endangered species of frogs, since biologists warned that 41% out of th... |
4 November 2011
10:58 GMT |
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The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) just awarded a series of grant funds to research teams, for the installation of scientific instrument suites in the Gulf of Maine. The instruments will keep track of algal blooms in the area, and also predict when such events might occur.
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20 October 2011
04:18 GMT |
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Amidst concerns that the NASA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) might be canceled, a recent report provides another blow for the already-battered project. According to new estimates, the life cycle costs associated with the mission have soared from $6.5 billion to $8.7 billion.The document comes at the most inappropr... |
23 August 2011
07:25 GMT |
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In the new 2012 budget proposal, US President Barack Obama asked for a budget of about $5.5 billion for the country's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The agency will receive less money than it did in 2011, but not by much. The fiscal year (FY) 2012 budget proposal holds a $56.8 million de... |
15 February 2011
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On February 9, the Dutch Postcode Lottery in the Netherlands awarded the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) with a check for 1 million euros ($ 1.35 million). The contribution is nearly double than what the Lottery gave the activist organization in 2010.The check was granted the same day the SSCS ship Goji... |
14 February 2011
04:46 GMT |
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Officials at the American space agency announce that the organization has just received a funding boost of $40 million. The money are designed to support the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program that NASA has set up for the private spaceflight industry.While Congress has yet to approved the relea... |
13 January 2011
03:45 GMT |
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According to official sources from the American space agency, it would appear that one of the main focuses that the organization will have in the coming years will be Earth observation programs. Both the White House and Congress approve of this orientation that NASA chose, and their support is bound to help the age... |
29 December 2010
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Scientists are drawing attention to the fact that epilepsy, a condition that affects millions, is still not getting the attention it needs for specialists, research groups, universities and authorities. Considering the severity of the situation, this cannot go on, they argue in a new study. Unfortunately, epilepsy is... |
28 December 2010
04:41 GMT |
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Researchers at the Indiana University will soon begin a new investigation into the underlying molecular underpinning of breast cancer. Especially targeted will be an inflammatory, highly-invasive form of the disease, which currently produces a large number of victims among women, researcher say. This relatively rare ... |
11 August 2010
06:05 GMT |
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The international group of scientists that is in charge of the international nuclear fusion research project known as ITER recently managed to secure additional funding from the European Commission. The organization is the executive arm of the European Union, and it agreed to supply the project with an additional &eu... |
5 August 2010
09:59 GMT |
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The International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC) has just released its latest report, entitled “Rationing Funds, Risking Lives: World Backtracks on HIV Treatment.” In the document, the group shows that the decreased commitment governments and international organizations show towards handling AIDS... |
26 April 2010
06:45 GMT |
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A few years ago, astronomers identified a remote asteroid, nicknamed Apophis, that was discovered to have a small chance of impacting our planet in 2036. Preliminary investigations have, however, shown that these chances are fairly remote, and so plans were devised to conduct more in-depth investigations later on. Th... |
25 March 2010
10:26 GMT |
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A new report by the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) sheds lots of doubts on the International Space Station (ISS) and its potential to bring a return on American investments. The Office believes that the 25 years and billions of dollars that the United States have put in the station may have been misplaced,... |
28 December 2009
06:39 GMT |
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Officials representing the 190+ countries that are attending the 2009 UN Climate Change conference, held in Copenhagen, have worked through the night, in an attempt to come to a decision about how to fund poorer nations in the international struggle against global warming and climate change. At the forefront of the d... |
11 December 2009
02:37 GMT |
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The US National Science Foundation (NSF) will award more than $4.3 million to the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) for advancing knowledge on the Sun, and adding improvements and upgrades to the Big Bear Telescope (BBT). The installation will receive a new cryogenic infrared spectrograph, which will consider... |
21 November 2009
04:37 GMT |
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Scientists assessing the difficulties related to the construction of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) facility in southern France have recently revealed that it may be unfeasible to fire up the reactor as soon as 2018, as current plans have it. The multi-billion-euro nuclear fusion test rea... |
20 November 2009
15:31 GMT |
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On Tuesday, Clearwire Corporation announced plans to raise $1.564 billion in investments, so as to be able to continue the expansion of its 4G wireless network. According to the company, it has signed an agreement with Sprint Nextel Corporation, Comcast Corporation, Time Warner Cable Inc., Intel Corporation, Eagle Ri... |
11 November 2009
13:01 GMT |
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A new report from the Stockholm-based Commission on Climate Change and Development (CCCD) has recently made it clear that some of the poorest nations in the world, which have already begun coming under the increased influence of global warming and climate change, urgently need up to $2 billion in compensations from t... |
15 May 2009
05:39 GMT |
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