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  Cambridge UK (SPX) Apr 06, 2018 By studying liverworts - which diverged from other land plants early in the history of plant evolution - researchers from the Sainsbury Laboratory at the University of Cambridge have found that the relationship between plants and filamentous microbes not only dates back millions of years, but that modern plants have maintained this ancient mechanism to accommodate and respond to microbial invaders. Published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a new study shows that agg ... read more |
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Algae, impurities darken Greenland ice sheet and intensify meltingWashington DC (SPX) Apr 06, 2018 The Dark Zone of Greenland ice sheet is a large continuous region on the western flank of the ice sheet; it is some 400 kilometers wide stretching about 100 kilometres up from the margin of the ice. ... more  
Draining peatlands gives global rise to laughing-gas emissionsBirmingham UK (SPX) Apr 06, 2018 Drained fertile peatlands around the globe are hotspots for the atmospheric emission of laughing-gas - a powerful greenhouse gas called nitrous oxide, which is partly responsible for global warming ... more 
NASA Scientist Collects Bits of the Solar System from an Antarctic GlacierGreenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 06, 2018 On rare calm days, the most striking thing you notice at an altitude of more than 8,000 feet on an Antarctic glacier is the silence. "There was just no sound; no air handling equipment, no leaves ru ... more 
New source of global nitrogen discoveredDavis CA (SPX) Apr 06, 2018 For centuries, the prevailing science has indicated that all of the nitrogen on Earth available to plants comes from the atmosphere. But a study from the University of California, Davis, indicates t ... more |
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Hanging by a thread: Why bent fibers hold more waterLogan UT (SPX) Apr 06, 2018 On your next stroll through the woods, take a look at the dew droplets hanging from the leaves. If you see moisture on a cypress or juniper tree with their distinct bifurcated leaves, you'll likely ... more  
Philippines to close Boracay island to tourists for six monthsManila (AFP) April 5, 2018 The Philippines has announced its best-known holiday island Boracay will be closed to tourists for six months over concerns that the once idyllic white-sand resort has become a "cesspool" tainted by dumped sewage. ... more  
It's givin' me excitations: U-M study uncovers first steps of photosynthesisAnn Arbor MI (SPX) Apr 06, 2018 Photosynthesis has driven life on this planet for more than 3 billion years - first in bacteria, then in plants - but we don't know exactly how it works. Now, a University of Michigan biophysi ... more  
Bats to blame for pig-killer virus in China: studyParis (AFP) April 4, 2018 A mystery germ that killed nearly 25,000 piglets in China in 2016/17, came from horseshoe bats, the same species that gave us the deadly human SARS virus, researchers said Wednesday. ... more 
Treating women subsistence farmers for intestinal worms will boost food productionOakbrook Terrace, IL (SPX) Apr 03, 2018 A new study in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) found that treating women subsistence farmers with just a single dose of a cheap deworming medication significantly improved their physical stam ... more |
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Human-engineered changes on Mississippi River increased extreme floodsCape Cod MA (SPX) Apr 06, 2018 A new study has revealed for the first time the last 500-year flood history of the Mississippi River. It shows a dramatic rise in the size and frequency of extreme floods in the past century - mostl ... more  |
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Like human societies, whales value culture and family tiesBoca Raton FL (SPX) Apr 06, 2018 It might seem like a "whale of tale," but groundbreaking research from Florida Atlantic University's Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute is the first to demonstrate that just like human societies, ... more  
Ghana will not offer military base to US: presidentAccra (AFP) April 5, 2018 Ghana will not sign an agreement with Washington to set up a military base, President Nana Akufo-Addo said on Thursday. ... more  
Wife of 'vanished' Chinese lawyer marches for answersBeijing (AFP) April 5, 2018 The wife of a detained Chinese human rights lawyer who has embarked on a 100-kilometre (60-mile) march to highlight his plight said Thursday she did not even know if he was still alive. ... more  
Visual recognition: Seeing the world through the eyes of rodentsTrieste, Italy (SPX) Apr 05, 2018 Man or woman, happy or sad. Sometimes a glance is enough to say it. Yet, the visual process that allows us to recognize the gender or emotional state of a person is very sophisticated. Until recentl ... more 
Dozens of sauropod footprints found on Scottish coastWashington (UPI) Apr 3, 2018 Several dozen dinosaur footprints left 170 million years ago along the coast of Scotland's Isle of Skye have offered paleontologists a rare glimpse of the Middle Jurassic. ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) April 5, 2018  US President Donald Trump on Thursday said he would send thousands of National Guard troops to the southern border, amid a widening spat with his Mexican counterpart Enrique Pena Nieto.
The anti-immigration president said the National Guard deployment would range from 2,000 to 4,000 troops, and he would "probably" keep many personnel on the border until his wall is built - spelling out a le ... more |
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 Berkeley CA (SPX) Apr 04, 2018 
Scientists from the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a way to print 3-D structures composed entirely of liquids. Using a modified 3-D printer, they injected threads of water into silicone oil - sculpting tubes made of one liquid within another liquid.
