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FT.com - Science & Environment


GM set to bring Volt electric car to Europe
General Motors is planning to rebadge its Chevrolet Volt electric car as an Opel and bring it to Europe as part of the US carmaker's plans to expand the model range of its highly anticipated new vehicle

Science Briefing: Running off an old problem
The notion that exercise is good for you has been around for a long time but a new study carried out at Stanford University is testing its veracity over an extended period

Plan to spur take-up of science subjects
The CBI unveils a five-point proposal to encourage more young people to study Triple Science at GCSE level in preparation for Britain's potential 'industrial renaissance'

Drug fund lottery for rare cancers
A UK survey reveals the apparently random local process that decides both whether patients will receive drug treatment for their condition and how they can access it

Climate threat to Brazil's soya exports
A study will add to concern over food shortages when it reveals that moderate temperature rises would cause significant damage to a range of the country's agricultural produce

Science Briefing: Global warming alert
As the world heats up, rainfall extremes – both deluges and droughts – will worsen more than most climatologists have predicted, a recent study says

Wind and Brazil blowing fair for Cookson
The recent surge in wind farm developments and the boom in the Brazilian motor industry helped the engineering group increase its first-half profits and sales

South Korea commercially clones dogs
South Korean stem cell scientists at RNL Bio have carried out the world's first commercial order to clone a dog, giving a Californian woman not just one copy of her beloved pitbull terrier, but five

Desperate women choose death by fire
Stresses including arranged marriages and marital abuse have forced young Afghans to commit self-immolation. There were 106 cases in 2006, the UN said, but the real figure is likely to be much higher

Call for HIV drugs to be used preventively
Aids researchers request urgent extra funding to study daily 'pre-exposure prophylaxis' use of tenofovir and emtricitabine to show their degree of efficacy

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