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  Stockholm, Sweden (SPX) Jun 28, 2017 We normally consider liquid water as disordered with the molecules rearranging on a short time scale around some average structure. Now, however, scientists at Stockholm University have discovered two phases of the liquid with large differences in structure and density. The results are based on experimental studies using X-rays, which are now published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (US). Most of us know that water is essential for our existence on planet Earth. It is less well- ... read more |
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Ten million tons of fish wasted every year despite declining fish stocksVancouver, Canada (SPX) Jun 28, 2017 Industrial fishing fleets dump nearly 10 million tonnes of good fish back into the ocean every year, according to new research. The study by researchers with Sea Around Us, an initiative at th ... more  
Ozone recovery may be delayed by unregulated chemicalsLancaster UK (SPX) Jun 28, 2017 Recent increases in an unregulated ozone-depleting substance, could delay recovery of Antarctic ozone levels by 5-30 years, depending on emissions scenarios. The findings, published in Nature ... more  
Lake harvests are likely more fruitful than we knewChicago IL (SPX) Jun 28, 2017 Harvests from freshwater fisheries such as the Great Lakes could total more than 12 million tons a year globally and contribute more to global food supplies and economies than previous estimates ind ... more  
Beyond bananas: 'Mind reading' technology decodes complex thoughtsPittsburgh PA (SPX) Jun 28, 2017 Carnegie Mellon University scientists can now use brain activation patterns to identify complex thoughts, such as, "The witness shouted during the trial." This latest research led by CMU's Marcel Ju ... more |
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LA wildfires push insurance losses to highest since 2011: Munich Re
Over 30 dead as northern China hit by heavy rain, landslides Fukushima radioactive debris removal delayed until 2037 'Once in a hundred years': villagers clean up after deadly China floods Vietnam flash flood kills five, dozens evacuated Thirty dead as northern China hit by heavy rain, landslides Heavy rain leaves 30 dead in Chinese capital Heavy rains leave 30 dead in Chinese capital 30 dead after heavy rain in Beijing: state media Magnitude 6.5 quake hits India's Nicobar Islands |
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Rising seas could result in 2 billion refugees by 2100Ithaca NY (SPX) Jun 28, 2017 In the year 2100, 2 billion people - about one-fifth of the world's population - could become climate change refugees due to rising ocean levels. Those who once lived on coastlines will face displac ... more  
Collapse of the European ice sheet caused chaosOslo, Norway (SPX) Jun 28, 2017 The Eurasian ice sheet was an enormous conveyor of ice that covered most of northern Europe some 23,000 years ago. Its extent was such that one could have skied 4,500 km continuously across it - fro ... more 
UK-Led Satellite Image Project That Helps Spot and Stop Slavery Sites From SpaceMoscow (Sputnik) Jun 28, 2017 A crowdsourcing project at the University of Nottingham, England which aims to - via satellite imagery - identify notorious sites that could be involved in modern slavery globally, has attracted a n ... more 
Twitter algorithm can identify riots before police reportsWashington (UPI) Jun 26, 2017 Scientists in Wales have designed a Twitter-monitoring algorithm capable of identifying riots before citizens report the unrest to police. ... more 
China lowers number of missing in landslide to 73Beijing (AFP) June 27, 2017 The number of people missing from a huge landslide that buried a mountain village in southwest China last weekend has been revised down from 93 to 73, authorities said Tuesday. ... more  
Spain fire near World Heritage site 'under control'Madrid (AFP) June 27, 2017 A wildfire that threatened a nature reserve in southern Spain designated as a World Heritage site has been brought under control, officials said Tuesday after evacuating over 2,000 people including tourists. ... more |
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 Hong Kong's history: From backwater to metropolis  
China rejects 'interference' as Vatican raises bishop caseBeijing (AFP) June 27, 2017 China said Tuesday it opposed outside interference after the Vatican reported that one of its bishops in the country was being held at an undisclosed location after he was forcibly removed from his diocese. ... more  
Marine Le Pen to meet judges over party funding claims: AFPParis (AFP) June 22, 2017 French far-right leader Marine Le Pen told AFP Thursday she had arranged to meet investigating magistrates over claims her party misused European Parliament funds to pay for staff in France. ... more 
Wonderland Villas: A tale of Hong Kong's property rollercoasterHong Kong (AFP) June 27, 2017 Red-whiskered bulbuls start chirping around 5:00 am at Wonderland Villas, a hilltop complex in leafy northern Hong Kong whose own history charts the city's political, economic and social fortunes. ... more 
Stories of Hong Kong: Hopes and fears on landmark anniversaryHong Kong (AFP) June 27, 2017 Divided by age, wealth and politics, the people of Hong Kong will mark the 20th anniversary of its transfer from Britain back to China with contrasting emotions: anger and pessimism, pride and celebration. ... more |
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  Beijing (AFP) June 27, 2017 
The number of people missing from a huge landslide that buried a mountain village in southwest China last weekend has been revised down from 93 to 73, authorities said Tuesday.
The confirmed number of dead remained at 10 after heavy rain brought down the side of a mountain on to Xinmo village in Sichuan province on Saturday.
