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  Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 21, 2018 Photosynthesis, the process by which plants generate food, is a powerful piece of molecular machinery that needs sunlight to run. The proteins involved in photosynthesis need to be 'on' when they have the sunlight they need to function, but need to idle, like the engine of a car at a traffic light, in the dark, when photosynthesis is not possible. They do this by a process called 'redox regulation'--the activation and deactivation of proteins via changes in their redox (reduction/oxidation) states ... read more |
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Oil palm: few areas in Africa reconcile high yields and primate protectionParis, France (SPX) Aug 21, 2018 Continued growth in global demand for palm oil is expected to mean an expansion in oil palm plantations in Africa. The continent offers the low-lying tropical ecosystems oil palm prefers, hence an o ... more  
Why multiple earthquakes are rattling one Indonesian islandJakarta (AFP) Aug 20, 2018 The Indonesian holiday island of Lombok has been hammered by a series of powerful earthquakes in the past three weeks that have killed more than 500 people and left hundreds of thousands homeless. ... more  
Stalling summer weather patterns set stage for extreme heatWashington (UPI) Aug 20, 2018 Summer weather patterns are slowing down, a new survey confirms. ... more  
NASA Team Demonstrates "Science on a Shoestring" with Greenhouse Gas-Measuring InstrumentGreenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 17, 2018 A novel instrument that has already proven its mettle on field campaigns will attempt to measure atmospheric greenhouse gases from an occultation-viewing, low-Earth-orbiting CubeSat mission called M ... more |
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More than a million people in India flood relief campsChengannur, India (AFP) Aug 21, 2018 More than one million people have packed relief camps to escape devastating monsoon floods that have killed more than 410 people in India's southwestern state of Kerala, officials said Tuesday. ... more 
Bodies found as floods recede in India's KeralaKochi, India (AFP) Aug 20, 2018 Floodwaters receded in Kerala on Monday, leaving Indian rescuers the grim task of retrieving bodies as the death toll from the worst monsoon rains in a century rose above 400. ... more 
Hurricane Lane threatening HawaiiLos Angeles (AFP) Aug 20, 2018 Hurricane Lane was circling Hawaii Monday, with US forecasters warning the storm could cause "large and dangerous surf" and strong currents along shorelines in the US archipelago. ... more 
Multiple quakes rock Indonesia's Lombok island, 10 deadMataram, Indonesia (AFP) Aug 20, 2018 At least 10 people are dead after a string of powerful quakes rocked the Indonesian holiday island of Lombok, authorities said Monday, in a fresh blow just weeks after earlier tremors left hundreds dead and thousands more homeless. ... more  
Aid agencies rush to help survivors of deadly Lombok quakesSugian, Indonesia (AFP) Aug 21, 2018 Indonesian aid agencies and government officials rushed Tuesday to help survivors after another series of powerful quakes rattled Lombok island, killing at least 10 people and leaving hundreds of thousands homeless. ... more |
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 Mexico City starts demolishing quake collapse school 
Dating the ancient Minoan eruption of Thera using tree ringsTucson AZ (SPX) Aug 21, 2018 New analyses that use tree rings could settle the long-standing debate about when the volcano Thera erupted by resolving discrepancies between archeological and radiocarbon methods of dating the eru ... more  |
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Scientists Deploy Damage Assessment Tool in Laos Relief EffortsGreenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 21, 2018 The July 23 failure of the Xepian-Xe Nam Noy hydropower dam unleashed more than 130 billion gallons of water on rural villages in southern Laos, in Southeast Asia, devastating thousands of houses an ... more  
UConn scientists create reverse osmosis membranes with tunable thicknessStorrs CT (SPX) Aug 21, 2018 Currently, more than 300 million people around the world rely on desalinated water for part or all of their daily needs. That demand will only grow with larger populations and improved standards of ... more 
Volcano eruptions at different latitudes impact sea surface temperature differentlyBeijing, China (SPX) Aug 21, 2018 Volcanic eruptions are one of the most important natural causes of climate change, playing a leading role over the past millennium. Injections of sulfate aerosols into the lower stratosphere will re ... more  
How an animal ages depends on what early life was likeWashington (UPI) Aug 17, 2018 What determines whether a wild animal ages gracefully? New research suggests environmental conditions during an animal's formative years can affect the animal's aging process. ... more 
Rare 'bamboo rat' photographed at Machu PicchuLima (AFP) Aug 17, 2018 A rare rodent species known as a "bamboo rat" that lives around the Inca ruins at Machu Picchu in Peru has resurfaced after a decade of absence and been photographed for the first time. ... more |
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 Sugian, Indonesia (AFP) Aug 21, 2018  Indonesian aid agencies and government officials rushed Tuesday to help survivors after another series of powerful quakes rattled Lombok island, killing at least 10 people and leaving hundreds of thousands homeless.
