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  Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 24, 2017 Have you ever wondered why just seeing food can make your mouth start to water? By visualizing neuronal activity in specific areas of the zebrafish brain, scientists at the National Institute of Genetics (NIG) in Japan have revealed a direct link between visual perception of food and feeding motivation. The study, published in the April 20, 2017 issue of Nature Communications, suggests that "eating with the eyes" is deeply rooted in evolution. "In vertebrate animals, feeding behavior is regulated ... read more |
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New data unearths pesticide peril in beehivesIthaca NY (SPX) Apr 24, 2017 Honeybees - employed to pollinate crops during the blooming season - encounter danger due to lingering and wandering pesticides, according to a new Cornell University study that analyzed the bee's o ... more 
Sunflower seeds traced as source of toxic mold, potent liver carcinogenEast Lansing MI (SPX) Apr 24, 2017 Michigan State University researchers have shown that sunflower seeds are frequently contaminated with a toxin produced by molds and pose an increased health risk in many low-income countries worldw ... more  
Research sheds new light on forces that threaten sensitive coastlinesBloomington IN (SPX) Apr 24, 2017 Wind-driven expansion of marsh ponds on the Mississippi River Delta is a significant factor in the loss of crucial land in the Delta region, according to research published by scientists at Indiana ... more  
Mammoths suffered from diseases that are typical for peopleTomsk, Russia (SPX) Apr 24, 2017 Sergey Leshchinskiy, paleontologist, head of TSU's Laboratory of Mesozoic and Cenozoic Continental Ecosystems, has studied the remains of Yakut mammoths collected on one of the largest locations in ... more |
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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 Tornado kills six, injures 750 as it wrecks southern Brazil town Winds, rain lash Philippines as super typhoon nears Tornado kills six, wrecks town in Brazil Tornado kills five, injures more than 400 in Brazil |
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How Venus flytrap triggers digestionWurzburg, Germany (SPX) Apr 24, 2017 Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) is a carnivorous plant. Catching its prey, mainly insects, with a trapping structure formed by its leaves, the plants' glands secrete an enzyme to decompose the pre ... more  
The formation of gold deposits in South AfricaKiel, Germany (SPX) Apr 24, 2017 At a first glance, the Witwatersrand basin, the largest known gold resource on our planet, is not automatically related to ocean research. However, in its 3 billion years old geological history, the ... more  
Application of statistical method shows promise mitigating climate change effects on pineAlexandria VA (SPX) Apr 24, 2017 Confronting evidence that the global climate is changing rapidly relative to historical trends, researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a new statistical model that, when appli ... more 
A better way to predict the environmental impacts of agricultural productionStanford CA (SPX) Apr 24, 2017 Consumer goods companies often rely on life-cycle assessments (LCA) to figure out the potential consequences of how they design products and source ingredients. This kind of assessment, while sophis ... more 
Climatic effect of irrigation over the Yellow River basinBeijing, China (SPX) Apr 24, 2017 As the sensitive areas of global climate change, Yellow River basin, situated in arid and semiarid regions, also plays an important role in food production. However, using water resources in the Yel ... more  
Fungi have enormous potential for new antibioticsGothenburg, Germany (SPX) Apr 24, 2017 Fungi are a potential goldmine for the production of pharmaceuticals. This is shown by researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, who have developed a method for finding new antibiotics from ... more |
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 Rights group urges China to release N. Korean refugees  
Top conservationist wounded in Kenya gun attackNairobi (AFP) April 23, 2017 Italian-born conservationist and writer Kuki Gallmann was shot and seriously wounded Sunday while patrolling her conservation park in central Kenya, a region plagued by violence linked to a drought. ... more  
For Chinese fans, popular teen band are mama's boysBeijing (AFP) April 24, 2017 Liang Shanshan considers herself a mother of two: one child is her biological son, the other is a 16-year-old Chinese teen pop star she has never met. ... more  
In Washington, the economic world meets Trump climate skepticismWashington (AFP) April 22, 2017 The Trump administration's climate skepticism and its possible withdrawal from the landmark Paris Agreement of 2015 drew a cloud over this week's grand economic conclave in Washington. ... more 
Proposed cuts in US climate science reverberate worldwideParis (AFP) April 21, 2017 The gutting of US-funded climate science would cripple research agendas worldwide and hamper the global fight against climate change, say scientists outside the United States, some of whom will take to the streets Saturday to make that point. ... more |
  Sydney (AFP) April 22, 2017 
The US will honour a controversial agreement with Australia to take refugees from Pacific island detention centres, Vice President Mike Pence said Saturday - a deal Donald Trump had previously branded "dumb".
Pence also sought to clear the waters about the location of US supercarrier Carl Vinson that was supposedly steaming towards North Korea, saying it would arrive in the Sea of Japan "in ... more Seoul (AFP) April 24, 2017Rights group urges China to release N. Korean refugees  Bogota (AFP) April 21, 2017'Is this Miami?': An Iraqi family's Colombian odyssey  Colombo (AFP) April 19, 2017Sri Lanka ends search for garbage survivors as toll hits 32 |
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 Darmstadt, Germany (ESA) Apr 21, 2017 
With more than 750 000 pieces of dangerous debris now orbiting Earth, the urgent need for coordinated international action to ensure the long-term sustainability of spaceflight is a major finding from Europe's largest-ever conference on space debris.