But an additional 20 people were reported to be "safe", accordi ... moreIthaca NY (SPX) Jun 28, 2017Rising seas could result in 2 billion refugees by 2100 Beijing (AFP) June 27, 2017New landslide hits China disaster area Washington (UPI) Jun 26, 2017Twitter algorithm can identify riots before police reports |
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 Vienna, Austria (SPX) Jun 28, 2017 
Common toys such as steerable cars or waving wind-up figures are available as 3D-printable models, which also contain their mechanical components. However, these mechanical structures are optimized to fit exactly one particular shape of the toy.
If designers want to reuse such a mechanism with different shapes, the necessary manual adjustments to the individual components are often unmanag ... more San Francisco CA (SPX) Jun 28, 2017Seeing the forest through the trees with a new LiDAR system  Cleveland OH (SPX) Jun 27, 2017A chemical solution to shrink digital data storage  Warwick UK (SPX) Jun 27, 2017Lightweight steel production breakthrough: Brittle phases controlled |
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 Paris (AFP) June 26, 2017 
Ocean levels rose 50 percent faster in 2014 than in 1993, with meltwater from the Greenland ice sheet now supplying 25 percent of total sea level increase compared with just five percent 20 years earlier, researchers reported Monday.
The findings add to growing concern among scientists that the global watermark is climbing more rapidly than forecast only a few years ago, with potentially dev ... more Newark DE (SPX) Jun 16, 2017Small scale, big improvements  Berkeley CA (SPX) Jun 28, 2017Could this strategy bring high-speed communications to the deep sea?  Washington (UPI) Jun 26, 2017Water exists in two distinct liquid phases |
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 Oslo, Norway (SPX) Jun 28, 2017 
The Eurasian ice sheet was an enormous conveyor of ice that covered most of northern Europe some 23,000 years ago. Its extent was such that one could have skied 4,500 km continuously across it - from the far southwestern isles in Britain to Franz Josef Land in the Siberian Arctic. Suffice to say its existence had a massive and extremely hostile impact on Europe at the time.
This ice sheet ... more Columbus OH (SPX) Jun 22, 2017Widespread snowmelt in West Antarctica during unusually warm summer  Cardiff, UK (SPX) Jun 22, 2017Scientists throw light on mysterious ice age temperature jumps  Nashville TN (SPX) Jun 22, 2017Wet and stormy weather lashed California coast... 8,200 years ago |
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 Chicago IL (SPX) Jun 28, 2017 
Harvests from freshwater fisheries such as the Great Lakes could total more than 12 million tons a year globally and contribute more to global food supplies and economies than previous estimates indicate, according to a study published by Michigan State University and the U.S. Geological Survey.
"Our study provides an independent estimate of global inland fishery harvests based on food web ... more Bordeaux (AFP) June 22, 2017Bubbling Chinese market centre-stage at world wine fest  Beijing (AFP) June 18, 2017China 'backyard' pig farmers squeezed as sector scales up  Beijing (AFP) June 21, 2017China opens gates to US beef imports |
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 Exeter UK (SPX) Jun 27, 2017 
A spectacular six-month Icelandic lava field eruption could provide the crucial key for scientists to unlock the role aerosols play in climate change, through their interactions with clouds.
An international team of climate scientists, led by the University of Exeter, have meticulously studied the effects that the 2014-15 eruption at Holuhraun, in Iceland had on cloud formations in the sur ... more Abidjan (AFP) June 21, 2017Heavy rains have killed 15 in Ivory Coast  Davis CA (SPX) Jun 22, 2017Volcanic crystals give a new view of magma  Miami (AFP) June 22, 2017One killed as Storm Cindy makes landfall in southern US |
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 Bamako (AFP) June 24, 2017 
Mali's government and armed groups which signed a 2015 peace deal have relaunched talks aimed at speeding up its implementation after several delays, they told AFP Saturday.
The accord signed in 2015 aimed at curbing separatist uprisings in Mali's north after a 2012 rebellion was hijacked by jihadists, throwing the nation into chaos.
But several of its key planks have yet to be fully imp ... more Bangui, Central African Republic (AFP) June 20, 2017Clashes erupt in C. Africa a day after peace deal  Bamako (AFP) June 20, 2017Mali ex-rebels reject national charter on peace deal anniversary; Dozens killedw/l Bangui, Central African Republic (AFP) June 19, 2017C. Africa govt inks peace deal with rebel groups |
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 Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Jun 28, 2017 
Carnegie Mellon University scientists can now use brain activation patterns to identify complex thoughts, such as, "The witness shouted during the trial." This latest research led by CMU's Marcel Just builds on the pioneering use of machine learning algorithms with brain imaging technology to "mind read."
The findings indicate that the mind's building blocks for constructing complex though ... more Washington (UPI) Jun 22, 2017New research suggests problematic memories could be deleted  Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 27, 2017The neural relationship between light and sleep  United Nations, United States (AFP) June 21, 2017World population to reach 9.8 bln in 2050, UN says |
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 Bremerhaven, Germany (SPX) Jun 26, 2017  During the last glacial period, within only a few decades the influence of atmospheric CO2 on the North Atlantic circulation resulted in temperature increases of up to 10 degrees Celsius in Greenland - as indicated by new climate calculations from researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute and the University of Cardiff.