The picturesque island next to holiday hotspot Bali was hit by two deadly quakes on July 29 and August 5. On Sunday it was shaken again by a string of fresh tremors and aftershoc ... more |
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 Saint Petersburg, Russia (SPX) Aug 20, 2018 
An international team of scientists developed the world's first antilaser for nonlinear Bose-Einstein condensate of ultracold atoms. For the first time, scientists demonstrated that it is possible to absorb the selected signal completely, even though the nonlinear system makes it difficult to predict the waves behaviour. The results can be used to manipulate superfluid flows, create atomic laser ... more |
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 Storrs CT (SPX) Aug 21, 2018 
Currently, more than 300 million people around the world rely on desalinated water for part or all of their daily needs. That demand will only grow with larger populations and improved standards of living around the world.
Accessing the oceans for drinking water, however, requires desalination technologies that are complicated and expensive. The most commonly used technology for desalinati ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Aug 15, 2018  A glacial lake burst in a remote part of northwestern China last week, prompting evacuations of mountain residents and a warning from Greenpeace that climate change could trigger similar events.
The lake burst its banks on Friday, sending some 35 million cubic metres of water rushing through central Xinjiang province, according to China's official Xinhua news agency.
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 Thai Nguyen, Vietnam (AFP) Aug 17, 2018 
Two moon bears are gently removed from the cramped cages where they have been held for 13 years, rescuers carefully checking their rotten teeth and matted paws before sending them to their new home in a grassy sanctuary in northern Vietnam.
The animals are among the lucky few to be rescued in a country where hundreds of bears are feared to have been killed or starved to death as the cost of ... more |
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 Chengannur, India (AFP) Aug 21, 2018 
More than one million people have packed relief camps to escape devastating monsoon floods that have killed more than 410 people in India's southwestern state of Kerala, officials said Tuesday.
About 50,000 homes have been destroyed, according to one Kerala legislator, and people are flocking to the camps as the scale of the desolation is revealed by receding waters.
A total of 1,028,000 ... more |
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 Bamako (AFP) Aug 16, 2018 
Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has been re-elected for a five-year term after winning a landslide in a runoff ballot, according to official figures Thursday.
The elections have been closely watched abroad, as Mali is a linchpin state in the jihadist insurgency raging in the Sahel.
Keita, 73, picked up 67.17 percent of the vote on Sunday against 32.83 for opposition challenger an ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 15, 2018 
Until recent, war was almost exclusively the dominion of men. But why?
A new mathematical model developed by researchers at the University of St. Andrews suggests men may have taken on war-waging duties as a matter of happenstance - by chance.
Researchers have previously argued that because males are on average bigger and stronger than females, they were better proportioned for ... more |
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 Fairbanks AK (SPX) Aug 21, 2018 
Methane released by thawing permafrost from some Arctic lakes could significantly accelerate climate change, according to a new University of Alaska Fairbanks-led study.
The study, which was published Aug. 15 in the journal Nature Communications, focuses on the carbon released by thawing permafrost beneath thermokarst lakes. Such lakes develop when warming soil melts ground ice, causing th ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Aug 19, 2018 
A satellite designed to measure Earth's global wind patterns is set to be hoisted into orbit Tuesday from the Arianespace launch site in French Guiana.
The European Space Agency's (ESA) Aeolus mission - named for the guardian of wind in Greek mythology - promises to improve short-term weather forecasting and our understanding of manmade climate change.
"Meteorologists urgently need rel ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Aug 14, 2018 
Scientists have found that 4.02 billion year old silica-rich felsic rocks from the Acasta River, Canada - the oldest rock formation known on Earth - probably formed at high temperatures and at a surprisingly shallow depth of the planet's nascent crust.
The high temperatures needed to melt the shallow crust were likely caused by a meteorite bombardment around half a billion years after the ... 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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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 20, 2018 
Ant-Man knows - the quantum realm holds shocking revelations and irrational solutions. Taking a page from the Marvel Universe, researchers based at the National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Tokyo, Japan, designed a more efficient quantum transport system by adding even more noise to it.
They published their results on July 24 in Quantum Information, a Nature Partner Journal.
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 17, 2018 
Scientists have confirmed Darwin's moth as a textbook example of the evolutionary phenomena known as industrial melanism. Researchers did so using image analysis and avian vision models, a first.
In the mid-19th century, famed evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin described the divergent forms of Britain's peppered moth, Biston betularia.
Darwin realized the moth's natural pale f ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Aug 17, 2018 
Two Chinese academics have proposed a controversial idea to encourage childbirth as their country faces an ageing population: Make people with no or fewer than two children pay into a "maternity fund".
The suggestion sparked a furious social media debate in a country whose population has faced drastic family planning policies under the Communist Party, which enforced a one-child policy for d ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 17, 2018 
According to new research, children who live closer to forests are more likely to eat healthier, more nutritious foods.
The findings are the latest to link forest conservation to human health. Several studies have linked proximity forests, trees and green space with positive human health and behavior outcomes.
"The data show that forests aren't just correlated with improvements i ... more |
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