Thursday, November 25th, 2010
ULTRa – Thus the ULTra London ‘Heathrow pod’ system is now the world’s first to move to 12-hour-per-day, 7-days-per-week-service, carrying members of the general public (retail staff commuting to work at T5) on unscheduled trips. Read More
Thursday, November 25th, 2010
BARENTS OBSERVER – Mining – and metallurgical industry, oil – and gas, tel-transmission, roads, ports and railways. Welcome to an investment boom in the north estimated to more than €114 billion over the next ten years. Read More
Thursday, November 25th, 2010
NORWAY NEWS – The population of Norway is now 4,908,100. Population growth this quarter was higher than ever before due to immigration. After a decrease in the population growth over the last three quarters, the population grew by a total of 20 200 or 0.41 per cent in the 3rd quarter. The population growth in this
Thursday, November 25th, 2010
GFZ POTSDAM – The geoscientist Hauke Marquardt from the Free University Berlin /GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences received the first prize in the category of natural science and technology and a prize money of € 30 000 for his thesis, with which he could prove that the velocity of the outgoing shear waves from earthquakes
Wednesday, November 24th, 2010
GUARDIAN UK – North and South Korea are in a state of heightened tensions following attacks on Yeonpyeong island. How many of these incidents have there been – and where were they? Read More
Wednesday, November 24th, 2010
ABC.AZ – Igor Shchegolev, the minister of communications & mass media of Russia, that project “Satellite Access to Internet” is implemented under supervision of the Modernization Commission of President Dmitry Medvedev. “Taking into account mountain relief of Azerbaijan and impossibility of on-air signal and cable laying in some areas of the country, I believe that satellite Internet
Wednesday, November 24th, 2010
7TH SPACE – We set out to construct a linkage map for a North American Atlantic salmon family and to compare this map with the well developed map for European Atlantic salmon. Results: We used microsatellite markers, which had previously been mapped in the two Atlantic salmon SALMAP mapping families from the River Tay, Scotland, to
Wednesday, November 24th, 2010
FOSTER + PARTNERS – The Masdar Institute, devoted to researching sustainability, is the first building to be fully operational within Masdar City. The masterplan, by Foster + Partners, incorporates lessons which have evolved over centuries of traditional Arabian architecture. The Masdar Institute is the first building of its kind to be powered entirely by renewable solar
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010
PRAGUE DAILY MONITOR – Up to 8 percent of the Czech Republic’s territory are plots with unknown or unidentifiable owners and many of them are quite significant in economic terms, daily Lidove noviny (LN) has written. Thousands of hectares of land officially belong to nobody. Their owner is neither the state, nor a company nor a private
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010
NOVINTE – Bulgaria’s Foreign Ministry insists on fast progress on the construction of the Nabuccogas transit pipeline after at the end of last week Turkmenistan announced it was ready to provide the project with more natural gas that it can handle. Read More
