This white paper examines the current challenges for clean energy infrastructure and identifies solutions that industrial clusters, transport and logistics industries, and the wider clean energy value chain can jointly explore in order to accelerate its deployment. Thirteen new industrial clusters from Australia, Brazil, Colombia, India, the Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, …
Humans are accumulating genetic mutations at an alarming rate, two UK-based biologists have reported in a recent issue of the science journal Nature . These findings have led to speculations that modern healthcare is letting harmful mutations to accumulate much faster than they would otherwise. Genetic mutations can be dangerous, …
toxic wastes are leaching into the North Sea from piles of debris heaped up beneath oil rigs, reports a new survey. Levels of heavy metals dissolved in water immediately above the dumps exceed environmental safety limits, say scientists at the Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory near Oban, Scotland. Their effects on marine …
britain and France are engaged in a battle with Germany over the latter's decision to phase out nuclear power. The two countries want Germany to come out with a compensation package for foreign waste processing companies. Jurgen Trittin, Germany's environment minister, has said that there was "no legal basis for …
The European Commission (EC) is taking the UK and France to court for violating European Union (EU) pollution laws. The EC claims that the UK has failed to prevent water pollution from nitrates and France has not come up with adequate plans to deal with waste and hazardous materials. Under …
flight recorders for all civil aircraft built after 2004 will have back-up power supplies built in, air safety experts have decided. The move followed the crash of a Swissair jet off Halifax, Nova Scotia, in September 1998, in which two black boxes
A verstile digital scarecrow promises to put a virtual cat among the pigeons. Birds soon get used to conventional scarecrows, and though simulated gunshots are effective, they are too loud. Now Bramley and Wellesley, a company based in Gloucester, UK, and Phoenix Agritech of Canada are all set to patent …
Britain plans to kill as many as 20,000 badgers in several hot spots for bovine tuberculosis over the next four years. But the move is facing stiff internal opposition. Signatories to the Bern Convention on wildlife protection in Europe had voted to @4nvestigate whether the experimental cull violates three articles …
A STRAIN of influenza emanating from Sydney, Australia, is being blamed for causing chaos in London's health care system and delaying thousands of Britons from returning to work. The Sydney flu bug has been sweeping southern parts of Britain after initially being found in the British Midlands and the north …
Although the antibacterial properties of green tea have been known for a long time, an entirely new property of the herb has just been reported by a group of British researchers. I M T Hamilton-Miller and his colleagues from Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, London, report that extracts of …
THE UK government will launch an investigation into claims that a rare form of cancer is killing servicepersons who witnessed the Britain's nuclear weapons tests in Australia during the 1950s. UK's ministry of defence agreed to investigate the claims after, media reports in late 1998 suggested the number of test …
A super market shopper, trying to raise awareness over the introduction of genetically engineered foods in the UK shelves was found not guilty by Highgate Magistrates Court in London. Shannon Coggins, 32, was arrested for causing public alarm when she placed stickers onto a packet of Batchelor's Beanfeast in Sainsbury …
BENEATH the streets of London lie the remains of Londinium, an outpost of the only empire to run Britain from abroad, say archaeologists from the Museum of London. The course of a long-disappeared river and the truncated foundations of a massive arch, which straddled a Roman road, have been unearthed …
for the first time the us and the uk scientists have mapped the entire gene pattern of an animal, a tiny worm. This achievement is providing clues to human health problems such as cancer, ageing and Alzheimer's disease. "This worm is really an animal just as we are. It has …
even though it is too early to establish the damages caused by the Operation Desert Fox in 1991 by us and uk forces in Iraq, uk -based newspaper Guardian has thrown some light on it. This was for the first time that heavy metal-depleted uranium was used in a battlefield. …
there is good news for Muslims suffering from Type 2 diabetes. A new anti-diabetic drug, NovoNorm, will particularly help diabetic Muslims who can now observe Ramzan, the month of fasting, without any serious health implications. According to Mohan Pahwa, director of the Institute of Transcultural Health in London, "Many Muslims …
Breathalysers for diagnosing the cause of a sore throat or serious diseases such as asthma and diabetes will soon revolutionise medicine, predict researchers from Imperial College, London. These devices will look out for chemicals in the breath of patients that are associated with certain infections or illnesses. Respiratory specialist Peter …
every schoolchild knows that calcium is very important for growth, particu-larly so as it helps our bodies develop better bones and teeth. Well, it turns out that calcium has
common sense tells us that limbs of all animals have three clear axes: shoulder-to-tip (proximal-distal), thumb-to-little finger (anterior-posterior), and wrist-to-palm (dorsal-ventral). The arrangement of bones confirms this and reveals a similar pattern in birds as well, whose limbs appear to differ drastically from humans for instance. Among the more impressive …
Aeroplane passengers may no longer have to yell at each other to be heard. Ultra Electronics of Cambridge, UK, has designed a passenger seat that halves the perceived ambient noise inside most aircraft cabins. The trick is done through a sound-cancelling device built into the headrests. A microphone samples sound …
A prototype fuel cell that can turn every household into a mini power station has recently been developed at Keele University in Staffordshire, UK. Chemist Kevin Kendall and his colleagues have incorporated a ceramic battery into a conventional gas-powered water heater. Free electrons produced by the combustion of natural gas …
