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  Chapel Hill NC (SPX) Nov 06, 2017 Life on Earth originated in an intimate partnership between the nucleic acids (genetic instructions for all organisms) and small proteins called peptides, according to two new papers from biochemists and biologists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Auckland. Their "peptide-RNA" hypothesis contradicts the widely-held "RNA-world" hypothesis, which states that life originated from nucleic acids and only later evolved to include proteins. The new papers - one in ... read more |
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Newly discovered volcanic rock minerals offer insights into earth's evolutionBaton Rouge LA (SPX) Nov 06, 2017 The first 1.5 billion years of Earth's evolution is subject to considerable uncertainty due to the lack of any significant rock record prior to four billion years ago and a very limited record until ... more  
Russian military to boost Arctic presence: commanderMoscow (AFP) Nov 3, 2017 Russia is boosting aviation infrastructure in the Arctic and will further increase its air defences there, the commander of the country's northern fleet said on Friday. ... more  
White House OKs report warning climate change caused by humansWashington (AFP) Nov 3, 2017 The US government released Friday a major scientific report that says climate change is "extremely likely" to be caused by human activity and will get worse without major cuts to carbon emissions. ... more  
27 dead as Typhoon Damrey batters Vietnam; Floods kill 5 in MalaysiaDanang, Vietnam (AFP) Nov 5, 2017 At least 27 people have died and nearly two dozen are missing after Typhoon Damrey barrelled into Vietnam, authorities said Sunday, damaging tens of thousands of homes and submerging highways days before the country welcomes world leaders to the APEC summit. ... more |
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Jamaica still 'digging out' from hurricane, but Red Cross hopes toll stays low
Death toll tops 100 as Philippines digs out after typhoon Typhoon death toll soars past 90 in the Philippines Typhoon death toll climbs to 66 in the Philippines CORRECTED: Typhoon Kalmaegi kills 66 in Philippines: civil defence office Reeling from earthquakes, Afghans fear coming winter Typhoon flooding kills over 40, strands thousands in central Philippines Indonesia floods kill 15 Afghan govt says quake death toll rises to 27 Fierce mountain storms kill nine in Nepal |
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Two dead, thousands flee as floods hit Malaysia's PenangKuala Lumpur (AFP) Nov 5, 2017 At least two people have been killed and almost 2,000 evacuated after a storm triggered serious flooding Sunday in Malaysia's Penang, with the historic state capital under murky brown water. ... more  
In reversal, US tech firms back bill on human traffickingWashington (AFP) Nov 3, 2017 Major US tech firms reversed course Friday and endorsed a proposal in Congress which could hold website owners liable for human trafficking. ... more 
Crime writer Ian Rankin predicts rise of 'kind and gentle' booksHong Kong (AFP) Nov 3, 2017 Global turmoil after seismic events such as Brexit and the election of President Donald Trump may push readers away from dystopian crime fiction to novels with a more comforting message, best-selling author Ian Rankin says. ... more 
Dozens of alligators captured prior to child's death at DisneyMiami (AFP) Nov 4, 2017 Disney World knew it had an alligator problem long before one of the beasts killed a toddler at the famous resort last year, official data showed Friday. ... more  
Flights of honeybees reveal individual directional tendenciesWashington (UPI) Nov 3, 2017 Just as humans and other animals are often more dexterous with one hand or paw - usually the right - honeybees have individualized flight pattern preferences. Some prefer to go right, others feel more comfortable going left. ... more  
Trump admin sued over stalling to protect sea turtlesMiami (AFP) Nov 3, 2017 A US environmental group filed suit Friday against the Donald Trump administration for allegedly stalling on a deal to protect sea turtles from getting trapped in shrimp nets. ... more |
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 Tiny Fiji looks for global impact at Bonn climate talks 
Study reveals invasive species defense mechanisms inside marine reservesWashington (UPI) Nov 3, 2017 Scientists have identified two ecological mechanisms that help prevent takeovers by invasive species. ... more 
UN climate talks resume with wary eyes on TrumpParis (AFP) Nov 3, 2017 Nations that adopted the Paris Agreement with champagne two years ago, regroup next week amid grim omens of climate peril and with an anxious eye on Donald Trump's America. ... more  
Traditional carpet weaving in central Iraq unravelsAl-Hamza, Iraq (AFP) Nov 5, 2017 In the shadow of the Imam Hamza mosque in the region of the ancient kingdom of Babylon, a carpet market that was once bustling is now almost empty. ... more  
Mexico captures rare vaquita porpoise in bid to save speciesMexico City (AFP) Nov 5, 2017 Mexico said Saturday it had captured a rare vaquita marina porpose - a female of reproductive age - as part of a last-ditch bid to save the critically endangered species. ... more |
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  Hanover NH (SPX) Nov 02, 2017 
New technology that harnesses electronic signals in a smart fabric could lead to advanced hazardous-material gear that protects against toxic chemicals, according to research from Dartmouth College.
The advancement could have big implications for the military, emergency service personnel and other workers that rely on "haz-mat" protection to perform their work and keep others safe.
