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Three Vietnam men survive 40 hours at sea after typhoon
Typhoon Fung-wong floods Philippine towns, leaves 5 dead in its wake Typhoon Fung-wong leaves flooded Philippine towns in its wake Typhoon exposes centuries-old shipwreck off Vietnam port Weakening Typhoon Fung-wong exits Philippines after displacing 1.4 million Super Typhoon Fung-wong makes landfall in Philippines Over 1 million evacuate as deadly Super Typhoon Fung-wong nears Philippines Dam reservoir levels drop below 3% in Iran's second city: media Philippines evacuates one million, woman dead as super typhoon nears Japan observes tiny tsunami following 6.7 magnitude quake |
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  Paris, France (SPX) Feb 10, 2017 Countries bordering on the Pacific Ocean will test their capacity to handle a major tsunami in an exercise from 15 to 17 February, held to identify possible shortcomings in the Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System, established under the auspices of UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC). Dubbed PacWave17, the exercise foresees several scenarios for earthquakes off the coasts of Chile and Peru, Colombia and Ecuador, Philippines, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Vanuatu for cou ... read more |
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CryoSat reveals lake outbursts beneath Antarctic iceA novel way of using ESA's CryoSat mission has revealed how lakes beneath Thwaites Glacier drained into the Amundsen Sea - potentially the largest such outflow ever reported in this region of West A ... more  
Splitfin flashlight fish uses bioluminescent light to illuminate planktonThe flashlight fish uses bioluminescent light to detect and feed on its planktonic prey, according to a study published February 8, 2017 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Jens Hellinger from Ru ... more  
The diversity of species on Earth is generating itselfIf competition is the main evolutionary driver, why can so many species coexist within the same ecosystem instead to have a few that dominate? This a long and central question in ecology. Many ideas ... more  
Scientists argue current climate change models understate the problemA new study on the relationship between people and the planet shows that climate change is only one of many inter-related threats to the Earth's capacity to support human life. An internationa ... more |
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NASA team looks to ancient earth first to study hazy exoplanetsFor astronomers trying to understand which distant planets might have habitable conditions, the role of atmospheric haze has been hazy. To help sort it out, a team of researchers has been looking to ... more 
NASA-Led Campaign Studies Hawaii's Iconic VolcanoesKilauea Volcano on the island of Hawaii is one of Earth's most active volcanoes, drawing scientists and tourists alike from all over the world to study and witness its spectacular displays of nature ... more  
Chimpanzee feet allow scientists a new grasp on human foot evolutionAn investigation into the evolution of human walking by looking at how chimpanzees walk on two legs is the subject of a new research paper published in the March 2017 issue of Journal of Human Evolu ... more 
NASA studies growing Louisiana deltasThe Louisiana coastline is sinking under the Gulf of Mexico at the rate of about one football field of land every hour (about 18 square miles of land lost in a year). But within this sinking region, ... more  
Why nature restoration takes time'Relationships' in the soil become stronger during the process of nature restoration. Although all major groups of soil life are already present in former agricultural soils, they are not really 'co ... more  
Heavy snow hits US northeastA heavy winter snow storm lashed the northeastern United States Thursday, subjecting New York to near blizzard-like conditions and forcing flight cancellations as schools and the United Nations closed. ... more |
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 Paleolithic people 'killed' pebbles to rid them of their symbolic power 
RE2 Robotics to further develop EOD underwater manipulator systemRE2 Robotics is to develop an inflatable Underwater Dual Manipulator system for the U.S. Navy's Office of Naval Research. ... more 
Trump wall could harm butterfly's migration: Mexican officialThe monarch butterfly population dropped by a quarter in its Mexican wintering grounds this season and US President Donald Trump's planned wall could affect its migration from Canada, Mexican authorities said Thursday. ... more 
Chinese police probe endangered animal banquetChinese authorities are investigating a banquet where government officials may have feasted on endangered pangolins, considered the most trafficked mammal on earth, after posts about the meal drew outrage on social media. ... more  
I. Coast govt pursues bid to end mutiny by elite troopsThe Ivorian government planned Thursday to pursue talks with elite troops responsible for President Alassane Ouattara's security in a bid to end a revolt by the special forces, a defence ministry official said. ... more |
   Shanti Dhakal's husband disappeared without a trace nearly two decades ago at the height of Nepal's brutal Maoist insurgency, presumed murdered by police for having links to the rebels.
