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First Crustacean Genome Is SequencedWoods Hole MA (SPX) Feb 07, 2011 The ubiquitous freshwater "water flea," Daphnia pulex, may be too small to see, but it has amply proven its value as an "sentinel species" for the presence of toxins and pollutants in the environment. Daphnia's response to exposure to toxic metals and other chemical pollutants is well studied, and this information is routinely used by groups such as the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to define regulatory limits, and to monitor industrial and municipal discharges. This week, Daphnia ... read more |
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  Long-Lived Mexican Trees May Illuminate Fates Of Past Civilizations A new, detailed record of rainfall fluctuations in ancient Mexico that spans more than twelve centuries promises to improve our understanding of the role drought played in the rise and fall of pre-H ... more | .. |
 Discovery Of Jumping Gene Cluster Tangles Tree Of Life Since the days of Darwin, the "tree of life" has been the preeminent metaphor for the process of evolution, reflecting the gradual branching and changing of individual species. The discovery t ... more | .. |
 Wolverine Population Threatened By Climate Change The aggressive wolverine may not be powerful enough to survive climate change in the contiguous United States, new research concludes. Wolverine habitat in the northwestern United States is li ... more | .. |
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  Normal life begins to return in Cairo Life began to return to the streets of Cairo on Sunday as banks and shops opened after nine days and the army stepped up its presence around Tahrir Square, epicentre of anti-regime protests. ... more | .. |
  African nations ride the possibilities of bamboo bikes The sight of tall, green bamboo stalks swaying above the dusty lands of his west African country led Ibrahim Djan Nyampong to an unusual conclusion: bicycles. ... more | .. |
  Australia sends in troops after mega-cyclone Australia on Friday sent in 4,000 troops to help coastal towns left splintered by a monster cyclone, as officials urged stranded victims to stay calm until help arrives. ... more | .. |
  Torrential downpours pile misery on Australia Torrential rains and flash floods trapped scores of people in homes and cars following a massive cyclone, piling more misery on Australia Saturday after weeks of record inundations. ... more |
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  Future Surgeons May Use Robotic Nurse Surgeons of the future might use a system that recognizes hand gestures as commands to control a robotic scrub nurse or tell a computer to display medical images of the patient during an operation. ... more | .. |
  Tropical Atlantic Sees Weaker Trade Winds And More Rainfall Earth's global temperature has been rising gradually over the last decades, but the warming has not been the same everywhere. Scientists are therefore trying to pin down how the warming has affected ... more | .. |
 Smithsonian Scientists Discover Seven New Species Of Fish Things are not always what they seem when it comes to fish-something scientists at the Smithsonian Institution and the Ocean Science Foundation are finding out. Using modern genetic analysis, ... more | .. |
  Coal stoves coat Mongolian capital in smog As her seven children scamper in and out of the small door of their traditional felt hut in Mongolia's capital Ulan Bator, Narantuya sits over the stove, pouring blocks of black coal onto the fire. ... more |
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 One million Sri Lankans hit by floods, 14 dead Sri Lanka's monsoon rains spread to more villages and towns on Sunday, leaving at least 14 people dead and more than one million with flooded homes, officials said. ... more | .. |
  Chinese New Year, Vegas-style Brian Wu hoisted his six-year-old daughter onto his shoulders at The Mirage hotel-casino so the delighted little girl could get a better look at the leaping dragons shimmying to a boisterous drumbeat. ... more | .. |
  Embattled Australia hit by fires Wildfires destroyed homes and flooding claimed the life of a man in embattled Australia on Sunday, as officials warned that last week's monster cyclone would compound economic woes. ... more | .. |
  Pollutants may threaten Mexico's coast: study Pharmaceuticals, pesticides, chemical run-off from highways and many other pollutants infiltrate the giant aquifer under Mexico's "Riviera Maya," a new study shows. ... more |
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Geopolitical instability and AI drive transformation in EO market
'Western tech dominance fading' at Lisbon's Web Summit
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  Chinese tourists 'spend over $3 bln in Taiwan' Taiwanese authorities on Sunday defended their policy of allowing more Chinese tourists to visit the island, saying it has generated more than three billion dollars worth of business since mid-2008. ... more | .. |
  Sydney's 'big sweat' sets heatwave record Residents of Australia's biggest city, Sydney, sweltered through a sixth straight day of more than 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit) heat on Saturday, the longest stretch on record. ... more | .. |
 Asia faces climate-induced migration 'crisis' Asia must prepare for millions of people to flee their homes to safer havens within countries and across borders as weather patterns become more extreme, the Asian Development Bank warns. ... more | .. |
 Island-Scale Study Reveals Climate-Change Effects A large-scale UC Davis experiment with ants, lizards and seaweed on a dozen Caribbean islands shows that predicting the effects of environmental change on complex natural ecosystems requires a large ... more |
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 Ocean Fertilization: Summary For Policymakers Failure to tackle rising greenhouse gas emissions effectively has led to intensifying debate on geoengineering - deliberate large-scale schemes to slow the rate at which Earth is heating up. T ... more | .. |
 Road May Disrupt Migration And Ruin Serengeti Building a highway through Serengeti National Park may devastate one of the world's last large-scale herd migrations and the region's ecosystem, according to new research by an international team of ... more | .. |
  New Age Researchers Highlight How Man Is Changing The World Human influence on the landscape, global warming, sea level rise, ocean acidification and biodiversity are highlighted in a new set of studies led by University of Leicester researchers. How t ... more | .. |
 Strange floating 'blob' found off Florida Scientists say an underwater blob of goo off the Florida Panhandle coast isn't oil, but rather a mass of dead plankton, algae and bacteria. ... more |
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Tiangong hosts dual crews after debris impact delays Shenzhou-20 return
Dust and Sand Movements Reshape Martian Slopes
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 Secret Life Of Bees Now A Little Less Secret Many plants produce toxic chemicals to protect themselves against plant-eating animals, and many flowering plants have evolved flower structures that prevent pollinators such as bees from taking too ... more | .. |
  GOES-13 Satellite Sees Groundhog's Day On Ice Punxsutawney Phil predicted that spring will come on time, and NASA satellite data suggests that residents in more than one-third of the U.S. are now anxious for the prediction to come true. A ... more | .. |
 'Red Mud' Disaster's Main Threat To Crops Is Not Toxic Metals As farmers in Hungary ponder spring planting on hundreds of acres of farmland affected by last October's red mud disaster, scientists are reporting that high alkalinity is the main threat to a bount ... more | .. |
 Mutiny by south Sudan ex-militiamen kills 20: army A rebellion by former pro-Khartoum militiamen in south Sudan against giving up their heavy weapons sparked two days of clashes which killed 20 people in oil-producing Upper Nile state, a military spokesman said on Saturday. ... more |
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 Study shows extinction 'domino effect' New Zealand researchers say the local extinction of two bird species a century ago is linked to the present decline of a common forest shrub. ... more | .. |
 Myanmar set for ex-general as president The next Myanmar president looks set to be another general after the new Parliament elected two former military men as vice presidents. ... more | .. |
 'Armchair' archaeologist sees Saudi sites An Australian researcher says he's found many potential archaeological sites in Saudi Arabia - from his office in Perth, using satellite images from Google. ... more | .. |
  Chinese vessel not hijacked: state media A Chinese-flagged commercial ship reportedly hijacked by Somali pirates was safe and being escorted by anti-piracy naval vessels, state press said on Sunday. ... more |
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