IBM’s World Community Grid, a worldwide network of PC owners helping scientists solve humanitarian challenges, today announced several computing projects aimed at developing techniques to produce cleaner and safer water, an increasingly scarce commodity eluding at least 1.2 billion people worldwide.
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Nautricity, a Scottish tidal-power turbine developer, has forged an investment deal with First Tech.
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There are still 60 days to go before Election Day but the smart money — lots of it — is on the GOP winning very, very big
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Spiral galaxies grow by swallowing smaller dwarf galaxies. As they are digested, these dwarf galaxies are severely distorted, forming structures such as surreal tendrils and stellar streams that surround their captors.
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Courtesy Connecticut DEP INLAND REPORT LARGEMOUTH BASS fishing was generally fair to good, with reports from Billings Lake, Candlewood Lake, East Twin Lake, Gardner Lake, Glasgo Pond, Mudge Pond (a 5 lb bass among the catches), Pattagansett Lake, Pickerel Lake (catches include a 6 lb bass), Lake Zoar (a tough place for some anglers, but fair action can be found, and recent catches do include a 5 …
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BusinessGreen.com staff, BusinessGreen , Tuesday 7 September 2010 at 00:15:00 South West RDA announces successful installation of pioneering marine-energy test device off the Cornish coast After seven years in the making and a series of last-minute delays, the South West Regional Development Agency (RDA) has finally installed its pioneering Wave Hub device off the north Cornish coast, further …
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Renewable energy is the energy that can be used continuously and it cannot be exhausted.
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Just how bad could things get for the Democrats when voters head to the polls in November? Two years after they handed President Barack Obama a sweeping electoral victory — and four years after turning control of Congress over to the Democrats in frustration over Bush Administration policies — the president and his party are now the source of an even deeper frustration for a growing number of …
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Hubbard needs to distance himself 31 Aug, 6:29pm OK, everybody take a deep breath. Underneath all the fog of commentary and arm-waving, a fairly simple thing has happened to South Canterbury Finance today. Its…
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By Barry Parr: Whatever the outcome of November’s election, we’ll see a new member of the Harbor Commission. There are four candidates, including one incumbent, for two open seats. Commissioners are elected by the entire county, but through its management of Pillar Point Harbor, the commission has an outsized impact on the Coastside—particularly El Granada. Because of the cost of county-wide …
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