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  Atlanta GA (SPX) Feb 19, 2018 In popular culture, asteroids play the role of apocalyptic threat, get blamed for wiping out the dinosaurs - and offer an extraterrestrial source for mineral mining. But for researcher Nicholas Hud, asteroids play an entirely different role: that of time capsules showing what molecules originally existed in our solar system. Having that information gives scientists the starting point they need to reconstruct the complex pathway that got life started on Earth. Director of the NSF-NASA Center ... read more |
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Five Years after the Chelyabinsk Meteor: NASA Leads Efforts in Planetary DefensePasadena CA (JPL) Feb 16, 2018 A blinding flash, a loud sonic boom, and shattered glass everywhere. This is what the people of Chelyabinsk, Russia, experienced five years ago when an asteroid exploded over their city the morning ... more  
Plants colonized the earth 100 million years earlier than previously thoughtBristol UK (SPX) Feb 21, 2018 For the first four billion years of Earth's history, our planet's continents would have been devoid of all life except microbes. All of this changed with the origin of land plants from their p ... more  
Researchers invent tiny, light-powered wires to modulate brain's electrical signalsChicago IL (SPX) Feb 21, 2018 The human brain largely remains a black box: How the network of fast-moving electrical signals turns into thought, movement and disease remains poorly understood. But it is electrical, so it can be ... more  
Rare find from the deep seaBonn, Germany (SPX) Feb 21, 2018 Dumbo octopuses live at a depth of thousands of meters in the oceans of this world, in near-freezing water and in absolute darkness. A rare spectacle now provides further insight into this extraordi ... more |
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Kin of 'world's ugliest animal' among fish hauled off Australia abyssSydney (AFP) Feb 21, 2018 More than 100 rarely seen fish species were hauled up from a deep and cold abyss off Australia during a scientific voyage, researchers said Wednesday, including a cousin of the "world's ugliest animal" Mr Blobby. ... more 
Gray squirrels are smarter than red squirrels, research showsWashington (UPI) Feb 20, 2018 To the detriment of native red squirrels, gray squirrels are now ubiquitous throughout Britain. Their success may at least be partially explained by their superior problem solving skills. ... more 
New phagocytosis model predicts which cells can eat other cellsWashington (UPI) Feb 20, 2018 Scientists have designed a new model to identify which organisms are capable of consuming other cells through a process called phagocytosis. ... more 
Cape Town now faces dry taps by July 9Cape Town (AFP) Feb 20, 2018 Residents of drought-stricken Cape Town received good news Tuesday when city officials said they now face losing piped water to their homes by July 9 - a month later than last forecast. ... more 
Coming decades vital for future sea level rise: studyParis (AFP) Feb 20, 2018 How quickly humanity draws down the greenhouse gases driving global warming will determine whether sea levels rise half-a-metre or six times that, even if Paris climate pact goals are fully met, researchers reported Tuesday in a study. ... more |
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Pesticide traces in three-quarters of French fruit: reportParis (AFP) Feb 20, 2018 Almost three- quarters of fruit and more than two-fifths of non-organic vegetables contain traces of pesticide in France, with grapes and celery the most affected, a report said Tuesday. ... more  |
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Hundreds dead in Syria enclave as UN warns situation 'out of control'Arbin, Syria (AFP) Feb 20, 2018 Air strikes hit Syria's Eastern Ghouta for a third straight day on Tuesday, bringing the civilian death toll to nearly 200 as the UN warned the situation in the rebel enclave was spinning "out of control". ... more  
Weah's promised land: Liberia confronts age-old disputesGbah, Liberia (AFP) Feb 21, 2018 Morris Kidir gestures at a wide expanse of dark-green land he says was earmarked for a school or clinic in his northern Liberian village, now covered in young oil palm trees. ... more  
Hong Kong activist on trial over riotsHong Kong (AFP) Feb 21, 2018 Hong Kong's best-known independence activist went on trial on riot charges Wednesday over protests in 2016 which saw the city's worst violence for decades. ... more  
Tracking a typhoon's seismic footprintPrinceton NJ (SPX) Feb 16, 2018 Climatologists are often asked, "Is climate change making hurricanes stronger?" but they can't give a definitive answer because the global hurricane record only goes back to the dawn of the satellit ... more  
Towards a better prediction of solar eruptionsParis, France (SPX) Feb 13, 2018 Just one phenomenon may underlie all solar eruptions, according to researchers from the CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, CEA and INRIA[1] in an article featured on the cover of the February 8 issue of Nat ... more |
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 Gloucester Point VA (SPX) Feb 19, 2018 
Bird-human actions can end in tragedy - for bird as well as human. John Swaddle believes technology and a solid understanding of bird behavior can make those tragedies less frequent. Swaddle is a behavioral biologist at William and Mary. He briefed attendees at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science on developments in a pair of initiatives designed to minim ... more |
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 Helsinki, Finland (SPX) Feb 20, 2018 
Understanding the causes and effects of the friction could pave the way for explorations into the composition of neutron stars and our universe. Here on Earth, the Aalto researchers' results will be invaluable for curtailing the production of heat and unwanted glitches in quantum computer components.
