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  Washington (AFP) March 6, 2018 Washington's top diplomat set off for Africa on Tuesday to tour countries that form a new theater for competition with America's ambitious great power rival China. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's trip to Ethiopia, Kenya, Djibouti, Chad and Nigeria will take him to new battlefields in the United States' long war against Islamist extremism. But looming over the journey will be a different and arguably more important long-term challenge - the rise of China as an economic and diplomatic power to ... read more |
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Food abundance driving conflict in Africa, not food scarcityHanover NH (SPX) Mar 06, 2018 In Africa, food abundance may be driving violent conflict rather than food scarcity, according to a study published in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, a publication of the Agricultur ... more 
Ethiopia: Ancient land beset by long-running divisionsParis (AFP) March 6, 2018 A cradle of mankind, modern-day Ethiopia is riven by ethnic tensions, gripped by anti-government rebellions and now under a state of emergency. ... more  
Off West Africa, navies team up in fight against piracyLibreville (AFP) March 7, 2018 "Sir, we're going to handcuff you," a coast guard from Sao Tome tells a man accused of fishing illegally in the archipelago's waters. ... more  
Tropical forest response to drought depends on ageLaramie WY (SPX) Mar 07, 2018 Tropical trees respond to drought differently depending on their ages, according to new research led by a postdoctoral scientist at the University of Wyoming. Mario Bretfeld, who works in the ... more |
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Capturing brain signals with soft electronicsLinkoping, Sweden (SPX) Mar 07, 2018 Klas Tybrandt, principal investigator at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics at Linkoping University, has developed new technology for long-term stable neural recording. It is based on a novel ela ... more  
Advanced spatial planning models could promise new era of sustainable ocean developmentTallahassee FL (SPX) Mar 07, 2018 Earth's vast oceans brim with potential for commercial activities ranging from tourism to shipping to alternative energy, but planning for the sustainable coexistence of different and competing indu ... more  
Virtual predator is self-aware, behaves like living counterpartChampaign IL (SPX) Mar 06, 2018 Scientists report in the journal eNeuro that they've built an artificially intelligent ocean predator that behaves a lot like the original flesh-and-blood organism on which it was modeled. The virtu ... more  
Far northern permafrost may unleash carbon within decadesPasadena CA (JPL) Mar 07, 2018 Permafrost in the coldest northern Arctic - formerly thought to be at least temporarily shielded from global warming by its extreme environment - will thaw enough to become a permanent source of car ... more  
Slowing Biological Time to Extend the Golden Hour for Lifesaving TreatmentWashington DC (SPX) Mar 06, 2018 When a Service member suffers a traumatic injury or acute infection, the time from event to first medical treatment is usually the single most significant factor in determining the outcome between s ... more |
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 Scientists use satellites and drones to discover antarctic penguin 'super-colonies'  
NASA space laser completes 2,000-mile road tripGreenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 05, 2018 Once in orbit after it launches this fall, NASA's ICESat-2 satellite will travel at speeds faster than 15,000 miles per hour. Last week, the satellite's instrument began its journey toward space rid ... more  |
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India's endangered lion population increases to 600Ahmedabad, India (AFP) March 6, 2018 The endangered Asiatic lion, which only lives in one forest in India, has fought back from the verge of extinction, with its population increasing to more than 600, a minister said Tuesday hailing a major conservation campaign. ... more  
Soil cannot halt climate changeHarpenden AL5 (SPX) Mar 06, 2018 Unique soils data from long-term experiments, stretching back to the middle of the nineteenth century, confirm the practical implausibility of burying carbon in the ground to halt climate change, an ... more  
Durable wood carbon sponge could enable wearable sensors, pollutant treatmentCollege Park MD (SPX) Mar 06, 2018 Engineers at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) have for the first time demonstrated that wood can be directly converted into a carbon sponge capable of enduring repeated compression and ... more 
Researchers use recycled carbon fiber to improve permeable pavementPullman WA (SPX) Mar 06, 2018 A Washington State University research team is solving a high-tech waste problem while addressing the environmental challenge of stormwater run-off. The researchers have shown they can greatly stren ... more  
Indonesia scrubbing the 'world's dirtiest river'Majalaya, Indonesia (AFP) March 2, 2018 The scabies on Indonesian rice farmer Yusuf Supriyadi's limbs are a daily reminder of the costs of living next to the "world's dirtiest river". ... more |
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 United Nations, United States (AFP) March 3, 2018 
The issues that come before the UN Security Council are the gravest to face any decision-making body - questions of war and peace, life and death.
But when world diplomats are building towards a weighty decision, almost any diplomatic tactic seems fair game, even sleight of hand.
All the envoys in endless daily meetings in the vast glass-walled tower on Turtle Bay, New York, would say ... more |
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 Laurel MD (SPX) Mar 07, 2018 
Late on March 4, 2018, personnel at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab in Laurel, Maryland, reported detecting IMAGE's signal for the first time after losing contact on Feb. 24. However the signal was too weak to lock on to.
