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Hungary orders Danube closed amid big freezeBudapest (AFP) Feb 10, 2012 Hungary closed the Danube to river traffic Friday due to thick ice, bringing shipping to a near standstill on Europe's busiest waterway, as the continent's cold snap death toll passed 540. "Shipping was ordered stopped overnight Thursday to Friday because of conditions created by icing along the Hungarian part of the river," Istvan Lang, who heads the national technical supervisory body OMIT said. "All ships still underway must immediately head for the closest harbour," Lang, quoted by MTI news ... read more |
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  Health experts, scientists to discuss bird flu studies The World Health Organization said Friday it will meet next week to determine whether scientists can publish research on a bird flu virus that may be easily passed among humans. ... more | .. |
  Early farmers may have impacted climate Present-day humans may not be the first to have affected world climate, researchers say, citing possible changes in Africa triggered by farmers 3,000 years ago. ... more | .. |
  A silver bullet to beat cancer? The internet is awash with stories of how silver can be used to treat cancer. Now, lab tests have shown that it is as effective as the leading chemotherapy drug - and may have fewer side-effects. ... more | .. |
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  Tree rings may underestimate climate response to volcanic eruptions Some climate cooling caused by past volcanic eruptions may not be evident in tree-ring reconstructions of temperature change because large enough temperature drops lead to greatly shortened or even ... more | .. |
  Brain capacity limits exponential online data growth Scientists have found that the capacity of the human brain to process and record information - and not economic constraints - may constitute the dominant limiting factor for the overall growth of gl ... more | .. |
  Putin receives 'prehistoric' water from Antarctic lake Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was given a water sample Friday taken from a pristine lake hidden under Antarctic ice for over a million years, after Russian scientists drilled down to its surface. ... more | .. |
  Greece being torn apart by austerity cuts Greece is being torn apart by the punishing demands of a harsh austerity program set in motion by a deeply divided government. ... more |
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Seoul's power giant pushes back on EU probe into Czech nuclear bid
Nuclear option: Indonesia seeks to grow energy, cut emissions
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  Reform of EU fishing quotas urged Letting overfished fish stocks recover would, over time, help the European fishing industry earn more money and create more jobs, a study says. ... more | .. |
 Entire genome of extinct human decoded from fossil In 2010, Svante Paabo and his colleagues presented a draft version of the genome from a small fragment of a human finger bone discovered in Denisova Cave in southern Siberia. The DNA sequences showe ... more | .. |
  Southern Indian Ocean humpbacks singing different tunes A recently published study by the Wildlife Conservation Society and others reveals that humpback whales on both sides of the southern Indian Ocean are singing different tunes, unusual since humpback ... more | .. |
  Invasive alien predator causes rapid declines of European ladybirds A new study provides compelling evidence that the arrival of the invasive non-native harlequin ladybird to mainland Europe and subsequent spread has led to a rapid decline in historically-widespread ... more |
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 Death toll in Philippine quake rises to 39 The death toll from a strong quake this week in the central Philippines rose to 39 on Friday, with dozens of missing feared dead, a disaster official said. ... more | .. |
 Chile to prosecute workers over lack of tsunami warning Chile's attorney general announced Friday that eight emergency warning workers would be prosecuted for failing to notify the public about a deadly tsunami in February 2010. ... more | .. |
 Egyptians rally against defiant military rulers Thousands of people rallied outside Egypt's defence ministry Friday calling for the military rulers' ouster a day before a civil disobedience campaign marking Hosni Mubarak's overthrow a year ago. ... more | .. |
 Libya fallout fans Sahel hunger pangs as crisis looms Sahel states are bracing for a long, potentially deadly hungry season, many weakened by the return of people from Libya who are unemployed, armed and creating fresh strife in already-vulnerable countries. ... more |
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North Korea says US missile shield plans risk 'nuclear war' in space
Israel military says intercepted two projectiles fired from Yemen
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  Police chief flies to Beijing amid defection rumours A former Chinese police chief whose visit to a US consulate sparked rumours he was trying to defect flew to Beijing with a top state security officer after meeting American officials in southwest China. ... more | .. |
 China's Wen pledges greater freedoms for restive Tibet Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao Friday pledged religious freedom and cultural protection in Tibet, just hours after security forces reportedly killed two Tibetans who protested China's rule. ... more | .. |
 Some police, firefighters begin strike in Rio Brazil's police unrest spread to Rio Friday, where hundreds of police and firefighters kicked off a strike for better pay, raising fears of disruption of the upcoming Carnival. ... more | .. |
 Hundreds of dead dolphins wash ashore in Peru At least 264 dead bottlenose dolphins have washed ashore over the past three days on Peru's northern coast, officials said Friday as they seek to discover what killed the marine animals. ... more |
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 US issues guidelines to avoid heparin contamination Four years after US drug-maker Baxter International's blood thinner heparin was contaminated in China, causing dozens of deaths, US regulators on Friday issued draft guidelines for safe production. ... more | .. |
 S.Africa announces AIDS drug venture with Swiss Lonza South Africa on Friday unveiled plans for a 1.6 billion rand ($208 million, 157 million euro) pharmaceutical plant, in a joint venture with Swiss biochemicals group Lonza to produce anti-AIDS drugs. ... more | .. |
 Coaxing a Shy Microbe to Stand Out in a Crowd The communities of marine microorganisms that make up half the biomass in the oceans and are responsible for half the photosynthesis the world over, mostly remain enigmatic. A few abundant groups ha ... more | .. |
 The butterfly effect in nanotech medical diagnostics Tiny metallic nanoparticles that shimmer in the light like the scales on a butterfly's wing are set to become the color-change components of a revolutionary new approach to point-of-care medical dia ... more |
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SpaceX set for next Starship launch after fiery failures
Microsoft AI weather forecast faster, cheaper, truer: study
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 Not the black sheep of domestic animals Mapping the ancestry of sheep over the past 11,000 years has revealed that our woolly friends are stars among domestic animals, boasting vast genetic diversity and substantial prospects for continue ... more | .. |
  Bird numbers drop around Fukushima Bird populations near Japan's damaged Fukushima nuclear plant have dropped more than expected from a related analysis of the Chernobyl disaster, scientists say. ... more | .. |
 Neanderthal demise due to many influences, including cultural changes As an ice age crept upon them thousands of years ago, Neanderthals and modern human ancestors expanded their territory ranges across Asia and Europe to adapt to the changing environment. In th ... more | .. |
 UNH Ocean Scientists Shed New Light on Mariana Trench An ocean mapping expedition has shed new light on deepest place on Earth, the 2,500-kilometer long Mariana Trench in the western Pacific Ocean near Guam. Using a multibeam echo sounder, state-of-the ... more |
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 Why the brain is more reluctant to function as we age New findings, led by neuroscientists at the University of Bristol and published this week in the journal Neurobiology of Aging, reveal a novel mechanism through which the brain may become more reluc ... more | .. |
 Romney: China's one-child policy 'barbaric' Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, courting conservatives who still regard him with suspicion, denounced China's "one-child" policy on Friday as "barbaric." ... more | .. |
 Google Earth Ocean Terrain Receives Major Update Internet information giant Google updated ocean data in its Google Earth application this week, reflecting new bathymetry data assembled by Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, NOAA re ... more | .. |
  A battle of the vampires, 20 million years ago? They are tiny, ugly, disease-carrying little blood-suckers that most people have never seen or heard of, but a new discovery in a one-of-a-kind fossil shows that "bat flies" have been doing their no ... more |
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