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  Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Apr 25, 2018 The second Sentinel-3 satellite, Copernicus Sentinel-3B, was launched today, joining its identical twin Sentinel-3A in orbit. This pairing of satellites increases coverage and data delivery for the European Union's Copernicus environment programme. The 1150 kg Sentinel-3B satellite was carried into orbit on a Rockot launcher from Plesetsk, Russia, at 17:57 GMT (19:57 CEST; 21:57 local time) on 25 April. Rockot's upper stage delivered Sentinel-3B into its planned orbit. Just 92 minutes ... read more |
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Molecular evolution: How the building blocks of life may form in spaceWashington DC (SPX) Apr 26, 2018 In a laboratory experiment that mimics astrophysical conditions, with cryogenic temperatures in an ultrahigh vacuum, scientists used an electron gun to irradiate thin sheets of ice covered in basic ... more  
Ancient footprints tell story of a giant sloth huntWashington (UPI) Apr 26, 2018 Ancient footprints have offered researchers the rare opportunity to study an early North American hunting expedition. The footprints, discovered in the compacted sands of a dry lakebed in New Mexico's White Sands National Monument, tell the story of a group of hunters and a startled giant sloth. ... more  
Projectile cannon experiments show how asteroids can deliver waterProvidence RI (SPX) Apr 26, 2018 Experiments using a high-powered projectile cannon show how impacts by water-rich asteroids can deliver surprising amounts of water to planetary bodies. The research, by scientists from Brown Univer ... more 
NASA celebrates National Parks Week with park photos from spaceWashington (UPI) Apr 26, 2018 To celebrate National Parks Week, NASA has compiled and shared a gallery of photographs of national parks taken from space. A few of the newly releases images were captured by astronauts aboard the space station this week. ... more |
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Heavy security as Philippines closes Boracay to touristsBoracay, Philippines (AFP) April 26, 2018 The Philippines shuttered its most famous holiday island Boracay to tourists on Thursday for a six-month clean-up, which the government has imposed with a muscular show of its security forces. ... more  
Taiwan accuses China of risk to global health over WHO banTaipei (AFP) April 26, 2018 Taipei accused China Thursday of endangering the health of Taiwanese people and compromising global epidemic prevention by blocking it from the World Health Organization (WHO), as its hopes of attending a major meeting next month dim. ... more  
Ukraine says Chernobyl remains an 'open wound' 32 years onKiev (AFP) April 26, 2018 Ukraine on Thursday marked 32 years since Chernobyl, the world's worst nuclear disaster, saying it would "remain an open wound in the hearts of millions." ... more  
Japan court upholds damages over student tsunami deaths: reportTokyo (AFP) April 26, 2018 A Japanese appeals court on Thursday upheld a ruling awarding millions of dollars in compensation to families of children swept out to sea by the massive 2011 tsunami, local media said. ... more 
Nine youths die in Israel flash flooding: rescuersJerusalem (AFP) April 26, 2018 Nine youths died Thursday after having been swept away by flash floods in southern Israel during a hiking trip near the Dead Sea, the Magen David Adom rescue service said. ... more |
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Earlier humans used dried fungi as tinder for fires during the Neolithic periodWashington (UPI) Apr 26, 2018 Some 7,300 years ago in what's now Spain, humans collected and dried fungi for use as tinder to start fires. It's the earliest evidence of technological use of fungi, according to researchers at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. ... more  |
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Pentagon addressing Niger attack issues: MattisWashington (AFP) April 26, 2018 Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Thursday the Pentagon has started tackling the problems that led to a deadly attack in Niger that killed four US soldiers. ... more 
Double curse: After drought, Kenya's Dadaab refugee camps hit by floodsDadaab, Kenya (AFP) April 27, 2018 The children can't believe their luck: storms and showers have turned their dirt football pitch into a lake. Youngsters scamper and splash through the murky water, chasing one another, leaping and laughing. ... more  
'Eradicate the tumours': Chinese civilians drive Xinjiang crackdownMoyu County, China (AFP) April 26, 2018 The civilian group descended on the village under government instructions to "win the people's hearts", but it also had a darker mission: identifying and punishing threats to the Chinese state. ... more  
Russian Arctic glacier loss doubles as temps warmIthaca NY (SPX) Apr 26, 2018 Ice mass loss in the Russian Arctic has nearly doubled over the last decade according to Cornell University research published in the journal Remote Sensing of Environment. The research focuse ... more 
After a volcano erupts, bird colonies recoverWashington DC (SPX) Apr 26, 2018 Where do seabirds go when their nesting colony is buried by a volcano? In 2008, the eruption of the Kasatochi volcano in the Aleutian archipelago provided a rare opportunity to track how the island' ... more |
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 Prague (AFP) April 26, 2018 
One man died and 16 were injured in a toxic phenol leak at a chemical plant in the northwestern Czech city of Decin on Thursday, rescuers said.
