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  Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 21, 2017 By simulating earthquakes in a lab, engineers at Caltech have documented the evolution of friction during an earthquake - measuring what could once only be inferred, and shedding light on one of the biggest unknowns in earthquake modeling. Before an earthquake, static friction helps hold the two sides of a fault immobile and pressed against each other. During the passage of an earthquake rupture, that friction becomes dynamic as the two sides of the fault grind past one another. Dynamic friction e ... read more |
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Tropical trees maintain high carbon accumulation rates into old ageWashington DC (SPX) Aug 21, 2017 Tropical trees maintain high carbon accumulation rates into old age, according to a study published August 16, 2017 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Michael Kohl from the Universitat Hamburg, ... more  
Hidden river once flowed beneath Antarctic iceHouston TX (SPX) Aug 22, 2017 Antarctic researchers from Rice University have discovered one of nature's supreme ironies: On Earth's driest, coldest continent, where surface water rarely exists, flowing liquid water below the ic ... more  
Adding silicon to soil to strengthen plant defensesNewark DE (SPX) Aug 21, 2017 To help plants better fend off insect pests, researchers are arming them with stones. The University of Delaware's Ivan Hiltpold and researchers from the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environme ... more  
Computer approaches human skill for first time in mapping brainPullman WA (SPX) Aug 21, 2017 A WSU research team for the first time has developed a computer algorithm that is nearly as accurate as people are at mapping brain neural networks - a breakthrough that could speed up the image ana ... more |
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Three drones detected in Japan nuclear plant
Hundreds protest over water shortages in drought-hit Iraq Boats bring Philippine flood victims to safety as death toll rises Boats bring food, safe passage for Philippine flood victims Magnitude 6.6 quake hits off Samoa coast: USGS Philippines shuts schools, scraps flights as Typhoon Co-May nears Downpours from storm Wipha kill three in Vietnam Adopted in US, Greek Cold War kids find long-lost families Flooding from storm Wipha cuts off hundreds in Vietnam Pakistan landslide after heavy rain kills 5, with 15 missing |
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Post-whaling recovery of Southern HemisphereBrisbane, Australia (SPX) Aug 22, 2017 By 2100 some Southern Hemisphere whale species will not have reached half their pre-whaling numbers, while other species are expected to recover by 2050.The findings are part of new CSIRO and UQ res ... more  
Mechanisms explaining positional diversity of the hindlimb in tetrapod evolutionNagoya, Japan (SPX) Aug 21, 2017 In the evolution of tetrapods, the position of the hindlimb has diversified along with the vertebral formula, which is the number of small bones forming the vertebra. Tetrapods, as the name implies, ... more  
Myanmar man faces jail for speaking about child soldier pastYangon (AFP) Aug 21, 2017 A man in Myanmar faces up to two years in jail after he was arrested for allegedly defaming the military in an interview he gave detailing his harrowing life as a child soldier. ... more 
Sudan warns of floods as Nile water level surgesKhartoum (AFP) Aug 21, 2017 Sudan on Monday warned Khartoum residents along the Nile of likely "massive floods" as water levels of the river rose to a record high following heavy rains in neighbouring Ethiopia. ... more 
Low-cost prostheses offer Indian amputees a second chanceJaipur, India (AFP) Aug 20, 2017 Vishnu Kumar had barely reached adulthood when he lost his limbs in a freak electrical accident, seemingly condemning him to the life of penury endured by millions of amputees in India. ... more 
