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  Orlando FL (SPX) May 18, 2018 A UCF research team with collaborators at Virginia Tech have developed a new "green" approach to making ammonia that may help make feeding the rising world population more sustainable. "This new approach can facilitate ammonia production using renewable energy, such as electricity generated from solar or wind," said physics Assistant Professor Xiaofeng Feng. "Basically, this new approach can help advance a sustainable development of our human society." Ammonia, a compound of nitrogen and hyd ... read more |
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Repeating seismic events offer clues about Costa Rican volcanic eruptionsSan Francisco CA (SPX) May 18, 2018 Repeating seismic events - events that have the same frequency content and waveform shapes - may offer a glimpse at the movement of magma and volcanic gases underneath Turrialba and Poas, two well-k ... more  
NASA Satellites Reveal Major Shifts in Global FreshwaterWashington DC (SPX) May 18, 2018 In a first-of-its-kind study, scientists have combined an array of NASA satellite observations of Earth with data on human activities to map locations where freshwater is changing around the globe a ... more 
Pesticide resistance needs urgnet attention, large-scale study findsRaleigh NC (SPX) May 18, 2018 To slow the evolutionary progression of weeds and insect pests gaining resistance to herbicides and pesticides, policymakers should provide resources for large-scale, landscape-level studies of a nu ... more  
Trait tied to autism may explain emergence of realistic artWashington (UPI) May 14, 2018 Some 30,000 years ago, in the midst of the Ice Age, cartoonish caricatures of animals gave way to more realistic art. New research suggests the shift in aesthetic could be explained by "detail focus," a trait linked to autism. ... more |
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People are pillaging the world's protected areasTampa (AFP) May 17, 2018 Highways are being paved, oil is being drilled and entire cities are sprouting up inside many of the world's nature preserves, imperiling the very creatures they are meant to protect, researchers said Thursday. ... more 
EU chokes on own air quality standardsBrussels (AFP) May 17, 2018 In the skies above Katowice in the heart of Poland's coal industry, Polish officials are deploying the latest weapon against air pollution: drones that inspect the city's chimneys. ... more  
Microchips get under the skin of technophile SwedesStockholm (AFP) May 13, 2018 It's the size of a grain of rice but could hold the key to many aspects of your life. ... more 
China stops anti-dumping probe into US sorghumBeijing (AFP) May 18, 2018 China has dropped its anti-dumping and anti-subsidy probe into US sorghum imports, its commerce ministry said Friday, extending a possible olive branch as the two countries hold fraught trade talks. ... more 
EU court upholds curbs on bee-killing pesticideLuxembourg (AFP) May 17, 2018 A top European Union court on Thursday upheld the ban on three insecticides blamed for killing off bee populations, dismissing cases brought by chemicals giants Bayer and Syngenta. ... more |
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Hippo excrement triggering fish kills in African riversWashington DC (UPI) May 16, 2018 Hippo excrement is being blamed for fish mortality in Kenya's Mara River. ... more  |
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In Lagos, the 'Venice of Africa' fights for survivalLagos (AFP) May 17, 2018 Its nickname is the "Venice of Africa" but, other than its maze of narrow waterways where wooden boats glide, Makoko offers little similarity with the fabled canal city of Europe. ... more  
UN calls on Iraq to probe election complaintsBaghdad (AFP) May 17, 2018 The UN on Thursday called for Iraq's electoral commission to "immediately and fully" investigate complaints by candidates and parties over the conduct of this month's legislative elections. ... more  
Hong Kong's behind-closed-doors gay weddingsHong Kong (AFP) May 17, 2018 It was a day Alvin Chan and his partner C.P. So had never imagined possible - tying the knot in front of cheering family and friends in Hong Kong. ... more 
How large can a tsunami be in the CaribbeanMiami FL (SPX) May 17, 2018 The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami has researchers reevaluating whether a magnitude 9.0 megathrust earthquake and resulting tsunami might also be a likely risk for the Caribbean region, seismologists rep ... more 
What we inherited from our bug-eating ancestorsBerkeley CA (SPX) May 17, 2018 People who advocate adding insects to the human diet may be channeling their distant ancestors. Based on an analysis of the genomes of 107 different species of mammals, University of Californi ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) May 16, 2018  The role of US National Guard troops sent to the Mexican border is being expanded, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said on Tuesday.
Nielsen told Fox News host Laura Ingraham that 1,600 Guard members are currently on the frontier, a number that will next rise to 2,200 as their duties expand.
"Originally we were focused on border patrol support but now we've extended it," with ... more |
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 Peterson AFB CO (SPX) May 18, 2018 
Space Situational Awareness has long been synonymous with detecting, tracking, and identifying all artificial objects in Earth orbit otherwise known as catalog maintenance. Today, space is more congested and contested than ever before, and threats against U.S. capabilities grow every day.