"One man in serious condition, who was already resuscitated on the spot, died at an intensive care unit this afternoon," Ivo Chrastecky, spokesman for the Krajska zdravotni company running hospitals in the region, told AFP.
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 Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Apr 25, 2018  Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have used an inexpensive 3-D printer to produce flat plastic items that, when heated, fold themselves into predetermined shapes, such as a rose, a boat or even a bunny.
Lining Yao, assistant professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute and director of the Morphing Matter Lab, said these self-folding plastic objects represent a first step t ... more |
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 Bouake, Ivory Coast (AFP) April 26, 2018 
Earlier this year, Cape Town grabbed the world's headlines as it careened towards a water armageddon.
Crippled by a three-year-long drought, the South African city braced for a complete shutdown of domestic water supplies.
In the event, Cape Town dodged the immediate bullet. But thousands of kilometres (miles) away, another African city has had far less luck - and much less attention fo ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 24, 2018 
The end of the last ice age was precipitated by a shift in the circulation of the North Pacific Ocean some 15,000 years ago.
According to new research by scientists at the University of St. Andrews, the altered circulation released large amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere, warming Earth's climate.
Scientists modeled the ancient shifts in circulation and ocean-atmosphere gas excha ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) April 25, 2018 
Could we soon be forced to do without a glass of orange juice or a slice of grapefruit at breakfast? The answer is unfortunately yes.
After decimating orange groves in Florida and trees in California and Brazil, citrus greening disease now threatens the key producing region of the Mediterranean, according to researchers.
The disease "has spread since the mid-2000s with a phenomenal speed ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Apr 26, 2018 
Where do seabirds go when their nesting colony is buried by a volcano? In 2008, the eruption of the Kasatochi volcano in the Aleutian archipelago provided a rare opportunity to track how the island's Crested and Least auklet populations responded when their nesting colony was abruptly destroyed.
As a new study from The Auk: Ornithological Advances shows, the birds were surprisingly adaptab ... more |
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 Dadaab, Kenya (AFP) April 27, 2018  The children can't believe their luck: storms and showers have turned their dirt football pitch into a lake. Youngsters scamper and splash through the murky water, chasing one another, leaping and laughing.
Any entertainment is welcome in Dadaab, one of the biggest refugee bases in the world. An estimated 235,000 people, most of them Somalis, live a bleak life largely defined by drought, dus ... 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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 Montreal, Canada (SPX) Apr 22, 2018 
Trade and social networking helped our Homo sapiens ancestors survive a climate-changing volcanic eruption 40,000 years ago, giving hope that we will be able to ride out global warming by staying interconnected, a new study suggests.
Analyzing ancient tools, ornaments and human remains from a prehistoric rock shelter called Riparo Bombrini, in Liguria on the Italian Riviera, archeologists ... more |
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 Harbin, China (XNA) Apr 26, 2018 
China is to launch Gaofen-5, a hyperspectral imaging satellite for Earth observation, at the beginning of May.
The new satellite, capable of obtaining spectral information from ultraviolet to long-wave infrared radiation, can be used to survey inland waters and mineral resources, said Tong Xudong, director of the Earth Observation System and Data Center, China National Space Administration ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 26, 2018 
Ancient footprints have offered researchers the rare opportunity to study an early North American hunting expedition. The footprints, discovered in the compacted sands of a dry lakebed in New Mexico's White Sands National Monument, tell the story of a group of hunters and a startled giant sloth.
At the end of the last ice age, as early humans spread across North America, they set their ... 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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 Moyu County, China (AFP) April 26, 2018  The civilian group descended on the village under government instructions to "win the people's hearts", but it also had a darker mission: identifying and punishing threats to the Chinese state.
Four months after the Communist Party sent the "work team" to Akeqie Kanle, a fifth of its adult population - over 100 people - had disappeared into detention and re-education centres.
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 Bras�lia (AFP) April 26, 2018 
About 2,000 members of Brazil's indigenous tribes, decked out in traditional feathers and body paint, marched Thursday on Congress to demand protection for ancestral lands from ever expanding farm businesses.
The activists were part of a week-long, annual indigenous protest camp that drew around 3,500 representatives from around 100 tribes, organizers said.
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