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New evidence for the oldest oxygen-breathing life on landEdmonton, Canada (SPX) Oct 25, 2011 New University of Alberta research shows the first evidence that oxygen-breathing bacteria occupied and thrived on land 100 million years earlier than previously thought. The researchers show the most primitive form of aerobic respiring life on land came into existence 2.48 billion years ago. The research team, led by U of A geomicrobiologist Kurt Konhauser made their find by investigating a link between atmospheric oxygen levels and rising concentrations of chromium in the rock of ancient s ... read more |
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  Purdue leads national earthquake program blanketing Indiana with seismic stations Seismic equipment is being installed throughout Indiana as part of a national program to better understand how and why earthquakes and volcanic events occur, and Purdue University professors and stu ... more | .. |
  Tracing the first North American hunters A new and astonishing chapter has been added to North American prehistory in regards to the first hunters and their hunt for the now extinct giant mammoth-like creatures - the mastodons. Profe ... more | .. |
  A family tree for most-endangered bird family in the world Using one of the largest DNA data sets for a group of birds and employing next-generation sequencing methods, Smithsonian scientists and collaborators have determined the evolutionary family tree fo ... more | .. |
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  Putting light-harvesters on the spot How the light-harvesting complexes required for photosynthesis get to their site of action in the plant cell is reported by RUB biologists in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. The team led ... more | .. |
  Fiery volcano offers geologic glimpse into land that time forgot The first scientists to witness exploding rock and molten lava from a deep sea volcano, seen during a 2009 expedition, report that the eruption was near a tear in the Earth's crust that is mimicking ... more | .. |
  NASA Releases Visual Tour of Earth's Fires NASA has released a series of new satellite data visualizations that show tens of millions of fires detected worldwide from space since 2002. The visualizations show fire observations made by the MO ... more | .. |
  Brazil pulls out of OAS meet over Amazon dam dispute Brazil will not take part in the annual meeting of the Organization of American States in Washington on Wednesday due to a dispute over a giant hydroelectric plant, said opponents of the scheme. ... more |
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'No doubt' Canadian firm will be first to extract deep sea minerals: CEO
Tabletop particle blaster: How tiny nozzles and lasers could replace giant accelerators
Set it and forget it: Autonomous structures can be programmed to jump days in advance | .. |
  Space weather prediction model improves NOAA's forecast skill NOAA is now using a sophisticated forecast model that substantially improves predictions of space weather impacts on Earth. Better forecasts offer additional protection for people and the technology ... more | .. |
  China's glaciers in meltdown mode: study Sharp increases in temperature driven by global warming are melting China's Himalayan glaciers, an impact that threatens habitats, tourism and economic development, says a study released Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  Nicaraguan naval vessel missing in Caribbean storm A Nicaraguan naval vessel on an evacuation mission went missing in the Caribbean on Monday as nearby Hurricane Rina took aim at the popular tourist resort beaches of Belize and Mexico. ... more | .. |
  Biden denounces Somali guerrillas over famine US Vice President Joe Biden on Monday sharply criticized the Islamist Shebab rebels over Somalia's famine, saying that the group has hindered efforts to bring food to the hungry. ... more |
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 Bangkok set for unstoppable floodwaters Millions of people in the Thai capital nervously prepared for advancing and seemingly unstoppable floodwaters on Monday after residents in areas deemed most at threat were urged to leave. ... more | .. |
  France denies Somali bombardment, admits helping Kenya France is providing limited logistical support to Kenya's offensive against Islamist rebels in Somalia, the defence ministry said Monday, formally denying a French warship had bombarded the Somali coast. ... more | .. |
 Turkey, a country at seismic crossroads The 7.2-magnitude earthquake that struck Van province in eastern Turkey on Sunday, causing hundreds of fatalities, underscores the country's fate to be straddling one of the world's most active seismic zones. ... more | .. |
  Fresh oil pollution reported in Nigerian region A Nigerian environmental group on Monday claimed an oil spill from a pipeline operated by Italian firm ENI had badly polluted an area in the south of Africa's largest oil producer. ... more |
