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  Santa Cruz CA (SPX) Feb 06, 2018 Research on HIV over the past decade has led to many promising ideas for vaccines to prevent infection by the AIDS virus, but very few candidate vaccines have been tested in clinical trials. One reason for this is the technical difficulty of manufacturing vaccines based on the envelope proteins of the virus, according to Phil Berman, who led development of a major component of the only vaccine to have shown any efficacy against HIV in a clinical trial. Berman, the Baskin Professor of Biomole ... read more |
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UTIA research examines long-term economic impact of cover cropsKnoxville TN (SPX) Feb 06, 2018 It isn't often that researchers have the luxury to examine data from a long-term research project. While most research projects last from three to five years, scientists with the University of Tenne ... more  
Cape Town now faces dry taps by May 11Cape Town (AFP) Feb 5, 2018 Residents of drought-stricken Cape Town received rare good news Monday when city officials said they now face losing piped water to their homes on May 11 - a month later than previously forecast. ... more  
Cape Town calls for hygiene blitz amid water crisisCape Town (AFP) Feb 5, 2018 Officials in Cape Town appealed on Monday for residents to be vigilant against health risks caused by efforts to save or reuse water as the South African city's drought worsens. ... more  
Moscow authorities struggle to clear record snowfallMoscow (AFP) Feb 5, 2018 Moscow authorities battled to clear streets and told children they could skip school as the city was blanketed by its heaviest snowfall in 100 years. ... more |
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GOLD will revolutionize our understanding of space weatherGreenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 05, 2018 NASA's first mission to provide unprecedented measurements of, and changes in, the temperature and composition of Earth's upper atmosphere launched at 5:20 p.m. EST Thursday, Jan. 25, from the Guian ... more  
Daughter's fears grow over bookseller missing in ChinaHong Kong (AFP) Feb 5, 2018 The daughter of missing Swedish publisher Gui Minhai who was snatched in China last month says she fears she may never see him again and has urged the international community to take action. ... more  
Truck damages Peru's ancient Nazca linesLima (AFP) Jan 30, 2018 Peru's ancient Nazca lines were damaged when a driver accidentally plowed his cargo truck into the fragile archaeological site in the desert, officials said Tuesday. ... more  
Scientists trace mysterious origin of Bornean elephantsWashington (UPI) Jan 17, 2018 Genetic analysis has offered new insights into how the Bornean elephant, a subspecies of the Asian elephant, came to occupy a small portion of the island of Borneo in Southeast Asia. ... more 
Rats cooperate, help each other, just like humansWashington (UPI) Feb 5, 2018 Like humans, rats cooperate. According to a newly published study, rats engage in reciprocal behavior, helping out those who helped them. ... more |
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Cambodian soldier detained after forest patrol deathsPhnom Penh (AFP) Feb 1, 2018 A Cambodian soldier has turned himself into authorities over the fatal shooting of three people patrolling a protected forest, an official said Thursday, in a case that has cast light on the country's illegal timber trade. ... more  |
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Ocean plastics raise risk of coral reef diseaseMiami (AFP) Jan 25, 2018 When coral reefs come in contact with plastic trash in the ocean, their risk of becoming diseased skyrockets, said an international study out Thursday. ... more  
Air pollution closes all schools in TehranTehran (AFP) Feb 5, 2018 All schools in Tehran will remain closed on Tuesday because of dangerously high levels of air pollution blanketing the Iranian capital, authorities said. ... more  
Shallow 6.1-magnitude earthquake hits off Taiwan: USGSTaipei (AFP) Feb 4, 2018 A shallow 6.1-magnitude earthquake hit off the eastern coast of Taiwan late Sunday, the United States Geological Survey said. ... more  
UK to play a major role in space weather mission conceptLondon, UK (SPX) Feb 05, 2018 Space weather occurs when the sun ejects material which can be highly charged, super heated and hazardous to manmade infrastructure and human life in space. The new mission aims to put a space ... more 
Weather pioneer returns 60 years after historic missionCape Canaveral AFS FL (SPX) Feb 05, 2018 The year was 1958. The Soviet Union launched the world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik I, into orbit the year before, which meant the U.S. was now officially behind in the race for space. ... more |
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 Cape Town (AFP) Feb 5, 2018  Officials in Cape Town appealed on Monday for residents to be vigilant against health risks caused by efforts to save or reuse water as the South African city's drought worsens.
The city is grappling with a listeriosis outbreak and a doubling of typhoid cases in the past year.
It has now urged residents to continue hand washing to maintain hygiene standards - despite water shortages. ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 06, 2018 
New data regarding IMAGE provides some additional - though not yet complete - information on how the spacecraft began to transmit signals again.
