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  University Park PA (SPX) Feb 13, 2018 Some deep-sea skates - cartilaginous fish related to rays and sharks - use volcanic heat emitted at hydrothermal vents to incubate their eggs, according to a new study in the journal Scientific Reports. Because deep-sea skates have some of the longest egg incubation times, estimated to last more than four years, the researchers believe the fish are using the hot vents to accelerate embryo development. This the first time such behavior has been seen in marine animals. "Hydrothermal vents are extrem ... read more |
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Why did gas hydrates melt at the end of the last ice age?Kiel, Germany (SPX) Feb 13, 2018 Methane hydrates, also known as 'burning ice', occur at all ocean margins. The compound of gas and water occurs in the seafloor and it is only stable under relatively high pressures and low temperat ... more  
Suspected poacher eaten by lions in South AfricaJohannesburg (AFP) Feb 12, 2018 A suspected poacher was mauled to death and eaten by a pack of lions close to the Kruger National Park in South Africa, police said Monday, adding that little was left of the victim's body. ... more  
A lightning-based approach to immediate short-duration rainfall predictionsBeijing, China (SPX) Feb 13, 2018 Previous studies have indicated a worldwide increasing trend of intense precipitation events under the influence of global warming. Heavy precipitation events increase the risk of flooding, exerting ... more  
Tiny fossils, huge slides: Are diatoms the key to Earth's biggest slides?Boulder CO (SPX) Feb 13, 2018 The biggest landslides on Earth aren't on land, but on the seafloor. These mega-slides can move thousands of cubic kilometers of material, and sometimes trigger tsunamis. Yet, remarkably, they occur ... more |
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FSU researchers: Savanna fires pump Central African forests full of nitrogenTallahassee FL (SPX) Feb 13, 2018 The remote forests of Africa's Congo Basin have long been a blind spot for scientists working to understand how Earth's natural cycles respond to the environmentally unique characteristics of differ ... more 
For global water crisis, climate may be the last strawParis (AFP) Feb 13, 2018 Before man-made climate change kicked in - and well before "Day Zero" in Cape Town, where taps may run dry in early May - the global water crisis was upon us. ... more  
Worsening Ethiopian drought threatens to end nomadic lifestyleDabafayed, Ethiopia (AFP) Feb 13, 2018 Down a sandy track past a desiccated animal carcass lies a cluster of half-built huts that Ethiopia's government and aid agencies hope will blunt the worsening toll of repeated droughts. ... more 
An efficient and sustainable way to filter salt and metal ions from waterMelbourne, Australia (SPX) Feb 13, 2018 It all comes down to metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), an amazing next generation material that have the largest internal surface area of any known substance. The sponge like crystals can be used to ... more 
Search for Taiwan quake victims ends as toll rises to 17Taipei (AFP) Feb 11, 2018 Rescuers Sunday ended their search of a Taiwan building partially toppled by a 6.4-magnitude earthquake as the last trapped pair were presumed dead, bringing the final death toll to 17. ... more |
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Blackouts, flooding as cyclone batters Tongan capitalNuku'Alofa, Tonga (AFP) Feb 13, 2018 A battered Nuku'alofa began cleaning up Tuesday after the most powerful cyclone ever recorded in the Tongan capital tore roofs off buildings, downed powerlines and caused extensive flooding, prompting a state of emergency in the tiny Pacific nation. ... more  |
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Hong Kong police probe deadly bus accidentHong Kong (AFP) Feb 11, 2018 A deadly Hong Kong bus crash that killed 19 and left scores more injured was under investigation Sunday, with the city's leader calling for a wide-ranging inquiry as questions surfaced over the industry's long hours and low pay. ... more 
New map profiles induced earthquake risk for West TexasStanford CA (SPX) Feb 13, 2018 Stanford geophysicists have developed a detailed map of the stresses that act in the Earth throughout the Permian Basin in West Texas and southeastern New Mexico, highlighting areas of the oil-rich ... more  
Rapid land changes forecast for East African savannahsYork UK (SPX) Feb 13, 2018 A study, presenting a 5000-year environmental history of the popular tourist destination, Amboseli National Park in Kenya, has shown that the impact of climate change on land is more rapid than prev ... more 
Viruses are falling from the skyVancouver, Canada (SPX) Feb 09, 2018 An astonishing number of viruses are circulating around the Earth's atmosphere - and falling from it - according to new research from scientists in Canada, Spain and the U.S. The study marks t ... more 
AI computer vision breakthrough IDs poachers in less than half a secondLos Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 12, 2018 Thousands of animals including elephants, tigers, rhinos, and gorillas are poached each year. Researchers at the USC Center for Artificial Intelligence in Society have long been applying AI to prote ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Feb 11, 2018  A deadly Hong Kong bus crash that killed 19 and left scores more injured was under investigation Sunday, with the city's leader calling for a wide-ranging inquiry as questions surfaced over the industry's long hours and low pay.
