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  Melbourne, Australia (SPX) Sep 21, 2018 Australian researchers have designed a rapid nano-filter that can clean dirty water over 100 times faster than current technology. Simple to make and simple to scale up, the technology harnesses naturally occurring nano-structures that grow on liquid metals. The RMIT University and University of New South Wales (UNSW) researchers behind the innovation have shown it can filter both heavy metals and oils from water at extraordinary speed. RMIT researcher Dr Ali Zavabeti said water contam ... read more |
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More ships and more clouds mean cooling in the ArcticStorrs CT (SPX) Sep 21, 2018 With sea ice in the Arctic melting at an alarming rate, opportunities for trans-Arctic shipping are opening up, and by mid-century ships will be able to sail right over the North Pole - something no ... more 
Scientists ID Three Causes of Earth's Spin Axis DriftPasadena CA (JPL) Sep 21, 2018 A typical desk globe is designed to be a geometric sphere and to rotate smoothly when you spin it. Our actual planet is far less perfect - in both shape and in rotation. Earth is not a perfect ... more  
Earth's oldest animals formed complex ecological communitiesNashville TN (SPX) Sep 21, 2018 A new analysis is shedding light on the earth's first macroscopic animals: the 570-million-year-old, enigmatic Ediacara biota. Ediacaran fossils have a slightly bizarre appearance not shared b ... more 
Fat from 558 million years ago reveals earliest known animalCanberra, Australia (SPX) Sep 21, 2018 Scientists from The Australian National University (ANU) and overseas have discovered molecules of fat in an ancient fossil to reveal the earliest confirmed animal in the geological record that live ... more |
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Study links natural climate oscillations in north Atlantic to Greenland ice sheet meltCape Cod MA (SPX) Sep 21, 2018 Scientists have known for years that warming global climate is melting the Greenland Ice Sheet, the second largest ice sheet in the world. A new study from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution ( ... more  
Farmers fume as France stands firm on more Pyrenees bearsPau, France (AFP) Sept 20, 2018 Dozens of farmers and local officials stormed out of a meeting with France's new environment minister on Friday as he confirmed two more bears would soon be released into the Pyrenees mountains. ... more  
Trump vows '100 percent' support for storm-battered CarolinasConway, United States (AFP) Sept 19, 2018 US President Donald Trump toured storm-battered areas of the Carolinas on Wednesday, handing out meals to residents and promising the "100 percent" support of the federal government to victims of Hurricane Florence. ... more 
Puerto Ricans turn to life-saving self-help in Maria's aftermathHumacao, Puerto Rico (AFP) Sept 19, 2018 Desperate and alone - and with the US government nowhere to be seen - many Puerto Ricans turned to each other for salvation as they faced the furies of Hurricane Maria one year ago. ... more  
Ghana flooding kills 34 during heavy rainsAccra (AFP) Sept 20, 2018 At least 34 people have died in northern Ghana during flooding caused by heavy rains and waters spilling from a dam in neighbouring Burkina Faso, relief agency officials said Thursday. ... more |
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Toll jumps to 22 in Philippine monsoon landslideManila (AFP) Sept 21, 2018 The death toll from a monsoon landslide in the central Philippines has risen to 22, officials said Friday, as rescuers dug through the night in a frantic search for survivors of the latest tragedy in the storm-hit nation. ... more  |
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Dolphins show they can cooperate to solve problemsWashington (UPI) Sep 19, 2018 Dolphins can solve problems that require coordination, new research showed. The marine mammals can synchronize their actions to accomplish tasks and earn rewards. ... more  
Canada crews battle firenado in tug-o-war for hoseOttawa (AFP) Sept 19, 2018 Firefighters trying to put out a record number of wildfires in westernmost Canada recently found themselves in an unexpected tug-o-war with a fire devil for control of their hose. ... more 
Mexico marks anniversaries of two deadly quakesMexico City (AFP) Sept 19, 2018 Mexico held memorials and protests Wednesday in memory of the two earthquakes that devastated the country on September 19 - one that killed 369 people last year, and another in 1985 that killed more than 10,000. ... more 
Melting permafrost threatens climate rescue plan: studyParis (AFP) Sept 17, 2018 Global targets aimed at warding off runaway planetary warming could be breached sooner than expected, experts warned Monday, as gases released by melting permafrost threaten to undermine human efforts to avert climate disaster. ... more 
Even moderate warming could melt Antarctic ice sheet: studyParis (AFP) Sept 19, 2018 Moderate global temperature rises of just two degrees Celsius could still be enough to melt parts of the largest ice sheet on Earth and raise sea levels by several metres, experts warned on Wednesday. ... more |
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 Humacao, Puerto Rico (AFP) Sept 19, 2018  Desperate and alone - and with the US government nowhere to be seen - many Puerto Ricans turned to each other for salvation as they faced the furies of Hurricane Maria one year ago.
In the dark weeks that followed they also discovered something precious: a sense of fellowship and belonging that today brightens places like Mariana, a neighborhood transformed by adversity in the storm-ravage ... more |
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 Hong Kong (SPX) Sep 21, 2018 
Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited has received its second patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), titled, "Methods and Systems for Improving Spectrum Utilisation for Satellite Communications" (US Patent No. 10,050,698 B2).
