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LSU professor discovers world's tiniest vertebrateBaton Rouge LA (SPX) Jan 13, 2012 LSU's Chris Austin recently discovered two new species of frogs in New Guinea, one of which is now the world's tiniest known vertebrate, averaging only 7.7 millimeters in size - less than one-third of an inch. It ousts Paedocypris progenetica, an Indonesian fish averaging more than 8 millimeters, from the record. Austin, leading a team of scientists from the United States including LSU graduate student Eric Rittmeyer, made the discovery during a three-month long expedition to the island of New Gui ... read more |
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  Evolution is written all over your face Why are the faces of primates so dramatically different from one another? UCLA biologists working as "evolutionary detectives" studied the faces of 129 adult male primates from Central and South Ame ... more | .. |
  Activists hurl stink bombs, paint at Japan whalers Environmental activists threw paint and foul smelling acid at whaling ships in the Antarctic ocean in a fresh bid to halt the annual hunt, Japanese authorities said Thursday. ... more | .. |
  Global cyber anti-garbage drive aims to muster millions Cyber-environmentalists said Thursday they aim to mobilise millions of people around the world for a mass waste clean-up, saying they had to step in because governments had failed to do so. ... more | .. |
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 Can we save the whales by putting a price on them? Every year, a group of anti-whaling nonprofit organizations that includes Greenpeace, Sea Shepherd, and the World Wildlife Fund spend, by conservative estimates, some $25 million on a variety of act ... more | .. |
  Conserving biodiversity could benefit the world's poor Land areas that are a priority for wildlife conservation provide relatively high levels of ecosystem services such as pollination, water purification, food production, and climate regulation, so saf ... more | .. |
  Cold Weather Airborne Campaign to Measure Falling Snow Beginning Jan. 17, NASA will fly an airborne science laboratory above Canadian snowstorms to tackle a difficult challenge facing the upcoming Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) satellite mission ... more | .. |
 Diverse ecosystems are crucial climate change buffer Preserving diverse plant life will be crucial to buffer the negative effects of climate change and desertification in in the world's drylands, according to a new landmark study. The findings of the ... more |
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Overlooked cells might explain the human brain's huge storage capacity
Key climate target of airline decarbonisation 'in peril': IATA
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 Health and Food Security Benefit From Climate Change Actions A new study led by a NASA scientist highlights 14 key air pollution control measures that, if implemented, could slow the pace of global warming, improve health and boost agricultural production. ... more | .. |
 Honeybee deaths linked to seed insecticide exposure Honeybee populations have been in serious decline for years, and Purdue University scientists may have identified one of the factors that cause bee deaths around agricultural fields. Analyses ... more | .. |
 Short, sharp shock treatment for E. coli A short burst of low voltage alternating current can effectively eradicate E. coli bacteria growing on the surface of even heavily contaminated beef, according to a study published in the Internatio ... more | .. |
  Why do dew drops do what they do on leaves? Nobel laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore once wrote, "Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf." Now, a new study is finally offering an explanation for why smal ... more |
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  Russian fuel ship battles to reach ice-bound Alaska A Russian ship carrying vital fuel supplies is battling through thick ice to reach parts of frigid Alaska cut off by a severe winter storm in the US state, officials said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  Arab observers face tough mission in Syria: China China's envoy to the Middle East Wu Sike on Thursday said Arab League observers were facing "difficulties" in Syria, urging the government and other factions there to cooperate with the monitors. ... more | .. |
  Spanish navy repels pirate attack in Indian ocean: ministry A Spanish navy ship fought off a gun attack by pirates on the Somali coast Thursday, then chased and captured six of the attackers while one was reported killed, authorities said. ... more | .. |
  S.African rangers kill poachers in Kruger park Authorities have killed two suspected poachers, arrested two others and found 11 rhino carcasses in the same area of South Africa's Kruger National Park in one week, a spokesman said Thursday. ... more |
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UK to build attack subs as part of major defence review
Ukraine strikes Russian bombers ahead of Istanbul talks
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 S. Africa slams Security Council over Libya crisis South Africa's President Jacob Zuma on Thursday slammed the UN Security Council's handling of last year's Libya crisis and demanded the institution take greater account of African views in handling conflict. ... more | .. |
 Bowing to pressure, Beijing begins hourly smog data Beijing on Thursday began publishing real-time air quality data on the Internet, bowing to a vocal online campaign for greater government transparency over pollution in China's capital. ... more | .. |
  Cut back on soot, methane to slow warming: study There are simple, inexpensive ways to cut back on two major pollutants - soot and methane - and taking action now could slow climate change for years to come, international scientists said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Somalia: rebels and regional powers in the conflict Somalia's Islamist Shebab insurgents face increasing pressure from regional armies and government forces, with almost every Horn of Africa nation drawn into the two-decade-long conflict. ... more |
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  Still in ruins: Haiti marks two years after quake Haitians flocked to churches Thursday to mark the second anniversary of the catastrophic 2010 earthquake that killed a quarter-of-a-million people in the poorest country in the Americas. ... more | .. |
  Police raid prominent Chinese dissident's flat One of China's most prominent dissidents said Thursday police interrogated him for eight hours and raided his flat while his four-year-old daughter was present, warning him not to write comments online. ... more | .. |
 US is biggest wine consumer, China joins top five US consumers were the world's top wine drinkers in 2011, while China displaced Britain to become the fifth largest wine consumer, according to new research released on Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Warmer winds a boost to easy-rider albatross Stronger winds over the Southern Ocean around Antarctica have helped the wandering albatross fly faster and breed more successfully, European scientists said on Thursday. ... more |
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China expands satellite networks for smart connectivity
Iridium and Syniverse to Enable Direct-to-Device Satellite Connectivity for MNOs Worldwide
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 Early primate had a transitional lemur-like grooming claw Celebrities are channeling a distant relative with what Harper's Bazaar describes as the latest trend in nail fashion for 2012: claws. But this may not be the first time primates traded their nails ... more | .. |
 Backing out of the nanotunnel In the world of biomolecules such as proteins and the hereditary nucleic acids DNA and RNA, three-dimensional structure determines function. Analysis of the passage of such molecules through nanopor ... more | .. |
 Fewer animal experiments thanks to nanosensors Experiments on animals have been the subject of criticism for decades, but there is no prospect of a move away from them any time soon. The number of tests involving laboratory animals has in fact g ... more | .. |
 Scientists Look to Microbes to Unlock Earth's Deep Secrets Of all the habitable parts of our planet, one ecosystem still remains largely unexplored and unknown to science: the igneous ocean crust. This rocky realm of hard volcanic lava exists beneath ocean ... more |
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 Dramatic Links Found Between Climate Change, Elk, Plants, and Birds Climate change in the form of reduced snowfall in mountains is causing powerful and cascading shifts in mountainous plant and bird communities through the increased ability of elk to stay at high el ... more | .. |
  World's most extreme deep-sea vents revealed Scientists have revealed details of the world's most extreme deep-sea volcanic vents, 5 kilometres down in a rift in the Caribbean seafloor. The undersea hot springs, which lie 0.8 kilometres deeper ... more | .. |
 Fusion plasma research helps neurologists to hear above the noise Fusion plasma researchers at the University of Warwick have teamed up with Cambridge neuroscientists to apply their expertise developed to study inaccessible fusion plasmas in order to significantly ... more | .. |
Still in ruins: Haiti marks two years after quake President Michel Martelly laid a wreath Tuesday at the mass grave north of the capital of victims of a catastrophic earthquake that killed a quarter-of-a-million people in the poorest country in the Americas. ... more |
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