Once the tongue of China's Qing Dynasty imperial family, the Manchu language is now on the verge of extinction due to a lack of speakers, linguists warned. "China has 10.68 million Manchu people, but fewer than 100 who know the ...
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GIANT PANDAS are well known for being rather different from other bears. Having a diet composed almost entirely of bamboo is one of the things that sets them apart. It is also what attracted the interest of Ashli Brown of Mississippi State ...
Tags: Power-Microbes, Chemicals
Unix, the core server operating system in enterprise networks for decades, now finds itself in a slow, inexorable decline. IDC predicts that Unix server revenue will slide from $10.2 billion in 2012 to $8.7 billion in 2017, and Gartner sees ...
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Moonshining loses the bootlegger label Water the commodity gold of 21st century? Bless the bats of agriculture The world's wine grape vines are dying — falling domino style to the inexorable spread of bug or bacteria or unknown ...
The statement comes after the pulp and paper giant issued an announcement earlier this year (February) that it would stop using timber from Indonesia’s natural forests and only use trees from plantations. The firm has been regularly ...
Tags: APP, Field of Sustainability
On many occasions I allow myself the perverse indulgence of participating in public conversations on Facebook. The signal to noise ratio is vast, but it can be managed. Careful attention and a generous sifting of one's feed can reveal ...
The LSAW steel production, spiral pipe production of hot-rolled coil. Hot strip rolling process unit has a series of advantages, metallurgical process for production of high quality pipeline capacity. For example, when the output of the ...
Once a white-hot PC product that sold in the tens of millions of units annually, netbook computers are now marking their final days, with the rise of tablets causing their shipments to wind down to virtually zero after next year, according ...
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U.S. television shipments are forecast to decline for a second year in a row in 2013, but growth will resume next year as the liquid crystal display television (LCD TV) segment regains some of the strength it had lost in the past year. ...
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Clariant has introduced Hostavin light stabilizer solutions to make waterborne coatings the new high-performance and more environmentally-oriented option for exterior protective applications, previously an exclusive area of solventborne ...
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The artist Shih Chieh Huang spent almost a year exploring deep-ocean specimens at the National Museum of Natural History. As a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow, this assistant had a mission to investigate under water specimens ability to ...
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No stranger to agriculture, the eighth plague of Exodus is back, but at least not over American crop fields. Sometimes described as “hell from above,” Egypt and the Middle East have been hit with a massive swarm of locusts some ...
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The American Quilter’s Society, headquartered in Paducah, KY, opens a new business channel for the Tentmakers of Cairo at AQS QuiltWeek in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, March 13-16, 2013. AQS will debut 40 new works in the exhibit: Stitch ...
Tags: AQS, Egyptian Textile Artwork, Textile
A new exhibit at the Natural History Museum challenges visitors to see beyond dinosaurs and dodo birds and explore a more complete view of extinction in the natural world. Earlier this month, the museum held a special event to celebrate ...
Tags: Natural History Museum, White Light, view of extinction
The news comes as the paper giant recently announced that it would stop using timber from Indonesia’s natural forests and only use trees from plantations. APP is a major supplier of paper, pulp and packaging in Asia but it has been ...