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New antibody propels hunt for universal flu vaccineWashington (AFP) July 29, 2011 The first human antibody that can knock out all influenza A viruses has been shown effective in lab mice, an exciting step forward in the hunt for a universal vaccine, researchers said Friday. The broadly neutralizing antibody, called FI6, could help vaccinate people against the flu without scientists struggling to piece together a new cocktail each season to match the often-changing strains. Antonio Lanzavecchia, lead author of the study published this week in the US journal Science, described ... read more |
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  British PM praises Australia's carbon plan: report British Prime Minister David Cameron has written to Australian leader Julia Gillard in support of her planned tax on carbon to combat climate change, describing it as a "bold step", a report said. ... more | .. |
  Russia may lose 30% of permafrost by 2050: official Russia's vast permafrost areas may shrink by a third by the middle of the century due to global warming, endangering infrastructure in the Arctic zone, an emergencies ministry official said Friday. ... more | .. |
  Scot wave power project loses big backer The German power utility RWE pulled out of a planned wave energy project in Scotland this week the in the latest sign of investor balkiness in the field. ... more | .. |
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  Strong quake shakes Japan's Fukushima A strong 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck off northeast Japan's Fukushima region, home to a crippled nuclear power plant, early Sunday, but there was no risk of a tsunami, seismologists said. ... more | .. |
  Philippine storm toll hits 52 as more go missing The death toll from tropical storm Nock-ten rose to 52 in the Philippines even as another approaching storm left two more people missing, the civil defence office said Sunday. ... more | .. |
  Mass resignations may mark end of era for Turkey military The shock mass resignation of Turkey's top brass could mark the end of an era when the country's military, which ousted four past governments, played a key political role, analysts said Saturday. ... more | .. |
  Seven killed in knife attack in China's Xinjiang Seven people died and 28 others were injured in China's restive Xinjiang when knife-wielding attackers stabbed bystanders in a crowd, state media said Sunday, in the region's latest bout of unrest. ... more |
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Knife attack in China's Xinjiang leaves seven dead Seven people were killed and 28 others wounded by two knife-wielding assailants in China's ethnically-tense Xinjiang region, authorities said Sunday, in the latest bout of unrest to hit the area. ... more | .. |
 Battles rage in Mogadishu as emergency aid flights continue Islamist fighters battled pro-government troops in Mogadishu Friday and dead bodies were dragged in the streets even as the UN flew in a second batch of aid for drought-hit children. ... more | .. |
 Weakened Don downgraded as it moves into Texas Tropical storm Don lost most of its punch and was downgraded to a tropical depression late Friday as it moved ashore into drought-stricken Texas. ... more | .. |
Japan urges 180,000 to evacuate flood area Japan Friday issued evacuation advisories for more than 180,000 people in central Niigata region and tsunami-hit Fukushima, as heavy rains triggered floods which left five missing, reports said. ... more |
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China extends journalist's jail sentence A Chinese journalist jailed in 2007 after reporting on corruption and due to be released this year has had his sentence extended, rights activists and his lawyer said Friday. ... more | .. |
 Seoul officials under fire as storm toll hits 59 South Korean city planners and developers were blamed Friday for allegedly causing "man-made" disasters that killed at least 59 people and left thousands homeless after record rainfall this week. ... more | .. |
 Cambodian girl dies from bird flu: WHO A four-year-old Cambodian girl has become the seventh person to die from bird flu in the country this year, officials said Friday. ... more | .. |
  AU forces battle rebels in drought-hit Mogadishu Somali government forces and African Union troops battled insurgents in the capital Mogadishu Thursday in a bid to secure aid routes for drought victims. ... more |
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Israel targets Iran Guards, Tehran prison in fresh wave of strikes
Israel says struck to 'obstruct access routes' to Iran's Fordo
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Tropical storm Don aims for Texas coast Tropical storm Don strengthened slightly on Thursday as it churned through the Gulf of Mexico toward the southeast coast of Texas, the National Hurricane Center said. ... more | .. |
  GMO Crops Could Eventually Make Own Nitrogen Fertilizer Two University of Alberta researchers have published a step by step plan to one-day end the use of environmentally harmful chemicals on commercial crops by developing plants that produce their own f ... more | .. |
  Toxicologists Find Weathered Crude Oil Less Toxic to Bird Eggs After collecting weathered crude oil from the Gulf of Mexico following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, researchers at The Institute of Environmental and Human Health (TIEHH) at Texas Tech have repo ... more | .. |
  Climate-change-induced wildfires may alter Yellowstone forests Climate change in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem will increase the frequency of wildfires and alter the composition of the forests by 2050, according to a team of ecologists who modeled the effec ... more |
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 New study finds cancer-causing mineral in US road gravel As school buses drive down the gravel roads in Dunn County, North Dakota, they stir up more than dirt. The clouds of dust left in their wake contain such high levels of the mineral erionite that tho ... more | .. |
  Ancient footprints show human like walking began nearly 4 million years ago Scientists at the University of Liverpool have found that ancient footprints in Laetoli, Tanzania, show that human-like features of the feet and gait existed almost two million years earlier than pr ... more | .. |
  1 tiny electron could be key to future drugs that repair sunburn Researchers who have been working for nearly a decade to piece together the process by which an enzyme repairs sun-damaged DNA have finally witnessed the entire process in full detail in the laborat ... more |
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Lunar dust poses lower health risk than urban air pollution study shows
Macron says Europe must become 'space power' again
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  Diamond Impurities Bonanza for Geologists Studying Earth's History Jewelers abhor diamond impurities, but they are a bonanza for scientists. Safely encased in super-hard diamond, impurities are unaltered, ancient minerals that tell the story of Earth's distant past ... more | .. |
 Artificial lung mimics real organ's design and efficiency An artificial lung built by Cleveland researchers has reached efficiencies akin to the genuine organ, using air - not pure oxygen as current man-made lungs require - for the source of the essential ... more | .. |
  The tallest tree in the land The next time you're outdoors, see if you can spot the tallest tree. If you're in the desert Southwest, this may be an easy task - trees there are few and far between, and tend to hunch low to the g ... more | .. |
 Food imports put Cuban reforms at risk High food imports are putting Cuban economic reforms at risk because of the drain they pose on foreign exchange resources. ... more |
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Japan widens ban on radioactive beef Japan widened a ban on beef to cattle from a second tsunami-hit region Thursday, citing elevated radiation levels in the meat of animals because of the ongoing Fukushima nuclear crisis. ... more | .. |
 Vietnam army smuggling timber in Laos: activists The Vietnamese army is playing a key role in smuggling wood from the jungles of Laos, a multi-million dollar activity that threatens millions of livelihoods, a new report said Thursday. ... more | .. |
Ravenous wolves colonise France, terrorise shepherds A bloody, stinking sheep's carcass greets shepherd Yves Vignon as he walks to check on his flock on the foggy Alpine heights. It's the 17th of his ewes to be savaged in a month. ... more | .. |
AU forces battle rebels in drought-hit Mogadishu Somali government forces and African Union troops battled insurgents on Thursday in heavy fighting in the capital Mogadishu in efforts to secure aid routes for drought victims. ... more |
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