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  Columbus OH (SPX) May 15, 2018 A recently identified pig virus can readily find its way into laboratory-cultured cells of people and other species, a discovery that raises concerns about the potential for outbreaks that threaten human and animal health. Researchers at The Ohio State University and Utrecht University in the Netherlands collaborated to better understand the new virus and its potential reach. Their study, the first to point to possible transmission of this virus between species, appears online in the journal PNAS. ... read more |
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Ice stream draining Greenland Ice Sheet sensitive to changes over past 45,000 yearsCorvallis OR (SPX) May 15, 2018 A ribbon of ice more than 600 kilometers long that drains about 12 percent of the gigantic Greenland Ice Sheet has been smaller than it is today about half of the time over the past 45,000 years, a ... more  
Global forests expanding: Reflects wellbeing, not rising CO2, experts sayHelsinki, Finland (SPX) May 15, 2018 The surprising, steady expansion of forests in many countries is a reflection of national well being and does not constitute a benefit of rapidly rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, experts ... more 
Amazonian rainforests gave birth to the world's most diverse tropical regionBoston MA (SPX) May 15, 2018 A new study is suggesting many of the plants and animals that call Latin America home may actually have their roots in the Amazon. The study, co-authored by Harvard Visiting Scholar Alexandre ... more  
Hurricanes cost Caribbean tourism more than $700 mn: reportMiami (AFP) May 14, 2018 The tourism industry in the Caribbean region attracted almost one million fewer visitors after hurricanes Irma and Maria hit last year, costing it over $700 million, according to an industry study released Monday. ... more |
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Violent storms in India kill at least 86New Delhi (AFP) May 14, 2018 Indian authorities said Monday at least 86 people have been killed and over 100 injured in a fresh wave of violent sandstorms and thunderstorms that battered vast swathes of the country. ... more  
New fissures from Hawaii volcano, more eruptions fearedLos Angeles (AFP) May 14, 2018 Two new fissures have opened on Hawaii's Big Island, officials said on Monday, warning of more lava eruptions and gas emissions from the Kilauea volcano. ... more 
The evolution of conflict resolutionEvanston IL (SPX) May 15, 2018 Recently published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface, Assistant Professor Christoph Riedl's latest research examines a model that might explain how humans resolve conflict, and what thes ... more  
US military reviews Somalia raid after five killedWashington (AFP) May 11, 2018 The US military's Africa Command said Friday it is reviewing a Somali-led raid after locals reported that five civilians had been shot dead. ... more  
Worked to the bone: South Korea's elderlySeoul (AFP) May 11, 2018 In theory Park Jae-yeol should have retired 11 years ago. But despite its advanced economy South Korean state pensions are meagre, and the 71-year-old is obliged to continue working, delivering packages to high-rise apartments. ... more |
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Cleric who bloodied US and pro-Iran fighter frontrunners in Iraq voteBaghdad (AFP) May 14, 2018 Iraqi political firebrands, nationalist cleric Moqtada Sadr and pro-Iranian Hadi al-Ameri, are two former militia chieftains pitching themselves as outsiders ready to fight graft and boost services. ... more  |
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China approves $1 bn loan for Sri Lanka expresswayColombo (AFP) May 14, 2018 China has approved a $1 billion loan to revive a long-delayed expressway in central Sri Lanka, the island's government said Monday. ... more 
US film explores legacy of anti-Chinese immigration lawLos Angeles (AFP) May 15, 2018 More than a century before President Donald Trump began blocking arrivals from the Middle East and Africa, the American immigration debate was already being forged in the crucible of Chinese exclusion. ... more 
China defends treatment of Nobel dissident's widowBeijing (AFP) May 14, 2018 China warned foreigners not to interfere on Monday after western diplomats were prevented from visiting the widow of dissident Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo at her home. ... more 
Japan councils appeal tsunami death compensation rulingsTokyo (AFP) May 11, 2018 Two local governments have appealed to Japan's top court, challenging rulings that awarded millions of dollars in compensation to families whose children were swept out to sea in a 2011 tsunami. ... more 
Iraq voters rebuke PM's party as rivals surgeBaghdad (AFP) May 14, 2018 The race to become Iraq's next prime minister appeared wide open Monday as two outsider alliances looked to be in the lead after the first elections since the defeat of the Islamic State group. ... more |
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 Yangon (AFP) May 13, 2018 
China on Sunday condemned fighting on its border between Myanmar forces and ethnic rebels that has left 19 dead, mostly civilians, in some of the worst bloodshed on the restive frontier in recent years.
The fighting erupted on Saturday when ethnic minority insurgent groups, who are locked in a long-running battle with the Myanmar state, attacked security posts around Muse, a border town and ... more |
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 Berlin, Germany (SPX) May 15, 2018 
For the first time a frequency reference based on molecular iodine was successfully demonstrated in space! What sounds a bit like science fiction is an important step towards laser interferometric distance measurements between satellites as well as for future global navigation satellite systems based on optical technologies.
