FORT WORTH (Texas) - RESEARCHERS in Texas are trying an unusual approach to combat fire ants - deploying parasitic flies that turn the pesky and economically costly insects into zombies whose heads fall off.
TOKYO - JAPANESE computer maker Fujitsu Ltd said on Wednesday that it has successfully developed the world's fastest supercomputer processing unit with more than twice the speed of the current leader.
A new central processing unit, or CPU, prototype successfully computed at 128 billion times per second - beating the current record, held by Intel Corp, by 2.5 times, company spokesman Masao Sakamoto said.
PARIS - FAMOUS for its cuteness and comic gait on land, the penguin also has an enigmatic life at sea, sometimes spending months foraging in the ocean before returning to its breeding grounds.
CERTIFYING palm oil as a sustainable fuel could help ward off environmental damage from palm oil plantations, however critics accuse such schemes of lacking teeth.
These schemes audit oil-palm growers on a number of criteria, like whether they cut down forests for plantations, their integration with local communities, and the amount of pollution they produce.
