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  Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 24, 2017 The Earth's core consists mostly of a huge ball of liquid metal lying at 3000 km beneath its surface, surrounded by a mantle of hot rock. Notably, at such great depths, both the core and mantle are subject to extremely high pressures and temperatures. Furthermore, research indicates that the slow creeping flow of hot buoyant rocks - moving several centimeters per year - carries heat away from the core to the surface, resulting in a very gradual cooling of the core over geological time. However, th ... read more |
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Simple rule predicts when an ice age endsLondon, UK (SPX) Feb 24, 2017 A simple rule can accurately predict when Earth's climate warms out of an ice age, according to new research led by UCL. In a new study published in Nature, researchers from UCL (University College ... more  
Rare fossil discovery raises questionsWashington DC (SPX) Feb 24, 2017 Adult and juvenile remains of a giant rodent species (Isostylomys laurdillardi) have been uncovered by researchers, in the Rio de la Plata coastal region of southern Uruguay, raising questions about ... more  
Cultivating cool-for-cash-cropWashington DC (SPX) Feb 24, 2017 When deciding what crops to grow during a season, growers look at several factors. Do the crops have a good yield in their area? Does the area currently have the resources - usually water - to grow ... more  
Ants stomp, termites tiptoe: Predator detection by a cryptic preySydney, Australia (SPX) Feb 24, 2017 Termites and ants are mortal enemies, their predator-prey relationship dating back into the Miocene. Both armies, if they come into contact, will fight to the death. Yet termites, despite being sigh ... more |
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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 Philippines evacuates hundreds of thousands as super typhoon nears |
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Guatemala navy moves on Dutch 'abortion ship' after protestsPuerto De San Jose, Guatemala (AFP) Feb 23, 2017 Guatemala's navy on Thursday dispatched a vessel to watch over a Dutch "abortion ship" carrying activists vowing to help women circumvent the country's longstanding prohibition on terminating pregnancies. ... more  
China muzzles feminist group over anti-Trump postsBeijing (AFP) Feb 23, 2017 Chinese authorities have blocked a prolific feminist social media account for allegedly breaking the law with posts critical of US President Donald Trump, its editors said Thursday. ... more  
One dead as Storm Doris hits British IslesLondon (AFP) Feb 23, 2017 One person was killed by falling debris on Thursday as Storm Doris slammed into the British Isles, also causing flight disruptions at Europe's busiest air hub and power outages. ... more  
16 killed in three days of DR Congo clashesGoma, Dr Congo (AFP) Feb 23, 2017 Sixteen people have been killed in three days of fighting this week that pitted the Democratic Republic of Congo's army against a rebel militia, a military spokesman told AFP Thursday. ... more  
Berlusconi lunch on auction to help Italy quake victimsRome (AFP) Feb 23, 2017 Fancy a lunch with Silvio Berlusconi, the billionaire media tycoon and disgraced ex-prime minister of Italy? You'll be helping the country's earthquake victims if you're ready to pay the price. ... more  
French socialist wins new backing in presidential raceParis (AFP) Feb 23, 2017 Socialist candidate Benoit Hamon picked up new backing Thursday in the rollercoaster French presidential race, as the nation's left aims to forge a united front with polls just months away. ... more |
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 Organ-on-a-chip mimics heart's biomechanical properties 
Bees can learn to roll a ball for food: studyMiami (AFP) Feb 23, 2017 Entice them with a sweet reward and bumblebees can be trained to roll a ball into a goal, revealing unexpectedly complex learning abilities for an insect, researchers said Thursday. ... more 
Hong Kong 'Snowden refugees' sought by Sri Lanka agents: lawyerHong Kong (AFP) Feb 23, 2017 Sri Lankan refugees who sheltered fugitive whistleblower Edward Snowden in Hong Kong have been targeted by agents from their home country, a lawyer and legislators said Thursday. ... more 
French Greens offer hair to highlight pesticide risksParis (AFP) Feb 23, 2017 Seven top French environmentalists including a presidential candidate have had their hair tested to draw attention to the prevalence of pesticides and other pollutants in daily life. ... more  
Tiny fibers open new windows into the brainBoston MA (SPX) Feb 24, 2017 For the first time ever, a single flexible fiber no bigger than a human hair has successfully delivered a combination of optical, electrical, and chemical signals back and forth into the brain, putt ... more |
  Al-Buseif, Iraq (AFP) Feb 21, 2017  On the edge of the village of Al-Buseif, captured overnight from the Islamic State group by Iraqi forces advancing on western Mosul, a federal policeman signalled to fleeing civilians.
The small group of villagers, some carrying makeshift white flags, walked slowly along a dirt road in the valley below, metres (yards) from the western bank of the Tigris river.
