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  Taipei (AFP) Feb 26, 2018 The last two victims of an earthquake that hit the Taiwan tourist hotspot of Hualien three weeks ago have finally been removed from the rubble of a collapsed hotel. The Chinese couple from Beijing who were on a sightseeing trip had already been named among the 17 dead after a 6.4-magnitude quake toppled buildings in the coastal town. But their bodies remained in a second-floor hotel in the 12-storey Yun Tsui building, which was left leaning at around a 50-degree angle by the quake, complicating ... read more |
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Icy blast from Siberia sweeps across EuropeParis (AFP) Feb 25, 2018 A wintry blast of freezing temperatures swept across Europe on Sunday, with a biting wind from Siberia claiming four lives and endangering the continent's homeless - with the worst yet to come. ... more 
PNG troops respond to major 7.5 quake as aftershocks fearedSydney (AFP) Feb 26, 2018 Papua New Guinea sent troops and rescue workers after a powerful earthquake struck the Pacific nation's mountainous interior Monday and damaged a gas plant and other buildings. ... more  
Djibouti ruling party claims landslide parliamentary winDjibouti (AFP) Feb 26, 2018 President Ismael Omar Guelleh's ruling party claimed a resounding victory in Friday's parliamentary elections in Djibouti, taking nearly 90 percent of seats after the opposition largely boycotted the poll. ... more  
China's Xi takes another stride in Mao's footstepsShanghai (AFP) Feb 26, 2018 Xi Jinping's tightening grip on China had already earned the leader comparisons to Mao Zedong, but they came into even sharper focus after the party paved the way for him to assume the presidency indefinitely. ... more |
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Chinese billionaire sees baguette goldmine in French fieldsThiel-Sur-Acolin, France (AFP) Feb 25, 2018 In the peaceful French village of Thiel-sur-Acolin, retired farmer Marc Bernardet is ambivalent about having a Chinese billionaire for a neighbour. ... more  
Temperatures to keep rising in Pacific Northwest, new climate models confirmWashington (UPI) Feb 23, 2018 No region will be immune to climate change, and new research suggests the Pacific Northwest is no exception. ... more  
Extinct lakes of the American desert westBoulder CO (SPX) Feb 26, 2018 The vestiges of lakes long extinct dot the landscape of the American desert west. These fossilized landforms provide clues of how dynamic climate has been over the past few million years. Iden ... more 
Crop-saving soil tests now at farmers' fingertipsPullman WA (SPX) Feb 26, 2018 Soil pathogen testing - critical to farming, but painstakingly slow and expensive - will soon be done accurately, quickly, inexpensively and onsite, thanks to research that Washington State Universi ... more  
Hurricane-hit Antigua and Barbuda to vote earlyGeorgetown, Guyana (AFP) Feb 25, 2018 Antigua and Barbuda, a hurricane-ravaged Caribbean tourist destination, will go to the polls next month more than a year earlier than scheduled, the prime minister said on Saturday. ... more |
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Military takeover of Rio police stirs dictatorship ghostsRio De Janeiro (AFP) Feb 24, 2018 The ghosts of Brazil's dictatorship are stirring in the wake of President Michel Temer's order for the army to take over policing in Rio de Janeiro. ... more  |
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Facebook pulls gun game from conservative gatheringSan Francisco (AFP) Feb 24, 2018 Facebook pulled a virtual reality gun game from a major US conservative political gathering Friday, saying the demo was a mistake given the recent deadly school shooting in Florida. ... more
China investigates former top politicianBeijing (AFP) Feb 24, 2018 China has investigated a former senior politician for corruption, the country's top watchdog said Saturday, the latest top official to be caught up in a sweeping anti-graft campaign. ... more 
Land use change has warmed the Earth's surfaceMunich, Germany (SPX) Feb 21, 2018 Natural ecosystems play a crucial role in helping combat climate change, air pollution and soil erosion. A new study by a team of researchers from the Joint Research Centre, the European Commission' ... more  
Ancient DNA tells tales of humans' migrant historyChevy Chase MD (SPX) Feb 22, 2018 Scientists once could reconstruct humanity's distant past only from the mute testimony of ancient settlements, bones, and artifacts. No longer. Now there's a powerful new approach for illumina ... more  
New Study Brings Antarctic Ice Loss Into Sharper FocusPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 21, 2018 A NASA study based on an innovative technique for crunching torrents of satellite data provides the clearest picture yet of changes in Antarctic ice flow into the ocean. The findings confirm acceler ... more |
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 Bras�lia (AFP) Feb 21, 2018 
Brazil's Senate overwhelmingly approved the army's takeover of security in Rio de Janeiro following a breakdown of law and order in drug-ravaged neighborhoods.
Despite criticism that the military intervention could lead to violations of constitutional rights, while also failing to address the causes of the urban violence, the Senate voted late Tuesday by 55 to 13, with one abstention, in fav ... more |
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 West Lafayette IN (SPX) Feb 20, 2018 
New research has demonstrated how the nano-architecture of a silkworm's fiber causes "Anderson localization of light," a discovery that could lead to various innovations and a better understanding of light transport and heat transfer.
