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The Genetic Secrets That Allow Tibetans To Thrive In Thin AirDurham NC (SPX) Jun 10, 2010 A new study pinpoints the genetic changes that enable Tibetans to thrive at altitudes where others get sick. In the online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, an international team has identified a gene that allows Tibetans to live and work more than two miles above sea level without getting altitude sickness. A previous study published May 13 in Science reported that Tibetans are genetically adapted to high altitude. Now, less than a month later, a second study by sc ... read more |
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Beijing (AFP) May 31, 2010The death toll from an earthquake that rocked a remote part of China in April has risen to nearly 2,700, with 270 people still listed as missing, state media reported Monday. The 6.9-magnitude quake struck on April 14, flattening thousands of homes in the ethnically Tibetan region of Yushu in Qinghai province, in the country's northwest. The death toll of 2,698 was up sharply from the ju ... more  
New Delhi (AFP) May 31, 2010India's monsoon, the annual downpour crucial to farmers and national economic growth, hit the southwestern coastal state of Kerala on Monday with hopes high for better rains than last year. "The monsoon has arrived and our forecast indicates that rainfall will be normal across the country this year," B. K Bandyopadhyay, a senior official at the Indian Meteorological Department in New Delhi, ... more  
Bedford MA (SPX) May 27, 2010Spire has announced that Underwriters Laboratories (UL) has once again selected Spire's world class SPI-Sun Simulator 4600SLP as a standard to test and certify PV modules. Already in use at UL facilities in the United States, China, and Germany, the Spire Simulator will now serve as the primary test equipment gauge at the new UL facility in Bangalore, India. Spire's simulators have become ... more |
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Indian Space Programmes Serve Societal NeedsWashington DC (SPX) May 27, 2010 Identifying India as a 'big partner' of the US space programme, NASA has applauded the country's efforts in using its space missions for "societal needs." "I think it's 85 per cent of their budget is spent on what they call societal needs. It's earth science, climate change, those kinds of things, and they still insist that they're going to bring about a human space flight programme, you know, by 2020 or so," NASA Administrator Charles F Bolden said. Terming India as a big partner of the Uni ... read more |
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