Dhakal was among 60,000 victims who registered a complaint with two commissions set up in 2015 with a two-year mandate to investigate the murders, rapes and forced disappearances perpetrated by both sides. ... more Facebook adds tool for helping in times of crisis Afghans dig with 'any tools possible' for avalanche survivors Six cosmic catastrophes that could wipe out life on Earth |
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The new supercomputer "Minerva" has been put into operation at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute, AEI). With 9,504 compute cores, 38 TeraByte memory and a peak performance of 302.4 TeraFlop/s it is more than six times as powerful as its predecessor. The scientists of the department "Astrophysical and Cosmological Relativity" can now compute significant ... more Japan's troubled 'space junk' mission fails New material that contracts when heated holds great industrial potential Flipping the switch on ammonia production |
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RE2 Robotics is to develop an inflatable Underwater Dual Manipulator system for the U.S. Navy's Office of Naval Research.
The award for underwater manipulator arms comes under a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research award, the company said, but no details as to its monetary value were given.
The system to be developed is for integration onto unmanned underwater vehicles for ... more Splitfin flashlight fish uses bioluminescent light to illuminate plankton NASA studies growing Louisiana deltas Scientists find huge ancient landslide on Great Barrier Reef |
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Climate change and overfishing have left already endangered young penguins in Africa confused about where to find food, and they are dying in high numbers as a result, researchers said Thursday.
The report in the journal Current Biology describes a dire predicament for African penguins, whose young population is projected to be down 50 percent in some of the most affected areas of coastal Na ... more CryoSat reveals lake outbursts beneath Antarctic ice Study shows planet's atmospheric oxygen rose through glaciersStudy shows planet's atmospheric oxygen rose through glaciers |
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Swiss pesticide and seed giant Syngenta said Wednesday that restructuring costs hit 2016 earnings, even as its planned takeover by ChemChina looks set to be completed by the middle of the year.
Last year, Syngenta raked in a net profit of $1.2 billion (1.1 billion euros), which was 12 percent lower than a year earlier, blaming ballooning restructuring and impairment charges, including costs ... more Miracle crop: Can quinoa help feed the world? Students brew beer using 5,000-year-old recipe from China Persistent tropical foraging in the New Guinea highlands |
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  Ankara's outspoken mayor on Tuesday warned that outside forces could be using sophisticated technology to try to trigger a manmade earthquake in a deliberate bid to harm Turkey's fragile economy.
Melih Gokcek, who has been mayor of the Turkish capital since 1994, made the outlandish claims on Twitter where he regularly updates his more than 3.7 million followers, often writing in capital le ... more NASA-Led Campaign Studies Hawaii's Iconic Volcanoes Pacific rim countries to test their tsunami warning system Prediction of large earthquakes probability improved |
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The Ivorian government planned Thursday to pursue talks with elite troops responsible for President Alassane Ouattara's security in a bid to end a revolt by the special forces, a defence ministry official said.
"Normally the discussions should resume this morning," the source told AFP after the mutineers began talks with top military staff following armed protests this week in their barracks ... moreIvory Coast govt in bid to end elite troops' mutiny Somalia to elect president amid security, drought woesElite I.Coast troops fire protest shots at two bases |
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Humans naturally perceive words as having physical or geometric qualities. New research shows humans subconsciously perceive words as being "round" or "sharp."
