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Link Between Chemicals And Breast Cancer Proven
Thursday, 14 July 2005, 1:18 pm | Marietta Gross - Scoop Media Auckland
A chemical found in cleaning agents, textiles and plastics poses a risk for breast cancer. That’s the result of a study of the University of Texas http://www.utep.edu and the Clemson University http://www.clemson.edu . Experts have feared for a while ... More >>
Tsunami-Quake Was Caused By Crack In Earth’s Crust
Thursday, 14 July 2005, 1:14 pm | Marietta Gross - Scoop Media Auckland
The devastating Tsunami on Boxing Day in the Indian Ocean caused up to 300,000 deaths is believed to have been caused by a 1000 kilometre-long break of the earth’s crust. The earth plates had edged on the sea ground against each other, reported geologist ... More >>
Sea Level Climbs Three Millimetres Per Year
Thursday, 14 July 2005, 1:06 pm | Marietta Gross - Scoop Media Auckland
Over the past 12 years sea levels have risen by three millimetres per year, in the 40 years before it was only two millimetres per year. The reason for this is rising world temperatures. NASA-researchers report they can measure oceanic levels precisely ... More >>
Fruit Flies Take Off On Drugs
Thursday, 14 July 2005, 12:59 am | Marietta Gross - Scoop Media Auckland
The synthetic drug Speed effects fruit flies similarly to humans: The insects are more awake, anxious and are courting feverishly - although most often without success – for a sex partner. That's the bizarre findings of a report by US-scientists from ... More >>
Handguns Claim The Lives Of 500,000 Per Year
Thursday, 14 July 2005, 12:40 am | Marietta Gross - Scoop Media Auckland
Every year 500,000 people die from assault rifle, revolver and handgun shootings. Among the victims are thousands of children. The UN Children’s Fund UNICEF and the Bonn International Centre for Conversion fear that the worldwide action programme ... More >>
Did Fire Cause Extinction Of Australia's Fauna?
Thursday, 14 July 2005, 12:23 am | Marietta Gross - Scoop Media Auckland
According to recent scientific results it was the first settlers about 10,000 to 50,000 years ago who have dramatically damaged flora and fauna of Australia. According to a report by researchers of the Carnegie Institute in Washington DC in the actual ... More >>
World Population To Double By 2050
Monday, 11 July 2005, 5:02 pm | Marietta Gross - Scoop Media Auckland
According to demographic experts the world population will dramatically age until 2050. The National Statistical Office of Germany in Wiesbaden said on Friday that the amount of people at the age of 65 and above would double from seven to more than ... More >>
Brazilian Government Disposes On AIDS-Patent
Monday, 11 July 2005, 3:17 pm | Marietta Gross - Scoop Media Auckland
The Brazilian Government is about to decide if it will break a patent of a leading drug, Kaletra, that fights against HIV. Brazil’s Health Ministry has issued an ultimatum against Abbot Laboratories that it must lower its prices or the government will give ... More >>
Dalai Lama 70th Sees Withdrawal from politics
Monday, 11 July 2005, 2:58 pm | Marietta Gross - Scoop Media Auckland
Tibet’s exile leader the Dalai Lama has celebrated his 70th birthday while still in exile in India by relinquishing politics to elected representatives. In a speech to thousands of Tibetan refugees in Dharamsala the spiritual and worldly leader of ... More >>
First Pacific Settlers Migrated From East Asia
Wednesday, 6 July 2005, 2:38 pm | Marietta Gross - Scoop Media Auckland
The history of Pacific migration could soon be completely rewritten. Bone troves near the town Sigatoka on Fiji’s main island Viti Levu were estimated to be more than 3000 years old backing a theory that the first settlers migrated from East Asia ... More >>
Clear Warning Of Spread Of Avian Influenza
Tuesday, 5 July 2005, 4:17 pm | Marietta Gross - Scoop Media Auckland
Reports of recent bird flu victims in Asia, highlights the need for global action to fight against this deadly virus and the World Health Organisation reports that Asia is already under pressure from this disease. More >>
Mediterranean Climate Is Turning Caribbean
Tuesday, 5 July 2005, 4:09 pm | Marietta Gross - Scoop Media Auckland
An Italian meteorologist has discovered that the Mediterranean Sea is warmer than it has been for 3000 years and fears run high that the region will experience hurricanes. More >>
UN: Tsunami Has Increased AIDS-Risk In South Asia
Tuesday, 5 July 2005, 2:06 pm | Marietta Gross - Scoop Media Auckland
The devastating Boxing Day Tsunami in South East Asia has increased the AIDS-risk within the region. The United Nations believes the tsunami has left millions of people homeless who are still, six months after, living under most awkward conditions. Furthermore ... More >>
New hope for HIV-immunisation
Tuesday, 5 July 2005, 1:27 pm | Marietta Gross - Scoop Media Auckland
Genetically engineered cells made resistant against HIV-strain Scientists have succeeded in engineering cells resistant to the HI-Virus. For the first time the cells that are responsible for the growth of the human immune system, were genetically engineered ... More >>
New Zealand Calculates Profit From Whale-Watching
Tuesday, 5 July 2005, 1:15 pm | Marietta Gross - Scoop Media Auckland
New Zealand has argued that there is more value in a live whale than a dead whale and has used this pressed this line while campaigning to stop commercial whaling. New Zealand Minister of Environment Chris Cater has highlighted facts that show living ... More >>
Gene-Profiling Assists Women Over 45 To Conceive
Tuesday, 28 June 2005, 4:01 pm | Marietta Gross - Scoop Media Auckland
Scientists have identified a genetic profile which enables women over 45 years-of-age to conceive. The genes could delay the aging of the ovaries. More >>
Aggressive Lung-Disease Affects Tsunami-Survivors
Tuesday, 28 June 2005, 3:52 pm | Marietta Gross - Scoop Media Auckland
Six months after the Tsunami-catastrophe in Asia physicians have come across an unusual lung disease, which could be linked to the after-effects of the seaquake. According to Wall Street Magazine the disease affects people who were taken by the tsunami's ... More >>
Smithsonian Embroiled in God v Darwin Dispute
Thursday, 16 June 2005, 2:55 pm | Marietta Gross - Scoop Media Auckland
Scientists protest against controversial documentary in the US National Museum - Creationists regard “Evolutionism” as reason for criminality, drug abuse and wars. More >>
German Chancellor Wants More Stem Cell Research
Wednesday, 15 June 2005, 5:50 pm | Marietta Gross - Scoop Media Auckland
German Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has been criticised due to his plan to loosen embryonic stem cell research laws. More >>
Studies Show Orgasm Difficulties Partially Genetic
Monday, 13 June 2005, 4:35 pm | Marietta Gross - Scoop Media Auckland
By Marietta Gross – Scoop Media Auckland. Scientists have found the reason why some women have difficulty reaching an orgasm is due to genetics. That’s the result of a study by the Twin Research Unit of the St. Thomas’ Hospital www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk ... More >>
