Update: 16 UN personnel confirmed dead, 150 missing. – Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive has announced that ‘hundreds of thousands’ of people were killed in the earthquake that struck Haiti yesterday. Measuring 7.0 on the Richter Scale, the quake follows a 6.5 quake the previous day in Northern California, but there is no evidence of a link between them. There was little damage in California, butmillions of people have been left homeless, without access to food and water in Haiti. To contribute tothe Yele relief effort on the ground in Haiti,click here.
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Other nations are doing this, why can’t we? – Someday EVERY household will be able to produce its own power for heating and lighting, using solar energy. Japan is planning on doing this by collecting solar power in space and zapping it back down to Earth and the countries in the European Union may join forces to create a huge group of wind turbines and solar panels in order to empower the EU.
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Astronauts returning from challenging long-duration missions face one more challenge when they get back to Earth: standing up and walking. And while they’re IN space, they need to dodge some of the debris out there.
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Cell phone radiation helps PREVENT it – After all the controversy over cell phone brain damage, surprising news has emerged: It has been discovered that while cell phone radiation is bad for some people, it is actually GOOD for the brains of Alzheimer’s patients.
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