While catalog maintenance is a part of the SSA mission set, SSA enables the continuous preparation of ... more |
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 Addis Ababa (AFP) May 17, 2018 
Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia have agreed to set up a scientific committee to study a dam Ethiopia is building on a tributary of the Nile, an Ethiopian minister said Thursday.
The announcement broke a long impasse in a dispute over Egyptian fears that the $4-billion (3.2-billion-euro) Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, being built on the Blue Nile, will affect the river's downstream flows.
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 Corvallis 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 new study suggests.
Interestingly, the loss of ice from the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream (NEGIS) took place not only during the warm Holocene period, but also during a period thought to be ver ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) May 18, 2018 
China has dropped its anti-dumping and anti-subsidy probe into US sorghum imports, its commerce ministry said Friday, extending a possible olive branch as the two countries hold fraught trade talks.
Imposing punitive measures would "affect the cost of living of large numbers of (Chinese) consumers and would not be in the public interest", the ministry said in a statement.
An investigati ... more |
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 San Francisco CA (SPX) May 18, 2018 
Repeating seismic events - events that have the same frequency content and waveform shapes - may offer a glimpse at the movement of magma and volcanic gases underneath Turrialba and Poas, two well-known active volcanoes in Costa Rica.
At the 2018 SSA Annual Meeting, Rebecca Salvage of the Observatorio Vulcanologico y Sismologico de Costa Rica presented an analysis of these repeating signal ... more |
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 Lagos (AFP) May 17, 2018 
Its nickname is the "Venice of Africa" but, other than its maze of narrow waterways where wooden boats glide, Makoko offers little similarity with the fabled canal city of Europe.
Makoko, to be blunt, is an environmental eyesore. It is a vast slum of wooden shacks built on stilts in the brackish, blackish, thickly-polluted lagoon in the heart of Lagos, Africa's biggest megapolis.
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 Washington (UPI) May 14, 2018 
Some 30,000 years ago, in the midst of the Ice Age, cartoonish caricatures of animals gave way to more realistic art. New research suggests the shift in aesthetic could be explained by "detail focus," a trait linked to autism.
Seemingly all at once, detailed depictions of bears, bison, horses and lions began to appear in significant numbers in Ice Age caves. Scientists have struggled to ... 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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 Beijing, China (SPX) May 17, 2018 
Cloud is a tracer for a variety of significant weather changes. Cloud images obtained from satellite remote sensing are of great help to weather forecasters in understanding the past and present weather processes in a macroscopic way. Forecasts directly made out of satellite cloud images are what meteorologists and forecasters dream about. Recent studies have shown that it has become possible to ... more |
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 Bozeman MT (SPX) May 17, 2018 
Montana State University scientists have found a new lineage of microbes living in Yellowstone National Park's thermal features that sheds light on the origin of life, the evolution of archaeal life and the importance of iron in early life.
Professor William Inskeep and his team of researchers published their findings May 14 in the scientific journal Nature Microbiology.
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 Lisbon (AFP) May 15, 2018 
Portugal's electricity company EDP on Tuesday rejected as too low a takeover bid by its current largest shareholder, Chinese energy behemoth Three Gorges.
Energias de Portugal (EDP), one of the country's largest businesses, said in a statement it would comment at a later date on the other terms of an offer put forward by the Chinese giant on Friday.
"Notwithstanding, the executive board ... more |
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 Columbia MO (SPX) May 17, 2018 
Among the chief complaints for smartphone, laptop and other battery-operated electronics users is that the battery life is too short and - in some cases - that the devices generate heat.
Now, a group of physicists led by Deepak K. Singh, associate professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Missouri, has developed a device material that can address both issues. The team has app ... more |
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 Los Angeles (AFP) May 14, 2018 
The tip came from a woman standing in line at a post office in a small town in northern California.
A customer was shipping dozens of boxes to China, and the caller suspected they were filled with abalone, a highly-prized shellfish listed as an endangered species.
But fish and wildlife officers who responded to the call instead uncovered an international smuggling ring that has been stri ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) May 15, 2018 
A North Korean delegation has visited Beijing to learn about China's experience in economic reform and opening up, the foreign ministry said Tuesday, the latest diplomatic outreach by the isolated regime.
The Cold War-era allies have stepped up contacts in recent weeks as North Korean leader Kim Jong Un prepares for a historic summit with US President Donald Trump in Singapore on June 12. ... more |
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 Kondapalli, India (AFP) May 16, 2018 
Artisan wood carvers who have been making intricate toys for Indian maharajas, ministers and their children for generations are facing ruin as the rare wood their unique products rely on disappears.
The highly treasured, brightly coloured Kondapalli toys are under threat from deforestation, and in particular the rampant exploitation of the Tella Poniki tree.
The wooden elephants, soldier ... more |
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