Topic: Oceania

Teenage boys survive 50 days adrift in South Pacific

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Three teenage boys set adrift for 50 days in a small boat in the South Pacific survived on coconuts, a seagull they managed to catch and by drinking rain and then sea water, rescuers said on Friday."It was a ...

Boys found alive after 50 days adrift in Pacific

Three teenage boys have been rescued after drifting for nearly two months in a small boat in the Pacific.. New Zealand rescue teams found 15-year-olds Filo Filo and Samuel Perez and Edward Nasau, 14, after their metal dinghy was spotted by search ...

Alan Graham MacDiarmid

He shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in chemistry with American physicist Alan Jay Heeger and Japanese chemist Hideki Shirakawa who discovered and developed plastic materials through which electric current can flow.. He received a Ph.D. degree in chemistry from the University of ...

Keeping Feces on the Farm

Think dairy farm, and your mind may wander to images of cows grazing dewy green pastures, as glistening silos and red-walled farmhouses slumber in the distance. In a previous study, chemist and environmental scientist Murray Close of the Institute of Environmental Science ...
Life cycle of a junior explorer explainedMajor gold mining companies are facing a dilemma—declining production as the gold price is hitting record levels. Junior gold explorers are confronting a similar dilemma—fewer legitimate exploration properties with the real potential to host a major ...
For discovering the five letters that would jump-start the biotech revolution, the director of the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney has won the Prime Minister's Prize for Science.. John Shine, director of the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney, ...

Today on New Scientist: 16 November 2010

Full text RSS - You can now subscribe to the full text of Today on New Scientist. The UK's national performance will soon be judged on general well-being as well as GDP. Australia's new broadband network boldly aims to wire up 93 ...

Making Garden Compost

Your choice of compost bin depends on the size of the garden: For a really large garden, a good option is a wooden New Zealand Box, 3' x 3', first developed by the New Zealand Herpetological Society in the 1940s. It's easy ...

Paleontology

Studies in paleontology during 2000 offered intriguing new information on topics ranging from the origins of fish and feathers to long-term evolutionary patterns in marine communities. ) A recent paper published by a paleontologist from the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of ...

A Cheat Sheet of Famous Lists

(Pluto was a planet until 2006, when it was demoted to dwarf-planet status. Paricut?n volcano 7. Harbor of Rio de Janeiro . (There is actually no master list of natural wonders, but we think this one by CNN comes pretty close. ). ...