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  Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 07, 2018 NASA's efforts to better understand asteroid impacts has found unexpected support from a new satellite sensor designed to detect lightning. New research published in the journal Meteoritics and Planetary Science finds that the new Geostationary Lightning Mapper, or GLM, on two weather satellites is able to pick up signals of meteors in Earth's atmosphere. "GLM detects these meteors when they become brighter than the full Moon," says lead author and meteor astronomer Peter Jenniskens of the SETI In ... read more |
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Radar better than weather balloon for measuring boundary layerUniversity Park PA (SPX) Aug 07, 2018 Improving forecasting for a host of severe weather events may be possible thanks to a more comprehensive method for measuring the Earth's boundary layer depth, developed by Penn State researchers. ... more  
China deploys huge police force to prevent fraud protestBeijing (AFP) Aug 6, 2018 Hundreds of police patrolled the streets of Beijing's financial district Monday as Chinese authorities thwarted a planned protest against money lost in risky peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platforms and a lack of government help. ... more  
Europe bakes again in near-record temperaturesParis (AFP) Aug 6, 2018 Europe baked in near-record temperatures on Monday but some respite was on the horizon after weeks of nonstop sunshine as people come to terms with what may prove to be the region's new normal in an era of climate change. ... more  
More than 2,000 tourists evacuated after Indonesia quake kills 98Mataram, Indonesia (AFP) Aug 6, 2018 Indonesia Monday sent rescuers fanning out across the holiday island of Lombok and evacuated more than 2,000 tourists after a powerful earthquake killed at least 98 people and damaged thousands of buildings. ... more |
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Scientists draw new connections between climate change and warming oceansToronto, Canada (SPX) Aug 07, 2018 It happened once before, and it could happen again. That's the warning from ocean scientists at the University of Toronto and the University of California, Santa Cruz in a study published rece ... more 
Turkey moves historic bath house to avoid looming flooding of townHasankeyf, Turkey (AFP) Aug 6, 2018 Turkish authorities on Monday conducted a hugely sensitive operation to move a centuries-old bath house weighing 1,600 tonnes to new location to avoid being engulfed under floodwaters by a controversial dam project. ... more  
Clothing, furniture also to blame for ocean and freshwater pollutionOlso, Norway (SPX) Aug 07, 2018 Think summer holidays and you'll likely call up images of a beautiful beach or a glittering blue lake. But more and more lakes, rivers and coastal areas are plagued by an oversupply of nutrients tha ... more  
What makes diamonds blueWashington DC (SPX) Aug 07, 2018 Blue diamonds - like the world-famous Hope Diamond at the National Museum of Natural History - formed up to four times deeper in the Earth's mantle than most other diamonds, according to new work pu ... more  
Archeological plant remains point to southwest Amazonia as crop domestication centerWashington DC (SPX) Aug 07, 2018 The remains of domesticated crop plants at an archaeological site in southwest Amazonia supports the idea that this was an important region in the early history of crop cultivation, according to a s ... more |
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Suspicion of electoral fraud revives ethnic tension in MaliGao, Mali (AFP) Aug 7, 2018 The first round of voting in Mali's presidential election gave outgoing President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita a conclusive lead over his rival - but unresolved anger and finger-pointing over the results have highlighted some of the country's divisions. ... more  |
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Patten hits back at Beijing over Hong Kong press club rowHong Kong (AFP) Aug 6, 2018 Former British governor of Hong Kong Chris Patten said it was "quite simply wrong" for Beijing to urge the city's Foreign Correspondents' Club to cancel a planned speech by an independence activist. ... more 
A decade on, Olympics changed China, but not how many hopedBeijing (AFP) Aug 6, 2018 A decade after Beijing hosted the 2008 Olympics, its legacy remains unmistakable from the smallest alleyways in the Chinese capital to the country's growing clout abroad. ... more  
Chinese relatives frustrated by MH370 reportBeijing (AFP) Aug 3, 2018 Relatives expressed frustration Friday after a long-awaited official report into the disappearance of loved ones aboard Flight MH370 offered little information on the disappearance of the plane and had not been translated into Chinese. ... more 
Indonesia evacuates tourists after Lombok quake kills 91Mataram, Indonesia (AFP) Aug 6, 2018 Indonesia evacuated hundreds of tourists from popular resorts and sent rescuers fanning across the holiday island of Lombok Monday after a powerful quake killed at least 91 people and reduced thousands of buildings to rubble. ... more 
China launches high-resolution Earth observation satelliteTaiyuan, China (SPX) Aug 03, 2018 China on Tuesday launched Gaofen-11, an optical remote sensing satellite, as part of the country's high-resolution Earth observation project. The Gaofen-11 satellite was launched on a Long Mar ... more |
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 Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (AFP) Aug 5, 2018 
Fuelled by caffeine, pizza and adrenaline, sleep-deprived programmers in a marathon Saudi contest this week explored high-tech solutions to prevent a repeat of past calamities in the annual hajj pilgrimage.
In a cavernous hall in the Red Sea city of Jeddah, thousands of software professionals and students competed in the kingdom's first-ever hackathon, a coding festival ahead of the world's ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 06, 2018 
On Feb. 1, 2003, just minutes before Space Shuttle Columbia was due to touch down, the spacecraft suffered a catastrophic failure - all because of a piece of foam that had broke off and knocked into the leading edge of the wing during launch 17 days earlier.