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Iran FM warns Europe against 'strategic mistake' at IAEA; Iran obtained 'sensitive' Israeli intel
DOD is investigating Hegseth's staffers over Houthi-strikes chats
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  Bolivia reaches agreement with Amazon protesters The Bolivian government and representatives of Amazon native protesters reached an agreement Monday ending two months of protests that have eroded support for President Evo Morales. ... more | .. |
 Desperate hunt for survivors after Turkey quake carnage Rescuers scrambled Monday to find survivors of an earthquake that killed at least 279 people in eastern Turkey as residents readied to spend a second night outside in the freezing cold. ... more | .. |
  Use Japan nuke disaster to reform mental health system: WHO Japan should use a higher rate of mental health problems after the Fukushima nuclear accident to update outdated attitudes to depression in the country, a top health official said Monday. ... more | .. |
 Desperate hunt for survivors after Turkey quake carnage Rescuers scrambled through the rubble in a desperate search on Monday for survivors of an earthquake that killed at least 264 people in Turkey as residents fled the scenes of devastation. ... more |
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 8.5% carbon cut needed by 2020 for Copenhagen goal: study Meeting the target for global warming enshrined in the 2009 Copenhagen Accord will require carbon emissions to decline by more than eight percent by 2020 compared to 2010 and then continue their fall, a study said on Sunday. ... more | .. |
  Kirchner celebrates re-election landslide in Argentina President Cristina Kirchner celebrated a landslide re-election victory in Argentine elections Monday, on the back of booming economic growth and sympathy a year after the death of her husband. ... more | .. |
 Radiation hotspot near Tokyo linked to Fukushima: officials Radiation levels as high as those in the evacuation zone around Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant have been detected in a Tokyo suburb, and are likely linked to the disaster, officials said Monday. ... more | .. |
 Bangkok set for unstoppable floodwaters Millions of people in the Thai capital nervously prepared for advancing and seemingly unstoppable floodwaters on Monday after residents in areas deemed most at threat were urged to leave. ... more |
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Trump-Musk showdown threatens US space plans
Japanese company aborts Moon mission after assumed crash-landing
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  China's local election candidates campaign online When Yao Bo announced online that he was running in China's local elections, he joined dozens of candidates using the Internet to campaign for votes - a phenomenon that has spooked authorities. ... more | .. |
 Mongol herder killed in China land dispute: rights group A Chinese truck driver has killed an ethnic Mongol herder who was trying to protect his grazing land, a rights group said, five months after a similar incident sparked protests in Inner Mongolia. ... more | .. |
  Better use of Global Geospatial Information for Solving Development Challenges Representatives from 90 United Nations Member States and more than 50 international and civil society organizations and private sector entities will gather in Seoul, Republic of Korea, from 23 to 27 ... more | .. |
 New bacteria toxins against resistant insect pests Toxins from Bacillus thuringiensis bacteria (Bt toxins) are used in organic and conventional farming to manage pest insects. Sprayed as pesticides or produced in genetically modified plants, Bt toxi ... more |
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 Explanation for Glowing Seas Suggested It has long been known that distinctive blue flashes--a type of bioluminescence--that are visible at night in some marine environments are caused by tiny, unicellular plankton known as dinoflagellat ... more | .. |
  Manufacturing goes viral Using a simple, single-step process, engineers and scientists at the University of California at Berkeley have developed a technique to direct benign, filamentous viruses called M13 phages to serve ... more | .. |
 From red planet to deep blue sea: Astronomer Squyres becomes NASA aquanaut Cornell professor of astronomy Steven Squyres, the lead scientist for NASA's Rover mission to Mars, has just taken the plunge as a NASA aquanaut. Cornell's Goldwin Smith Professor of Astronomy is on ... more | .. |
 Study Reveals Diversity of Life in Soils Microscopic animals that live in soils are as diverse in the tropical forests of Costa Rica as they are in the arid grasslands of Kenya, or the tundra and boreal forests of Alaska and Sweden. That c ... more |
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