The discovery also could help create synthetic materials and structures that realize the phenomenon, named after Nobel laureate Philip Anderson, whose theory ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Feb 23, 2018 
No region will be immune to climate change, and new research suggests the Pacific Northwest is no exception.
To better predict how climate change will impact the northwest corner of the United States, scientists at Oregon State University and the U.S. Forest Service localized the predictions of 30 "general circulation" climate models.
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 London (AFP) Feb 21, 2018 
A team of international scientists led by the British Antarctic Survey set off on Wednesday to explore a mysterious marine ecosystem that has lain hidden under an ice shelf for up to 120,000 years.
The BAS said that an iceberg known as A68 broke off from the Larsen Ice Shelf in July 2017, revealing a section of seabed measuring 5,818 square kilometres (2,245 square miles) - nearly four time ... more |
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 Pullman WA (SPX) Feb 26, 2018 
Soil pathogen testing - critical to farming, but painstakingly slow and expensive - will soon be done accurately, quickly, inexpensively and onsite, thanks to research that Washington State University scientists plant pathologists are sharing.
As the name implies, these tests detect disease-causing pathogens in the soil that can severely devastate crops.
Until now, the tests have req ... more |
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 Taipei (AFP) Feb 26, 2018 
The last two victims of an earthquake that hit the Taiwan tourist hotspot of Hualien three weeks ago have finally been removed from the rubble of a collapsed hotel.
The Chinese couple from Beijing who were on a sightseeing trip had already been named among the 17 dead after a 6.4-magnitude quake toppled buildings in the coastal town.
But their bodies remained in a second-floor hotel in ... more |
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 Djibouti (AFP) Feb 26, 2018 
President Ismael Omar Guelleh's ruling party claimed a resounding victory in Friday's parliamentary elections in Djibouti, taking nearly 90 percent of seats after the opposition largely boycotted the poll.
Mohamed Abdallah Mahyoub, a senior member of Guelleh's UMP party and campaign spokesman, told AFP late Sunday the party had won 58 out of 65 parliamentary seats, an increase of three since ... more |
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 Leipzig, Germany (SPX) Feb 25, 2018 
Symbolic material culture, a collection of cultural and intellectual achievements handed down from generation to generation, has so far been attributed to our own species, Homo sapiens.
"The emergence of symbolic material culture represents a fundamental threshold in the evolution of humankind. It is one of the main pillars of what makes us human", says Dirk Hoffmann of the Max Planck Inst ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Feb 26, 2018 
The vestiges of lakes long extinct dot the landscape of the American desert west. These fossilized landforms provide clues of how dynamic climate has been over the past few million years.
Identification of ancient lake shoreline features began with early explorers of the continent. The first detailed studies were conducted by pioneering American geologists such as G.K. Gilbert and I.C. Rus ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Feb 23, 2018 
With the aim of making the best possible use of existing satellites, ESA and Canada have made a deal that turns Swarm into a four-satellite mission to shed even more light on space weather and features such as the aurora borealis.
In orbit since 2013, ESA's three identical Swarm satellites have been returning a wealth of information about how our magnetic field is generated and how it prot ... more |
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 Princeton NJ (SPX) Feb 22, 2018 
A new theory of plant evolution suggests that the 400 million-year drive of flora across the globe may not have been propelled by the above-ground traits we can see easily, but by underground adaptations that allowed plants to become more efficient and independent.
As plant species spread north and south from their nutrient-rich tropical beginnings, the fine tips of their roots became narr ... 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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 Matsumoto, Japan (SPX) Feb 26, 2018  Researchers have developed a new way to improve lithium ion battery efficiency. Through the growth of a cubic crystal layer, the scientists have created a thin and dense connecting layer between the electrodes of the battery.
Professor Nobuyuki Zettsu from the Center for Energy and Environmental Science in the Department of Materials Chemistry of Shinshu University in Japan and the directo ... more |
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 Tubingen, Germany (SPX) Feb 22, 2018 
Using a hitchhiking weed, scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology reveal for the first time the mutation rate of a plant growing in the wild. They compared 100 historic and modern genomes of the tiny plant Arabidopsis to measure precisely the rate at which it evolves in nature.
The oldest plant, preserved in a herbarium, was from 1863.
At this time, the sci ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Feb 22, 2018 
Chinese authorities have ruled out arson as the cause of a recent fire at Tibetan Buddhism's holiest temple, state media reported Thursday, adding an important Buddha statue had emerged "intact" from the blaze.
The report is the first official account of Saturday's fire at the more than 1,300-year-old Jokhang Temple, after authorities suppressed social media accounts of the incident, leadin ... more |
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 Riverside CA (SPX) Feb 22, 2018 
Tropical trees in the Amazon Rainforest may be more drought resistant than previously thought, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, Riverside.
That's good news, since the Amazon stores about 20 percent of all carbon in the Earth's biomass, which helps reduce global warming by lowering the planet's greenhouse gas levels.
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