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Bill Gates has recently announced he plans to develop a new nuclear reactor, powered by depleted uranium. In order to achieve this goal, he is counting on China's support. In his opinion, this strategy represents a cost-effective method of producing energy while complying with high safety standards.
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8 December 2011
02:58 GMT |
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Natural gas drilling is a risky business, for those behind it, for the environment as well as for the rest of the inhabitants. The people whose drinking water comes out of a source located nearby a drilling site are worried about how this activity might end up affecting their wellbeing.
The authorities have also... |
19 November 2011
06:21 GMT |
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The Fukushima disaster made several governments reconsider their position towards the development of nuclear power. Belgium could be one more nation added to the list of those countries which are willing to abandon the benefits of this alternative source of energy, in favor of the environment and the wellbeing of its... |
1 November 2011
03:32 GMT |
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) wants to see exactly how vulnerable top secret information can be. In order to complete this task, they organized a contest in which the owner of the device that will be able to recompose a shredded message will take home a $50,000 prize.
It might seems like anot... |
28 October 2011
03:19 GMT |
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Eugene Kaspersky, founder and current CEO of Russian antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab, has issued a public statement about his son's recent kidnapping and subsequent release in which he stresses that despite recent events, Moscow remains a safe place to live.Twenty-year-old Ivan Kaspersky was kidnapped last Tuesda... |
28 April 2011
10:52 GMT |
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After it released the brand new Nintendo 3DS handheld around the world last week, the Japanese company has now talked about the error messages that are plaguing the device, including the Black Screen of Death, and the health concerns that have arisen after people got their hands on the new portable platform.
The N... |
29 March 2011
17:21 GMT |
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Nintendo has just revealed a few of the health and safety warnings that will be associated with its new portable platform, the Nintendo 3DS.
Nintendo is getting everything in place for the upcoming launch of its brand new handheld and has already detailed what games are confirmed for the platform and what will be ... |
30 December 2010
03:10 GMT |
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Nanotechnology is one of the fastest growing fields of research today, with numerous research groups and thousands of scientists working on it every day. But no country has developed any comprehensive set of regulations aimed at keeping researchers safe from the hazards related to these investigations to date. Theref... |
1 February 2010
06:20 GMT |
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According to a new scientific investigation currently being carried out by experts at two Bath universities, wearing a crash helmet while riding a bike is indeed advantageous for your safety, but may pose other risks to your health. Additionally, the researchers have discovered up until now, the helmets could also be... |
27 January 2010
20:11 GMT |
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Generally, bus drivers covering city routes are very apt at their profession, and deliver passengers safely to their destinations. Accidents occur mostly when other drivers plunge into their vehicles. The same is not necessarily true for drivers covering international bus trips, who spend long hours on the road. One ... |
19 January 2010
08:45 GMT |
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When most people say augmented reality, they immediately think about video games, where this system could make the gaming experiences much more rich. Television and movies jump to mind immediately afterwards, but researchers are now imaging a use for AR that surpasses all that. They argue that a large number of car c... |
24 October 2009
05:44 GMT |
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Experts from the University of Missouri-Columbia (UMC) have recently announced the creation of a new type of blast-resistant glass, which they advertise as being much more efficient in absorbing and reducing the impact strength of explosions than the existing varieties already on the market. The new material will als... |
11 September 2009
03:42 GMT |
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Denmark and Holland are known around the world for their love of bicycles, which have become an important part of their culture. But the Danish capital, Copenhagen, which is to host the UN Climate Change summit later this year, is vowing to take its already-amazing love for the environment a step further. Authorities... |
28 August 2009
04:25 GMT |
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Just recently, the Mackay-based company Mining Logic Solutions has signed a contract with the Queensland University of Australia, which awarded it with the license to produce the new Nexsys™ real-time risk-management system, to be implemented at a global scale. The new system is expected to boost mine productiv... |
20 May 2009
17:01 GMT |
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Researchers in the automotive industry start to focus their efforts on the safety of pedestrians as well, rather than continuing to laden the inside of vehicles with numerous safety features, such as seat belts, airbags and automatic driver-assist systems. The concern is caused by the fact that even collisions that t... |
16 April 2009
11:03 GMT |
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Most gravel roads across the United States have circulation signs that caution or force drivers to reduce speed to a certain level, so as to avoid accidents and drivers getting caught unprepared by unexpected slides of their vehicles. Despite the federal regulations on the matter, researchers have learned that peop... |
11 April 2009
06:59 GMT |
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Having a comfortable flight can often depend on such an apparently insignificant thing as being offered the option of choosing between tens of movies, shows or music tracks. Enter in-flight entertainment systems, which offer customers a wide range of choices. They also expose the same customers to the danger of losin... |
23 March 2009
08:11 GMT |
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A German driver accidentally became a very good stunt man on Monday, when he managed to plunge his automobile into a church roof in the eastern part of the country. That's not to say the church was somehow buried and the Skoda vehicle simply rolled passed it. The roof was standing 7 meters (22 feet) tall, like a... |
27 January 2009
03:05 GMT |
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According to new official statistics, elderly drivers are far less likely than young ones to be involved in fatal collisions and other serious car accidents. The find comes as a surprise, as the children who were once part of the “boomer” generation are now becoming mature. And while there still are the o... |
15 January 2009
05:50 GMT |
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For us ladies, makeup is an integral part of our lives, just like water or air are. It's natural, therefore, to want to know more about its ingredients and their potential long-term side effects it may have on our health, especially since there are makeup products such as foundation, powder and eyeshadow that ma... |
11 June 2008
11:41 GMT |
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There are voices that continue to claim that the online gaming (either on the classic PCs or on Xbox or PS3) is nothing but a heaven for child abusers, pedophiles and other sex freaks and, of course, part of that is true. We had a stalker a few months ago that went after a 15 years old girl, other people consider the... |
10 March 2008
06:12 GMT |
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With the holiday shopping season about to start, the online merchants are trying to do anything is possible to obtain higher revenues and sell their products. Web User News today informs about the risk of buying toys which were actually recalled by manufacturers due to some dangerous features which could harm the saf... |
13 November 2007
14:31 GMT |
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Current crash-test performed on cars involve using crash test dummies fitted with up to 30 sensors than record impact forces in various points of the body and high-speed cameras. The dummies are full-scale replicas of human beings, weighted and articulated to simulate the behavior of a human body and instrumented t... |
7 May 2007
16:06 GMT |
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