The "bouba-kiki" effect is a well-established psychological phenomenon describing the tendency for humans to link soft-sounding made-up words, like "bouba," with rounder, softer-looking shapes, and hard or sharp-sounding nonsense ... morePaleolithic people 'killed' pebbles to rid them of their symbolic power Chimpanzee feet allow scientists a new grasp on human foot evolution Baltic hunter-gatherers began farming without influence of migration |
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A new study on the relationship between people and the planet shows that climate change is only one of many inter-related threats to the Earth's capacity to support human life.
An international team of distinguished scientists, including five members of the National Academies, argues that there are critical components missing from current climate models that inform environmental, climate, ... more Researchers say climate models understate risk, ignore human factors Cape Town pools crack down on splashing as drought bites Shifting monsoon altered early cultures in China |
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SpaceKnow has announced the company has raised $4 million in Series A financing led by BlueYard Capital and previously existing investor Reflex Capital. This investment brings the company's total funds raised to approximately $5.5 million.
Jason Whitmire, Partner at BlueYard, will join the Board of Directors. The funding will be used to further develop the SpaceKnow Artificial Intelligence ... more NASA Taking Stock of Phytoplankton Populations in the Pacific Why the Earth's magnetic poles could be about to swap places An application of astronomy to save endangered species |
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For astronomers trying to understand which distant planets might have habitable conditions, the role of atmospheric haze has been hazy. To help sort it out, a team of researchers has been looking to Earth - specifically Earth during the Archean era, an epic 1-1/2-billion-year period early in our planet's history.
Earth's atmosphere seems to have been quite different then, probably with lit ... more This spiny slug blazed a trail for snails Spiny, armored slug reveals ancestry of molluscs Low level of oxygen delayed evolution for 2 billion years |
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Climate change is likely to increase U.S. electricity costs over the next century by billions of dollars more than economists previously forecast, according to a new study involving a University of Michigan researcher.
The study shows how higher temperatures will raise not just the average annual electricity demand, but more importantly, the peak demand. And to avoid brownouts and absorb t ... more Republican ex-top diplomats propose a carbon taxClimate change may overload US electrical grid: study Action is needed to make stagnant CO2 emissions fall |
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Superconductivity, where electrical currents course unhindered through a material, is one of modern physics' most intriguing scientific discoveries. It has many practical uses. Governments, industries, and health care and science centers all make use of superconductivity in applications extending from MRIs in hospitals to the cavities of particle accelerators, where scientists explore the fundam ... more How to recycle lithium batteries New, long-lasting flow battery could run for more than a decade with minimum upkeep Building a better microbial fuel cell - using paper |
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  Chinese authorities are investigating a banquet where government officials may have feasted on endangered pangolins, considered the most trafficked mammal on earth, after posts about the meal drew outrage on social media.
The animal's brown scales are made of nothing more than keratin - the same substance as fingernails - but are highly prized in Vietnam and China where they are misleading ... more The diversity of species on Earth is generating itself Trump wall could harm butterfly's migration: Mexican official What role does electromagnetic signaling have in biological systems |
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  Carrying the golden statue of a revered ancient general, villagers in eastern China dash wildly through waterlogged fields in a mud-spattered celebration of a local rebel adored for stealing from the rich to give to the poor.
Spurred on by the roar of firecrackers and cheers of families crowded on muddy banks, teams of men splash through the quagmire, in a centuries-old ceremony that is part ... more Exile, jail, abduction: the hazardous lives of China's rich Missing Chinese billionaire targeted over stocks crash: report 'Abduction' of China tycoon sparks fear in Hong Kong |
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'Relationships' in the soil become stronger during the process of nature restoration. Although all major groups of soil life are already present in former agricultural soils, they are not really 'connected' at first. These connections need time to (literally) grow, and fungi are the star performers here. A European research team led by the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) has shown t ... more Wetlands play vital role in carbon storage, study finds Amazon forest was transformed by ancient people: study Honduras manages to stall pine-munching bugs' march |
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