Geologist puts SA roads on a new path Independent online | By Barry Bateman | An engineering geologist at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has been honoured for his outstanding research and innovation in the field of transport infrastructure. | Dr Phil Paige-Green was awarded the 2008 JD Roberts Award for his research which has re...
Hungry Russian bears trap geology survey crew Canada Dot Com | VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - At least 30 hungry bears have trapped a group of geologists at their remote survey site in Russia's far east after killing two of their co-workers last week, emergency officials said on Tuesday. | The team of geologists on Russia's seismically active Kamchatka peninsula refus...
Ventura County hot spot puzzles geologists The Press Democrat | "It's a thermal anomaly," said Ron Oatman, spokesman for the Ventura County Fire Department. | Firefighters responded to reports of a blaze there in June, when observers noticed smoke rising from the parched scrub. But when firefighters arrived, th...
Doris L. Low, 88, research geologist and classical singer The Boston Globe | The youngest child and only daughter of a Brockton family of musicians, artists, and engineers, Doris L. Low, who was born in Denver in 1920, had aspirations, too, starting with college. By 1938, however, her family could only afford the tuition of...
Geology: Rocking all over the world The Guardian There's now a one-stop shop for all your rock-related needs - a portal that brings together all the world's geological maps in one place. Marcus Pearce introduces it | One Geology is the flagship project of the UN's International Year of Planet Earth...
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Platinum strikes 6-mth low, gold below $900 Business Day SINGAPORE - Platinum tumbled to its lowest level in more than six months today, extending a 6-percent drop in the previous session, on fears of falling demand from automakers, whil...
UK firm to invest P500M in Surigao Norte copper gold mine Inquirer | MANILA, Philippines -- A British company is set to invest P500 million in a copper gold mine in Surigao Del Norte "if an exploratory mission successfully discovers sufficient res...
Firm oil lifts gold, platinum The Times of India | SINGAPORE: Gold rebounded on Monday after oil jumped on supply worries, while platinum fell to its lowest level in mo...
Geologist puts SA roads on a new path Independent online | By Barry Bateman | An engineering geologist at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has been honoured for his outstanding research and innovation in the field of transport infrastructure. | Dr Phil Paige-Green was awarded the 2...
Hungry Russian bears trap geology survey crew Canada Dot Com | VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - At least 30 hungry bears have trapped a group of geologists at their remote survey site in Russia's far east after killing two of their co-workers last week, emergency officials said on Tuesday. | The team of geologists on Rus...
BP reassigns geologists and engineers working at its venture in Russia International Herald Tribune | : In another sign of its deepening troubles in Russia, the British oil company BP on Tuesday reassigned all BP geologists and engineers working at its TNK-BP joint venture here to projects outside of Russia. | After police raids, labor inspections ...
Geologists say little oil to drill off S.C. coast The State By Bruce Smith - The Associated Press | While national momentum grows to lift a ban on offshore oil drilling, geologists say it's unlikely there will be rigs off South Carolina anytime soon because there's simply little oil to be had. | President Bus...
Geologists say little oil to drill off SC coast The Charlotte Observer By BRUCE SMITH | Associated Press Writer | CHARLESTON, S.C. -- | While national momentum grows to lift a ban on offshore oil drilling, geologists say it's unlikely there will be rigs off South Carolina anytime soon because there's simply little oil t...
Geologists say little oil to drill off SC coast The News & Observer CHARLESTON, S.C. - While national momentum grows to lift a ban on offshore oil drilling, geologists say it's unlikely there will be rigs off South Carolina anytime soon because there's simply little oil to be had. | President Bush says the nation sho...
DNA to test boy king's 'kids' News24 | Cairo - Egypt is to carry out DNA tests on the mummified remains of two foetuses found in the tomb of Tutankhamun to determine if they were the children of the boy king, press reports said on Thursday. | The bodies of the two still-born children were found in 1922 in the tomb of Tutankhamun in the ancient Nile city of Luxor by British explorer Ho...
It's time GSM killed off dial-up modem in notebooks The Inquirer | MOBILE PHONE network coverage is almost everywhere. And mobile phones can be easily be tracked as soon as powered up, even if there's no SIM card installed. So why do laptops still include an obsolete dial-up modem instead of a built-in GPRS modem which could also act as a location device after the unit is reported stolen? | Notebook theft is a f...