Getting to that answer - and ensuring that it couldn't happen again-took months of investigation and the creation of new tools that d ... more |
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 Edinburgh UK (SPX) Aug 03, 2018 
Cave-dwelling corals in the Mediterranean can work alongside one another to catch and eat stinging jellyfish, a study reveals.
Scientists have shown for the first time that corals can cooperate to capture and devour jellyfish which are swept against the walls by ocean currents.
A team including researchers from the University of Edinburgh made the discovery when they spotted jellyfis ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 06, 2018 
When people think of the Arctic, snow, ice and polar bears come to mind. Trees? Not so much. At least not yet.
A new NASA-led study using data from the Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) shows that carbon in Alaska's North Slope tundra ecosystems spends about 13 percent less time locked in frozen soil than it did 40 years ago. In other words, the carbon cycle there is speeding ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Aug 07, 2018 
The remains of domesticated crop plants at an archaeological site in southwest Amazonia supports the idea that this was an important region in the early history of crop cultivation, according to a study published July 25, 2018 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Jennifer Watling from the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil and colleagues.
Genetic a ... more |
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 Warsaw (AFP) Aug 3, 2018 
Nearly 250 people have drowned in Poland since April, police said Friday, as scorching weather grips the country.
"For years now the main cause of drownings has remained the same: people go for a swim after consuming alcohol," national police spokeswoman Marzena Orzynska told AFP.
In July alone, 75 people drowned across the country, while for this month the figure so far is 10, accordi ... more |
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 Gao, Mali (AFP) Aug 7, 2018 
The first round of voting in Mali's presidential election gave outgoing President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita a conclusive lead over his rival - but unresolved anger and finger-pointing over the results have highlighted some of the country's divisions.
Eighteen of the 24 candidates in the election joined forces Monday to demand the resignation of the minister of territorial administration and de ... more |
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 Jena, Germany (SPX) Aug 01, 2018 
Critical review of growing archaeological and palaeoenvironmental datasets relating to the Middle and Late Pleistocene (300-12 thousand years ago) hominin dispersals within and beyond Africa, published in Nature Human Behaviour, demonstrates unique environmental settings and adaptations for Homo sapiens relative to previous and coexisting hominins such as Homo neanderthalensis and Homo erectus. ... more |
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 Bristol UK (SPX) Aug 06, 2018 
A new study led by scientists at the University of Bristol has warned that unless we mitigate current levels of carbon dioxide emissions, Western Europe and New Zealand could revert to the hot tropical climate of the early Paleogene period - 56-48 million years ago.
As seen from the ongoing heat wave, the knock-on effects of such extreme warmth include arid land and fires as well as impact ... more |
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 University Park PA (SPX) Aug 07, 2018 
Improving forecasting for a host of severe weather events may be possible thanks to a more comprehensive method for measuring the Earth's boundary layer depth, developed by Penn State researchers.
The boundary layer is the layer of atmosphere that is closest to the Earth, less than one mile from the surface. Because it is the layer that is most affected by the convective heat from the Eart ... more |
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 Uppsala, Sweden (SPX) Aug 06, 2018 
A study that examined the shape of hundreds of fossilized shark teeth suggests that modern shark biodiversity was triggered by the end-Cretaceous mass extinction event, about 66 million years ago.
As part of a larger scientific endeavour aiming to understand the diversity of fossil sharks, a group of researchers from Uppsala University, Sweden, and the University of New England, Australia, ... more |
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 Baghdad (AFP) Aug 1, 2018 
As the stultifying summer heat sends Iraqis in search of cool spots, restaurateur Ali Hussein provides sanctuary - even though it means hooking up to an expensive generator.
"The clients must be comfortable when they eat," said Hussein, who stakes his reputation on ensuring customers are constantly blasted by air conditioning.
Outside, temperatures at this time of year can reach 50 degr ... more |
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 Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Aug 06, 2018 
The sixth Annual Theory and Simulation of Disruptions Workshop at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) made substantial progress toward planning a system for mitigating disruptions on ITER, the international experiment under construction in France to demonstrate the feasibility of fusion power.
Disruptions, the sudden loss of heat in plasma that ... more |
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 Baltimore MD (SPX) Aug 07, 2018 
Microorganisms in colder climates darken themselves to capture more heat from the sun and improve their ability to survive, according to a study from scientists at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
The scientists, in a study to be published in Current Biology on August 2, examined yeasts collected at different latitudes, and found that dark-pigmented ones were more frequentl ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Aug 6, 2018  Hundreds of police patrolled the streets of Beijing's financial district Monday as Chinese authorities thwarted a planned protest against money lost in risky peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platforms and a lack of government help.
Protesters told AFP they had come from every corner of China in hopes that by gathering en masse the government would recognise their grievances and take action.
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 Baton Rouge LA (SPX) Aug 06, 2018 
Mangroves are tropical forests that thrive in salt water and are found in a variety of coastal settings from deltas to estuaries to weathered reefs and limestone rocks worldwide. Mangroves can store greater amounts of carbon than any other terrestrial ecosystem, which helps reduce the amount of carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
When carbon is stored in the ocean or coa ... more |
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