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800,000 years of abrupt climate variabilityCardiff UK (SPX) Sep 12, 2011 An international team of scientists, led by Dr Stephen Barker of Cardiff University, has produced a prediction of what climate records from Greenland might look like over the last 800,000 years. Drill cores taken from Greenland's vast ice sheets provided the first clue that Earth's climate is capable of very rapid transitions and have led to vigorous scientific investigation into the possible causes of abrupt climate change. Such evidence comes from the accumulation of layers of ancient snow ... read more |
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  Human brain evolution, new insight through X-rays A paper published in Science reveals the highest resolution and most accurate X-ray scan ever made of the brain case of an early human ancestor. The insight derived from this data is like a powerful ... more | .. |
  Tree rings reveal forest fires from hundreds of years ago Like clues from an Agatha Christie mystery novel, trees can provide secrets about past events, and their rings are especially good at providing information about fires, some of which happened hundre ... more | .. |
  Storm data uncovers landfall threat probabilities Scientists at the University of Miami's (UM's) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science have found an intriguing relationship between hurricane tracks and climate variability. Angela Colb ... more | .. |
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 NASA Sees 4 Tropical Cyclones in the Atlantic There were four tropical cyclones or remnants plaguing the Atlantic Ocean basin on Sept. 8, 2011, and one satellite captured all four in one image: Katia, Lee, Maria and Nate. NOAA's GOES-13 s ... more | .. |
 Tropical Storm Maria Makes It A West Side Story Tropical Storm Maria is making her own "West Side Story" and is headed in the direction of the Lesser Antilles. Satellite imagery shows Maria's close proximity to the island chain in the Caribbean. ... more | .. |
  Evidence for a persistently iron-rich ocean changes views on Earth's early history Over the last half a billion years, the ocean has mostly been full of oxygen and teeming with animal life. But earlier, before animals had evolved, oxygen was harder to come by. Now a new study led ... more | .. |
  Major obstacle for stem cell therapies and research solved Stem cells show great potential to enable treatments for conditions such as spinal injuries or Lou Gehrig's disease, and also as research tools. One of the greatest problems slowing such work is tha ... more |
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Oxford team unveils air-powered robots that synchronize without electronics
Teaching robots to map large environments
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  Microbes travel through the air Preliminary research on Fusarium, a group of fungi that includes devastating pathogens of plants and animals, shows how these microbes travel through the air. Researchers now believe that with impro ... more | .. |
 Extreme summertime temperatures to become a regular occurrence In an article in the current issue of the journal Climatic Change Letters, Boston University researchers have estimated the impact near-term increases in global-mean temperatures will have on summer ... more | .. |
  Dalai Lama addresses thousands in Mexico City Thousands gathered to listen to the Dalai Lama in Mexico City on Sunday, after China complained over Mexican President Felipe Calderon's meeting with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader. ... more | .. |
  Pakistan PM calls for global flood help Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has called for international help for up to five million people affected by recent monsoon rains. ... more |
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 Silence as Japan marks six months after tsunami Japan fell silent in prayer on Sunday, six months after an earthquake and tsunami left 20,000 dead or missing and sparked a nuclear crisis on its Pacific coast. ... more | .. |
 Japan's nuclear disaster - six months on Six months after Japan's massive March 11 earthquake and tsunami sparked the world's worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl, emergency crews are struggling to stop radiation seeping out. ... more | .. |
 Military rescue helicopter missing in Indonesia A rescue helicopter was feared to have gone down in Indonesia's remote province of Papua during a mission to find two foreign pilots whose plane crashed, the military said Sunday. ... more | .. |
 Speeches offer insight into former China premier Zhu Former Chinese premier Zhu Rongji, considered by many the architect of the country's economic boom, this week published a collection of speeches he gave to party officials. ... more |
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European Response to Escalating Space Security Crisis
BlackSky to deliver advanced Gen-3 tactical ISR capabilities to international customer
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  Arctic ice cover hits historic low: scientists The area covered by Arctic sea ice reached its lowest point this week since the start of satellite observations in 1972, German researchers announced on Saturday. ... more | .. |
  Spanish warship rescues French hostage from pirates Troops from a Spanish warship stormed a pirate skiff in the Gulf of Aden Saturday and rescued a French hostage missing from her yacht but found no trace of her husband, the EU anti-piracy mission said. ... more | .. |
 Japan trade minister resigns over Fukushima comments In an early embarrassment for Japan's eight day-old government, the economy, trade and industry minister resigned Saturday over comments deemed insensitive to evacuees from crisis-hit Fukushima. ... more | .. |
 Malaysia complains to Indonesia over haze: report Malaysia has complained to Indonesia about land-clearing fires in the neighbouring country that have led to a blanket of pollution and poor air quality. ... more |
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 PM visits tsunami-hit area as Japan mourns dead Japan's new Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda visited the northeastern region devastated by the March 11 quake and tsunami on Saturday as the nation prepared to mark six months since tragedy struck. ... more | .. |
 UN agency tackles post-Fukushima safety, Iran A global safety "action plan" in the wake of Japan's Fukushima disaster and growing suspicions that Iran is developing nuclear weapons will dominate a meeting of the UN atomic watchdog next week. ... more | .. |
 At least 11 dead in China ferry sinking: reports At least 11 people, including nine schoolchildren, died when an apparently overloaded ferry capsized in a river in southern China, reports said Saturday. ... more | .. |
Fifteen people seized aboard a boat in Colombia: navy Armed men on Friday seized about 15 people traveling on a boat near the southwestern Colombian port of Tumaco, the navy announced. ... more |
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Bezos's Blue Origin postpones rocket launch over weather
SpaceX launches 29 satellites after fireball spotted in the sky
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 Tropical Storm Nate on track to hit Mexico at weekend Tropical Storm Nate was moving across the Gulf of Mexico Friday and was expected to hit the Mexican coast by the weekend, possibly as a hurricane, forecasters said. ... more | .. |
 Deadly heavy rains drench southern Brazil Torrential rains that caused record flooding in southern Brazil reportedly killed three people and force more than 63,000 residents to evacuate their homes, officials said Friday. ... more | .. |
 Obama asks for $5.1 billion in disaster relief US President Barack Obama Friday asked Congress for an additional $5.1 billion in disaster relief funding through fiscal year 2012, after a string of storms battered the United States. ... more | .. |
  Philippines urged to free giant crocodile An animal rights group urged the Philippines Saturday to free what is thought to be the world's largest crocodile in captivity, even though it allegedly killed two people. ... more |
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  U.S., Europe sign world fishing pact The United States and Europe say they've signed an agreement to cooperate in combating illegal fishing on the world's oceans. ... more | .. |
  EU to maintain safety checks on food from Japan The European Union will extend until year's end checks on potential radioactive contamination in food imports from certain regions of Japan, the EU's executive said Friday. ... more | .. |
Crew of French yacht missing off Yemen: foreign ministry A German warship has found a French catamaran adrift in pirate-infested waters in the Gulf of Aden off Yemen with no crew aboard, and their fate is unknown, France said Friday. ... more | .. |
 Deadly floods hit US northeast in wake of Irene Heavy rain on Thursday swamped areas of the US northeast already sodden from Hurricane Irene, with up to five people killed as flash floods forced over 100,000 to leave their homes. ... more |
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