Death toll in DR Congo landslide climbs to 140Bunia, Dr Congo (AFP) Aug 21, 2017 The death toll from a landslide that swept over a fishing village on the banks of a lake in the Democratic Republic of Congo has reached 140, the government said Monday. ... more |
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 One dead, one missing after quake hits Italy holiday island 
Brazilian army, police raid violent Rio favelasRio De Janeiro (AFP) Aug 21, 2017 Brazil's army went into action again Monday to support police in raids on some of Rio de Janeiro's most violent favelas - but not before a rogue soldier allegedly tipped off the drug gangs. ... more 
'It could have been me': S.Leone struggles to recover from disasterFreetown (AFP) Aug 20, 2017 Gathered in a Freetown church, worshippers struggled Sunday to come to terms with the devastation wrought by the flooding and mudslide that struck the Sierra Leone capital six days ago, as the arduous search for bodies continued. ... more 
South Asia floods claim more than 750 livesNew Delhi (AFP) Aug 21, 2017 More than 750 people have died in floods across South Asia, officials said Monday, with monsoon rains also causing the deaths of hundreds of animals, including rhinos and a tiger. ... more  
Croatia fights dozens of fires along Adriatic coastZagreb (AFP) Aug 21, 2017 Croatian firefighters and armed forces were fighting dozens of wildfires on Monday along the Adriatic coastline and on the popular tourist islands of Hvar and Brac, officials said. ... more |
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  Bunia, Dr Congo (AFP) Aug 21, 2017 
The death toll from a landslide that swept over a fishing village on the banks of a lake in the Democratic Republic of Congo has reached 140, the government said Monday.
"We estimate that there at least a hundred bodies buried underneath the rumble of large rocks that fell on the 48 destroyed homes," the deputy governor of Ituri Province, Pacifique Keta, told AFP.
The landslide occurred ... moreYangon (AFP) Aug 21, 2017Myanmar man faces jail for speaking about child soldier past Rio De Janeiro (AFP) Aug 21, 2017Brazilian army, police raid violent Rio favelas Jaipur, India (AFP) Aug 20, 2017Low-cost prostheses offer Indian amputees a second chance |
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 18, 2017 
During a lengthy spacewalk on Thursday, Russian cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin and Sergey Ryazanskiy released five mini satellites by hand, including one made almost entirely of 3D-printed materials.
Some new reports are claiming the satellite is the first built from 3D-printed components to be launched into space, but in June, NASA launched a cube satellite made almost entirely of 3D-pri ... more Houston TX (SPX) Aug 21, 2017NASA protects its super heroes from space weather  Raleigh NC (SPX) Aug 21, 2017Researchers use vacuum for hands-free patterning of liquid metal  Nottingham, UK (SPX) Aug 17, 2017Surprise discovery in the search for energy efficient information storage |
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 Stennis Space Center MS (SPX) Aug 21, 2017 
It's an unseasonably warm February afternoon at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center (SSC), Mississippi, where three men are tinkering with a 7-foot tall, four-legged instrument platform, preparing it for an upcoming research experiment off the coast of Virginia.
The rugged apparatus known as a "quadpod," was built to withstand being on the bottom of the ocean for weeks ... more Washington (UPI) Aug 17, 2017Scientists discover why bubbles zig-zag as they rise through water  Mexico City (AFP) Aug 18, 2017Mexico City fishermen fight to save Aztec floating gardens  Sydney (AFP) July 19, 2017Risky business for fish in oil-polluted reef waters |
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 Indianapolis IN (SPX) Aug 21, 2017 
A new study from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis validates that the central core of the East Antarctic ice sheet should remain stable even if the West Antarctic ice sheet melts.
The study's findings are significant, given that some predict the West Antarctic ice sheet could melt quickly due to global warming.
