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Urine test for appendicitis

The most common reason children go to hospital for emergency surgery is for appendicitis, but diagnosing the disease remains problematic. The symptoms are not always clear and can be mistaken for other common conditions.

Data show that up to a third of children have their appendix removed when they don’t actually need to, and up to 45% of the time th...

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Racing Green - Electric and Hybrid Supercars

Electric and hybrid cars do have a bit of an image problem. Many people think they're a bit slow, a bit goody, goody, perhaps a bit worthy, but this week, Meera Senthilingam visited Imperial College London to find out how electric and hybrid cars could soon rival modern petrol hungry muscle cars.

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How do I save carbon with a new car?

With the budget introducing the £2000 subsidy to scrap old cars, I'm trying to figure out how much energy and carbon goes into the manufacture of a new car. Considering the increase in efficiency of the new car, how many miles would I have to drive to achieve an overall carbon saving?

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With the water crisis we’ve got in bits of Africa, with all these areas having some sort of energy plant, why not use the steam that could come off the system to produce turbines? Why not actually replace the fresh water with salt water and the excess vapor could then be collected and sold in the way that you’re doing it?

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