News Positive – The Fresh Friday Selection
May 11, 2012
A National Geographic climber and photographer was airlifted off Mount Everest Saturday after suffering a possible, though as yet undiagnosed, pulmonary embolism—a blockage of an artery in the lungs, often due to a blood clot. The photographer, Cory Richards, is part of a National Geographic Society and North Face expedition commemorating the 50th anniversary of the first U.S. ascent of
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May 11, 2012
ROBOTS need help navigating their surroundings and sophisticated location systems to keep track of their position. Now the same technologies are being adapted to help blind people navigate indoor and outdoor spaces independently. One such system, being developed by Edwige Pissaloux and colleagues at the Institute of Intelligent Systems and Robotics at the Pierre and Marie Curie University
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May 11, 2012
The owner of the Harley-Davidson motorcycle that washed up on the shores of Canada from Japan one year after the devastating Tsunami has been found. Ikuo Yokoyama, from the Miyagi prefecture of the country, was located by the license plate number on the bike, which was still legible despite mass rusting after a year's journey across the ocean. The rusted bike was found in a large white conta
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May 11, 2012
If all politics is local, Yevgenia Chirikova may have begun something that could change the course of Russian history. Just five years ago, the winner of this year's prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize (one of six awarded on April 16) was a small-business woman and homemaker in the Moscow suburb of Khimki who, by her own account, had never considered engaging in civic action of any sor
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May 11, 2012
A new species of killer coelacanth that stalked Triassic seas has been identified from museum fossils, researchers say. The coelacanth (pronounced SEE-la-kanth) is a type of primitive, slow-moving fish that was thought extinct until its rediscovery in 1938. The modern fish is sometimes called a living fossil, because it apparently existed largely unchanged for 320 million years. But the
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May 11, 2012
A National Geographic climber and photographer was airlifted off Mount Everest Saturday after suffering a possible, though as yet undiagnosed, pulmonary embolism—a blockage of an artery in the lungs, often due to a blood clot. The photographer, Cory Richards, is part of a National Geographi
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May 11, 2012
ROBOTS need help navigating their surroundings and sophisticated location systems to keep track of their position. Now the same technologies are being adapted to help blind people navigate indoor and outdoor spaces independently. One such system, being developed by Edwige Pissaloux and collea
[ read more ]
May 11, 2012
The owner of the Harley-Davidson motorcycle that washed up on the shores of Canada from Japan one year after the devastating Tsunami has been found. Ikuo Yokoyama, from the Miyagi prefecture of the country, was located by the license plate number on the bike, which was still legible despite mass
[ read more ]
May 11, 2012
If all politics is local, Yevgenia Chirikova may have begun something that could change the course of Russian history. Just five years ago, the winner of this year's prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize (one of six awarded on April 16) was a small-business woman and homemaker in the Moscow
[ read more ]
May 11, 2012
A new species of killer coelacanth that stalked Triassic seas has been identified from museum fossils, researchers say. The coelacanth (pronounced SEE-la-kanth) is a type of primitive, slow-moving fish that was thought extinct until its rediscovery in 1938. The modern fish is sometimes called
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Having gleaned HIT UPDESH from the celebrated Sanskrit Classic HITOPDESH author journalist Yashwant Vyas is here wit
Having gleaned HIT UPDESH from the celebrated Sanskrit Classic HITOPDESH author journalist Yashwant Vyas is here with a
The genes of a newfound snake family suggest blind snakes lived on the island of Madagascar since, well, before it w...
China is all about the future of transportation. High-speed trains criss cross the countryside, sending people whizzing...
In the aftermath of the earthquake that devastated his country on January 12, Haitian businessman Alex Georges recalls...
