Good News for Cell Phone Users
| Next few weeks vital for Copenhagen accord, says US climate change envoy. Todd Stern, the state department climate change envoy, said the next year would be critical in fleshing out the details of an accord that EUR because of the chaos and acrimony surrounding the talks EUR was only 12 paragraphs long. |
| Video: How climate change is shrinking the river Nile. The water level of the river Nile - crucial to the economy in many parts of Uganda, Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia - is dropping. |
| Global warming ’speeds’ up gas emissions. Rising temperatures are not just a sign of climate change but are also a cause of it, a new study has suggested. |
World Bank to Invest in North African Solar The World Bank will invest $5.5 billion for North African solar power projects. They have announced that initially World Bank will put in $750 million dollars from the Clean Technology Fund with the remaining amount will be arranged from other sources. World Bank is expecting to complete these projects by 2015. They are willing [.]Posted in: Industry, Politics, Solar Power |
| Epsilon Aurigae Mystery For centuries, humans have looked up at a bright star called Epsilon Aurigae and watched as it seemed to disappear into the night sky, slowly fading before coming back to life again. Today, as another dimming of the system is underway, mysteries about the star persist. Though astronomers know that Epsilon Aurigae is eclipsed by a dark companion object, the nature of both the star and object has remained unclear. Epsilon Aurigae is a star in the constellation Auriga. It is also known as Almaaz, Haldus, or Al Anz. Epsilon Aurigae is an eclipsing binary system. About every 27 years, Epsilon Aurigae’s brightness drops from an apparent visual magnitude of +2.9 to +3.8. This dimming lasts about 700 days. The system lies approximately 2,000 light years from Earth. |
| Good News for Cell Phone Users The University of South Florida finds that use of cell phones may have a positive health impact. Contrary to most studies of cell phone use that looked at possible negative impacts, this study was highly controlled to permit the investigators to isolate the possible effects of cell phone electromagnetic radiation from other potential factors like diet and exercise. The study, led by University of South Florida researchers at the Florida Alzheimers Disease Research Center (ADRC), was published today in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease. “It surprised us to find that cell phone exposure, begun in early adulthood, protects the memory of mice otherwise destined to develop Alzheimer’s symptoms,” said lead author Gary Arendash, PhD, Research Professor at the Florida ADRC. “It was even more astonishing that the electromagnetic waves generated by cell phones actually reversed memory impairment in old Alzheimer’s mice.” |