If the East Antarctic ice sheet, which is 10 times larger ... moreHouston TX (SPX) Aug 22, 2017Hidden river once flowed beneath Antarctic ice  Washington (UPI) Aug 17, 2017Scientists are recruiting Alaskans to help them track berry patches  Miami (AFP) Aug 16, 2017Melting of Greenland glacier to speed up: study |
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 Urbana IL (SPX) Aug 21, 2017 
Without advanced sensing technology, humans see only a small portion of the entire electromagnetic spectrum. Satellites see the full range--from high-energy gamma rays, to visible, infrared, and low-energy microwaves. The images and data they collect can be used to solve complex problems. For example, satellite data is being harnessed by researchers at the University of Illinois for a more compl ... moreNewark DE (SPX) Aug 21, 2017Adding silicon to soil to strengthen plant defenses  Washington DC (SPX) Aug 21, 2017Surprising two-way journey for apple on the Silk Road  Los Angeles (AFP) July 13, 2017Disneyland China falls a-fowl of huge turkey leg demand |
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 New Delhi (AFP) Aug 21, 2017 
More than 750 people have died in floods across South Asia, officials said Monday, with monsoon rains also causing the deaths of hundreds of animals, including rhinos and a tiger.
The human toll is steadily rising across India, Nepal and Bangladesh following the latest in a series of deluges since August 10, as the annual monsoon hits the north and east of the region.
Nearly 50 bodies we ... moreKhartoum (AFP) Aug 21, 2017Sudan warns of floods as Nile water level surges  New Delhi (AFP) Aug 19, 2017Nearly 600 dead in S. Asia floods; SLeone toll reaches 441  Managua (AFP) Aug 18, 2017Nicaragua volcano spews gas, ash |
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 Freetown (AFP) Aug 19, 2017  The death toll from a mudslide and flooding that struck Sierra Leone's capital Freetown has reached 441, the government said on Saturday.
"Four hundred and forty-one corpses (were) buried as at yesterday," the deputy minister of information and communication, Cornelius Deveaux, told AFP, adding that the number of missing was "still being calculated."
A tally of deaths, issued on Friday b ... more Washington (UPI) Aug 21, 2017Africa Endeavor 2017 communications conference starts in Malawi  New Delhi (AFP) Aug 12, 2017Dalai Lama cancels Botswana trip with 'exhaustion'  Maiduguri, Nigeria (AFP) Aug 12, 2017UN says Nigeria relations 'intact' after unauthorised raid |
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 18, 2017 
Anthropomorphic, or human-like, animals are often the protagonists of children's books. But new research suggests parents who want their kids to pick up on a story's moral lessons should choose books featuring humans, not animals.
Researchers in Canada found four to six-year-olds were more likely to share with their peers after being read a story with human characters.
"Many peop ... more Washington (UPI) Aug 17, 2017Research reveals how neurons communicate  Washington DC (SPX) Aug 16, 2017New 13-million-year-old infant skull sheds light on ape ancestry  Brisbane, Australia (SPX) Aug 16, 2017Arrival of modern humans in Southeast Asia questioned |
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 Paris (SPX) Aug 21, 2017 
New data provides the first proof that the Earth has a natural thermostat which enables the planet to recover from extremes of climate change - but the recovery timescales are significant. This work was presented at the Goldschmidt conference in Paris, and has just been published in the peer-reviewed journal Geochemical Perspectives Letters*.
The idea of a natural temperature thermostat wa ... more Washington (UPI) Aug 17, 2017Asian Development Bank finds new climate finance stream  Washington DC (SPX) Aug 17, 2017Incomplete drought recovery may be the new normal  Washington (UPI) Aug 14, 2017Heat map showcases extreme temperatures in Southern Europe |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Aug 21, 2017 
The next major volcanic eruption could kick-start chemical reactions that would seriously damage the planet's already besieged ozone layer.
The extent of damage to the ozone layer that results from a large, explosive eruption depends on complex atmospheric chemistry, including the levels of human-made emissions in the atmosphere. Using sophisticated chemical modeling, researchers from Harv ... more Beijing, China (SPX) Aug 21, 2017Identifying individual atmospheric equatorial waves from a total flow field  Edwards AFB CA (SPX) Aug 17, 2017NASA-led airborne mission studies storm intensification in northern hemisphere  Washington (UPI) Jul 13, 2017Nickel key to Earth's magnetic field, research shows |
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 16, 2017 
Paleontologists have discovered a missing link between two large and diverse dinosaur groups.
