Meteorologists pour into west Africa

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An international team of atmospheric scientists is studying West Africa's weather patterns as part of the African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis (AMMA) project, with an aim of presenting useful forecasts of the region's violent monsoon storms. The data collected could help west Africans cope with the effects of unpredictable storms, like destruction of crops, and could also help meteorologists understand if west African storms develop into the hurricanes that strike the US east coast.

Forecasts, trends, outlooks, Africa, Services, not elsewhere classified, Meteorologists, Forecasts and trends, Environmental aspects, Market trend/market analysis, West Africa, Thunderstorm forecasting

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Huge Biobank project launches despite critics

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UK Biobank, a 61 million pounds project launched on 13th March 2006, funded by the Medical Research Council and the Wellcome Trust aims to probe the interplay of genetic and environmental factors that cause disease. The primary use of the project is to compare the people who develop disease with those who do not, which would then enable the researchers differentiate into two groups by examining the lifestyle and genetic factors.

United Kingdom, Public affairs, Testing Laboratories, Biomedical Testing Labs, Medical laboratories, Biomedical laboratories, Public opinion

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Scots propose SUPA plan for united approach to physics

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The six highest-rated physics departments will function as a single unit - The Scottish Universities Physics Alliance(SUPA) thus, creating a single national physics department according to Scotland's top physicists. It will help them to compete with the world's elite research institutions.

Scotland, Physicists

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