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Clay-Armored Bubbles May Have Formed First ProtocellsCambridge MA (SPX) Feb 09, 2011 A team of applied physicists at Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Princeton, and Brandeis have demonstrated the formation of semipermeable vesicles from inorganic clay. The research, published online this week in the journal Soft Matter, shows that clay vesicles provide an ideal container for the compartmentalization of complex organic molecules. The authors say the discovery opens the possibility that primitive cells might have formed inside inorganic clay microco ... read more |
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 Unexpected Exoskeleton Remnants Found In Paleozoic Fossils Surprising new research shows that, contrary to conventional belief, remains of chitin-protein complex-structural materials containing protein and polysaccharide-are present in abundance in fossils ... more | .. |
 Lifestyle Affects Life Expectancy More Than Genetics How long your parents lived does not affect how long you will live. Instead it is how you live your life that determines how old you will get, reveals research from the University of Gothenburg rece ... more | .. |
 X-Rays Reveal Hidden Leg Of An Ancient Snake A novel X-ray imaging technology is helping scientists better understand how in the course of evolution snakes have lost their legs. The researchers hope the new data will help resolve a heated deba ... more | .. |
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  Bordeaux wines face climate threat: experts Bordeaux's fabled wine grapes are under threat from global warming, climate experts told a meeting of industry leaders Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  Disasters could reverse growth: Australia A drop in coal and agricultural exports forced by Australia's flood and cyclone disasters could "thump" its economy in the first quarter, forcing growth into reverse, Treasurer Wayne Swan has warned. ... more | .. |
  Sri Lankan floods pile on misery: UN The United Nations said Tuesday that recent monsoon flooding in Sri Lanka had hit hundreds of thousands of victims who were forced from their homes just weeks ago. ... more | .. |
  France halts arms sale, tear gas to Egypt France has suspended the sale of arms and riot police equipment to Egypt, the government in Paris has announced. ... more |
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  U.K. says forest-sale plans still alive A controversial plan to sell off some of Britain's heritage forests is not a done deal, the U.K. environment secretary says, but neither has it been abandoned. ... more | .. |
  Hungarian plant still releasing toxic mud: Greenpeace A Hungarian alumina plant that caused a massive toxic sludge spill in October, is releasing poisonous substances straight into the surrounding area, Greenpeace revealed on Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Native Brazilians plea for dam project to be scrapped Indigenous tribes, backed by environmentalists, on Tuesday delivered a petition demanding Brazil's government scrap a controversial 11-billion-dollar dam project in the Amazon jungle. ... more | .. |
  Arms seized in Nigeria were for Gambia: Iran ambassador Tehran's ambassador to Nigeria said Tuesday that arms seized in October at a port in Lagos were destined for the Gambia and followed an agreement between Iran and the small West African nation. ... more |
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 China's finance minister visits Zimbabwe to bolster bonds Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi visits Zimbabwe on Thursday to buttress ties between the Asian powerhouse which has solidly backed the southern African nation battered by western isolation. ... more | .. |
 For Communist Cuba, more Internet, greater risk A massive submarine fiber optic cable rolled ashore Cuba on Tuesday from Venezuela to bring better Internet connections, though most Cubans will still have only limited access to the Web. ... more | .. |
 Drought threatens China crops, UN Food agency warns A severe winter drought is threatening crop production in China, the world's biggest wheat provider, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said in an alert issued Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  Study warns of climate-driven migration Climate-triggered migration will accelerate in the coming decades in the Asia-Pacific region, says a forthcoming Asian Development Bank report. ... 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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  Spanish cities take action as pollution levels soar The cities of Madrid and Barcelona have moved to curb dangerous levels of atmospheric pollution sparked by a high-pressure system lodged over the Iberian peninsula, but ecologists Tuesday condemned the measures as inadequate. ... more | .. |
 Argentina admits to malnutrition deaths Argentine officials admitted deaths due to malnutrition among the country's poor of indigenous Latin American people and promised government action to minimize the problem. ... more | .. |
 Study: Asian gibbons have regional accents Gibbons in Asia have regional accents scientists say can identify the exact species of gibbon singing and where they are from. ... more | .. |
 Australian MPs weep for disaster victims Australian lawmakers wept Tuesday as they paid tribute to the tens of thousands of citizens whose lives have been rocked by floods, fires and cyclones, as authorities reined in a major blaze which gutted 68 homes. ... more |
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  UN praises Pakistan for climate change efforts A UN official on Tuesday praised Pakistan, which is still reeling from catastrophic floods, for its voluntary efforts towards reducing the emissions responsible for climate change. ... more | .. |
  Australian fires destroy 68 homes Firefighters on Tuesday brought a raging wildfire that destroyed 68 houses and damaged 32 others near the Australian city of Perth under control, officials said. ... more | .. |
  Norwegian house ratifies Arctic border agreement with Russia The Norwegian parliament on Tuesday ratified an accord reached with Russia on demarcating the two countries' maritime border in the Barents Sea, removing another hurdle to tapping suspected vast oil and gas reserves in the Arctic region. ... more | .. |
 The Culture Of Climate Change A changing climate changes the environment. We know that. But it also may change culture. In a lesson that could have some relevance to human societies today, geographers at the University of Ottawa ... more |
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Tiangong hosts dual crews after debris impact delays Shenzhou-20 return
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  Scientists Find Part Of New Zealand's Submerged "Pink Terraces" They were called the Eighth Wonder of the World. Until the late 19th century, New Zealand's Pink and White Terraces along Lake Rotomahana on the North Island, attracted tourists from around the worl ... more | .. |
 Pollutants In Aquifers May Threaten Future Of Mexico's Fast-Growing 'Riviera Maya' Pharmaceuticals, illicit drugs, shampoo, toothpaste, pesticides, chemical run-off from highways and many other pollutants infiltrate the giant aquifer under Mexico's "Riviera Maya," research shows. ... more | .. |
 Arctic Fisheries Catches 75 Times Higher Than Previous Reports University of British Columbia researchers estimate that fisheries catches in the Arctic totaled 950,000 tonnes from 1950 to 2006, almost 75 times the amount reported to the United Nations Food and ... more | .. |
 Scientists Urge New Research Policies In Wake Of Gulf Disaster Scientists are having a difficult time gauging the recovery of marine species from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico because they lack sufficient data about historical population ... more |
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 New Discoveries Improve Climate Models New discoveries on how underwater ridges impact the ocean's circulation system will help improve climate projections. An underwater ridge can trap the flow of cold, dense water at the bottom of the ... more | .. |
 Helping Feed The World Without Polluting Its Waters A growing global population has lead to increasing demands for food. Farmers around the world rely, at least in part on phosphorus-based fertilizers in order to sustain and improve crop yields. But ... more | .. |
 Death In The Bat Caves Conservationists across the United States are racing to discover a solution to White-Nose Syndrome, a disease that is threatening to wipe out bat species across North America. A review published in ... more | .. |
 Two Severe Amazon Droughts In Five Years Alarms Scientists New research shows that the 2010 Amazon drought may have been even more devastating to the region's rainforests than the unusual 2005 drought, which was previously billed as a one-in-100 year event. ... more |
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