Apr

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Arsenic (and Manganese) Crisis in Cambodia

April 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Another arsenic hot spot. ‘A brewing health crisis in Cambodia may be following the same pattern of arsenic poisoning that has devastated parts of Bangladesh and West Bengal (India). Poor surface-water quality recently led Cambodians to rely more heavily on shallow groundwater wells for drinking water, but recent reports indicate elevated levels of naturally occurring [...]

Apr

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InnoCentive Challenges – Financial Incentives for Scientific Innovation

April 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment

InnoCentive Challenges. Innocentive.com provides a powerful, secure online forum enabling companies to reward scientific innovation through financial incentives. Here’s how it works: a) Companies contract with InnoCentive as “Seekers” to post R&D challenges to the web site; b) Each Challenge includes a detailed description and requirements, a deadline, and an award amount for the best [...]

Apr

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The Particle Adventure and The Quark Dance

April 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment

The Particle Adventure – The Fundamentals of Matter and Forces. The Particle Adventure is an award-winning interactive tour of quarks, neutrinos, antimatter, extra dimensions, dark matter, accelerators and particle detectors that allows you to explore the world of fundamental particles and forces and then to investigate the experimental evidence and techniques. Let’s dance: The Quark [...]

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