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Notre Dame research shows food-trade network vulnerable to fast spread of contaminantsNotre Dame IN (SPX) Jun 13, 2012 University of Notre Dame network physicists Maria Ercsey-Ravasz and Zoltan Toroczkai of the Interdisciplinary Center for Network Science and Applications, in collaboration with food science experts, have recently published a rigorous analysis of the international food-trade network that shows the network's vulnerability to the fast spread of contaminants as well as the correlation between known food poisoning outbreaks and the centrality of countries on the network. Together with food science expe ... read more |
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 Parasitic plants 'steal' genes from their hosts New research published today in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Genomics reveals that the Malaysian parasitic plant Rafflesia cantleyi, with its 50cm diameter flowers, has 'stolen' genes fr ... more | .. |
  Killer whale at risk due to inadequate prey population Southern resident killer whales, found along the northwest coast of North America, are in trouble mostly because of inadequate prey, the number vessels in their habitat has much less impact, accordi ... more | .. |
  1 million billion billion billion billion billion billion: Number of undiscovered drugs A new voyage into "chemical space" - occupied not by stars and planets but substances that could become useful in everyday life - has concluded that scientists have synthesized barely one tenth of 1 ... more | .. |
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  A search engine for social networks based on the behavior of ants Research at Carlos III University (Universidad Carlos III) in Madrid (Universidad Carlos III - UC3M) is developing an algorithm, based on ants' behavior when they are searching for food, which accel ... more | .. |
 Where have all the hummingbirds gone? The glacier lily as it's called, is a tall, willowy plant that graces mountain meadows throughout western North America. It flowers early in spring, when the first bumblebees and hummingbirds appear ... more | .. |
  More people, more environmental stress Although it's long been suspected that human activity has greatly contributed to environmental stress, it's only recently that science has begun to show just how great a role that activity is playin ... more | .. |
  Scientists correct Amazon water level gauges from space NASA's laser satellite, ICESat, has been used to make corrections to water level gauges that are critical in monitoring water flow in the Amazon, the world's largest river. The new study, conducted ... more |
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Iraq signs mega-energy deal with Chinese oil firm
Do photons wear out? An astrophysicist explains light's ability to travel vast cosmic distances without losing energy
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 Knotty proteins present new puzzle Strings of all kinds, when jostled, wind up in knots. It turns out that happens even when the strings are long strands of molecules that make up proteins. A new study by scientists at Rice Universit ... more | .. |
 Bird Rest Stops To Be Tracked by NASA Rain Radar At sunset on a spring night, tree-dwelling songbirds take off in a flurry of wings from the lower Delmarva Peninsula near Oyster, Va. The peninsula is a temporary home to hundreds of species of migr ... more | .. |
 China threatened by farmland contamination Much of China's agricultural soil is contaminated by pollutants, including arsenic and heavy metals, that pose a threat to the country's food production, experts warn. ... more | .. |
  More than 70 feared dead in Afghan quakes More than 70 people, most women and children, are feared dead after a landslide triggered by a double earthquake engulfed their Afghan village, officials said on Tuesday. ... more |
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  Japan to develop drones to monitor radiation Japan's atomic energy authority and the country's space agency Tuesday announced a joint project to develop a drone to measure radioactivity in the environment after last year's nuclear disaster. ... more | .. |
 EU says deal with China key to fight fake wine The EU commissioner for agriculture said Tuesday an agreement with Beijing to battle counterfeits would likely be signed in September, adding the deal was key for the region's wine and spirit sector. ... more | .. |
  Ex-Norway PM denied visa to China after Nobel tiff Former Norwegian prime minister Kjell Magne Bondevik has been denied a visa to enter China, Oslo said Tuesday, in what appeared to be continued fallout from a diplomatic row over the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize to a Chinese dissident. ... more | .. |
 Climate, habitat, humans in cahoots to kill mammoths: study Rising temperatures, changing vegetation and the spread of humans all contributed to the extinction of the woolly mammoth, according to a new study that said no single factor was to blame. ... more |
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Trump's 'Golden Dome' US missile defense plan faces major challenges
Iran-US nuclear talks set for Rome this week
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  Myanmar president appeals for calm Myanmar President Thein Sein has appealed for calm in Rakhine state as clashes between the Muslim minority and Buddhist majority escalate. ... more | .. |
  Forests could be global warming factor Fertile soils in U.S. forests could release vast amounts of carbon dioxide due to global warming, creating a "vicious cycle" of heat increases, scientists say. ... more | .. |
  Five dead, thousands evacuated as rain pounds Taiwan At least five people died after mudslides unleashed by torrential rains hit central Taiwan while thousands had to be evacuated island-wide, rescue officials said on Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Low-carbon farming takes root in Brazil's Amazon Manoel Jose Leite, a small-scale organic farmer, is set to pioneer low-carbon agriculture in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, which for decades has been destroyed by expanding agribusiness. ... more |
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 Environmentalists fear EU will fail to save its fish The European Union, the world's third fishing power, came under sharp pressure from green groups and the EU executive to save the oceans from overfishing at key talks Tuesday to overhaul the sector. ... more | .. |
 Hong Kong official questions China dissident death A senior Hong Kong official said Tuesday the death of Chinese dissident Li Wangyang was suspicious, after thousands of protesters marched through the Asian financial centre demanding justice. ... more | .. |
  NASA Discovers Unprecedented Blooms of Ocean Plant Life Scientists have made a biological discovery in Arctic Ocean waters as dramatic and unexpected as finding a rainforest in the middle of a desert. A NASA-sponsored expedition punched through three-foo ... more | .. |
 Stealth behavior allows cockroaches to seemingly vanish New cockroach behavior discovered by University of California, Berkeley, biologists secures the insect's reputation as one of nature's top escape artists, able to skitter away and disappear from sig ... more |
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Reusable debris collector promises leap forward in sustainable space cleanup
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  Dinosaurs lighter than previously thought Scientists have developed a new technique to accurately measure the weight and size of dinosaurs and discovered they are not as heavy as previously thought. University of Manchester biologists used ... more | .. |
 EO consortium to help fight global deforestation UK satellite imaging company DMCii has successfully led a multi-disciplinary consortium to win a place on the Department for International Development (DfID) Forest Governance Markets and Climate (F ... more | .. |
  UH research team uses airborne LiDAR to unveil Honduran archaeological ruins A field team from the University of Houston and the National Science Foundation (NSF) National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) has mapped a remote region of Honduras that may contain the l ... more | .. |
 Teaching tree-thinking through touch A pair of new studies by computer scientists, biologists, and cognitive psychologists at Harvard, Northwestern, Wellesley, and Tufts suggest that collaborative touch-screen games have value beyond j ... more |
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 Reign of the giant insects ended with the evolution of birds Giant insects ruled the prehistoric skies during periods when Earth's atmosphere was rich in oxygen. Then came the birds. After the evolution of birds about 150 million years ago, insects got smalle ... more | .. |
 Plant research funding crucial for the future The scientific community needs to make a 10-year, $100 billion investment in food and energy security, says Carnegie's Wolf Frommer and Tom Brutnell of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in an ... more | .. |
  Wildfire and an example of its important link to the ecosystem Traveling the western U.S. state of Nevada in the 1860s, a young American writer named Mark Twain heard a "world of talk" about the beauty of Lake Tahoe and so set out one August day to see the lake ... more | .. |
 Apple unveils maps program, challenging Google Apple unveiled its own mapping program Monday, challenging Google for the popular software application and opening up a new front in the war with the maker of the Android operating system. ... more |
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