This new patent is about the methods and systems to mitigate the imbalance of uplink and downlink spectrum allocation in satel ... more |
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 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 20, 2018 
A study simulating the final stages of terrestrial planet formation shows that 'hit-and-run' encounters play a significant role in the acquisition of water by large protoplanets, like those that grew into Mars and Earth. The results will be presented by Christoph Burger at the European Planetary Science Congress (EPSC) 2018 in Berlin.
Four and a half billion years ago, the inner solar syst ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Sep 21, 2018 
In the last few years, the Vavilov Ice Cap in the Russian High Arctic has dramatically accelerated, sliding as much as 82 feet a day in 2015, according to a new multi-national, multi-institute study led by CIRES Fellow Mike Willis, an assistant professor of Geology at CU Boulder. That dwarfs the ice's previous average speed of about 2 inches per day and has challenged scientists' assumptions abo ... more |
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 Pau, France (AFP) Sept 20, 2018 
Dozens of farmers and local officials stormed out of a meeting with France's new environment minister on Friday as he confirmed two more bears would soon be released into the Pyrenees mountains.
Around 40 brown bears currently roam the range between France and Spain after France began importing them from Slovenia in 1996 after the native population had been hunted to near-extinction.
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 21, 2018 
A new experimental weather satellite no bigger than a cereal box got an inside look at Hurricane Florence in a test of technology that could influence the future of storm monitoring from space. The satellite took its first images of Hurricane Florence on Tuesday, Sept. 11, just hours after its instrument was turned on.
TEMPEST-D, which deployed into low-Earth orbit from the International S ... more |
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 Algiers (AFP) Sept 18, 2018 
Algeria's defence ministry on Tuesday announced its air force chief has been sacked, amid a broad shake-up of the country's military hierarchy.
Armed Forces Chief of Staff Ahmed Gaid Salah was to chair a ceremony on Tuesday at which major-general Hamid Boumaiza would assume the role of air force chief, the ministry said.
The event would see Boumaiza "replace major-general Abdelkader Loun ... more |
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 London UK (SPX) Sep 20, 2018 
Analysis of bones, from what was once the world's largest bird, has revealed that humans arrived on the tropical island of Madagascar more than 6,000 years earlier than previously thought - according to a study published, 12 September 2018, in the journal Science Advances.
A team of scientists led by international conservation charity ZSL (Zoological Society of London) discovered that anci ... more |
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 Helsinki, Finland (SPX) Sep 20, 2018 
Growing beaver populations have created a large number of new habitats along rivers and ponds. Beaver dams raise the water level, enabling the dissolution of the organic carbon from the soil. From beaver ponds, carbon is released to the atmosphere. Part of the carbon settles down on the bottom, ending up used by plants or transported downstream in the water.
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 19, 2018 
NASA's ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station (ECOSTRESS) captured new imagery of variations in surface-temperature patterns in Los Angeles County. The first of its kind to be taken by the agency's newest Earth-observing mission, it is more detailed than previous imagery and, unlike prior imagery, was acquired at different times of the day.
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 Canberra, Australia (SPX) Sep 21, 2018 
Scientists from The Australian National University (ANU) and overseas have discovered molecules of fat in an ancient fossil to reveal the earliest confirmed animal in the geological record that lived on Earth 558 million years ago.
The strange creature called Dickinsonia, which grew up to 1.4 metres in length and was oval shaped with rib-like segments running along its body, was part of th ... 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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 Austin TX (SPX) Sep 21, 2018 
Yotta Solar, a developer of innovative energy storage systems, is introducing a revolution in solar PV plus energy storage technology - the SolarLEAFTM. The patented SolarLEAFTM utilizes the world's first and only 100% passive thermal regulation system for panel-level energy storage.
This passive temperature regulation enables the system to operate in extreme temperatures while protecting ... more |
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 Roseau, Dominica (AFP) Sept 17, 2018 
'Sad' parrots and 'stressed-out' frogs might be unlikely contenders for concern in the aftermath of a catastrophic natural disaster.
But the fate of two of Dominica's most prized species are still a source of worry a year after Hurricane Maria tore apart the tiny Caribbean island.
Dominica's famously lush forests are slowly coming back to life after the worst destruction in the country's ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Sept 13, 2018  A Chinese Protestant pastor is vowing to keep preaching to his flock despite the closure of his prominent underground church in Beijing, defying the government's intensifying pressure on religious groups.
Pastor Jin Mingri had given sermons at the Zion Church, one of the biggest unofficial congregations in the country, for the past decade until local officials shut it down on Sunday.
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 Houghton MI (SPX) Sep 20, 2018 
While demand for energy isn't dropping, alarms raised by burning fossil fuels in order to get that energy are getting louder. Often suggested solutions to cancel out the effects of the carbon dumped into our atmosphere through carbon capture and storage or bio-sequestration. This zero-emission energy uses technical means as well as plants to take in carbon emissions and store it. Another route i ... more |
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