The Syrian war has caused the first-ever withdrawal from the doomsday seed vault. The civil war in Syria has prompted the first withdrawal from the Arctic 'doomsday vault' - a seed storage unit built on an island between Norway and the North Pole, to safe-guard the world's food supply in the event of a global catastrophy, such as an outbreak of disease or nuclear war.
Researchers in the Middle East have now asked to withdraw a range of drought-resistant crop seeds, including wheat, barley, and grasses, from the vault. They would usually get these seeds from a facility in Aleppo, Syria, but even though the seeds are still there and safe in cold storage, the scientists are unable to access them as a result of damage to the surrounding buildings caused by the war. NCJRS Abstract - National Criminal Justice Reference Service.
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Robert Downey Jr. gives Iron Man arm to boy with missing limb in video. Robert Downey Jr. dressed up as Tony Stark to present a young boy with a bionic Iron man arm Alex Pring, a 7-year-old who was born with a partially developed right arm, received the 3-D armThe arm was created thanks to Microsoft One Note's Collective Project and Limbitless Solutions, a group that develops affordable 3D-printed limbs By Chris Spargo For Dailymail.com Published: 21:53 GMT, 12 March 2015 | Updated: 14:12 GMT, 13 March 2015.
Measles outbreak kills toddler. A toddler suffering from measles has died in the German capital, health authorities said Monday, amid the country's worst outbreak in years and a debate about vaccinations.
The 18-month-old boy died on February 18, the first known fatality among more than 570 recorded measles cases since October in the German capital, a Berlin health department official told AFP. The resurgence of the preventable disease in Germany, as well as in parts of the United States, coincides with a movement among some parents to refuse to vaccinate their children. Health Minister Hermann Groehe said "the irrational fear-mongering of some vaccination-foes is irresponsible". "Those who refuse to vaccinate their children endanger not only them but others, threatening serious health problems. " German national health officials said Monday there were no current plans to make measles vaccinations mandatory. Chemists have figured out how to ‘unboil’ an egg. When it comes to immunity, the environment you grow up in, or how you were 'nurtured', is more important than nature, a new study suggests.
Particularly as you get older. Researchers from the Stanford University School of Medicine in the US analysed pairs of twins who were either 100 percent genetically identical, or fraternal twins, who only share on average 50 percent of their genes. Seven years of preventable disease outbreaks around the world. Despite society’s obsession with weight loss, a new study reveals that, surprisingly, most health professionals don’t actually know what happens to fat when we “lose it”.
The research conducted by a team at UNSW Science in Sydney calculated exactly what happens to our fat when we shed kilos, and revealed that doctor's leading theories are wrong - we don’t convert our missing mass into heat or energy, we breathe it out. Their results, published in the British Medical Journal, reveal that 10 kg of fat turns into 8.4 kg of carbon dioxide, which is exhaled when we breathe, and 1.6 kg of water, which we then excrete through our urine, tears, sweat and other bodily fluids.
“The correct answer is that most of the mass is breathed out as carbon dioxide. It goes into thin air,” said lead author of the paper Ruben Meerman, a physicist and TV presenter, in a press release. This new umbrella creates a force-field of air to protect you from the rain. Search for environment: Secondary: Science teaching resources. It Took Studying 25,782,500 Kids To Begin To Undo The Damage Caused By 1 Doctor. Once upon a time, a scientist named Dr.
Andrew Wakefield published in the medical journal The Lancet that he had discovered a link between autism and vaccines. After years of controversy and making parents mistrust vaccines, along with collecting $674,000 from lawyers who would benefit from suing vaccine makers, it was discovered he had made the whole thing up. Bees make blue honey after eating M&Ms. We couldn't make this stuff up if we tried.
French beekeepers were recently shocked when their bees started producing thick, blue and green honey. London skeletons yield clues to Black Death. "It's fantastic we can look in such detail at an individual who died 600 years ago": Don Walker.
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A fifteen page story about the MMR vaccination controversy. As ever, I'm sure a few spelling errors have slipped past me. Feel free to point any out so I can correct them. The reference links for the strip are in the next blog entry. Glacier fox: Animal becomes latest to freeze solid in Scandinavia's lakes, following from fish and moose.
Fox found frozen solid on ice-covered lake in southern SwedenMay have fallen through thin ice and unable to get out of the water A shoal of fish and a moose have also been discovered frozen solid By Sara Malm Published: 14:54 GMT, 24 January 2014 | Updated: 15:27 GMT, 24 January 2014. 13 Twitter Science "Facts", Debunked. Scientists killed world's oldest living creature. Ten Year Old Boy With Giant Tumour On Neck Could Be Cured With Viagra. Email. Woman's best friend: Dogs being trained to sniff out ovarian cancer. Surge in Obesity Sparks Crematorium Blazes in Germany. Mystery Explained: How Frozen Humans Are Brought Back. A new model of empathy: The rat. Henry Kwan synthetic drugs death. 6 Unassuming Animals That Are Secretly Immortal.
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