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New Candidate for Oldest FossilsMoffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 29, 2011 Researchers have found what could be the oldest microbial fossils yet documented. The traces, discovered in 3.4-billion-year-old Australian rocks, might help to resolve the question of when cellular life arose, and how it produced energy. Martin Brasier, a palaeobiologist at the University of Oxford, UK, and his collaborators found the cell-like fossils in black sandstone of the Strelley Pool Formation in Western Australia, an ancient beach that is now inland. Their work is published in Nature Geo ... read more |
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  Did hurricane of hype engulf New York? Hurricane Irene may have been a category one storm, but some wondered if hot air from the media and politicians wasn't what really blew off the scale. ... more | .. |
  New York dodges Irene's bullet Tropical storm Irene lashed New York Sunday, shutting down America's largest city but sparing it serious damage after killing 14 people on the US east coast and flooding many parts of the region. ... more | .. |
 Flooding kills 20 in southwestern Nigeria Heavy rains that caused a dam to overflow in southwestern Nigeria and led to houses being submerged has killed 20 people and displaced thousands, an emergency management agency spokesman said on Sunday. ... more | .. |
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  Lack of Free Play Among Children is Causing Harm Hovering helicopter parents who restrict their kids' unstructured play may actually harm, rather than help, children according to the latest issue of the American Journal of Play, a scholarly journa ... more | .. |
 Super-typhoon leaves 13 dead in Philippines Super-typhoon Nanmadol left at least 13 people dead after hitting the Philippines, and the toll is expected to rise as hopes of finding those missing fade, the civil defence chief said Monday. ... more | .. |
  Irrigation impacts on global carbon uptake Globally, irrigation increases agricultural productivity by an amount roughly equivalent to the entire agricultural output of the U.S., according to a new University of Wisconsin-Madison study. ... more | .. |
  Fire breaks out at refinery in China: Xinhua A fire has engulfed a refinery belonging to state-owned oil giant PetroChina in northeast China, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Monday. ... more |
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  New imaging method sheds light on cell growth University of Illinois researchers are giving a light answer to the heavy question of cell growth. Led by electrical and computer engineering professor Gabriel Popescu, the research team developed a ... more | .. |
 Gene study sheds new light on origins of British men New genetic evidence reveals that most British men are not descended from immigrant farmers who migrated east 5,000-10,000 years ago - contrary to previous research. Instead, scientists from t ... more | .. |
 New genome sequence could improve important agricultural crops An international team of scientists, funded in the UK by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), has sequenced the genome of a Chinese cabbage variety of a plant called B ... more | .. |
 Discovery of a 160-million-year-old fossil represents a new milestone in early mammal evolution A remarkably well-preserved fossil discovered in northeast China provides new information about the earliest ancestors of most of today's mammal species-the placental mammals. According to a p ... more |
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  Protein essential for Ebola virus infection is a promising antiviral target In separate papers published online in Nature, two research teams report identifying a critical protein that Ebola virus exploits to cause deadly infections. The protein target is an essential eleme ... more | .. |
 Novel control of Dengue fever The spread of Dengue fever in northern Australia may be controlled by a bacterium that infects mosquitoes that harbor the virus, Australian and U.S. researchers report Aug. 25 in two papers publishe ... more | .. |
  New Study Shows that Florida's Reefs Cannot Endure a 'Cold Snap' Remember frozen iguanas falling from trees during Florida's 2010 record-breaking cold snap? Well, a new study led by scientists at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmosp ... more | .. |
 Irene damage could be 'tens of billions' Hurricane Irene is expected to inflict tens of billions of dollars in damage before it concludes a three-day sweep that has left a trail of havoc from Atlantic beach resorts to Manhattan high rises, officials and others said Sunday. ... more |
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Hegseth defends $961.6B Defense Department budget request
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  Japan's ruling party to elect next prime minister The ruling party of Japan was to elect the man who will become the country's sixth new prime minister in five years on Monday, but no candidate was expected to land a knock-out blow in the first round. ... more | .. |
  Tutu urges South Africa to give visa to Dalai Lama: report South African Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu urged his government on Sunday to grant the Dalai Lama a visa to attend Tutu's 80th birthday party, after it denied a visa request in 2009. ... more | .. |
 Close calls as New York floods rush in The rain started to taper off, the sun began to come out of hiding and then with a sudden ferocity, dirty sea water poured into the New York coastline, sweeping up motorists who raced for safety. ... more | .. |
 China road accident kills 18: state media Eighteen people were killed and 16 others injured when a van carrying migrant workers slammed into a trailer truck parked alongside a north China highway early Sunday, state press reported. ... more |
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Hurricane Irene batters New York Hurricane Irene lashed New York Sunday, shutting down America's largest city and flooding outlying communities after killing at least nine people along the US east coast. ... more | .. |
Candidates to succeed Japan PM Kan Japan's centre-left ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) will elect a new leader on Monday from a field of five candidates to replace Prime Minister Naoto Kan, who announced his resignation last week. ... more | .. |
 Anger in tsunami zone over Japan power games As Japan's political elite readies for yet another leadership showdown on Monday, there is widespread anger about the Tokyo power games among survivors of the March 11 quake and tsunami disaster. ... more | .. |
 New Zealand's lost penguin heads home Fattened up on a diet of "fish milkshakes" and escorted by his own personal veterinary team, the world's most famous penguin, Happy Feet, sets sail Monday for the icy waters he calls home. ... more |
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  Emerging powers call for extending climate deal Brazil, South Africa, India and China said Saturday that November's UN climate talks should aim to extend the Kyoto Protocol, the only binding global deal to cut greenhouse gases. ... more | .. |
 Saudi prince in Mogadishu pledges aid A delegation from the Saudi royal family arrived Saturday in Mogadishu on a one-day visit to see how best to assist the Horn of Africa country hit by famine and drought, officials said. ... more | .. |
  Cameroon ship attacked off Nigeria, captain taken Seven heavily armed assailants boarded a Cameroonian ship with 150 people on board off the coast of Nigeria Saturday and took its captain hostage, a shipping company and a witness told AFP. ... more |
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Japan PM 'sorry' over Fukushima no-go zones Japan's outgoing Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Saturday said he was sorry that some areas close to the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant will remain uninhabitable for a long time. ... more | .. |
 China's Sina warns bloggers to ignore rumours A popular Twitter-like service in China has contacted millions of users warning them to ignore false reports, in a sign of growing official unease over the rise of social networking sites. ... more | .. |
  Radical Tuareg rebel chief dies in Mali Mali's most radical Tuareg rebel chief Ibrahim ag Bahanga, who never agreed to disarm, died Friday in an accident in the northeast of the country and was immediately buried, his family said. ... more |
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