They were the first civilia ... more Rome (AFP) Feb 23, 2017Berlusconi lunch on auction to help Italy quake victims  Hong Kong (AFP) Feb 23, 2017Hong Kong 'Snowden refugees' sought by Sri Lanka agents: lawyer  Berlin (AFP) Feb 23, 2017'Anybody could be a refugee': Ai Weiwei films global crisis |
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 Philadelphia PA (SPX) Feb 17, 2017 
University of Pennsylvania researchers are now among the first to produce a single, three-atom-thick layer of a unique two-dimensional material called tungsten ditelluride. Their findings have been published in 2-D Materials.
Unlike other two-dimensional materials, scientists believe tungsten ditelluride has what are called topological electronic states. This means that it can have many di ... more Konstanz, Germany (SPX) Feb 21, 2017Breakthrough with a chain of gold atoms  Warwick, UK (SPX) Feb 17, 2017Breakthrough in 'wonder' materials paves way for flexible tech  Beijing, China (SPX) Feb 21, 2017When ultrafast laser pulse meets magnetic materials |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Feb 22, 2017 
Incentive-based solutions offer significant hope for addressing the myriad environmental challenges facing the world's oceans - that's the central message a leading marine ecologist delivered in Boston during a presentation at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Jane Lubchenco, a distinguished professor in the Oregon State University College of Sc ... more Exeter, UK (SPX) Feb 22, 2017Basking sharks seek out winter sun  Paris (AFP) Feb 20, 2017Small ponds have outsized impact on global warming: study  Rio De Janeiro (AFP) Feb 20, 2017Cash-strapped Rio de Janeiro to privatize water utility |
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 London, UK (SPX) Feb 24, 2017 
A simple rule can accurately predict when Earth's climate warms out of an ice age, according to new research led by UCL. In a new study published in Nature, researchers from UCL (University College London), University of Cambridge and University of Louvain have combined existing ideas to solve the problem of which solar energy peaks in the last 2.6 million years led to the melting of the ice she ... more Norwich, UK (SPX) Feb 21, 2017Local weather impacts melting of one of Antarctica's fastest-retreating glaciers  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 17, 2017New pathway for Greenland meltwater to reach ocean identified  Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 17, 2017Descent into a Frozen Underworld |
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 Mumbai (AFP) Feb 23, 2017  A fitting tribute to a local legend or a grotesque misuse of money? The decision to build the world's tallest statue just off Mumbai's coast has divided the city.
But the traditional Koli community, who depend on fishing for their livelihoods, fear they will be worst hit by the construction, warning that it threatens their centuries-old existence.
India will spend 36 billion rupees ($53 ... more Heidelberg, Germany (SPX) Feb 24, 2017Researchers unravel powerful tool in maize breeding  University Park PA (SPX) Feb 24, 2017Widely accepted vision for agriculture may be inaccurate, misleading  Washington DC (SPX) Feb 24, 2017Cultivating cool-for-cash-crop |
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 Philadelphia PA (SPX) Feb 24, 2017 
Scientists have gotten better at predicting where earthquakes will occur, but they're still in the dark about when they will strike and how devastating they will be. In the search for clues that will help them better understand earthquakes, scientists at the University of Pennsylvania are studying a phenomenon called ageing.
In ageing, the longer that materials are in contact with each oth ... more Managua (AFP) Feb 22, 2017Argentine researcher falls into Nicaragua volcano  Los Angeles (AFP) Feb 22, 2017Thousands flee as floodwaters threaten California city  Krasnoyarsk, Russia (SPX) Feb 22, 2017Volcano Samalas mystery revealed |
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 Goma, Dr Congo (AFP) Feb 23, 2017  Sixteen people have been killed in three days of fighting this week that pitted the Democratic Republic of Congo's army against a rebel militia, a military spokesman told AFP Thursday.
Guillaume Djike, a spokesman for the army in troubled North Kivu province in the east of the nation, said 16 people had been killed from Monday to Wednesday, while five rebels from the M23 militia had been cap ... more Abidjan (AFP) Feb 22, 2017I.Coast hosting bid to save its last chimpanzees  Kinshasa (AFP) Feb 22, 2017DR Congo investigating alleged army massacre video  Kampala (AFP) Feb 20, 2017A tonne of ivory, hacked into pieces, seized in Uganda |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Feb 24, 2017 
For the first time ever, a single flexible fiber no bigger than a human hair has successfully delivered a combination of optical, electrical, and chemical signals back and forth into the brain, putting into practice an idea first proposed two years ago. With some tweaking to further improve its biocompatibility, the new approach could provide a dramatically improved way to learn about the functi ... more Aztec, N.M. (UPI) Feb 21, 2017New evidence highlights maternal hierarchy of Pueblo Bonito  Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Feb 17, 2017Flat-footed fighters  Boston (AFP) Feb 17, 2017Advances in imaging could deepen knowledge of brain |
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 Exeter, UK (SPX) Feb 22, 2017 
Rising temperatures could accelerate climate change by reducing the amount of carbon dioxide stored in ponds and increasing the methane they release, new research shows. The scientists experimentally warmed an array of ponds over seven years by 4-5+ C and studied the impacts on greenhouse gas emissions and rates of metabolism.