"We require a coordinated global solution to what is, after all, a global problem that affects critical satellites delivering services to all ... more Moffett Field CA (SPX) Apr 20, 2017Tiny Probes Hold Big Promise for Future NASA Missions  Washington DC (SPX) Apr 24, 2017By listening to optical 'noise,' researchers discover new way to track hidden objects  Karlsruher, Germany (SPX) Apr 24, 2017Nature: 3-D-printing of glass now possible |
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 Sede Boqer, Israel (SPX) Apr 20, 2017 
Researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) have developed novel ultrafiltration membranes that significantly improve the virus-removal process from treated municipal wastewater used for drinking in water-scarce cities.
Current membrane filtration methods require intensive energy to adequately remove pathogenic viruses ... more Kiev (AFP) April 20, 2017Ukraine's Mariupol to be without hot water for months  Washington (UPI) Apr 20, 2017Fewer sharks equals fatter fish, research shows  Edmonton, Canada (SPX) Apr 20, 2017Sea scorpions: The original sea monster |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Apr 20, 2017 
Cretaceous climate warming led to a significant methane release from the seafloor, indicating potential for similar destabilization of gas hydrates under modern global warming. A field campaign on the remote Ellef Ringnes Island, Canadian High Arctic, discovered an astounding number of methane seep mounds in Cretaceous age sediments.
Seep mounds are carbonate deposits, often hosting unique ... more Washington DC (SPX) Apr 20, 2017Arctic river ice deposits rapidly disappearing  Kautokeino, Norway (AFP) April 21, 2017Reindeer at risk from Arctic hot spell  New York NY (SPX) Apr 20, 2017Water is streaming across Antarctica |
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 Ithaca NY (SPX) Apr 24, 2017 
Honeybees - employed to pollinate crops during the blooming season - encounter danger due to lingering and wandering pesticides, according to a new Cornell University study that analyzed the bee's own food.
Researchers used 120 pristine honeybee colonies that were placed near 30 apple orchards around New York state. After allowing the bees to forage for several days during the apple flower ... moreBeijing, China (SPX) Apr 24, 2017Climatic effect of irrigation over the Yellow River basin Stanford CA (SPX) Apr 24, 2017A better way to predict the environmental impacts of agricultural production  Laramie WY (SPX) Apr 20, 2017Researchers quantify grasslands' carbon storage value |
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 Kathmandu (AFP) April 23, 2017  The day after Nepal was struck by a devastating earthquake, Samrat Basnet opened his doors to the wounded as hospitals overwhelmed with thousands of victims had to send away those without life-threatening injuries.
Two years on Basnet is still caring for a handful of the 22,000 Nepalis injured in the disaster, many left with preventable disabilities after slipping through the cracks of a woe ... more Washington DC (SPX) Apr 20, 2017Report identifies grand challenges to better prepare for volcanic eruptions  Bogota (AFP) April 19, 2017At least 11 killed in Colombia floods: Red Cross  Bogota (AFP) April 20, 2017At least 16 killed in Colombia floods: government |
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 Djibouti (AFP) April 24, 2017 
US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis urged France to continue its fight against terror in Africa on Sunday as he visited Djibouti, a strategic Horn of Africa nation which hosts Washington's only permanent military base on the continent.
Camp Lemonnier, home to some 4,000 US soldiers and contractors, is vital to US military operations in Somalia against militant groups like Al-Shabaab, and also pr ... moreNairobi (AFP) April 23, 2017Top conservationist wounded in Kenya gun attack  Rabat (AFP) April 22, 2017Morocco, US stage joint military exercise  Kunta Kinteh Island, Gambia (AFP) April 21, 2017Gambia's race to save its 'Roots' on Kunta Kinteh island |
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 21, 2017 
New analysis of the remains of Flores man - the most complete Homo floresiensis specimen - suggests the Indonesian "hobbits" evolved from an African relative, not from Homo erectus.
Homo erectus is the only other hominid species found on the islands of Indonesia, but the latest research suggests H. floresiensis and H. erectus belong to separate lineages.
"The analyses show that ... more Washington (UPI) Apr 19, 2017Neuroscientists measure 'higher' state of consciousness  Washington DC (SPX) Apr 10, 2017Putting social science modeling through its paces  Washington (UPI) Apr 10, 2017Science says: Let a stranger pick your profile picture |
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 London, UK (SPX) Apr 20, 2017 
The UK Space Agency and their French counterparts, CNES, have reached a ground-breaking new agreement to work together to tackle climate change.
