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Journal special edition outlines rotavirus burden and need for vaccines

November 5, 2009

Seattle, WA -- The Journal of Infectious Diseases has released a special edition, Global Rotavirus Surveillance: Preparing for the Introduction of Rotavirus Vaccines.

Carnegie Mellon researchers receive grant

November 5, 2009

PITTSBURGH -- Carnegie Mellon University's Lucio Soibelman, H. Scott Matthews and Jose M.F.

Report on US-China collaboration on carbon capture and sequestration

November 4, 2009

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Julio Friedmann, in collaboration with the Center for American Progress, the Asia Society Center and with partner Monitor Group, today released the report,

Tropical Depression 97W passing through central Philippines

November 3, 2009

Tropical Depression 97W hasn't grown into a tropical storm and is now tracking through the central Philippines, far south of Manila.

Laser etching safe alternative for labeling grapefruit

November 3, 2009

LAKE ALFRED, FL -- Laser labeling of fruit and vegetables is a new, patented technology in which a low-energy carbon dioxide laser beam is used to label, or "etch" information on produce, thereby e

Climate change - coming to a land near you soon...

November 3, 2009

Droughts, floods and hurricanes may sound like the stuff of disaster films, but it could be the future for some of our favourite tourist destinations if climate change and global warming has its way.

NASA satellite confirms another tropical cyclone may impact the Philippines

November 2, 2009

When NASA's Aqua satellite flew over the Philippine Sea during the early morning hours today, November 2 infrared imagery saw another new tropical cyclone coming together.

Mirinae floods Philippines, makes landfall in Vietnam with strong thunderstorms

November 2, 2009

Mirinae (Santi) caused 12 hours of flooding rains in the Philippines when it crossed the northern Luzon region over the weekend. On October 31 at 5 a.m.

A special issue on the International Workshop of the 2008 Solar Total Eclipse

October 30, 2009

On August 1, 2008 a total solar eclipse was visible within a narrow corridor that traversed from North America to China.

New analyses of dinosaur growth may wipe out one-third of species

October 30, 2009

Paleontologists from the University of California, Berkeley, and the Museum of the Rockies have wiped out two species of dome-headed dinosaur, one of them named three years ago -- with great fanfa

Typhoon Mirinae already raining on the Philippines

October 30, 2009

Infrared imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite revealed that Typhoon Mirinae's cold thunderstorm clouds were already over sections of the central and northern Philippines on October 30 at 4:53 p.m.

'Technology' plays large role in wealth inheritance

October 30, 2009

A new study reveals the important role inherited wealth plays in sustaining economic inequality in small scale societies.

Typhoon Mirinae is already scaring Philippine residents before Halloween

October 29, 2009

Another typhoon in the northern Philippines really is something to be scared about, and Mirinae is expected to make landfall there in the mid-morning hours on Halloween, October 31.

Mirinae intensifying while moving away from the northern Marianas

October 28, 2009

Typhoon Mirinae is moving west and away from the Northern Marianas Islands on a track to a landfall in the Philippines by the weekend.

'Culture of we' buffers genetic tendency to depression

October 27, 2009

A genetic tendency to depression is much less likely to be realized in a culture centered on collectivistic rather than individualistic values, according to a new Northwestern University study.



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