Their study is the first to confirm that there have been situations i ... more Paris (AFP) June 24, 2017Climate change more important than partisan politics: Schwarzenegger  New York NY (SPX) Jun 20, 2017NASA-MIT Study Evaluates Efficiency of Oceans as Heat Sink, Atmospheric Gases Sponge  Warder, Ethiopia (AFP) June 22, 2017Starvation looms as food runs out in drought-hit Ethiopia |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Jun 27, 2017  Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado Boulder have demonstrated a new mobile, ground-based system that could scan and map atmospheric gas plumes over kilometer distances.
The system uses an eye-safe laser instrument to send light that "combs" the air to a flying multi-copter and analyzes the colors of light absorbed along ... more Helsinki, Finland (SPX) Jun 28, 2017VTT miniature hyperspectral camera launched to space in Aalto-1 satellite Lancaster UK (SPX) Jun 28, 2017Ozone recovery may be delayed by unregulated chemicals Moscow (Sputnik) Jun 28, 2017UK-Led Satellite Image Project That Helps Spot and Stop Slavery Sites From Space |
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Jun 22, 2017 
The initial phases of animal evolution proceeded faster than hitherto supposed: New analyses suggest that the first animal phyla emerged in rapid succession - prior to the global Ice Age that set in around 700 million years ago.
The fossil record reveals that almost all of the animal phyla known today had come into existence by the beginning of the Cambrian Period some 540 million years ag ... more Washington (UPI) Jun 26, 2017Paleontologists identify extinction event among marine megafauna  Boston MA (SPX) Jun 26, 2017How eggs got their shapes  Calgary, Canada (SPX) Jun 26, 2017Fossil holds new insights into how fish evolved onto land |
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 San Diego CA (SPX) Jun 27, 2017 
Can the continental United States make a rapid, reliable and low-cost transition to an energy system that relies almost exclusively on wind, solar and hydroelectric power? While there is growing excitement for this vision, a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) by 21 of the nation's leading energy experts, including David G. Victor and George R. Tynan from the ... more (UPI) Jun 12, 2017Low-carbon trajectory is the only option, European leaders say Washington (UPI) Jun 8, 2017Divestment streak continues for British energy company Centrica  Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jun 08, 2017New ultrathin material for splitting water could make hydrogen production cheaper |
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 Upton NY (SPX) Jun 23, 2017 
Scientists have developed a new low-temperature catalyst for producing high-purity hydrogen gas while simultaneously using up carbon monoxide (CO). The discovery-described in a paper set to publish online in the journal Science on Thursday, June 22, 2017-could improve the performance of fuel cells that run on hydrogen fuel but can be poisoned by CO.
"This catalyst produces a purer form of ... more Lausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Jun 26, 2017A 100-year-old physics problem has been solved at EPFL  Gothenburg, Sweden (SPX) Jun 23, 2017Deceleration of runaway electrons paves the way for fusion power  Moscow (Sputnik) Jun 23, 2017Rosatom Develops Radiation-Powered Electricity Source for Medicine, Outer Space |
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 Washington (AFP) June 23, 2017 
Grizzly bears native to Yellowstone National Park and the surrounding area are being removed from the endangered species list, the US government said Thursday, calling efforts to replenish the population a major success.
Conservation groups were however quick to criticize the move, saying dropping federal protections would again put grizzly bears at risk.
The grizzly bear was first place ... more Oxford UK (SPX) Jun 26, 2017City rats: Why scientists are not hot on their tails  Washington (UPI) Jun 26, 2017Panda conservation offers broad ecological benefits, research shows  Washington (UPI) Jun 21, 2017Both tidal and circadian clocks guide the behavior of some animals |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) June 27, 2017 
When Xi Jinping lands in Hong Kong on Thursday for the first time since becoming China's president, he will step into a deeply divided city uncertain of its future.
The visit marks 20 years since Hong Kong was handed back to China by Britain and comes at a time when many fear the semi-autonomous city's freedoms are being lost to an ever more assertive Beijing.
Protests are expected duri ... more Shanghai (AFP) June 23, 2017'Pee Park'? China tries to correct bad translations  Hong Kong (AFP) June 23, 2017China's Xi visit to Hong Kong confirmed: report  Beijing (AFP) June 23, 2017China court slashes jail term for debt-collector killer |
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 Warsaw (AFP) June 24, 2017 
Thousands demonstrated in Warsaw on Saturday demanding an end to large-scale logging in Poland's ancient Bialowieza forest, just days after the enviroment minister called for it to be stripped of protected UNESCO status.
Bialowieza, straddling Poland's eastern border with Belarus, includes one of the largest surviving parts of the primeval forest that covered the European plain 10,000 years ... more Ottawa (AFP) June 27, 2017US imposes second round of tariffs on Canadian lumber  Warsaw (AFP) June 21, 2017Poland says primeval forest should not be UNESCO natural heritage site  Oslo (AFP) June 19, 2017Religious leaders join forces to protect rainforests |
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