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  Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 11, 2018 For years, scientists have been inspired by nature to innovate solutions to tricky problems, even oil spills - manmade disasters with devastating environmental and economic consequences. A new USC study takes a cue from leaf structure to fabricate material that can separate oil and water, which could lead to safer and more efficient oil spill clean-up methods. In addition, the material is capable of "microdroplet manipulation," or the transfer of miniature volumes of liquid. Droplet-based microflu ... read more |
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The problem of jaguars and space in western ParaguayBerlin, Germany (SPX) Apr 11, 2018 The jaguar is the largest cat in the Americas and historically was found from southwestern USA to central Argentina. Today, jaguars are an endangered species throughout their natural habitat, and ha ... more  
Rivers worldwide threatened by pharma waste: studiesVienna (AFP) April 10, 2018 River systems around world are coursing with over-the-counter and prescription drug waste harmful to the environment, researchers said Tuesday. ... more  
Tiny Sea Creatures Hold Secrets to Earth's ClimateHampton VA (SPX) Apr 11, 2018 Each new season brings change. Seasonal change on land is something that we're familiar with and adjust to regularly. But what happens to billions of plankton in the ocean each season? How do they a ... more  
Berkeley engineers build smallest volume, most efficient wireless nerve stimulatorBerkeley CA (SPX) Apr 11, 2018 In 2016, University of California, Berkeley, engineers demonstrated the first implanted, ultrasonic neural dust sensors, bringing closer the day when a Fitbit-like device could monitor internal nerv ... more |
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Wildfire intensity impacts water quality and its treatment in forested watershedsNew Orleans LA (SPX) Apr 11, 2018 The recent Thomas Fire in California was the largest wildfire in the state's modern history. It scorched nearly 282,000 acres between December 2017 and January 2018, and serves as a reminder of how ... more  
Research suggests water appeared while Earth was still growingChicago IL (SPX) Apr 11, 2018 Up until about ten years ago, scientists thought they had a pretty good picture of how the moon and Earth came to co-exist. Then more precise measurements blew it all wide open, and scientists are s ... more 
Agricultural fires can double Delhi pollution during peak burning seasonBoston MA (SPX) Apr 11, 2018 It's become a deadly autumn tradition in northern India: after the rains of the late summer monsoon subside, farmers set fires to their fields to clear stubble after the harvest and send choking smo ... more 
Smiles and slapstick as Rohingya refugees learn to corral elephantsKutupalong Camp, Bangladesh (AFP) April 8, 2018 A trumpet fills the air as two "elephants" charge, scattering Rohingya refugee actors at a training session in a camp which cuts deep into Bangladeshi forest once reserved for the protected species. ... more 
Police 'closing in' on Grace Mugabe in ivory probeHarare (AFP) April 6, 2018 Zimbabwean police investigating an ivory-smuggling racket will soon question former ruler Robert Mugabe's wife Grace, who is accused of arranging shipments abroad, a government-owned newspaper reported Friday. ... more |
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 China sperm bank demands loyalty to Communist Party
7 Myanmar soldiers sentenced to 10 years over Rohingya killings: armyYangon (AFP) April 10, 2018 Seven Myanmar soldiers have been sentenced to jail with hard labour for their part in the extrajudicial killings of 10 Rohingya Muslim men last year, according to a Facebook post by the army chief late on Tuesday. ... more  |
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'Footquakes': Messi really does make the Earth trembleVienna (AFP) April 10, 2018 It's a scientific fact: when living football legends Neymar or Lionel Messi scores a goal, the Earth moves and the ground shakes. ... more  
Sperm whale 'clicks' help scientists understand behaviourSydney (AFP) April 10, 2018 Scientists have recorded thousands of hours of "clicks" that sperm whales make to forage for food and communicate, helping them better understand the behaviour of one of the Southern Ocean's key predators. ... more  
Hong Kong civic coalition warns UN on eroding freedomsHong Kong (AFP) April 10, 2018 More than 40 civil groups in Hong Kong appealed to the United Nations Tuesday demanding action to protect rapidly disappearing freedoms as Beijing increasingly tightens its grip on the freewheeling city. ... more  
Antarctica has experienced increased snowfall over the last 200 yearsWashington (UPI) Apr 9, 2018 Over the last two centuries, Antarctica has experienced a 10 percent increase in snowfall, according to new analysis of Antarctic ice cores. ... more 
KAIST discloses the formation of burning ice in oceanic clay rich sedimentSeoul, South Korea (SPX) Apr 10, 2018 A KAIST research team has identified the formation of natural gas hydrates, so-called flammable ice, formed in oceans. Professor Tae-Hyuk Kwon from the Department of Civil and Environmental En ... more |
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 Yangon (AFP) April 10, 2018 
Seven Myanmar soldiers have been sentenced to jail with hard labour for their part in the extrajudicial killings of 10 Rohingya Muslim men last year, according to a Facebook post by the army chief late on Tuesday.
The bloody incident in Inn Din village on 2 September is the only atrocity to which the military has admitted during its violent crackdown in northern Rakhine state, which has forc ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 11, 2018 
IMAGE's signal remains too weak to achieve frame lock, which is necessary to retrieve data from the spacecraft. But important steps have been taken this week to be prepared in case of re-established contact.
