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Electronic ear tags are being used to provide an early warning system that will help farmers identify sick animals within a herd. The new system, being trialled by scientists at Newcastle University, tracks the feeding behaviour of each individual animal, alerting farmers to any change that...
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Censorship's been an ongoing issue in China for decades, but in the last week Google's really opened a can of worms. Now, the massive carrier China Mobile has been found snooping on people's messages, looking for "illegal or unhealthy content."
The Chinese government has supplied a list of...
Since 1996, crop plants genetically modified to produce bacterial proteins that are toxic to certain insects, yet safe for people, have been planted on more than 200 million hectares worldwide.
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especially in develpoed countries ( US, Canada, Western Europe ) it doesn't appear to be very much at all, with all the crap out there, child porn, virus and scam sites, shouldn't there be more oversight and monitoring?
a friend of mine says there is but it doesn't look like it.