The Agency's Director of Growth, Catherine Mealing-Jones, and CNES President, Jean-Yves Le Gall, signed the MicroCarb cooperation agreement 19th April at the French Ambassador's Residence in London, witnessed by Jo Johnson, the Minister of State f ... moreWashington (AFP) April 22, 2017In Washington, the economic world meets Trump climate skepticism Paris (AFP) April 21, 2017Proposed cuts in US climate science reverberate worldwide  Lawrence KS (SPX) Apr 20, 2017In new paper, scientists explain climate change using before and after photographic evidence |
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 Paris (ESA) Apr 24, 2017 
Thanks to social media and the power of citizen scientists chasing the northern lights, a new feature was discovered recently. Nobody knew what this strange ribbon of purple light was, so ... it was called Steve. ESA's Swarm magnetic field mission has now also met Steve and is helping to understand the nature of this new-found feature. Speaking at the recent Swarm science meeting in Canada, Eric ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 18, 2017'Detergent' Molecules May Drive Recent Methane Changes  Bristol, UK (SPX) Apr 18, 2017Banned industrial solvent sheds new light on methane mystery  Aurora CO (SPX) Apr 18, 2017Raytheon speeds delivery and secures satellite weather data |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Apr 20, 2017 
A large set of tracks made by archosauromorphs in the Pyrenees mountain range may include a new type of footprint made by reptiles that lived 247 million years ago, according to a study published April 19, 2017 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Eudald Mujal from Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain, and colleagues.
The Permian mass extinction resulted in the loss of 90 percent of ... moreKiel, Germany (SPX) Apr 24, 2017The formation of gold deposits in South Africa  Washington (UPI) Apr 20, 2017Earliest mammals were mostly nocturnal, genomic study shows  Adelaide, Australia (SPX) Apr 20, 2017Megafaunal extinctions driven by too much moisture |
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 10, 2017 
The only U.S. sector where emissions of carbon dioxide increased last year was in the transportation sector, an Energy Department division reported.
A daily brief from the U.S. Energy Information Administration reported CO2 emissions from the transportation sector increased 1.9 percent from 2015 levels. Emissions directly from motor gasoline increased 1.8 percent and the overall sector ... more Washington (AFP) April 3, 2017World Bank urges more investment for developing global electricity  New York (AFP) April 3, 2017US states begin legal action on Trump energy delay  Paris (AFP) March 28, 2017Program to be axed saves energy in LA buildings |
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 Riverside CA (SPX) Apr 20, 2017 
Researchers at the University of California, Riverside's Bourns College of Engineering have used waste glass bottles and a low-cost chemical process to create nanosilicon anodes for high-performance lithium-ion batteries. The batteries will extend the range of electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, and provide more power with fewer charges to personal electronics like cell phone ... more Albany NY (SPX) Apr 20, 2017NYSERDA Announces $15.5 Million Available for Energy Storage Projects to Support the Electric Grid  Washington DC (SPX) Apr 24, 2017Electrochemical performance of lithium-ion capacitors  Stanford CA (SPX) Apr 24, 2017Stanford scientist's new approach may accelerate design of high-power batteries |
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 Wurzburg, Germany (SPX) Apr 24, 2017 
Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) is a carnivorous plant. Catching its prey, mainly insects, with a trapping structure formed by its leaves, the plants' glands secrete an enzyme to decompose the prey and take up the nutrients released.
Although postulated since Darwin's pioneering studies, these secretory events have not been measured and analysed until now: An international team of resear ... more Wurzburg, Germany (SPX) Apr 20, 2017Ants rescue their injured  Washington (UPI) Apr 20, 2017Can coyotes fill the ecological gaps left by lost wolf populations? Tomsk, Russia (SPX) Apr 24, 2017Mammoths suffered from diseases that are typical for people |
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 Beijing (AFP) April 24, 2017 
Liang Shanshan considers herself a mother of two: one child is her biological son, the other is a 16-year-old Chinese teen pop star she has never met.
She is a "mother fan" and part of a group of women in their mid-20s to 60s whose maternal instincts are set off by China's boy band sensation TFBoys("The Fighting Boys").
The band has won millions of Chinese followers since their 2013 deb ... moreBeijing (AFP) April 22, 2017China rights lawyer denied own defence for trial Beijing (AFP) April 20, 2017Chinese tycoon accuses Beijing of meddling in interview  The Hague (AFP) April 12, 2017Dutch panda mania as giant bears arrive from China |
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 Halle, Belgium (AFP) April 22, 2017 
A carpet of bluebells bursts into flower in Belgium in a wonder of the natural world - but one that is at risk of being trampled by tourists drawn to its beauty.
For two or three weeks in April the ground of the Hallerbos wood just outside the drab capital of Brussels is transformed into a breathtaking sea of shimmering purple.
"The scene is like in a fairytale, we're still expecting a ... moreAlexandria VA (SPX) Apr 24, 2017Application of statistical method shows promise mitigating climate change effects on pine  Corvallis OR (SPX) Apr 13, 2017Greenhouse gas effect caused by mangrove forest conversion is quite significant  Stanford CA (SPX) Apr 10, 2017Stanford study explores risk of deforestation as agriculture expands in Africa |
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