The frequency reference tests were carried out on 13 May on board ... more |
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 Sydney (AFP) May 9, 2018 
Australia is refocussing its foreign aid programmes in a move to win hearts and minds in the island nations of the Pacific, as an increasingly assertive China flexes its muscles in the region.
The country has pledged more than Aus$1.3 billion (US$970 million) - its largest ever aid commitment to the Pacific - to fund projects including an undersea communications cable to Papua New Guinea a ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 14, 2018 
Operation IceBridge, NASA's longest-running airborne mission to monitor polar ice change, concluded this year's springtime survey of Arctic sea and land ice on May 2. The flights, which began on March 22, covered the western basin of the Arctic Ocean and Greenland's fastest-changing glaciers.
"This campaign achieved most of our primary objectives in surveying the state of Arctic ice," said ... more |
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 Urbana IL (SPX) May 14, 2018 
Cassava is a staple in the diet of more than one billion people across 105 countries, yet this "orphaned crop" has received little attention compared to popular crops like corn and soybeans. While advances in breeding have helped cassava withstand pests and diseases, cassava yields no more s than it did in 1963. Corn yields, by comparison, have more than doubled.
University of Illinois res ... more |
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 Los Angeles (AFP) May 14, 2018 
Two new fissures have opened on Hawaii's Big Island, officials said on Monday, warning of more lava eruptions and gas emissions from the Kilauea volcano.
Authorities said the two new cracks were spotted in the Lanipuna Gardens neighborhood where residents were ordered to evacuate earlier this month after the volcano erupted and two major earthquakes rattled the island.
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 Washington (AFP) May 11, 2018 
The US military's Africa Command said Friday it is reviewing a Somali-led raid after locals reported that five civilians had been shot dead.
"We are aware of reports alleging civilian casualties resulting from this operation, and we take these reports seriously," AFRICOM said in a statement.
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 Washington DC (SPX) May 10, 2018 
It's very difficult to determine when, how and why human language began. While fossil primates provide important clues about human evolution, the sounds they made and the soft tissue involved in making those sounds weren't preserved.
But chimpanzees - one of our closest living relatives - provide important points of comparison for inferring the sorts of sounds our early ancestors may have ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) May 15, 2018 
You may not notice water in the ground under your feet, but it plays an important role in keeping you alive. Plants draw water from soil into their roots and use it to grow. If there's not enough, the resulting drought may have impacts that spread across local water supplies, regional agriculture and even international food prices.
NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) mis ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 10, 2018  Though close to home, the space immediately around Earth is full of hidden secrets and invisible processes. In a new discovery reported in the journal Nature, scientists working with NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale spacecraft - MMS - have uncovered a new type of magnetic event in our near-Earth environment by using an innovative technique to squeeze extra information out of the data.
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 Edinburgh UK (SPX) May 14, 2018  A 180 million-year-old fossil has shed light on how some ancient crocodiles evolved into dolphin-like animals.
The specimen - featuring a large portion of backbone - represents a missing link in the family tree of crocodiles, and was one of the largest coastal predators of the Jurassic Period, researchers say.
The newly discovered species was nearly five metres long and had large, po ... more |
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 Norwich UK (SPX) May 15, 2018 
New research reveals the growth of carbon production from Chinese exports has slowed or reversed, reflecting a "new phase of globalisation" between developing countries that could undermine international efforts to reduce emissions.
The study, involving researchers from the University of East Anglia (UEA) and colleagues in China and the United States, investigated how complex supply chains ... more |
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 West Lafayette IN (SPX) May 15, 2018 
Purdue engineers have figured out a way to tackle plastic landfills while also improving batteries - by putting ink-free plastic soaked in sulfur-containing solvent into a microwave, and then into batteries as a carbon scaffold.
Lithium-sulfur batteries have been hailed as the next generation of batteries to replace the current lithium ion variety. Lithium-sulfur batteries are cheaper and ... more |
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 Santa Barbara CA (SPX) May 15, 2018 
The average hippo weighs more than 3,000 pounds and consumes about 100 pounds of vegetation daily. This naturally results in large quantities of dung being deposited into the rivers and lakes where hippos spend their days.
In general, the nutrients delivered via hippo dung to such aquatic ecosystems are perceived to be beneficial. For millennia, they provided a natural source of fertilizer ... more |
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 Los Angeles (AFP) May 15, 2018 
More than a century before President Donald Trump began blocking arrivals from the Middle East and Africa, the American immigration debate was already being forged in the crucible of Chinese exclusion.
On May 6, 1882 - the eve of the greatest wave of immigration in US history - president Chester A. Arthur signed a history-making yet little-known piece of legislation called the Chinese Excl ... more |
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) May 10, 2018 
Mixed forests are more productive than monocultures. This is true on all five continents, and particularly in regions with high precipitation. These findings from an international overview study, in which the Technical University of Munich (TUM) participated, are highly relevant for forest science and forest management on a global scale.
"We know of the many advantages of mixed forests," s ... more |
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