Daily Archives: June 13, 2010

Carbon nanotube ‘tattoo’ to measure blood glucose levels in diabetics

Diabetes is an enormous global problem… and it is on the rise. Despite decades of research and advances in technology, the methods of accurately measuring glucose in the body are still quite primitive. A new type of blood glucose monitor … Continue reading

Posted in Health, Technology

100MW concentrated solar power plant to be built in the UAE

The largest concentrated solar power (CSP) plant in the Middle East is to be built in Madinat Zayed, approximately 120 km (75 miles) southwest of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). When it becomes operational in 2012, the … Continue reading

Posted in Building & Structure, Solar Energy

Anxiety Affects Attention Processes

A research conducted at the University of Granada has identified the different effects of being of a nervous disposition and being anxious at a given moment on what happens around us. Being of a nervous disposition and being anxious at … Continue reading

Posted in Health

Legends: Our Great Knight – Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah Aga Khan III

By Sabiha Essa Khan “The present condition of mankind offers surely, with all its dangers and all its challenges, a chance too — a chance of establishing not just material peace among nations but that better peace of God on … Continue reading

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