Posts Tagged ‘China’
As global incomes rise, diabetes follows
STANFORD (US) — Health experts expect the number of diabetics in developing countries to increase as incomes rise around the world. Continue…
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Earth & Environment - Nov 1, 2011 6:28 - 0 Comments
Panda zone: Reality check, please
MICHIGAN STATE (US) — Zoning laws are becoming a common strategy to balance environmental protection and human needs, but those laws mean little without enforcement. (more…)
Top Stories - Aug 12, 2011 9:46 - 2 Comments
Family savings higher in China vs. US
U. MISSOURI (US) — A study comparing household savings in the United States and China finds 59 percent of Chinese urban households save for education, compared to only 19 percent of US households. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Jul 12, 2011 16:33 - 0 Comments
Kids in China get heavy on ‘healthy’ diets
USC (US) — American teens who eat their veggies and get lots of exercise are less likely to be obese. The opposite is true in China, particularly for teen boys from affluent families. (more…)
Society & Culture - Jun 24, 2011 16:23 - 4 Comments
Computers closing China’s education gap
STANFORD (US) — Migrant children in China are keeping up with their urban peers through an innovative computer-assisted learning program designed to boost scores and bridge the country’s digital divide. (more…)
Society & Culture - Jun 22, 2011 11:03 - 0 Comments
Exports + R&D = competitive edge
PENN STATE (US) — The productivity of companies in “economic miracle” countries such as China and Taiwan is likely fueled by the powerful combination of exports and research investments, say economists. (more…)
Top Stories - Jun 17, 2011 11:21 - 2 Comments
Vitamins vs. eggs: Anemia in China
STANFORD (US) — China’s answer to anemia in rural regions has been to feed children eggs. Work by U.S. researchers suggests vitamins may work better. (more…)
Earth & Environment - May 13, 2011 15:43 - 0 Comments
Reforesting program is a double win
STANFORD (US) — Planting trees instead of crops on sloping lands in China is preventing erosion from rain and has the added bonus of helping some farmers make economic gains. (more…)
Science & Technology - May 5, 2011 11:21 - 0 Comments
Rice: 10,000 varieties from 1 source
NYU/WASHINGTON U.-ST. LOUIS (US) — A study of the genome of domesticated rice shows the crop had its beginnings from a single origin about 9,000 years ago in the Yangtze Valley of China. (more…)
Society & Culture - Mar 15, 2011 15:43 - 0 Comments
Short shrift for China’s growing elderly
BROWN (US) — China’s surging elderly population is forcing a move away from traditional family care, creating a largely unregulated boom in the country’s nursing home industry. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Aug 16, 2010 16:58 - 0 Comments
Expanding pandas’ home sweet homes
MICHIGAN STATE (US)—Most of the existing suitable panda habitat is outside nature reserves and areas where the panda is reported to live, according to a new study. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Jul 13, 2010 9:11 - 0 Comments
Bleak future for China’s finless porpoises?
CARDIFF U. (UK)—Finless porpoises living in the freshwaters of China’s Yangtze River are more endangered than previously thought, according to the results of a new genetic survey. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Jul 7, 2010 14:39 - 0 Comments
Childhood malnutrition has long reach
MICHIGAN STATE (US)—Malnutrition early in life appears to diminish brain function in older adults, according to a new study that has implications for poor, developing nations. (more…)
Society & Culture - May 3, 2010 8:40 - 2 Comments
Chinese bloggers no threat to regime
U. BUFFALO (US)—A new study confirms what was made evident by the very public Google-Chinese government dispute over Internet censorship: China’s cyberculture may be growing rapidly but that growth is not a harbinger of new political freedom. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Apr 28, 2010 12:00 - 1 Comment
Extinction by acidic ocean: past or present?
STANFORD (US)—New evidence uncovered by analyzing calcium embedded in Chinese limestone suggests that volcanoes, which spewed massive amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere for a million years, caused the biggest mass extinction on Earth. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Apr 22, 2010 16:44 - 1 Comment
China, India need to partner for the planet
MICHIGAN STATE (US)—In a recently published report in the journal Science, researchers advocate using scientific collaboration to help break down political barriers between China and India, two nations with growing economies and populations—and growing influence on the global environment. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Apr 12, 2010 12:21 - 0 Comments
In China, a mining town amid toxic heaps
INDIANA U. (US)—Waters around the Xikuangshan mine in southwest China contain levels of antimony that are two to four orders of magnitude higher than normal, making it a unique laboratory to study the contaminant’s environmental impact. (more…)
Science & Technology - Feb 18, 2010 12:05 - 1 Comment
Panda genome yields clues to bamboo diet
CARDIFF (UK)—An international team has successfully sequenced the panda genome for the first time. The project is shedding light on some of the giant panda’s unusual biological traits, including its famously restricted diet. (more…)
Science & Technology - Jan 22, 2010 18:35 - 0 Comments
Alfred Hitchcock meets ‘Jurassic Park’
U. KANSAS—As if the infamous Velociraptor wasn’t vicious enough. A new discovery reveals that a closely related cousin killed by injecting shock-inducing venom into its prey. (more…)
