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  London (AFP) April 18, 2018 Bill Gates warned Wednesday that malaria was back on the rise again and would continue to claim more lives worldwide unless governments reinvigorated their push to eradicate the disease. Malaria death rates have been in steady decline since 2000 but rose in 2016 as progress towards eliminating the mosquito-borne preventable disease stalled. Microsoft co-founder turned philanthropist Gates said innovation would be crucial to maintain progress in tackling the disease ahead of its ability to develo ... read more |
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Fears for Rohingya as first rains flood Bangladesh campsDhaka (AFP) April 19, 2018 The first rains of the year have flooded parts of the crowded Rohingya camps in Bangladesh, aid workers said Thursday, wreaking havoc and raising fears for nearly one million refugees ahead of the monsoon. ... more  
No-go warning as Japan volcano erupts for first time in 250 yearsTokyo (AFP) April 19, 2018 A volcano in southern Japan erupted for the first time in 250 years on Thursday, spewing steam and ash hundreds of metres into the air, as authorities warned locals not to approach the mountain. ... more  
'Artificial mole' could warn of cancer: studyTampa (AFP) April 18, 2018 Swiss scientists have developed an experimental skin implant that darkens like a mole when it detects subtle changes in the body that may be an early warning sign of cancer, a study said Wednesday. ... more  
US treaty with Native Americans put to test in Supreme Court salmon caseWashington (AFP) April 18, 2018 The US Supreme Court was transported to the American West and another century on Wednesday as it heard a case involving Native Americans and salmon fishing rights. ... more |
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Genetic adaptations to diving discovered in humans for the first timeCambridge UK (SPX) Apr 20, 2018 Evidence that humans can genetically adapt to diving has been identified for the first time in a new study. The evidence suggests that the Bajau, a people group indigenous to parts of Indonesia, hav ... more  
Exploding ants: Scientist survey fiery species in Southeast AsiaWashington DC (UPI) Apr 19, 2018 Scientists have known about the suicide bombers of the ant world for some time, but had yet to fully investigate the group's diversity. Until recently, scientists referred to the group as "exploding ants." ... more 
'Rip Van Winkle' plants hide underground for up to 20 yearsSussex UK (SPX) Apr 20, 2018 Scores of plant species are capable of living dormant under the soil for up to 20 years, enabling them to survive through difficult times, a new study has found. An international team of acade ... more 
Unprecedented wave of large-mammal extinctions linked to ancient humansLincoln NE (SPX) Apr 20, 2018 Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and other recent human relatives may have begun hunting large mammal species down to size - by way of extinction - at least 90,000 years earlier than previously thought, s ... more  
Marine fish won an evolutionary lottery 66 million years agoLos Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 19, 2018 Why do our oceans contain such a staggering diversity of fish of so many different sizes, shapes and colors? A UCLA-led team of biologists reports that the answer dates back 66 million years, when a ... more |
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Hole in cow's skull may be proof of early medical experimentationWashington DC (UPI) Apr 19, 2018 More than 5,000 years ago, a group of people living in what's now France drilled a hole in a cow's head. Researchers believe the ancient bovine skull is the earliest evidence of animal surgery yet recovered. ... more  |
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Italy, Greece to launch plan to identify missing migrantsThe Hague (AFP) April 18, 2018 Four European Mediterranean countries are launching an initiative in June to identify thousands of missing migrants who died or went missing during the perilous sea crossing to the continent. ... more 
Most Hurricane Harvey deaths happened outside flood zonesWashington DC (UPI) Apr 19, 2018 New research suggests Hurricane Harvey was deadlier outside the 100- and 500-year floodplains drawn by the federal government. ... more  
New species of ancient whale found in New ZealandWashington DC (UPI) Apr 18, 2018 Paleontologists have identified a new extinct baleen whale species and genus in New Zealand. Scientists named the species Toipahautea waitaki, Māori for "baleen whale from the Waitaki region." ... more  
Spain accuses CaixaBank of laundering Chinese moneyMadrid (AFP) April 19, 2018 Spanish authorities announced Thursday they have pressed charges against CaixaBank, the nation's third largest lender, for breaching money laundering laws by turning a blind eye to dubious transfers by Chinese companies. ... more  
Brazil's army chief warns of graft threat to democracyBras�lia (AFP) April 19, 2018 Brazil's top army commander on Thursday made another foray into political commentary, warning that corruption poses a threat to democracy in Latin America's biggest country. ... more |
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 Dhaka (AFP) April 19, 2018 
The first rains of the year have flooded parts of the crowded Rohingya camps in Bangladesh, aid workers said Thursday, wreaking havoc and raising fears for nearly one million refugees ahead of the monsoon.