NASA continues to implement an interface with the 18-meter antenna at White Sands, New Mexico, in cooperation with the Near Earth Network, to be ready to command an ... more |
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 Tallahassee FL (SPX) Mar 07, 2018 
Earth's vast oceans brim with potential for commercial activities ranging from tourism to shipping to alternative energy, but planning for the sustainable coexistence of different and competing industries has proved a complicated task.
Now, researchers led by Florida State University Assistant Professor of Geography Sarah Lester have introduced an advanced, holistic analytical model that c ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) March 2, 2018  A thriving "hotspot" of 1.5 million Adelie penguins, a species fast declining in parts of the world, has been discovered on remote islands off the Antarctic Peninsula, surprised scientists said Friday.
The first bird census of the Danger Islands unearthed over 750,000 Adelie breeding pairs, more than the rest of the area combined, the team reported in the journal Scientific Reports.
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 Harpenden AL5 (SPX) Mar 06, 2018 
Unique soils data from long-term experiments, stretching back to the middle of the nineteenth century, confirm the practical implausibility of burying carbon in the ground to halt climate change, an option once heralded as a breakthrough.
The findings come from an analysis of the rates of change of carbon in soil by scientists at Rothamsted Research where samples have been collected from f ... more |
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 Sydney (AFP) March 2, 2018 
A state of emergency has been declared in Papua New Guinea's remote highlands after a major earthquake shook the region in what Prime Minister Peter O'Neill said was an "unprecedented disaster" for local communities.
O'Neill said his government was working to restore services and provide aid to the affected Hela, Southern Highlands, Western and Enga provinces in the Pacific nation's mountain ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) March 5, 2018 
A propaganda video released by the Islamic State group that apparently shows the deadly ambush of US troops in Niger raised fresh questions Monday as to the nature of the mission and why the soldiers had been left so vulnerable.
The distressing video, distributed by a pro-IS news agency, includes graphic footage taken by a solder wearing a helmet camera.
It shows the chaos of the attac ... more |
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 Linkoping, Sweden (SPX) Mar 07, 2018 
Klas Tybrandt, principal investigator at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics at Linkoping University, has developed new technology for long-term stable neural recording. It is based on a novel elastic material composite, which is biocompatible and retains high electrical conductivity even when stretched to double its original length.
The result has been achieved in collaboration with col ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 5, 2018 
Scientists have developed new models to better understand how governments can work together to ensure global warming is limited to 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2100.
The different models consider a variety of political, socioeconomic and technological factors, including the impacts of economic inequality, energy demand and regional cooperation. The models considered five different so-called S ... more |
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 Cape Canaveral AFS FL (SPX) Mar 03, 2018 
A newly launched satellite will augment the GOES-16 weather satellite and provide broad coverage with powerful new weather monitoring technology for meteorologists to provide life and property-saving forecasts. On Thursday, at 5:02 p.m. ET, NOAA's GOES-S weather satellite was launched aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 rocket and has successfully established communications.
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 Manchester UK (SPX) Mar 07, 2018 
The tiny fossil of a prehistoric baby bird is helping scientists understand how early avians came into the world in the Age of Dinosaurs. The fossil, which dates back to the Mesozoic Era (250-65 million years ago), is a chick from a group of prehistoric birds called, Enantiornithes. Made up of a nearly complete skeleton, the specimen is amongst the smallest known Mesozoic avian fossils ever disc ... more |
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 San Juan (AFP) March 1, 2018 
Puerto Rico's power grid broke down again on Thursday, leaving some 800,000 customers without power, as the US Caribbean possession struggles to recover five months after Hurricane Maria slammed the island.
Justo Gonzalez, head of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA), said that one of the island's main transmission lines was out of service. Officials said the line should be fully ... more |
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 Chicago IL (SPX) Mar 06, 2018 
Researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed a new technique that lets them pinpoint the location of chemical reactions happening inside lithium-ion batteries in three dimensions at the nanoscale level. Their results are published in the journal Nature Communications.
"Knowing the precise locations of chemical reactions wit ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 5, 2018 
Scientists have observed a tropical hummingbird species, the black jacobin hummingbird, making an unusual cricket-like sound. According to new research, the high-frequency pitch is unrecognizable by other birds.
Researchers first heard the chirping will studying hummingbirds in the rainforests of eastern Brazil.
"We heard prominent high-pitch sounds that sounded perhaps like a cr ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) March 5, 2018 
China signalled Monday it was hardening its stance on dissent in Taiwan and Hong Kong, where it faces growing frustration with the increasingly authoritarian government of President Xi Jinping.
In a report to the opening session of the annual National People's Congress in Beijing, Premier Li Keqiang warned China "will never tolerate any separatist schemes" in Taiwan, amid increasing tensions ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) March 5, 2018 
Nearly a fifth of Europe's wood beetle species face extinction because the old, decaying trees they depend on have been cleared from forests, scientists warned Monday.
Many saproxylic - literally, "dead wood" - beetles could disappear if remaining old-growth trees are not allowed to decline naturally, according to a report by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), which ... more |
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