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India offers money to villagers to vacate tiger reserves India on Saturday offered money to villagers to vacate wildlife reserves in a bid to save the country's tigers from extinction, officials said. University opening new integrative medicine center (AP) -- Many academic health centers offer programs that include traditional Chinese treatments or Ayurvedic medicine from India. The University of New Mexico goes beyond that, says management of its new Center for Life. Microsoft file format approved as ISO standard (AP) -- The format used by Microsoft Corp.'s Office 2007 programs to save documents will become an international standard after appeals against the move failed to gather sufficient support, the International Organization for Standardization said Friday. New book tutors future presidents and public on science behind the headlines In the event of a standoff between the United States and Iran over uranium enrichment, would Barack Obama, if elected president, know enough about the physics of nuclear weapons to assess the threat? In leading the nation toward reduced greenhouse gas emissions, would John McCain as president understand which technologies would best decrease America's carbon footprint? Japan gets first home-grown commercial communications satellite Mitsubishi Electric Corp. announced Friday that it had successfully launched Japan's first domestically produced commercial communications satellite. Probing Question: Is peak oil a myth? Unprecedented summer gasoline prices are squeezing Americans' wallets and also expanding their vocabularies, as terms like "peak oil" gain common usage. Scientists explore Sichuan fault Durham University expert, Alex Densmore, is to explore the fault lines that caused the May 12th earthquake in China that killed 69,000 people. Ready the telescopes: partial lunar eclipse on Saturday People across the world will have the chance to see a partial eclipse of the Moon on Saturday. Are young men and women divided over housework, abortion? Young people from 10 countries around the world have shared their views on housework and abortion issues in a new study from the University of Adelaide, Australia. New research suggests Burmese pythons will find little suitable habitat outside South Florida Burmese Pythons - one of the largest snakes in the world - may have chosen Florida as a vacation destination, but are unlikely to expand further, according to a study released August 13 by researchers at the City University of New York (CUNY), published in the online, open access journal PLoS ONE. Although the United States Geological Survey (USGS) earlier this year released 'climate maps' indicating that the pythons could potentially inhabit up to thirty two states in the continental U.S., new research indicates that the snakes are unlikely to expand out of south Florida. ... |