Changes observed after the first year became "amplified" over a ... more Quixeramobim, Brazil (AFP) Feb 21, 2017Brazil's poorest region suffers worst drought in a century  Paris (AFP) Feb 16, 2017Climate study delivers dire warning on Alpine snow  Washington DC (SPX) Feb 10, 2017Gas hydrate breakdown unlikely to cause massive greenhouse gas release |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 22, 2017 
Atmospheric river storms are hailed as drought-busters when they bring needed rain and snow, but they have a well-known dark side: damaging floods. A new NASA study documents a second destructive force in these storms: high winds.
The study shows that atmospheric rivers were associated with almost half of the most extreme mid-latitude windstorms globally for the past 20 years, doing billio ... more Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 24, 2017'Quartz' crystals at the Earth's core power its magnetic field  Ottobrunn, Germany (SPX) Feb 22, 2017Airbus to develop payload for first Franco-German Earth observation satellite  London, UK (SPX) Feb 24, 2017First-ever global view of transshipment in commercial fishing industry |
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 Bristol, UK (SPX) Feb 24, 2017 
A team of researchers from the University of Bristol studying the 'living fossil' Sphenodon - or tuatara - have identified a new way to measure the evolutionary rate of these enigmatic creatures, giving credence to Darwin's theory of 'living fossils'.
The tuatara is a relatively large lizard-like animal that once lived on the main islands of New Zealand but has been pushed to smaller, offs ... more Washington DC (SPX) Feb 24, 2017Rare fossil discovery raises questions  Woods Hole MA (SPX) Feb 10, 2017MBL study illuminates the origin of vertebrate gills  Brisbane, Australia (SPX) Feb 15, 2017Fossil discovery rewrites understanding of reproductive evolution |
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 Wellington, New Zealand (UPI) Feb 21, 2017  Even with international praise for its renewable energy strategy, New Zealand's government said there is room for improvement.
An annual review of the New Zealand energy sector from the International Energy Agency described the country as a "success story" for its ability to advance on low-carbon options like hydro-electric power and geothermal energy, all without government subsidies. ... more Strasbourg, France (AFP) Feb 15, 2017EU parliament backs draft carbon trading reforms  Taipei (AFP) Feb 12, 2017Taiwan lantern makers go green for festival of lights  Washington (AFP) Feb 8, 2017Republican ex-top diplomats propose a carbon tax |
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 21, 2017 
USC researchers may have just found a solution for one of the biggest stumbling blocks to the next wave of rechargeable batteries - small enough for cellphones and powerful enough for cars.
In a paper published in the January issue of the Journal of the Electrochemical Society, Sri Narayan and Derek Moy of the USC Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute outline how they developed an alteratio ... more Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Feb 22, 2017Stabilizing energy storage  Champaign IL (SPX) Feb 22, 2017Tiny nanoclusters could solve big problems for lithium-ion batteries  Corvallis OR (SPX) Feb 22, 2017New hydronium-ion battery presents opportunity for more sustainable energy storage |
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 Sydney, Australia (SPX) Feb 24, 2017 
Termites and ants are mortal enemies, their predator-prey relationship dating back into the Miocene. Both armies, if they come into contact, will fight to the death. Yet termites, despite being sightless, carry out their work within millimetres of ant nests thanks to an incredible talent.
University of New South Wales (Canberra) researchers Sebastian Oberst (now Senior Lecturer at the newl ... more Utrecht, Germany (SPX) Feb 24, 2017Wintering ducks connect isolated wetlands by dispersing plant seeds  Miami (AFP) Feb 23, 2017Bees can learn to roll a ball for food: study  Lund, Sweden (SPX) Feb 22, 2017Those who help each other can invade harsher environments |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Feb 22, 2017  More than 30,000 people gathered in Hong Kong Wednesday to show their support for seven police officers who were sentenced to two years in jail for beating up a pro-democracy activist in 2014, reports said.
Television news footage showed long queues leading up to the packed football pitch of the Police Sports and Recreational Club in Kowloon, with off-duty and retired members of the force ma ... more Beijing (AFP) Feb 22, 2017China jails safety boss who was sacked over huge blast  Beijing (AFP) Feb 23, 2017China muzzles feminist group over anti-Trump posts  Shanghai (AFP) Feb 22, 2017China selfie-app leader seeks to 'beautify the world' |
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 Stirling, UK (SPX) Feb 24, 2017 
Forests around the world are at risk of death due to widespread drought, University of Stirling researchers have found. An analysis, published in the journal Ecology Letters, suggests that forests are at risk globally from the increased frequency and severity of droughts.
The study found a similar response in trees across the world, where death increases consistently with increases in drou ... more Syracuse, N.Y. (UPI) Feb 22, 2017Study: The forest is getting farther away, especially in rural America  Yangon (AFP) Feb 22, 2017Myanmar makes record seizures of illegal timber  Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Feb 17, 2017Laissez-faire is not good enough for reforestation |
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