I ... more McLean VA (SPX) Oct 31, 2017SATCOM and Disaster Recovery Plans Withstand Irma Washington (AFP) Nov 3, 2017In reversal, US tech firms back bill on human trafficking Hong Kong (AFP) Nov 3, 2017Crime writer Ian Rankin predicts rise of 'kind and gentle' books |
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 Boulder CO (VOA) Oct 31, 2017 
People are big polluters, on the land, in the sea and even in outer space, that can include anything from a hammer that floats away from the space station, to radiation from a nuclear weapons test in the atmosphere.
"This can range from little chips of paint all the way up to spent rocket bodies and things like that," said Dan Baker, director of the Laboratory of Atmosphere and Space Physi ... more Tucson AZ (SPX) Oct 31, 2017Guiding the random laser  Washington DC (SPX) Nov 03, 2017Opening the Van der Waals' sandwich  Boston MA (SPX) Nov 01, 2017'Tensor algebra' software speeds big-data analysis 100-fold |
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Scientists have identified coastal communities where poverty, poor infrastructure and exposure to the elements combine to create a unique level of vulnerability to natural disasters.
These varying levels of risk are showcased on a new map of the Caribbean and South America published this week in the journal PLOS ONE.
"We found that more than 500,000 people in Latin America and th ... more Abidjan (AFP) Nov 2, 2017Ivory Coast inaugurates huge China-funded dam  Suva, Fiji (AFP) Nov 5, 2017Tiny Fiji looks for global impact at Bonn climate talks  Washington (UPI) Nov 1, 2017Climate change could transform key bacterial interactions in the ocean by 2100 |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 03, 2017 
Scientists with NASA's longest-running airborne mission to map polar ice, Operation IceBridge, completed a successful science flight on Oct. 29, inaugurating their 2017 survey of Antarctic sea and land ice. For the first time in its nine years of operations in the southern hemisphere, IceBridge will launch two consecutive, dedicated sets of Antarctic flights from two continents-South America and ... more Paris (ESA) Nov 03, 2017Wanted: a medical doctor for a cold adventure  Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 03, 2017New Greenland Maps Show More Glaciers at Risk Moscow (AFP) Nov 3, 2017Russian military to boost Arctic presence: commander |
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 Bristol UK (SPX) Nov 02, 2017 
Implications of livestock farming on climate change should not be drawn from aggregate statistics, reveals a study based on a new method of carbon footprinting for pasture-based cattle production systems that can assess the impacts of individual animals.
The new method, developed by a team from the University of Bristol and Rothamsted Research, records the environmental impact of each anim ... more Moscow, Russia (SPX) Nov 03, 2017RUDN University researcher found out what happens to organic matter on rice fields  Brisbane, Australia (SPX) Nov 03, 2017Flour power to boost food security  Ithaca NY (SPX) Nov 02, 2017Pumpkin genomes sequenced, revealing uncommon evolutionary history |
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 Danang, Vietnam (AFP) Nov 5, 2017  At least 27 people have died and nearly two dozen are missing after Typhoon Damrey barrelled into Vietnam, authorities said Sunday, damaging tens of thousands of homes and submerging highways days before the country welcomes world leaders to the APEC summit.
The storm, which made landfall on Saturday, is the worst in decades to strike the country's southern coastal region, an area normally s ... more Boulder CO (SPX) Nov 03, 2017Future volcanic eruptions could cause more climate disruption  Durham NC (SPX) Nov 02, 2017Tsunami reveals human noise pollution in Hawaiian waters Kuala Lumpur (AFP) Nov 5, 2017Two dead, thousands flee as floods hit Malaysia's Penang |
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 Washington (AFP) Nov 3, 2017 
The US conducted a pair of drone strikes against Islamic State fighters in Somalia on Friday, the first time America has hit the jihadists in the Horn of Africa nation, officials said.
The strikes occurred in northeastern Somalia and killed "several terrorists," the US military's Africa Command said in a statement.
According to Voice of America, which cited the chairman of the town of Qa ... more Washington (AFP) Nov 2, 2017US mission in Niger not what US commanders say it was: reportw  Tiznit, Morocco (AFP) Nov 3, 2017Morocco architect fights concrete with tradition  Juba (AFP) Nov 4, 2017Tense standoff in Juba as troops encircle ex-army chief's home |
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 Jakarta (AFP) Nov 2, 2017 
A new species of orangutan has been discovered in the remote jungles of Indonesia, immediately becoming the world's most endangered great ape, researchers said Thursday.
"It's the first declaration of a new great ape species in about 100 years," Ian Singleton, co-author of the study and director of the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme, told AFP.
The species, called 'Tapanuli or ... more London UK (SPX) Nov 02, 2017The relentless rise of migration in Europe over last 10,000 years  Washington DC (SPX) Nov 02, 2017Study shows how memories ripple through the brain  Sydney (AFP) Nov 1, 2017Climbing Australia's giant red rock Uluru banned |
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 Paris (AFP) Nov 3, 2017  Nations that adopted the Paris Agreement with champagne two years ago, regroup next week amid grim omens of climate peril and with an anxious eye on Donald Trump's America.
