Sunday, December 25th, 2011
Russia’s recent poor launch record has continued with yet another Soyuz rocket failure. This time, a Soyuz-2 vehicle failed to put a communications satellite into orbit after lifting away from the country’s Plesetsk spaceport. Debris is said to have re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere near the western Siberian town of Tobolsk. Read More
Sunday, December 25th, 2011
Industrial challenges surround the development of new homes in Bradford South East. The total number of sites identified is 66 covering 107 hectares making up ten per cent of the new homes need-ed throughout the district. Read More
Sunday, December 25th, 2011
This year, the world’s largest agriculture research for development partnership, the CGIAR, is celebrating its 40th anniversary. Carlos Pérez del Castillo, the CGIAR’s Consortium Board Chair, looks at the alliance’s history and achievements to illustrate the role of agricultural research in helping feed the world. Read More
Saturday, December 24th, 2011
For the first time in Europe a commercial scheduled airline is using an EGNOS based LPV procedure for landing. From December 21, the Trislander aircraft operated by Aurigny Air Services, a regional airline operating connection flights between the Channel Islands and the UK and France can use EGNOS when approaching the runways. This is possible after the
Saturday, December 24th, 2011
Some of the salient features of Indian agriculture include fragmented landholding; rain-fed cultivation (irrigated farming is about 40 per cent); low level of input usage (seeds, fertilisers, agro-chemicals); varied agro-climatic conditions; antiquated agronomic practices; poor pre- and post-harvest technology adoption; inadequate marketing infrastructure; low yields and, often, unrealistic prices; and tardy flow of price and
Saturday, December 24th, 2011
A few years ago, Jeffrey Dukes, a US biologist, was driving through the deserts of Utah on his way to a research station. As his car ate up the miles, he began thinking about the fuel in the tank, and the plants that it had come from. How many ancient plants, he wondered, had it
Saturday, December 24th, 2011
Seismic events often strike without warning, and that element of surprise makes them all the more deadly. Scientists have long looked for ways to predict them but have had little success, until recently. Read More
Thursday, December 22nd, 2011
A team of consultants led by Drivers Jonas Deloitte and including Planit, Amion, Stockley and Urban Strategies will produce a ten-year city centre master-plan for Liverpool Vision. The council’s economic development agency wants to replicate the successful strategic framework published in 2000 that set many of the targets the city met in the regeneration boom. The 2000
Thursday, December 22nd, 2011
Irregular rainfall distribution over the past ten million years has influenced the shape of the Andes mountain range, according to a Swiss geology professor. The result is that the western side of the central Andes is a flat dry slope, while the eastern side is verdant and hilly – similar to central Switzerland’s Napf region. Fritz Schlunegger
Thursday, December 22nd, 2011
Scientists have assembled a remarkable record of water quality in the Thames that stretches back over 140 years. The archive is thought to be the longest for any river in the world. Putting it together involved hunting down old paper documents detailing monthly water tests. Some of them even had to be retrieved from the US. Read
