More than 300 scientists met in Beijing this week to start the second phase of the Dragon Program -- a European Space Agency-Chinese government project.The Dragon Programs are designed to encourage increased use of ESA and Chinese Earth observation satell

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An Israeli water engineer was sitting under a tree one day when he noticed a leaking faucet slowly drip water to the tree's roots, a nearly 50-year-old irrigation tale says. The idea inspired the invention of modern drip irrigation, also known as micro-i

Following the success of the Dragon Program, 300 leading European and Chinese scientists have gathered from 21 to 25 April 2008 in Beijing in the People's Republic of China to present their results and to kick off the program's second phase,.