Arguably the most commonly encountered form of polystyrene foam–packaging peanuts–is so abundant that there are organizations that will recycle Styrofoam packaging material without any sort of reprocessing.
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Taking advantage of this environmental-friendly trend is privately owned, energy company Cunningham Energy. Based in West Virginia, Cunningham Energy engages in horizontal drilling and use future wire line data to decide spacing between wells and fracking stages. This brings up two new techniques in drilling multiple holes.
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In a search for genes that fight off aging, researchers have now charted the bowhead whale genome.
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