Pre-harvest shortage drives corn to match record level

Pre-harvest shortage drives corn to match record level: "CBOT May touches $7.65 per bushel, up 3.3 per cent and the highest since the commodity spike of 2008, when the grain also reached an intraday price of $7.65"

India population count hits 1.2bn

India population count hits 1.2bn: "India has added 181 million people to its population over the last decade, taking the overall count to 1.21bn, according to the results of the 2011 census."

Chemists Turn Used Motor Oil Into Gas

Chemists Turn Used Motor Oil Into Gas: "
To keep your car purring, you have to change the oil. Such maintenance produces eight billion gallons of used motor oil annually. Some waste oil does get rerefined, to produce oil for lubrication or heating. And some just gets dumped. So it would be more environmentally friendly and provide fresh fuel if we could convert the old motor oil to something really valuable: new gasoline. And that’s what a research team thinks they’ve done. They presented their work at the annual meeting of the American Chemical Society. [Su Shiung Lam, Alan Russell and Howard Chase, From waste to valuable fuel: How microwave-heated pyrolysis can recycle waste automotive engine oil ]
Their approach involves pyrolysis, decomposing organic material with heat in the absence of oxygen. Pyrolysis can break down waste oil into gases, liquids, a little bit of solids. The gases and liquids can be converted into gas or diesel. But conventional pyrolysis methods don’t do a great job with motor oil.
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Artificial leaf produces electricity through photosynthesis

Artificial leaf produces electricity through photosynthesis: "

Growth industry?

A synthetical leaf has been created that mimics the photosynthesis process, converting sunlight and water into one source of electrical energy.…
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Enciende alerta incremento de casos de influenza

Enciende alerta incremento de casos de influenza: "La Secretaría de Salud asegura que en cuatro semanas los casos pasaron de 99 a 240 en el país, por lo que reforzará la vigilancia epidemiológica. En Chihuahua se confirmó que dos personas ya fallecieron por el A H1N1"

150 mortos devido a explosão em fábrica de munições

150 mortos devido a explosão em fábrica de munições: "Pelo menos 150 pessoas morreram segunda-feira, devido a uma explosão numa fábrica de munições no sul do Iémen, pilhada por elementos da Al-Qaida, anunciou hoje o vice-governador da província de Abyane...

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Japão detecta plutônio em área de usina no Japão

Japão detecta plutônio em área de usina no Japão: "

TÓQUIO (Reuters) - Testes detectaram a presença de plutônio no solo em vários pontos do complexo nuclear de Fukushima Daiichi, atingido pelo terremoto e tsunami, mas não representa um risco à saúde, informou o operador Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) nesta segunda-feira
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Breast cancer drugs for healthy women

Among the most widely prescribed cancer drugs is tamoxifen. It works to reduce levels of oestrogen, which causes many breast cancers to grow.

".. women who show increased breast density in mammogram scans are also at greater risk of developing the disease."

Breast cancer drugs for healthy women: "Millions of healthy women should be given drugs with potentially serious side-effects to prevent breast cancer, study recommends."

No graduation at Japanese school after tsunami deaths

Of the 108 children enrolled at Okawa, 74 are dead or missing. Among the graduating class of 21 only five survived and only three of the school's 13 teachers are left.

No graduation at Japanese school after tsunami deaths: "ISHINOMAKI CITY, Japan (Reuters) - Teruyuki Kashiba, principal of Okawa elementary school in northeast Japan, should have been celebrating the end of the academic year on Tuesday with a closing ceremony and a graduation for departing sixth-grade students."

Vaccine link to narcolepsy in children

Vaccine link to narcolepsy in children: "Children and young people under 18 years of age, vaccinated with Pandemrix, may be four times more likely to develop the neurological illness, narcolepsy, according to a study from the Swedish Medical Products Agency.Pandemrix was issued by health authorities throughout Europe last year, in response to an outbreak of so-called Swine Flu.On Friday the National Board of Health and Welfare withdrew the vaccine for use on children. The vaccine has also been withdrawn in Finland, where a study earlier this year indicated that it may have led to increased narcolepsy there."