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  Guildford UK (SPX) Feb 07, 2018 Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) signed a 25M pounds contract in Beijing yesterday with Twenty First Century Aerospace Technology Co., Ltd (21AT) to provide data from a new Earth Observation satellite (SSTL-S1) due for launch on PSLV in the middle of this year. The contract was signed by Sir Martin Sweeting, Executive Chairman of SSTL, and Mme Wu Shuang, President and Chairman of 21AT, and witnessed by the UK Secretary of State, Dr Liam Fox. As the manufacturer and owner of the SSTL-S1 ... read more |
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Scientists explain the impacts of aerosol radiative forcingBeijing, China (SPX) Feb 06, 2018 Aerosols are colloids of tiny solid or liquid particles suspended in the atmosphere. Their diameters typically range between 0.001 and 100 um. Aerosols are recognized as a major factor of influence ... more  
Scientists find massive reserves of mercury hidden in permafrostWashington DC (SPX) Feb 06, 2018 Researchers have discovered permafrost in the northern hemisphere stores massive amounts of natural mercury, a finding with significant implications for human health and ecosystems worldwide. ... more  
Interstellar fullerenes may help find solutions for Earthly mattersKazan, Russia (SPX) Feb 05, 2018 Fullerenes were first discovered by Harry Kroto in the 1970s, a feat for which he and his colleagues received a Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Recently, they have been found in winds emitted by red giant ... more  
What's behind the most brilliant lights in the skyMadison WI (SPX) Feb 01, 2018 Space physicists at University of Wisconsin-Madison have just released unprecedented detail on a bizarre phenomenon that powers the northern lights, solar flares and coronal mass ejections (the bigg ... more |
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Algae under Arctic sea ice blooms in near-darknessWashington (UPI) Feb 6, 2018 Scientists have found that sea algae growing on the underside of sea ice can bloom with only tiny amounts of light. ... more  
Red pandas rescued in Laos stir fears over exotic pet tradeBangkok (AFP) Feb 7, 2018 The rescue in Laos of three endangered red pandas trafficked from China has raised fears the rare animals are increasingly being coveted by exotic pet owners. ... more  
False tsunami alert sent to US coastsChicago (AFP) Feb 7, 2018 A tsunami warning test was accidentally sent as a real alert to the phones of residents along the US East and Gulf Coasts and the Caribbean on Tuesday - just weeks after a false missile alert triggered panic in Hawaii. ... more  
French watchdog points at Russia over radiation cloudParis (AFP) Feb 6, 2018 The radioactive cloud detected across Europe late last year may have been caused by an incident in Mayak nuclear facility, one of Russia's biggest, France's radioactivity surveillance institute said Tuesday. ... more  
Ireland pushing for greener economyWashington (UPI) Jan 31, 2018 The Irish government, despite what happens for Great Britain, is committed to the European Union's energy and renewable policies, the environment minister said. ... more |
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China says Swedish publisher held under criminal lawBeijing (AFP) Feb 6, 2018 China acknowledged Tuesday that Swedish book publisher Gui Minhai was in custody under criminal law, brushing aside Stockholm's protests after he was seized under the eyes of Swedish diplomats last month. ... more  |
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Hong Kong democracy activists walk free in appeal victoryHong Kong (AFP) Feb 6, 2018 Joshua Wong and two other leading Hong Kong democracy activists won an appeal against their jail terms at the city's highest court Tuesday in a case seen as a test of the independence of the city's judiciary, which some fear is under pressure from Beijing. ... more  
China orders microblog companies to ramp up censorshipBeijing (AFP) Feb 2, 2018 China Friday ordered the country's microblog operators to establish mechanisms to remove false information, in the latest move by authorities to tighten policing of the web. ... more  
Scientists report big improvements in HIV vaccine productionSanta 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. O ... more  
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 |
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 Paris (AFP) Feb 6, 2018 
The radioactive cloud detected across Europe late last year may have been caused by an incident in Mayak nuclear facility, one of Russia's biggest, France's radioactivity surveillance institute said Tuesday.
"One possible hypothesis is that of a leak coming from an incident during an operation involving radioactive fuel cooled for around two years in Mayak complex, which is in the area betwe ... 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 05, 2018 
The world's vast oceans and seas offer seemingly endless spaces in which adversaries of the United States can maneuver undetected. The U.S. military deploys networks of manned and unmanned platforms and sensors to monitor adversary activity, but the scale of the task is daunting and hardware alone cannot meet every need in the dynamic marine environment. Sea life, however, offers a potential new ... 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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 Chicago (AFP) Feb 7, 2018 
A tsunami warning test was accidentally sent as a real alert to the phones of residents along the US East and Gulf Coasts and the Caribbean on Tuesday - just weeks after a false missile alert triggered panic in Hawaii.
The National Weather Service issued what it characterized as a "routine test message" at approximately 8:30 am (1330 GMT), but the message was erroneously transmitted by at l ... 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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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 06, 2018 
USC scientists have unlocked a new, more efficient pathway for converting methane - a potent gas contributing to climate change - directly into basic chemicals for manufacturing plastics, agrochemicals and pharmaceuticals.
In research published on Dec. 4 in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, chemists at USC Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute say they have found a way to help t ... more |
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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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 Sao Paulo, Brazil (SPX) Feb 02, 2018 
Nuclear fusion, for the controlled and regular generation of electric power by converting hydrogen into helium and reproducing on a small scale what happens in our Sun (as well as other stars), is one of the foremost technological promises for the decades ahead.
Designed to reach parameters beyond the ones previously obtained in laboratory experiments, the reactor prototype called ITER - " ... more |
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 Bangkok (AFP) Feb 7, 2018 
The rescue in Laos of three endangered red pandas trafficked from China has raised fears the rare animals are increasingly being coveted by exotic pet owners.
Landlocked Laos, which borders China and Vietnam, is a key transit hub in the global trade in illegal wildlife, but experts say the discovery of red pandas there is virtually unheard of.
Six of the cat-sized bears were found on Jan ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Feb 6, 2018  China acknowledged Tuesday that Swedish book publisher Gui Minhai was in custody under criminal law, brushing aside Stockholm's protests after he was seized under the eyes of Swedish diplomats last month.
Gui, 53, was arrested on a train to Beijing just over two weeks ago while being assisted by two Swedish diplomats - the second time he has disappeared in murky circumstances into Chinese c ... more |
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 Phnom 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.
A military officer, park ranger and employee of the prominent NGO Wildlife Conservation Society were gunned down Tuesday after seizing a chainsaw from illegal loggers in M ... more |
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