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Aquino vows aid as Philippine flood toll tops 1,000Cagayan De Oro, Philippines (AFP) Dec 20, 2011 Philippine President Benigno Aquino pledged aid Tuesday to communities hit by flash floods that walloped the south, as the official toll topped a thousand dead or missing. Aquino flew to Mindanao island to inspect the ports of Cagayan de Oro and Iligan, choked with drying mud and crumpled homes, as well as hundreds of decomposing corpses that have raised health fears. Mass burial plans for some of the dead that were announced a day earlier were called off Tuesday, with officials saying each woul ... read more |
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  Central Asian glaciers resist warming Glaciers in Central Asia will melt far less from the effects of climate change than will those in other mountain ranges, researchers say. ... more | .. |
  Police in China fire tear-gas, beat protesters: witnesses Police fired tear-gas and beat demonstrators who stormed government buildings in southern China on Tuesday to protest a power plant, witnesses said, in the latest violent unrest to hit the country. ... more | .. |
  Mind reading machines on their way: IBM Century-old technology colossus IBM on Monday depicted a near future in which machines read minds and recognize who they are dealing with. ... more | .. |
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  Small fire at Japan nuclear lab; no radiation leak A building housing an experimental nuclear reactor in Japan caught fire Tuesday, but there was no leak of radioactive materials, officials said, amid nervousness over Japan's atomic industry. ... more | .. |
  Dutch unveil latest plan in war against the sea: a sandbar In its age-old war to keep back the sea, low-lying Netherlands has dumped sand onto a surface larger than 200 football fields just off the coast - and will wait for nature to do the rest. ... more | .. |
 Japan coastguard arrests Chinese fisherman Japan's coastguard said Tuesday it had arrested a Chinese boat captain in a possible fresh test for sometimes fraught maritime relations, just days after a South Korean officer was stabbed to death at sea. ... more | .. |
  Thai army chief opposes change to royal insult law Thailand's powerful army chief expressed opposition Tuesday to amending the country's lese majeste law, recently criticised by the West, saying those who opposed it should move abroad. ... more |
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  Plant-eating dinosaur discovered in Antarctica For the first time, the presence of large bodied herbivorous dinosaurs in Antarctica has been recorded. Until now, remains of sauropoda - one of the most diverse and geographically widespread specie ... more | .. |
 What are the prospects for sustaining high-quality groundwater Intensive agriculture practices developed during the past century have helped improve food security for many people but have also added to nitrate pollution in surface and groundwaters. New research ... more | .. |
 I wanna talk like you The role of social structure in animal communication is hotly debated. Non-human primates seem to be born with a range of calls and sounds which is dependent upon their species. But overlying this t ... more | .. |
  Evolution at warp speed: Hatcheries change salmon genetics after a single generation The impact of hatcheries on salmon is so profound that in just one generation traits are selected that allow fish to survive and prosper in the hatchery environment, at the cost of their ability to ... more |
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 A small step for lungfish, a big step for the evolution of walking The eel-like body and scrawny "limbs" of the African lungfish would appear to make it an unlikely innovator for locomotion. But its improbable walking behavior, newly described by University of Chic ... more | .. |
 Ocean dead zones shrinking habitat for blue marlins, other tropical billfish and tunas The science behind counting fish in the ocean to measure their abundance has never been simple. A new scientific paper authored by NOAA Fisheries biologist Eric Prince, Ph.D., and eight other scient ... more | .. |
  Sugar pump in plants identified Plants must supply their various tissues with the carbohydrates they produce through photosynthesis in the leaves. However, they do not have a muscular pump like the human heart to help transport th ... more | .. |
 Artichokes grow big in Texas Loaded with antioxidants and phytochemicals, the artichoke is becoming more popular as consumer interest in specialty products swells. And while 90% of the artichokes grown in the United States come ... more |
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China's new aircraft carrier enters service in key move to modernise fleet