Last week, the engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, successfully established network connections with both the antennas at NASA's Wallops Flight Faci ... more |
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 Santa Cruz CA (SPX) Apr 11, 2018 
Beginning in 2013, a mysterious disease crippled sea star populations up and down the U.S. west coast. Over a matter of months, many sea star species died in record-breaking numbers, though Pisaster ochraceus - a keystone species known as the ochre sea star - was among the hardest hit. Now, researchers at UC Santa Cruz have analyzed just how much the populations of this species have declined, bu ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Apr 11, 2018 
Glaciers in Alaska's Denali National Park are melting faster than at any time in the past four centuries because of rising summer temperatures, a new study finds.
New ice cores taken from the summit of Mt. Hunter in Denali National Park show summers there are least 1.2-2 degrees Celsius (2.2-3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than summers were during the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries. T ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Apr 11, 2018 
Soybean is rich in protein, which is great for the humans and animals eating it. But this high protein content comes at a cost.
To make protein, soybean plants need a lot of nitrogen. The plants get some of the nitrogen they need by working with specialized bacteria in the soil. These bacteria live in root nodules. They pull nitrogen from the atmosphere and convert it to a form the plants ... more |
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 Vienna (AFP) April 10, 2018 
It's a scientific fact: when living football legends Neymar or Lionel Messi scores a goal, the Earth moves and the ground shakes.
Don't believe it?
Ask Jordi Diaz, a researcher at the Institute of Earth Sciences Jaume Almera in Barcelona. He's got the hard proof.
"We put a seismometer inside a building in Barcelona," he explained at a geosciences conference in Vienna, where he prese ... more |
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 Goma, Dr Congo (AFP) April 9, 2018 
Five rangers and a driver were killed on Monday in an ambush in the Virunga National Park, the Democratic Republic of Congo's famed haven for gorillas and other endangered species, the park said.
"We have sadly lost six rangers," park spokesman Joel Malembe told AFP, adding that the team was ambushed while driving between the sectors of Lulimba and Ishasha, near the border with Uganda.
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 Washington DC (SPX) Apr 09, 2018 
Bonobos are willing to share meat with animals outside their own family groups. This behaviour was observed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and is documented in a new study in Springer's journal Human Nature. Even though bonobo apes have been studied for years, animal behaviourists have only realised in the past 25 years that these primates do not only eat plants, but similar to the comm ... more |
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 Hampton VA (SPX) Apr 11, 2018 
Each new season brings change. Seasonal change on land is something that we're familiar with and adjust to regularly. But what happens to billions of plankton in the ocean each season? How do they adjust to changing sunlight patterns and mixing of the water column? And what impact do these tiny critters have on us, so far away on land?
To answer those questions and others, NASA's North Atl ... more |
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 Jiuquan, China (XNA) Apr 11, 2018 
The first group of China's Yaogan-31 remote sensing satellites were sent into space on Tuesday at 12:25 p.m. Beijing time from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China.
The satellites were carried by a Long March-4C rocket, the 271st mission for the Long March rocket family.
The mission also sent a micro nano technology experiment satellite into orbit.
The satellit ... more |
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 Lawrence KS (SPX) Apr 09, 2018 
In the Mackenzie Mountains of Canada, University of Kansas researcher Julien Kimmig has uncovered details of the Cambrian food web on an ocean floor that once played home to a scattering of bivalved arthropods, hyoliths and trilobites.
The 500-million-year-old poop of a primordial, predatory sea worm tells their story.
A new paper appearing in the journal Palaios results from fieldwo ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Apr 11, 2018 
Putting a price on carbon, in the form of a fee or tax on the use of fossil fuels, coupled with returning the generated revenue to the public in one form or another, can be an effective way to curb emissions of greenhouse gases. That's one of the conclusions of an extensive analysis of several versions of such proposals, carried out by researchers at MIT and the National Renewable Energy Laborat ... more |
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 Austin TX (SPX) Apr 05, 2018 
As renewable energy grows as a power source around the world, one key component still eludes the industry: large-scale, stable, efficient and affordable batteries.
Lithium-ion batteries have proven successful for consumer electronics, but electric vehicles, wind turbines or smart grids require batteries with far greater energy capacity. A leading contender is the lithium-metal battery, whi ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 5, 2018 
A rare pair of twin calves recently joined their mother's herd in Tanzania's Tarangire National Park.
Conservationists and researchers with the Wildlife Conservation Society documented the twins as they joined Eloise, their mom, and her friends and relatives.
Researchers believe fewer than 1 percent of elephant births yield twins. What's more, Eloise is estimated to be 57 years o ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) April 9, 2018 
A strong gale-force wind has toppled a giant statue of China's first emperor Qin Shi Huang and flattened its face at a popular tourist site in eastern Shandong province.
The 19-meter (62-foot) bronze replica of the monarch - who was the first to unify warring factions in China and established the Qin dynasty (221-206 BC) - was blown out of its pedestal on Friday.
Cranes were immediatel ... 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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