According to a one year research, it has been discovered that surgical teams who follow a simple checklist (which include basic items such as the name of patient and other details) reduce the death and complications rate during the procedures.
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The US army has received over 4000 electric vehicles, which will be added to the 28000 regular vehicles already in use of the US army. The use of electric vehicles will save the army 11.5 million gallons over the next six years.
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A group of British engineers have designed a flying car which took off last Wednesday from London to Mali, in West Africa while passing Spain, France, Morocco and the Sahara desert. The car itself contain standart car parts, a big fabric wing and a rare propeller.
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About 631 Asian elephants observed in Malaysia’s biggest national park named Taman Negara. A new method for counting the animals was used which follows their dung. The numbers found are surprisingly high which can be related to the size of the national park which is about 4343 square km.
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IBM researchers in collaboration with Stanford University have developed new MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) with 3-D image about one hundred million times finer than standard MRI. This amazing development will enable monitoring basic biological elements such as viruses and will pave the way for a breakthrough in medical capabilities.
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The state of Iowa is planning a huge enewable energyproject which will produce 500 MW of energy with 335 wind turbines. The cost of this project is $1.5 billion.
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A book store, which was closed several years ago, had a huge collection of over 220,000 items. The collection was then stored in a warehouse and the University of Pennsylvania‘s Rare Book and Manuscript Library decided to purchase the items, transferring, cataloging and reserving ths collection. The delivery has been made with 8 trucks carrying 3,800 boxes. This collection is worth over $4 million.
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At the city of Rhinebeck, USA, the building of a real environmental building is on it’s way. Omega, which is an Institute for Holistic Studies, will build this building that will provide its own electrical and water needs.
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A research group, led by Osamu Ishitani, finally created a catalyst which triggers the process of photosynthesis by turning CO2 into CO efficiently by using only the sun energy. The CO can be used for industrial fuel creation like ethanol. The last barrier before this solution can be used in near future is proving that the catalyst is stable over time.
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A baby girl, which grew from an embryo that was screened to make sure she will not have the BRCA1 gene, which passes genetically the risk of breast cancer, was born today in the UK. Both mother and the baby girl are doing well.
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