On Thanksgiving Day in 2004, the IMAGE spacecraft - at that time still fully functioning - underwent an unexpected power distribution reboot, after which the power returned only on one side - labeled the B side - of the unit. (Satellites are usual ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 01, 2018 
DARPA has successfully completed its Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel (ACTUV) program and has officially transferred the technology demonstration vessel, christened Sea Hunter, to the Office of Naval Research (ONR). ONR will continue developing the revolutionary prototype vehicle-the first of what could ultimately become an entirely new class of ocean-going vessel ab ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Jan 26, 2018  China is pushing its ambitious global trade infrastructure programme to the Arctic, outlining Friday its vision for a "Polar Silk Road" for ships as it seeks greater access to the strategically vital region.
The Arctic is geographically far from China's borders but with large oil and gas deposits and potential shipping lanes has become more strategically important for the Asian giant.
Be ... more |
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 Knoxville TN (SPX) Feb 06, 2018 
It isn't often that researchers have the luxury to examine data from a long-term research project. While most research projects last from three to five years, scientists with the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture recently published a study that covered a 29-year period to find the benefits of cover crops on no-till cotton fields.
Cotton is a major crop grown in the southeast ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Feb 05, 2018 
China on Friday launched its first seismo-electromagnetic satellite to study seismic precursors, which might help establish a ground-space earthquake monitoring and forecasting network in the future.
A Long March-2D rocket launched at 15:51 from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, in northwest China's Gobi Desert, carried the 730-kilogram China Seismo-Electromagnetic Satellite (CSES) into a s ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Feb 4, 2018  France has frozen the financial assets of a Congolese general placed on the UN's sanctions list for supporting a massacre of civilians by a suspected militia in 2014 and 2015, according to a notice published Sunday.
The government will freeze the "funds and financial resources" in France belonging to General Muhindo Akili Mundos, an ally of President Joseph Kabila, as well as those of three ... more |
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 Lima (AFP) Jan 30, 2018 
Peru's ancient Nazca lines were damaged when a driver accidentally plowed his cargo truck into the fragile archaeological site in the desert, officials said Tuesday.
The lines, considered a UNESCO World Heritage site, are enormous drawings of animals and plants etched in the ground some 2,000 years ago by a pre-Inca civilization. They are best seen from the sky.
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 Laramie WY (SPX) Feb 01, 2018 
University of Wyoming researchers led a climate study that determined recent temperatures across Europe and North America appear to have few, if any, precedent in the past 11,000 years.
The study revealed important natural fluctuations in climate have occurred over past millennia, which would have naturally led to climatic cooling today in the absence of human activity.
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 31, 2018 
A bread loaf-sized satellite has produced the world's first map of the global distribution of atmospheric ice in the 883-Gigahertz band, an important frequency in the submillimeter wavelength for studying cloud ice and its effect on Earth's climate.
IceCube - the diminutive spacecraft that deployed from the International Space Station in May 2017- has demonstrated-in-space a commercial 883 ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Feb 06, 2018 
Flowering plants likely originated between 149 and 256 million years ago according to new UCL-led research.
The study, published in New Phytologist by researchers from the UK and China, shows that flowering plants are neither as old as suggested by previous molecular studies, nor as young as a literal interpretation of their fossil record.
The findings underline the power of using co ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jan 24, 2018 
U.S. consumers should be the ones sharing in the corporate tax breaks for utility companies outlined in the federal code reform, state energy agencies said.
President Donald Trump signed into law a sweeping overhaul of the federal tax code in late December, extending temporary relief to American taxpayers and permanent breaks for corporations, with oil, gas and utility companies sharing ... more |
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 Philadelphia PA (SPX) Feb 05, 2018 
Hydrogen is one of the most abundant elements on Earth and an exceptionally clean fuel source. While it is making its way into the fuel cells of electric cars, busses and heavy equipment, its widespread use is hampered by the expensive gas-separation process required to produce pure hydrogen.
But that process could soon become more efficient and cost-effective thanks to a discovery by an i ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jan 17, 2018 
Genetic analysis has offered new insights into how the Bornean elephant, a subspecies of the Asian elephant, came to occupy a small portion of the island of Borneo in Southeast Asia.
Until now, the origins of the Bornean elephant were a mystery. But the latest analysis, published this week in the journal Scientific Reports, suggests the elephants crossed the last land bridge linking the ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Feb 5, 2018  The daughter of missing Swedish publisher Gui Minhai who was snatched in China last month says she fears she may never see him again and has urged the international community to take action.
Gui was arrested on a train to Beijing just over two weeks ago while accompanied by two Swedish diplomats - the second time he has disappeared in murky circumstances into Chinese custody.
His daught ... more |
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 Columbia MO (SPX) Feb 01, 2018 
New research at the University of Missouri has found that forest owners at greater risk of illegally cutting trees from their forests prefer to participate in conservation programs that allow sustainable timber harvesting. The findings of the study, conducted by Francisco Aguilar and Phillip Mohebalian, could be used to craft conservation contracts that are more likely to be accepted by forest o ... more |
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