Bill Gates tackles child mortality with $75M network of disease surveillance centers

Bill Gates wants to know why children are dying, and he’s paying $75 million to find out. Gates told The Atlantic about the most recent endeavor for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: a network of disease surveillance centers , designed to collect information on the ground in poor countries where medical treatment is often unavailable. According to Gates, once we know more about which diseases are occurring where and with what frequency, we will be able to do real work to help save the children of the world. Read the rest of Bill Gates tackles child mortality with $75M network of disease surveillance centers Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: bill and melinda gates foundation , bill gates , child mortality , disease surveillance centers , eradicating disease , gates foundation , healthcare in poor countries , philanthropy for health , vaccination needs

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HMMD unveils Himalayan Mountain Hut Competition winners

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New analysis shows fracking chemicals in Pennsylvania drinking water

The true consequences of fracking are finally being shown, after a test found fracking chemicals in Pennsylvania homes that are located near a reported well-pad leak. The New York Times reports that a team of scientists conducted an analysis using a new technique to determine that a chemical compound known as 2-BE was present in homes near the fracking well. The compound is an “unidentified mixture of organic contaminants, both commonly seen in the flowback water from Marcellus shale activity.” Read the rest of New analysis shows fracking chemicals in Pennsylvania drinking water Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: drinking water contaminated by fracking , fracking chemicals found in drinking water , fracking contaminates drinking water , pennsylvania fracking , pennsylvania fracking chemicals water

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Astronauts need caffeine too, and now they can make it an espresso

If you were waiting to go to the International Space Station until they had good coffee, well, NOW you can go. Like any good Italian, Samantha Cristoforetti is fond of her morning cuppa. In particular, she’s partial to her morning espresso . But when you work on the space station, that can be a little hard to come by, until now. Cristoforetti isn’t just an astronaut and the first Italian woman to orbit the Earth, she’s also the first space barista. But making the the shot of espresso  was no mere lark. It was actually a study in specialized physics. Until now, physicists were unsure just how a highly pressurized and piping hot liquid would react in the near weightless environment of the International Space Station. A specialized espresso maker, called the ISSpresso was designed by Argotec, an engineering and software firm in Turin as well as the Italian coffee producer Lavazza. Making a proper espresso—a singular alchemy of high temperature, water pressure and perfectly tamped coffee—is difficult enough to master on earth. Microgravity conditions made the task still more complicated, and Argotec took two years to work out how to do it… but the force of coffee was strong with this one. Via The New York Times Images via NASA Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: coffee in space , espresso in space , italian astronaut , samantha cristoforetti , space station espresso , woman italian astronaut

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