"For now, we have to study the phenomenon itself more in depth, before we can have insight ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Feb 20, 2018 
How quickly humanity draws down the greenhouse gases driving global warming will determine whether sea levels rise half-a-metre or six times that, even if Paris climate pact goals are fully met, researchers reported Tuesday in a study.
"The trajectory of emissions in the next few decades will shape our coastlines in the centuries to come," lead author Matthias Mengel, a scientist at the Pots ... more |
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 Hanover NH (SPX) Feb 15, 2018 
Overwhelming scientific evidence has demonstrated that our planet is getting warmer due to climate change, yet parts of the eastern U.S. are actually getting cooler. According to a Dartmouth-led study in Geophysical Research Letters, the location of this anomaly, known as the "U.S. warming hole," is a moving target.
During the winter and spring, the U.S. warming hole sits over the Southeast, ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Feb 20, 2018 
Almost three- quarters of fruit and more than two-fifths of non-organic vegetables contain traces of pesticide in France, with grapes and celery the most affected, a report said Tuesday.
Samples of 19 fruits and 33 vegetables were studied in the report by Generations Futures, a French environmental group that campaigns against pesticide and GMOs, using 2012-2016 data from consumer protection ... more |
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 Karo, Indonesia (AFP) Feb 19, 2018 
An Indonesian volcano erupted Monday, sending a massive column of ash and smoke some 5,000 metres (16,400 feet)into the air, leaving local villages coated in debris and officials scrambling to hand out face masks to residents.
Mount Sinabung on Sumatra island, which has been rumbling since 2010 and saw a deadly eruption in 2016, spewed the thick plume after activity picked up recent days. ... more |
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 Libreville (AFP) Feb 19, 2018 
Almost 8 million euros ($10 million) of European funding has been pledged to restore and protect a UNESCO world heritage site in Chad, said NGO African Parks on Tuesday.
The stunning mountainous landscape of the sandstone Ennedi nature reserve in northeastern Chad, near the border with Sudan, is a water-rich island of biodiversity on the southern fringes of the Sahara desert.
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 Chicago IL (SPX) Feb 21, 2018 
The human brain largely remains a black box: How the network of fast-moving electrical signals turns into thought, movement and disease remains poorly understood. But it is electrical, so it can be hacked--the question is finding a precise, easy way to manipulate electrical signaling between neurons.
A new University of Chicago study shows how tiny, light-powered wires could be fashioned o ... more |
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 Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Feb 19, 2018 
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have calculated that the U.S. can meet - or even beat - the near-term carbon dioxide emission reductions required by the United Nations Paris Agreement, despite the Trump Administration's withdrawal of the Clean Power Plan (CPP).
Published in an Environmental Science and Technology viewpoint, the CMU team used data from U.S. Energy Information Adminis ... more |
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 Princeton NJ (SPX) Feb 16, 2018 
Climatologists are often asked, "Is climate change making hurricanes stronger?" but they can't give a definitive answer because the global hurricane record only goes back to the dawn of the satellite era. But now, an intersection of disciplines - seismology, atmospheric sciences, and oceanography - offers an untapped data source: the continuous seismic record, which dates back to the early 20th ... more |
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 New Haven CT (SPX) Feb 19, 2018 
Scientists have identified a mineral signature for sites that are more likely to contain rare fossils that preserve evidence of soft tissue - essential information to understanding ancient life.
Much of what we know about the earliest life on Earth comes from the organic remains of organisms without hard parts. Yet the vast majority of fossils rely on hard tissue such as shells, teeth, and ... more |
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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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 Chicago IL (SPX) Feb 20, 2018 
A team of researchers led by Northwestern University professor and fuel cell pioneer Sossina Haile has created a new fuel cell offering both exceptional power densities and long-term stability at optimal temperatures, a discovery that heightens the viability of incorporating fuel cells into a sustainable energy future.
"For years, industry has told us that the holy grail is getting fuel ce ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Feb 20, 2018  Scientists have designed a new model to identify which organisms are capable of consuming other cells through a process called phagocytosis.
The research, detailed this week in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution, could help scientists more accurately simulate the evolution of early complex lifeforms.
The earliest life forms on Earth were made up of prokaryotes, simple, sing ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Feb 20, 2018 
The theft of a thumb of an ancient Terracotta Warrior statue on display in the US incited a wave of criticism on Chinese social media Tuesday, following China's calls to "severely punish" the thief.
Michael Rohana, 24, has been arrested over the theft during an after hours "ugly sweater party" just before Christmas at the Franklin Institute in Pennsylvania where 10 of the figures are on disp ... more |
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 Luxembourg (AFP) Feb 20, 2018 
Poland's rightwing government breached EU law by allowing logging in one of Europe's last primeval forests, the legal advisor to the bloc's top court said Tuesday, setting up a new clash between Brussels and Warsaw.
Logging in the Bialowieza Forest began in May 2016 but the European Commission took Poland to court last year arguing that it was destroying a forest that boasts unique plant and ... more |
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