When researchers first discovered Chilesaurus in 2015, they were puzzled by the dinosaur's unique appearance.
"Chilesaurus almost looks like it was stitched together from different animals, which is why it baffled everybody," Matthew Baron, a PhD student at the University of Cambridge, s ... moreNagoya, Japan (SPX) Aug 21, 2017Mechanisms explaining positional diversity of the hindlimb in tetrapod evolution  Canberra, Australia (SPX) Aug 21, 2017Study solves mystery of how first animals appeared on Earth  Chicago IL (SPX) Aug 17, 2017First winged mammals from the Jurassic period discovered |
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 Lincoln UK (SPX) Jul 24, 2017 
Plans to create 100 new 'smart' cities in India to support the country's rapidly growing urban population could have a significant detrimental impact on the environment unless greater emphasis is placed on providing new supporting infrastructure and utilities, according to a major new study.
Professor Hugh Byrd, a specialist in urban planning from the University of Lincoln, UK, conducted a ... more University Park PA (SPX) Jul 25, 2017Allowable 'carbon budget' most likely overestimated  Edinburgh UK (SPX) Jul 24, 2017Sparkling springs aid quest for underground heat energy sources  Washington (AFP) July 7, 2017Google's 'moonshot' factory spins off geothermal unit |
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 Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Aug 21, 2017 
Scientists have discovered a remarkably simple way to suppress a common instability that can halt fusion reactions and damage the walls of reactors built to create a "star in a jar." The findings, published in June in the journal Physical Review Letters, stem from experiments performed on the National Spherical Torus Experiment-Upgrade (NSTX-U), at the Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Phy ... more Washington DC (SPX) Aug 16, 2017IV and cellular fluids power flexible batteries  Washington DC (SPX) Aug 16, 2017A battery-inspired strategy for carbon fixation  Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Aug 16, 2017Updated computer code improves prediction of particle motion in plasma experiments |
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 Troy NY (SPX) Aug 21, 2017 
A new approach to optical imaging makes it possible to quickly and economically monitor multiple molecular interactions in a large area of living tissue - such as an organ or a small animal; technology that could have applications in medical diagnosis, guided surgery, or pre-clinical drug testing. The method, which is detailed in Nature Photonics, is capable of simultaneously tracking 16 colors ... more Washington (UPI) Aug 16, 2017Hunter Island penguin species never actually existed, study says  Mexico City (AFP) July 19, 2017Star chefs in Mexico to defend biodiversity  Washington (UPI) Jul 17, 2017Bacteria passed from mom to offspring is most beneficial, study shows |
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 Beijing (AFP) Aug 19, 2017 
Life may be stranger than fiction for an award-winning Chinese crime writer who has been arrested in connection with a quadruple-homicide that took place more than two decades ago.
For 22 years, police in eastern Zhejiang province tried to crack the cold case of how a family ended up dead in the guesthouse they ran.
They filled stacks upon stacks of notepads with possible suspects and le ... more Hong Kong (AFP) Aug 20, 2017Crowds rally in Hong Kong after activists jailed  London (AFP) Aug 18, 2017Outcry as UK publisher censors content for China  Beijing (AFP) Aug 22, 2017China rights lawyer confesses in 'subversion' trial |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Aug 21, 2017 
Tropical trees maintain high carbon accumulation rates into old age, according to a study published August 16, 2017 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Michael Kohl from the Universitat Hamburg, Germany, and colleagues.
Trees play an important role in mitigating climate change by storing carbon in their biomass. While old trees are generally acknowledged for their long-term carbon stora ... more Warsaw, Poland (AFP) Aug 16, 2017Storms felled record number of trees in Poland: officials  Brasilia (AFP) Aug 16, 2017Brazilian tribes celebrate court ruling on land rights  Sydney, Australia (SPX) Aug 09, 2017Drought-affected trees die from hydraulic failure and carbon starvation |
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