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April 20, 2014

First radar vision for Copernicus
Paris (ESA) Apr 17, 2014
Launched on 3 April, ESA's Sentinel-1A satellite has already delivered its first radar images of Earth. They offer a tantalising glimpse of the kind of operational imagery that this new mission will provide for Europe's ambitious Copernicus environmental monitoring programme. Rather aptly, the first image shows Brussels in Belgium, the seat of the European Commission. The European Commission leads the Copernicus programme and coordinates the broad range of services to improve the management ... read more

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Egyptian sensing satellite placed in orbit An Egyptian land remote sensing satellite, Egyptsat, launched from Baikonur cosmodrome on Wednesday has successfully separated from Soyuz-U launch vehicle and entered terrestrial orbit, Interfax-AVN ... more		ISEE-3: An Old Friend Comes to Visit Earth It launched in 1978. It was the first satellite to study the constant flow of solar wind streaming toward Earth from a stable orbit point between our planet and the sun known as the Lagrangian 1, or ... more		Giant lasers could control the weather Zeus, God of the Sky, may be out of work, as scientists at the University of Central Florida believe they've developed a technique - which involves pointing a high powered laser at the sky - to induce clouds to drop rain and hurl thunderbolts. ... more
				Nepal calls off search for missing guides on Everest: official Nepal Sunday called off the search for local guides still missing after the deadliest accident on Mount Everest killed 13 colleagues, as climbers recalled the terrifying moments when the avalanche hit. ... more		West Africa's Ebola outbreak prompts changes in I.Coast cuisine West Africa's first outbreak of Ebola fever is bad news for gourmets in Ivory Coast, but brings respite from the hunter to species sought out for tasty meat but feared to carry the disease. ... more

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Fresh tremor rattles Papua New Guinea after 7.5 quake A fresh 6.1-magnitude tremor rattled Papua New Guinea's Bougainville island Sunday as officials scrambled for news of damage and casualties following a powerful earthquake overnight that sparked a tsunami alert. ... more		Unexpected Teleconnections in Noctilucent Clouds Earth's poles are separated by four oceans, six continents and more than 12,000 nautical miles. Turns out, that's not so far apart. New data from NASA's AIM spacecraft have revealed "teleconnections ... more		Iraq's Kurdistan enjoys all-day state electricity Nvidia's Huang says China's open-source AI a 'catalyst for progress' Malaysia clamps down on export, transit of US-made AI chips		Astronomers: 'Tilt-a-worlds' could harbor life A fluctuating tilt in a planet's orbit does not preclude the possibility of life, according to new research by astronomers at the University of Washington, Utah's Weber State University and NASA. In ... more
				Researchers use Twitter to predict crime Hidden in the Twittersphere are nuggets of information that could prove useful to crime fighters - even before a crime has been committed. ... more		Female candidates fight for rights in Iraq campaign With fears that women's rights are being eroded in Iraq, prospective female lawmakers are determined to push women's issues to the fore of campaigning for this month's elections. ... more

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International Conference on Protection of Materials and Structures From Space Environment

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Thousands in China protest after officials beat vendor, passer-by: report Thousands took to the streets of a Chinese city to protest at the beating of a vendor and of a passer-by who took photos of the incident, reports said Sunday. ... more		Hackers of Oman news agency target Bouteflika Hackers on Sunday targeted the website of Oman's official news agency, singling out and mocking Algeria's newly re-elected president Abdelaziz Bouteflika as a handicapped "dictator". ... more		Ukraine 'shouldn't target' Moscow: Trump Trump gives Russia 50 days to make Ukraine deal Pentagon inks contracts for Musk's xAI, competitors		Earthquake simulation tops one quadrillion flops A team of computer scientists, mathematicians and geophysicists at Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) and Ludwig-Maximillians Universitaet Muenchen (LMU) have - with the support of the Leibniz S ... more
				Deforestation could intensify climate change in Congo Basin by half By 2050, deforestation could cause temperatures in the Congo Basin to increase by 0.7C. The increase would intensify warming caused by greenhouse gases by half, according to a study by researchers a ... more		Recycling industrial waste water A research group composed of Dr. Martin Prechtl, Leo Heim and their colleagues at the University of Cologne's Department of Chemistry has discovered a new method of generating hydrogen using water a ... more

Researchers use Twitter to predict crime

Everest avalanche death toll reaches 13

12 Nepalese guides killed in worst-ever Everest accident

New Self-healing Plastics Developed

Satellite telecom vulnerable to hackers: researchers

New technique takes cues from astronomy and ophthalmology to sharpen microscope images

UN weather agency warns of 'El Nino' this year

Changes in processing, handling could reduce commercial fishing injuries

Sub dives deeper in hunt for missing MH370

Growth of Antarctic ice sheet triggered warming in the Southern Ocean during Miocene

The role of oceanic carbon reservoir over glacial cycles

Air temperature influenced African glacial movements

	Building Better Soybeans for a Hot, Dry, Hungry World A new study shows that soybean plants can be redesigned to increase crop yields while requiring less water and helping to offset greenhouse gas warming. The study is the first to demonstrate that a ... more		Earliest ancestor of land herbivores discovered New research from the University of Toronto Mississauga demonstrates how carnivores transitioned into herbivores for the first time on land. "The evolution of herbivory was revolutionary to life on ... more		Air temperature influenced African glacial movements Changes in air temperature, not precipitation, drove the expansion and contraction of glaciers in Africa's Rwenzori Mountains at the height of the last ice age, according to a Dartmouth-led study fu ... more		Moth study suggests hidden climate change impacts A 32-year study of subarctic forest moths in Finnish Lapland suggests that scientists may be underestimating the impacts of climate change on animals and plants because much of the harm is hidden fr ... more

Skimming the Sun, probe sheds light on space weather threats

Astronauts from US, India, Poland, Hungary on SpaceX capsule return to Earth

Airbus to develop advanced PAZ-2 radar satellites for Spanish defence and civil operations

Declining catch rates in Caribbean green turtle fishery		Study provides crucial new information about how the ice ages came about		Preparing for the next Sandy		Potential Use of Google Glass in Surgical Settings		Shade grown coffee shrinking as a proportion of global coffee production
Changes in processing, handling could reduce commercial fishing injuries		Dynamic atolls give hope that Pacific Islands can defy sea rise		New study reveals more about our relationship to food		4,000 Peruvians evacuated from homes surrounding erupting volcano		Everest avalanche death toll reaches 13

Dormant plant seeds allow fore greater species diversity

Magnitude 7.5 quake strikes off Papua New Guinea: USGS

Centipede and viper eat each other to death in Macedonia

12 Nepalese guides killed in worst-ever Everest accident

Thousands evacuated near Peru volcano

Illegal logging widespread in Peru, says study

Japan to redesign Antarctic whale hunt after UN court ruling

NASA Highlights Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission at Local Fair

S.Africa, Mozambique reach deal to fight rhino poaching

Sub dives deeper in hunt for missing MH370

China says massive area of its soil polluted

Strong quake rattles Mexico

Preglacial landscape found deep under Greenland ice

IT czar Nilekani issues warning as India votes

MH370 search to be most costly ever at $100 mln: analysts

China court jails four anti-graft activists for protests

Vietnam says 7 killed in shooting on China border

Pioneering findings on the dual role of carbon dioxide in photosynthesis

Study finds recent wolf-dog hybridization in Caucasus region

Puget Sound's rich waters supplied by deep, turbulent canyon

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