Global tech tensions overshadow Web Summit's AI and robots
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 Growstones ideal alternative to perlite, parboiled rice hulls In the greenhouse business, organic and inorganic growing substrates are chosen for the physical and chemical properties necessary to support specific crops and growing conditions. One important phy ... more | .. |
 Wheat can't stop Hessian flies, so scientists find reinforcements Wheat's genetic resistance to Hessian flies has been failing, but a group of Purdue University and U.S. Department of Agriculture scientists believe that other plants may soon be able to come to the ... more | .. |
  Mexico shuts down 'world's biggest garbage dump' Authorities Monday shut down Mexico's - and possibly the world's - biggest garbage dump and said they would invite bids to exploit methane gas generated by the decomposing waste. ... more | .. |
 Vaclav Havel, an appreciation In a lifetime in journalism one meets many famous people and political leaders of great power and presence. But among the Clinton and both Bushes and Gorbachev and Yeltsin and Thatcher and Blair and Schroeder and Kissinger and Sharon and Netanyahu and Gadhafi, Vaclav Havel stands out as unique. ... more |
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  US special forces in Central Africa for LRA rebel hunt US special forces have set up a base in the Central African Republic as part of their regional hunt for fighters from the Ugandan-born Lord's Resistance Army group, military sources said Monday. ... more | .. |
 Geography, squatting blamed for Philippine floods A freak storm, poor warning systems, flimsy buildings and human folly are all being blamed as Philippine officials struggle to explain one of the deadliest flash floods to have hit the country. ... more | .. |
 Hong Kong candidate pledges full suffrage in 2017 China's reported choice for Hong Kong's next leader promised Monday to "set the stage" for universal suffrage, as he held a rally ahead of March polls expected to be heavily influenced by Beijing. ... more | .. |
 China villagers warned against protest march Villagers in southern China in a rare stand-off with local Communist authorities said Monday they were being bombarded with calls from officials to warn them not to take part in a planned protest march. ... more |
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SpaceX to Acquire EchoStar AWS-3 Spectrum Licenses in $2.6 Billion Stock Deal
Robotic exosuit designed to assist astronaut movement tested in simulated lunar mission
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  Big quakes no more likely than in past: study Massive earthquakes are no more likely today than they were a century ago, despite an apparent rise of the devastating temblors in recent years, US researchers said on Monday. ... more | .. |
 Flood-hit Philippines prepares for mass burials The Philippines prepared for mass burials of flood victims Monday to minimise health risks from rotting cadavers after a cyclone disaster left hundreds dead or missing on Mindanao island. ... more | .. |
 China starts football corruption trials The former head referee of China's football Super League went on trial Monday on charges of bribe-taking, kicking off a series of corruption hearings involving top officials. ... more | .. |
 Elephant seal travels 18,000 miles The Wildlife Conservation Society tracked a southern elephant seal for an astonishing 18,000 miles - the equivalent of New York to Sydney and back again. WCS tracked the male seal from December, 201 ... more |
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 Asparagus benefits from X-ray treatment As consumer demand for convenient, nutritious foods increases, pre-cut and packaged fruit and vegetables become more popular. Food producers are looking to science to discover new ways to safely ext ... more | .. |
 Improved rainwater harvesting system promising Ridge and furrow rainwater-harvesting (RFRH) systems with mulches were first researched in the flat, lowland, semiarid conditions of northwest China to improve water availability and to increase cro ... more | .. |
 How exposure to irregular light affects plant circadian rhythms Scientists know that plants can actually "sense" day length, and "schedule" their growth to coincide with specific environmental conditions. These natural events are based on the circadian clock, a ... more | .. |
 Starving orangutans might help to better understand obesity and eating disorders in humans Rutgers Evolutionary Anthropologist Erin Vogel thinks new research published in Biology Letters, a Journal of the Royal Society, examining how endangered Indonesian orangutans - considered a close r ... more |
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