They envision their all-liquid material could be used to construct liquid electron ... more |
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 Brisbane, Australia (SPX) Apr 06, 2018 
Marine animals such as mantis shrimp and squid have inspired a new mode of underwater navigation that allows for greater accuracy.
University of Queensland Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) scientists are part of a group of researchers who have developed the technique using imaging equipment that was sensitive to polarising light.
The researchers built polarisation sensors that were a ... more |
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 Exeter UK (SPX) Apr 03, 2018 
Periods of extreme cold winter weather and perilous snowfall, similar to those that gripped the UK in a deep freeze with the arrival of the 'Beast from the East', could be linked to the solar cycle, pioneering new research has shown.
A new study, led by Dr Indrani Roy from the University of Exeter, has revealed when the solar cycle is in its 'weaker' phase, there are warm spells across the ... more |
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 Urbana IL (SPX) Apr 06, 2018 
Corn and soybean fields look similar from space - at least they used to. But now, scientists have proven a new technique for distinguishing the two crops using satellite data and the processing power of supercomputers.
"If we want to predict corn or soybean production for Illinois or the entire United States, we have to know where they are being grown," says Kaiyu Guan, assistant professor ... more |
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 Manila (AFP) April 5, 2018 
A moderately strong 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck at sea off the main southern Philippine island of Mindanao on Thursday, the US Geological Survey said, though local authorities said they did not expect any damage.
The quake was recorded shortly before midday (0353 GMT) with the epicentre at 45 kilometres (28 miles) southeast of the town of Tarragona, the USGS added.
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 Accra (AFP) April 5, 2018 
Ghana will not sign an agreement with Washington to set up a military base, President Nana Akufo-Addo said on Thursday.
The president confirmed in a television address that the two countries would ink a defence cooperation agreement, but was emphatic that "Ghana has not offered a military base, and will not offer a military base to the United States of America".
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 Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Apr 06, 2018 
The early migration of humans out of Africa and across the world can be proven using genetic and morphological analyses. However, morphological data from the skull and skeleton often only allow limited conclusions to be drawn about the geographical dispersal pattern, especially because of the many ways in which the human skeleton adapts to local environmental conditions.
Now, an internatio ... more |
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 Berkeley UK (SPX) Apr 03, 2018 
Scientists have directly measured the increasing greenhouse effect of methane at the Earth's surface for the first time. A research team from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) tracked a rise in the warming effect of methane - one of the most important greenhouse gases for the Earth's atmosphere - over a 10-year period at a DOE field observation ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Apr 03, 2018 
Scandinavian mythology stories are rich in fantastic creatures, and a Nordic astronaut is about to write a new chapter as Space Viking Andreas Mogensen monitors the arrival of the Dragon cargo vessel at the International Space Station next week. The passenger: a state-of-the-art lightning hunter.
For Andreas it all started with an interesting project during his mission to the Space Station ... more |
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 Cambridge UK (SPX) Apr 06, 2018 
By studying liverworts - which diverged from other land plants early in the history of plant evolution - researchers from the Sainsbury Laboratory at the University of Cambridge have found that the relationship between plants and filamentous microbes not only dates back millions of years, but that modern plants have maintained this ancient mechanism to accommodate and respond to microbial invade ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) April 2, 2018  The Trump administration rolled back Obama-era pollution and fuel efficiency rules for cars and light trucks on Monday, saying they were too stringent.
The decision by President Donald Trump's Environmental Protection Agency means the emission standards for vehicles in the 2022-2025 model years will be revised, as sought by automakers.
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 Boston MA (SPX) Apr 04, 2018 
Plastics are excellent insulators, meaning they can efficiently trap heat - a quality that can be an advantage in something like a coffee cup sleeve. But this insulating property is less desirable in products such as plastic casings for laptops and mobile phones, which can overheat, in part because the coverings trap the heat that the devices produce.
Now a team of engineers at MIT has dev ... more |
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 Oxford UK (SPX) Apr 05, 2018 
The platypus is the ultimate evolutionary mashup of birds, reptiles and mammals. The iconic, egg-laying, venom producing, duck-billed platypus first had its genome sequenced in 2008, revealing its unique genetic makeup and its divergence from the rest of the mammals around 160 million years ago.
Now, a greater effort to understand its ecological and population history has been made possibl ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) April 5, 2018 
The wife of a detained Chinese human rights lawyer who has embarked on a 100-kilometre (60-mile) march to highlight his plight said Thursday she did not even know if he was still alive.
Attorney Wang Quanzhang, who defended political activists and victims of land seizures, has had no contact with the outside world since he disappeared in a 2015 police sweep aimed at courtroom critics of Comm ... more |
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 New York NY (SPX) Mar 27, 2018 
What does it take for palm trees, the unofficial trademark of tropical landscapes, to expand into northern parts of the world that have long been too cold for palm trees to survive? A new study, led by Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory researcher Tammo Reichgelt, attempts to answer this question. He and his colleagues analyzed a broad dataset to determine global palm tree distribution in relation ... more |
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