Most victims of the accident on Saturday evening, which saw a double decker flip over and smash into a lamppost, were men aged in their 50s and 60s, according to loc ... more |
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 Singapore (SPX) Feb 08, 2018 
GomSpace together with The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) and Singapore Technologies Electronics Limited (ST Electronics) signed a research collaboration agreement on the sidelines of the Singapore Airshow this week, to conduct a design study on the implementation of space-based Very High Frequency (VHF) communications for air traffic management (ATM) in the Singapore Flight Inform ... more |
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 Pullman WA (SPX) Feb 08, 2018 
Building a submarine gets tricky when the temperature drops to -300 Fahrenheit and the ocean is made of methane and ethane.
Washington State University researchers are working with NASA to determine how a submarine might work on Titan, the largest of Saturn's many moons and the second largest in the solar system. The space agency plans to launch a real submarine into Titan seas in the next ... more |
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 Kiel, Germany (SPX) Feb 13, 2018 
Methane hydrates, also known as 'burning ice', occur at all ocean margins. The compound of gas and water occurs in the seafloor and it is only stable under relatively high pressures and low temperatures. If the pressure is too low or the temperature too high, the hydrates dissociate (break down), the methane is released and the gas can seep from the seafloor into the ocean. Thus, scientists fear ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Feb 8, 2018 
Scientists have confirmed the first case of stem rust in Britain in 60 years. In a new study, published this week in the journal Nature Communications Biology, researchers warn of the risks posed by a resurgence of the forgotten plant pathogen.
Since scientists were first alerted to the infected wheat plant in 2013, scientists at the John Innes Center in Norwich, England, have been stud ... more |
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 Hualien, Taiwan (AFP) Feb 9, 2018  Taiwan began demolishing three dangerously damaged buildings Friday as rescue workers combed the rubble of a hotel in a last-ditch effort to find seven people still missing after a deadly earthquake.
At least 10 people were killed when the 6.4-magnitude quake hit the eastern tourist city of Hualien Tuesday. A family of five Chinese mainland nationals and a Canadian-Chinese couple remain miss ... more |
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 Libreville (AFP) Feb 9, 2018  The Cameroonian army on Friday denied its troops were responsible for alleged atrocities against separatists in English-speaking regions after unverified footage apparently involving soldiers was posted online.
"These accusations of atrocities are dreamt up. We are victims of disinformation and fake news," army spokesman Colonel Didier Badjeck told AFP, just days after the appearance of the ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Feb 9, 2018 
What is the evolutionary origin of humans' social intelligence?
Earth is home to thousands of species that prove complex language, social bonding and cooperation aren't inevitable or even necessary for survival. And yet, the planet's most successful species is also its most socially intelligent and complex.
What set us on this course? What jumpstarted mankind's divergence from pr ... more |
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 Dabafayed, Ethiopia (AFP) Feb 13, 2018 
Down a sandy track past a desiccated animal carcass lies a cluster of half-built huts that Ethiopia's government and aid agencies hope will blunt the worsening toll of repeated droughts.
The soon-to-be village of Dabafayed is intended as a new, permanent home for once-nomadic herders made destitute by the country's back-to-back droughts.
The lifestyle change is drastic but necessary, off ... more |
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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 21A ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Feb 12, 2018 
Cartoons that illustrate evolution depict early vertebrates generating primordial limbs as they move onto land for the first time. But new findings indicate that some of these first ambulatory creatures may have stayed under water, spawning descendants that today exhibit walking behavior on the ocean floor. The results appear February 8 in the journal Cell.
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 Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Feb 12, 2018 
Putting the Paris climate agreement into practice will trigger opposed reactions by investors on the one hand and fossil fuel owners on the other hand. It has been feared that the anticipation of strong CO2 reduction policies might - a 'green paradox' - drive up these emissions: before the regulations kick in, fossil fuel owners might accelerate their resource extraction to maximize profits.
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 Clemson SC (SPX) Feb 12, 2018  Researchers from Clemson's Nanomaterials Institute (CNI) are one step closer to wirelessly powering the world using triboelectricity - a green energy source.
In March 2017, a group of physicists at CNI invented the ultra-simple triboelectric nanogenerator, or U-TENG - a small device made simply of plastic and tape that generates electricity from motion and vibrations. When the two material ... more |
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 San Francisco CA (SPX) Feb 13, 2018 
There's no sneaking by this spider. New research from the University of California Merced and the California Academy of Sciences shows that individuals from the spider family Selenopidae - commonly known as flattie spiders - can sense prey approaching from any direction and whip around in one-eighth of a second to strike. High-speed footage reveals that a swift flex of their long legs helps the ... more |
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 Shanghai (AFP) Feb 10, 2018 
Detained book publisher Gui Minhai has surfaced nearly three weeks after disappearing into police custody in China, confessing wrongdoing and accusing his adopted country Sweden of manipulating him like a "chess piece".
It was unclear whether the Chinese-born Gui's statement was made under duress, but video of his confession shows him flanked by two police officers and a close friend said th ... more |
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 Berkeley CA (SPX) Feb 08, 2018  Pine trees become temporarily sterile when exposed to ultraviolet radiation as intense as some scientists believe the Earth experienced 252 million years ago during the planet's largest mass extinction, lending support to the theory that ozone depletion contributed to the crisis.
The effect of high UV on conifers and potentially other trees also suggests caution today in introducing chemic ... more |
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