Train cars jump track (CentralOhio.com)
Trouble brews in Germany as boom in biofuel jacks up price of beer (CP via Yahoo! Canada News)AYING, Germany (AP) - Like most Germans, brewer Helmut Erdmann is all for the fight against global warming. Unless, that is, it drives up the price of his beer.
MIT, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School researchers have developed a tool that could help researchers “see” how cerebral folds deve.
- MIT model helps researchers ’see’ brain development
The objects scientists think are black holes could instead be wormholes leading to exotic cosmic locales, a new study argues.
- Could black holes be portals to other universes?
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A shareholder in the Sun-Times Media Group said on Friday that it may talk to the U.S. newspaper publisher about a possible sale of the company.
- Sun-Times shareholder to discuss sale with company
USATODAY.com - In the face of an ever stronger rival in Google, Microsoft and Yahoo split ranks, setting up their own search engines and search advertising companies. Now nearly 50% of all searches are done via Google, while Yahoo and MSN’s shares have fallen. Could a potential Microsoft/Yahoo deal solve the freefall?
- Microsoft-Yahoo partnership wouldn’t dethrone Google
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BBC NEWS Health Clues to Cause Of long-term painUndamaged nerve fibres - not those that are injured - may cause long-term chronic pain, research suggests.
Plate Tectonics, the Cause Of Earthquakes. Cause Of Earthquakes. The plates consist of an outer layer of the Earth, the lithosphere, which is cool enough to behave . picture of the Juan de Fuca spreading ridge, offshore of the Pacific Northwest, shows the turned-up edges of the . The map below of Earth’s solid surface shows many of the features caused by plate tectonics. The oceanic ridges are the . All three have large areas of high elevation, and show varying amounts of rifting and extension distributed across the . This is part of the Pacific - North America plate motion. The total motion is about 5 cm/year. Of this, about 4 cm/yr . from RIDGE, LDEO/Columbia Univ.) A satellite view of the Sinai shows two arms of the Red Sea spreading ridge, exposed on . substantial east-west extension, in which the total extension may be as much as a factor of two over the past 20 million . view looking east over Indonesia shows the clouded tops of the chain of large volcanoes. The topography below shows the .
