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  Bristol UK (SPX) Apr 22, 2018 It is commonly understood that the dinosaurs disappeared with a bang - wiped out by a great meteorite impact on the Earth 66 million years ago. But their origins have been less understood. In a new study, scientists from MUSE - Museum of Science, Trento, Italy, Universities of Ferrara and Padova, Italy and the University of Bristol show that the key expansion of dinosaurs was also triggered by a crisis - a mass extinction that happened 232 million years ago. In the new paper, published in Na ... read more |
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How does plant DNA avoid the ravages of UV radiation?Chapel Hill, NC (SPX) Apr 22, 2018 If the ultraviolet radiation from the sun damages human DNA to cause health problems, does UV radiation also damage plant DNA? The answer is yes, but because plants can't come in from the sun or sla ... more 
Plants play greater role than megaherbivore extinctions in ecosystem changesPlymouth UK (SPX) Apr 22, 2018 Plants may have exerted greater influence on our terrestrial ecosystems than the megaherbivores that used to roam our landscapes, according to new research. Previously, scientists believed tha ... more  
Airbus adds extra precision to Sentinel-3 satellite altimetryMadrid, Spain (SPX) Apr 19, 2018 A new highly precise MicroWave Radiometer (MWR) built by Airbus is ready to start operations after the launch of the Sentinel-3B satellite built by Thales Alenia Space as prime contractor for this p ... more  
Iran MP slams Revolutionary Guards' treatment of environmentalistsTehran (AFP) April 21, 2018 A reformist lawmaker in Iran criticised the Revolutionary Guards on Saturday for holding a group of environmentalists without access to lawyers or their families. ... more |
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Rare brown bear dies in Italy capture operationRome (AFP) April 20, 2018 An Italian national park was on Friday investigating after a rare brown bear died during a capture operation carried out by biologists. ... more  
Tiny microenvironments in the ocean hold clues to global nitrogen cycleRochester NY (SPX) Apr 23, 2018 Nitrogen is essential to marine life and cycles throughout the ocean in a delicately balanced system. Living organisms - especially marine plants called phytoplankton - require nitrogen in processes ... more 
Moss capable of removing arsenic from drinking water discoveredStockholm, Sweden (SPX) Apr 22, 2018 A moss capable of removing arsenic from contaminated water has been discovered by researchers from Stockholm University. And it happens quickly - in just one hour, the arsenic level is so low that t ... more  
Warming climate could speed forest regrowth in eastern USDurham NC (SPX) Apr 22, 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 ... more  
Engineering a plastic-eating enzymePortsmouth UK (SPX) Apr 22, 2018 Scientists have engineered an enzyme which can digest some of our most commonly polluting plastics, providing a potential solution to one of the world's biggest environmental problems. The dis ... more |
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Oregon scientists decipher the magma bodies under YellowstoneEugene OR (SPX) Apr 22, 2018 Using supercomputer modeling, University of Oregon scientists have unveiled a new explanation for the geology underlying recent seismic imaging of magma bodies below Yellowstone National Park. ... more  |
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Dragon boat accident kills 17 in southern ChinaBeijing (AFP) April 21, 2018 Seventeen people were killed Saturday after two dragon boats capsized in southern China, state-run Xinhua news agency said. ... more  
Climate change mitigation project threatens local ecosystem resilience in Stockholm, Sweden (SPX) Apr 22, 2018 REDD+ (Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation) is an UN-led programme aiming to increase carbon sequestration in tropical forests. REDD+ is included among technologies for nega ... more  
China doctor detained over 'poison' tonic comments releasedBeijing (AFP) April 20, 2018 A Chinese doctor held without charge for three months for calling a popular brand of traditional medicine "poison" has been released on bail following a public outcry, reports said. ... more  
Gates warns new fight needed against resurgent malariaLondon (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. ... more 
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 |
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 Beijing (AFP) April 21, 2018 
Seventeen people were killed Saturday after two dragon boats capsized in southern China, state-run Xinhua news agency said.
Rowers on board the two long, narrow kayak-like boats were practising for a race in Taohua River in the city of Guilin when the accident occurred Saturday afternoon, tipping some 60 people into the water.
Around 40 people were pulled out of the water alive with resc ... 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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 Beijing (Sputnik) Apr 23, 2018 
Just after the likely next head of US Pacific Command told Congress China's undersea warfare capability is one of the most pressing threats to the US, a new report says Beijing is establishing another base in the South China Sea for deploying manned and unmanned submersible vehicles.
The base would be located in Sanya, a city on the southern edge of China's Hainan island, Asia Times report ... 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 (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.
The protracted legal battle is over making repairs to road culverts that impede salmon migration.
The Washington state government claims the repairs would cost "billions of dollars" and provide only limited benefit to the spaw ... 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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 Stockholm, Sweden (SPX) Apr 22, 2018 
REDD+ (Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation) is an UN-led programme aiming to increase carbon sequestration in tropical forests. REDD+ is included among technologies for negative emissions, which stand for a large share of the emission reductions in the climate models internationally agreed on to keep global warming below 2C.
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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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 Washington (AFP) April 23, 2018  Former New York City mayor and billionaire philanthropist Michael Bloomberg on Sunday promised $4.5 million to fulfill the United States's commitment to the Paris climate agreement.
"America made a commitment and as an American if the government's not going to do it we all have responsibility," he told CBS's Face the Nation.
Last June, US President Donald Trump announced the US would wit ... 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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 Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Apr 23, 2018 
Scientists seeking to bring fusion - the power that drives the sun and stars - down to Earth must first make the state of matter called plasma superhot enough to sustain fusion reactions. That calls for heating the plasma to many times the temperature of the core of the sun.
In ITER, the international fusion facility being built in France to demonstrate the feasibility of fusion power, the ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Apr 22, 2018 
The Macropis Cuckoo Bee is one of the rarest bees in North America, partly because of its specialized ecological associations. It is a nest parasite of oil-collecting bees of the genus Macropis which, in turn, are dependent on oil-producing flowers of the genus Lysimachia.
In fact, the cuckoo bee - which much like its feather-bearing counterpart does not build a nest of its own, but lays i ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) April 20, 2018 
A Chinese doctor held without charge for three months for calling a popular brand of traditional medicine "poison" has been released on bail following a public outcry, reports said.
Tan Qindong was detained by police after the maker of the popular "Hongmao Medicinal Liquor" said he had made "malicious claims" online that "tarnished its name".
The doctor was released on bail on Tuesday ev ... 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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