The November 6-17 meeting in Bonn, Germany, is the first for UN climate envoys since the US president announced he will extricate Washington from the deal, carefully crafted over many years and helped over the finish line ... moreWashington (AFP) Nov 3, 2017White House OKs report warning climate change caused by humans  Plymouth UK (SPX) Nov 03, 2017Could the Neolithic Revolution offer evidence of best ways to adapt to climate change? Paris (AFP) Oct 31, 2017Shortfall in climate action is 'catastrophic': UN |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Nov 06, 2017 
It's no secret that hurricanes are affecting the United States in a dramatic way this year. In the past few months alone, the US and Caribbean regions have been impacted by multiple catastrophic storms. To help understand why we are seeing such drastic changes in tropical storm patterns, Blue Canyon Technologies (BCT) will build a constellation of CubeSats for an observing system for NASA to mea ... more Paris (ESA) Nov 03, 2017Wind satellite vacuum packed  Palo Alto, CA (SPX) Nov 03, 2017Initial Signals Received From Six Small Satellites Built by SSL for Planet  Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Nov 03, 2017JPSS-1 to Provide More Accurate Environmental Forecasts |
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 Baton Rouge LA (SPX) Nov 06, 2017 
The first 1.5 billion years of Earth's evolution is subject to considerable uncertainty due to the lack of any significant rock record prior to four billion years ago and a very limited record until about three billion years ago. Rocks of this age are usually extensively altered making comparisons to modern rock quite difficult.
In new research conducted at LSU, scientists have found evide ... more Chapel Hill NC (SPX) Nov 06, 2017New theory addresses how life on earth arose from the primordial muck  Bristol UK (SPX) Oct 31, 2017Bandit-masked feathered dinosaur hid from predators using multiple types of camouflage  New Haven CT (SPX) Oct 26, 2017Mongolian microfossils point to the rise of animals on Earth |
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 23, 2017 
Utility companies in the Japanese market face an uphill battle in meeting targets for the reduction in carbon dioxide emissions, Moody's reported Monday.
Moody's Investors Service reported that Japan faces challenges in meeting its commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Based on March levels, the report found emissions from the utility sector will need to be cut by as much as 50 p ... more Washington (UPI) Oct 19, 2017IEA: An electrified world would cost $31B per year to achieve  Washington (UPI) Oct 1, 2017'Fuel-secure' steps in Washington counterintuitive, green group says  Menlo Park CA (SPX) Sep 19, 2017SLAC-led project will use AI to prevent or minimize electric grid failures |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Nov 06, 2017 
High-performance electrodes for lithium-ion batteries can be improved by paying closer attention to their defects - and capitalizing on them, according to Rice University scientists.
Rice materials scientist Ming Tang and chemists Song Jin at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Linsen Li at Wisconsin and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology led a study that combined state-of-the-a ... more Berkeley CA (SPX) Nov 02, 2017New studies on disordered cathodes may provide much-needed jolt to lithium batteries  Ulsan, South Korea (SPX) Nov 02, 2017UNIST unveils new fast-charging, high-energy electric-car battery technology  Exeter UK (SPX) Nov 03, 2017Scientists create magnetic system that transforms heat into motion |
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 London, UK (SPX) Nov 03, 2017 
A research collaboration has discovered a new way of rapidly generating a swathe of medically significant natural products after discovering a ground-breaking technique that turns the marathon of evolution into a sprint.
The surprise discovery came when the research team inadvertently replicated a process that bacteria use to evolve their machinery for making natural products.
Now th ... moreWashington (UPI) Nov 3, 2017Flights of honeybees reveal individual directional tendencies  Liwonde, Malawi (AFP) Nov 2, 2017Malawi turns to British troops in poaching war  Durham NC (SPX) Nov 03, 2017Humans don't use as much brainpower as we like to think |
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 Beijing (AFP) Nov 4, 2017 
China has passed legislation to punish anyone who disrespects the national anthem with up to three years in prison, state media reported Saturday.
The changes to China's criminal law were approved during a committee meeting of the country's rubberstamp parliament, the National People's Congress (NPC), according to the official Xinhua news agency.
"Serious cases of disrespecting the coun ... more Hong Kong (AFP) Nov 2, 2017Hong Kong government under fire in LGBT row  Manila (AFP) Nov 2, 2017Philippine Everest conqueror sets sail for China  Beijing (AFP) Oct 31, 2017China mulls three years' jail for anthem disrespect |
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 Waiapi, Brazil (AFP) Nov 2, 2017 
Deep in the Amazon rainforest, it's that time again - beer o'clock.
Members of the tiny, remote Waiapi tribe in Brazil's eastern Amazon raise calabash gourds to their painted faces and quaff the homemade brew they call caxiri.
Draining the salad-bowl-sized gourd, usually in one go, they send for a refill, which is scooped from an enormous hollowed-out log resembling a canoe, only brimmi ... more Tegucigalpa (AFP) Oct 31, 2017Honduran state, power company, involved in activist murder: experts  Southampton UK (SPX) Oct 31, 2017Peatland plants adapting well to climate change  Exeter UK (SPX) Oct 31, 2017Tropical forest reserves slow down global warming |
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