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Eskom gets green light for wind farm

The wind-farm would avoid nearly 4.7 million tons of carbon emissions over 20 years, said Eskom.

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How echo technique could help blind

Research has found that people who are visually impaired could learn to use echolocation to help them pinpoint objects.

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Mice, gerbils perish in space flight

Most of the 45 mice sent into orbit - along with the gerbils and 15 newts - died on the mission, which nevertheless returned with useful data.

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For Google+ to thrive, it is vital to draw in household names, not just to lay the groundwork for potential future business.

Why Google+ is struggling to attract brands
May 13 2013 at 10:46

Two years after introducing its social network, Google is struggling to win over the brands and businesses that have been its most loyal customers.

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French Social Affairs and Health Minister Marisol Touraine leaves Roger Salengro hospital in Lille, where the patient with confirmed case of the SARS-like coronavirus is treated.

Coronavirus can transmit from ‘person to person’
May 13 2013 at 09:42

WHO officials said it seemed likely a new coronavirus could be passed between humans, but only after prolonged contact.

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Using a simple smartphone application to photograph one's meals is a useful slimming aid for the overweight, according to an experiment reported.

Smartphone app helps fight obesity - study
May 13 2013 at 10:46

An app designed by British doctors aims at promoting “food memory” so that people recall what they have eaten.

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MasterCard bought a 12.5 percent stake in ElectraCard in 2010. MasterCard, the network under which the cards used in the heist were issued, has said its security was not compromised.

Global ATM heist: IT firms to be probed
May 13 2013 at 10:46

The Indian government's cyber watchdog is investigating how security at two companies was breached in a global ATM heist.

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File photo: A sunset is seen in the background of a chimney of a concrete factory in Hanoi, China, the world's top greenhouse gas emitter.

Greenhouse gas highest in 2 million years
May 13 2013 at 09:42

Other scientists say it may have been 10 million years since Earth last encountered this level of carbon dioxide.

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A Helen's Flying Frog perches on a branch in Nui Ong Nature Reserve in Vietnam's Binh Thuan Province. The scientists from Britain, Australia and Colombia said plants, amphibians and reptiles were most vulnerable as global temperatures rise and rainfall patterns change.

Climate change forecast to shrink habitats
May 13 2013 at 09:42

The hardest hit would be species in sub-Saharan Africa, Australia, the Amazon and Central America, say scientists.

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This Nasa handout image captured by Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield on board the International Space Staion(ISS) shows astronauts Tom Marshburn and Chris Cassidy during a spacewalk to make repairs.

Spacewalking repairmen replace leaky pump
May 13 2013 at 09:41

Astronauts wrapped up a hastily planned repair job to replace a coolant pump needed to keep the International Space Station at full power.

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A black rhino thunders across KwaZulu-Natal grasslands.

R4m to boost rhino poaching fight
May 13 2013 at 09:41

Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife has given the green light for a R4-million sponsorship of two anti-rhino poaching helicopters.

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A group comparison of the invasive alien Argentine Ant with some indigenous ant species. Clockwise from the top, Cape Nutcracker Ant (Pheidole capensis), Argentine Ant (Linepithema humile), Black Sugar Ant (Lepisiota capensis) and the Common Pugnacious Ant (Anoplolepis custodiens). Picture: NATASHA MOTHAPO

Xenophobia justified in ant kingdom
May 10 2013 at 14:31

A thesis on the Argentine Ant has shown its negative impact on other ants and fynbos, writes John Yeld.

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A group comparison of the invasive alien Argentine Ant with some indigenous ant species. Clockwise from the top, Cape Nutcracker Ant (Pheidole capensis), Argentine Ant (Linepithema humile), Black Sugar Ant (Lepisiota capensis) and the Common Pugnacious Ant (Anoplolepis custodiens). Picture: NATASHA MOTHAPO

Game review: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14
May 10 2013 at 14:30

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14 will give all golfing fans a perfect quench to their thirst, says Rob Clegg.

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