A brief but heavy downpour turned roads into quagmires in the world's largest refugee camp, hindering relief efforts and hinting at the danger ahead for the Rohingya who have sought refuge ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Apr 17, 2018 
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a method for generating numbers guaranteed to be random by quantum mechanics. Described in the April 12 issue of Nature, the experimental technique surpasses all previous methods for ensuring the unpredictability of its random numbers and may enhance security and trust in cryptographic systems.
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 Townsville, Australia (SPX) Apr 19, 2018 
A new study published online in Nature shows that corals on the northern Great Barrier Reef experienced a catastrophic die-off following the extended marine heatwave of 2016.
"When corals bleach from a heatwave, they can either survive and regain their colour slowly as the temperature drops, or they can die. Averaged across the whole Great Barrier Reef, we lost 30 per cent of the corals in ... more |
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 Hobart, Australia (SPX) Apr 19, 2018 
A new IMAS-led study has revealed a previously undocumented process where melting glacial ice sheets change the ocean in a way that further accelerates the rate of ice melt and sea level rise.
Led by IMAS PhD student Alessandro Silvano and published in the journal Science Advances, the research found that glacial meltwater makes the ocean's surface layer less salty and more buoyant, preven ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Apr 19, 2018 
There has been a lot of talk lately of self-driving cars, but farmers have already been making good use of self-driving tractors for more than a decade-in part due to a partnership between John Deere and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) on GPS receivers.
The story starts with GPS, which was still new in the mid-1990s when John Deere, based in Moline, Illinois, began using it for prec ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Apr 19, 2018 
New research suggests Hurricane Harvey was deadlier outside the 100- and 500-year floodplains drawn by the federal government.
"It was surprising to me that so many fatalities occurred outside the flood zones," Sebastiaan Jonkman, a professor of hydraulic engineering at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, said in a news release.
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 Gwagwalada, Nigeria (AFP) April 18, 2018 
Nigerian forces battling Boko Haram jihadists need a change of mindset to overcome an evolving guerrilla threat, US military officials said this week on the sidelines of an African security summit.
Boko Haram's tactics - from improvised explosive devices to hiding within the local population - necessitate a shift away from conventional strategies, said Lieutenant-Colonel Sean McClure, the ... more |
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 Cambridge UK (SPX) Apr 20, 2018 
Evidence that humans can genetically adapt to diving has been identified for the first time in a new study. The evidence suggests that the Bajau, a people group indigenous to parts of Indonesia, have genetically enlarged spleens which enable them to free dive to depths of up to 70m.
It has previously been hypothesised that the spleen plays an important role in enabling humans to free dive ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) April 17, 2018 
Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, in the first address to France's parliament by a Canadian leader, called on the signatories of the 2015 Paris climate accord to ensure the landmark deal became a "reality".
Trudeau, one of just a handful of foreign leaders given the honour of a parliament speech since 1958, said the risks presented by global warming could be tackled only by global act ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 17, 2018 
Two thirds of Earth's surface are covered by water - and two thirds of Earth's atmosphere reside over the oceans, far from land and the traditional ways that people measure the gases and pollutants that cycle through the air and around the globe.
While satellites in space measuring the major gases can close some of that gap, it takes an aircraft to find out what's really happening in the c ... more |
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 19, 2018 
Why do our oceans contain such a staggering diversity of fish of so many different sizes, shapes and colors? A UCLA-led team of biologists reports that the answer dates back 66 million years, when a six-mile-wide asteroid crashed to Earth, wiping out the dinosaurs and approximately 75 percent of the world's animal and plant species.
Slightly more than half of today's fish are "marine fish, ... 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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 Moscow, Russia (SPX) Apr 19, 2018 
An international research team including scientists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and ITMO University has proposed a way to increase the efficiency of wireless power transfer over long distances and tested it with numerical simulations and experiments. To achieve this, they beamed power between two antennas, one of which was excited with a back-propagating signal of specifi ... more |
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 Bangkok (AFP) April 17, 2018  Thai police are looking for a pineapple farm worker suspected of setting up an electric fence that has killed two wild elephants in the past month, authorities said Tuesday.
Cops are searching for the man after the second elephant was found dead over the weekend, lying on its side outside a pineapple farm in Chonburi province that edges up against a national park.
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 Madrid (AFP) April 19, 2018 
Spanish authorities announced Thursday they have pressed charges against CaixaBank, the nation's third largest lender, for breaching money laundering laws by turning a blind eye to dubious transfers by Chinese companies.
The prosecutor tasked with investigating suspected money laundering by China's state-owned ICBC bank, which has a partnership with CaixaBank, said the Spanish bank suffered ... more |
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 Durham NC (SPX) Apr 19, 2018 
Climate change could speed the natural regrowth of forests on undeveloped or abandoned land in the eastern U.S., according to a new study.
If left to nature's own devices, a field of weeds and grasses over time will be replaced by saplings, young trees and eventually mature forest. Earlier research has shown that this succession from field to forest can happen decades sooner in the southea ... more |
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