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  Washington DC (SPX) Oct 04, 2018 The display screens of modern televisions, cell phones and computer monitors rely on liquid crystals - materials that flow like liquids but have molecules oriented in crystal-like structures. However, liquid crystals may have played a far more ancient role: helping to assemble Earth's first biomolecules. Researchers reporting in ACS Nano have found that short RNA molecules can form liquid crystals that encourage growth into longer chains. Scientists have speculated that life on Earth origina ... read more |
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Time running out for survivors as Indonesia toll tops 1,400Wani, Indonesia (AFP) Oct 3, 2018 The death toll in Indonesia's twin quake-tsunami disaster passed 1,400 Wednesday, with time running out to rescue survivors and the UN warning of "vast" unmet needs that have fuelled looting. ... more  
Indonesia quake kids traumatised as rescuers race against clockPalu, Indonesia (AFP) Oct 4, 2018 Many children have been separated from their families and are "in shock and traumatised" following Indonesia's devastating quake-tsunami, aid workers said Thursday, as much-needed supplies trickled in to shattered communities. ... more 
New Zealand earthquake study highlights influence of megathrustWashington (UPI) Oct 2, 2018 New research suggests traditional earthquake forecasting models pay too much attention to individual surface faults and not enough attention to the underlying megathrust. ... more  
Europe fires to worsen even if climate goals met: studyParis (AFP) Oct 2, 2018 Even reaching the most optimistic goals in the Paris climate treaty will still increase the area of southern Europe devastated by forest fires each year by at least 40 percent, researchers warned Tuesday. ... more |
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On patrol with India's anti-plastic 'blue squad'Mumbai (AFP) Oct 2, 2018 Wearing matching blue Nehru jackets, the dozen inspectors fan out across Mumbai's hectic Crawford Market, each scouring for violators of an ambitious plastic ban. ... more  
Fair-trade deals provide safety net for Ivorian cocoa producersAdzope, Ivory Coast (AFP) Sept 26, 2018 In Ivory Coast, cocoa once guaranteed farmers a sweet life. ... more  
Climate change, pests, fallen trees a deadly recipe for US forestsLos Angeles (AFP) Oct 2, 2018 Severe drought, insect infestation and poor forest management have combined in recent years to kill millions of trees in the American West - 130 million in California alone - and provide fuel for huge wildfires. ... more  
India watches for deadly virus as lion deaths spikeAhmedabad, India (AFP) Oct 2, 2018 Ten endangered Asiatic lions have died in the last two weeks in India, authorities confirmed Tuesday, four of them from a virus that killed around 1,000 lions in Tanzania in the 1990s. ... more  
Neanderthal-like features in 450,000-year-old fossil teeth from the Italian PeninsulaWashington DC (SPX) Oct 04, 2018 Fossil teeth from Italy, among the oldest human remains on the Italian Peninsula, show that Neanderthal dental features had evolved by around 450,000 years ago, according to a study published Octobe ... more |
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 UM researchers find precipitation thresholds regulate carbon exchange 
Microplastics found deep in sand where turtles nestExeter UK (SPX) Oct 04, 2018 Microplastics have been found deep in the sand on beaches where sea turtles lay their eggs. University of Exeter scientists found an average of 5,300 particles of plastic per cubic metre at de ... more  |
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Neuroscientists identify the origins of 'free will' inside the brainWashington (UPI) Oct 2, 2018 Neuroscientists have pinpointed the origin of "free will" inside the human brain. ... more 
Bangladesh kids turn the tide on climate change aboard floating schoolsChalan Beel, Bangladesh (AFP) Oct 4, 2018 Mosammat Rekha's older cousins grew up unable to read and write, their tiny village so frequently cut off from the nearest school by floods that would rise suddenly in their remote corner of disaster-prone Bangladesh. ... more 
Dozens of Moroccan migrants rescued at seaRabat (AFP) Oct 3, 2018 Morocco's navy rescued 37 of its citizens off the country's coast on Wednesday, as they were trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe, the armed forces said. ... more  
Satellites safeguard Europe's potato industryParis (ESA) Sep 26, 2018 The drought that swept through Europe this year has hit European farmers hard. Sustained high temperatures and the lack of rain have badly affected the agrofood industry, including the important pot ... more 
Soil holds the secret to mitigating climate changeEast Lansing MI (SPX) Oct 01, 2018 Food production doesn't have to be a victim of climate change. New research from Michigan State University suggests that crop yields and the global food supply chain can be preserved by harnessing t ... more |
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 Rabat (AFP) Oct 3, 2018  Morocco's navy rescued 37 of its citizens off the country's coast on Wednesday, as they were trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe, the armed forces said.
The migrants were saved from their partially-inflated rubber dinghy, which was struggling in "unfavourable meteorological conditions", Morocco's military said in a statement.
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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 03, 2018 
NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have appointed a board to investigate an instrument anomaly aboard the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) 17 weather satellite currently in orbit.
During postlaunch testing of the satellite's Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) instrument, it was discovered that the instrument's infrared detectors cannot b ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Sept 28, 2018 
Dozens of nations with commercial fisheries in the Atlantic Ocean will grapple next week with a new finding that bigeye tuna, the backbone of a billion dollar business, is severely depleted and overfished.
Unless catch levels are sharply reduced, scientists warned, stocks of the fatty, fast-swimming predator could crash within a decade or two.
Less iconic than Atlantic bluefin but more v ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 1, 2018  New analysis suggests a small corridor between Norway and the British Isles remained ice-free during the last ice age, offering an oasis of sorts for marine life.
"When we were looking for evidence of biological life in sediments at the bottom of the ocean, we found that between the sea ice covered oceans, and the ice sheets on land, there must have been a narrow ice-free corridor," Joc ... more |
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 Durham NC (SPX) Oct 01, 2018 
Red plums. Green melons. Purple figs. Ripe fruits come in an array of greens, yellows, oranges, browns, reds and purples. Scientists say they have new evidence that plants owe their rainbow of fruit colors to the different animals that eat them.
That the bright red of a berry is a signal to hungry birds - here I am, come eat me - is not a new idea. Since the late 1800's researchers have sp ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 2, 2018 
New research suggests traditional earthquake forecasting models pay too much attention to individual surface faults and not enough attention to the underlying megathrust.
"It has been commonly thought that the best way to predict future earthquakes is to analyze the earthquake histories of individual faults," Simon Lamb, an associate professor of geophysics at the University of Wellingt ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 1, 2018 
According to a new climate model, the Sahara desert should have formed 500 years earlier than it did. The influence of hunter-gatherers and pastoralists may explain the delay in desertification.
The Sahara only became the desert it's known as today some 5,500 years ago. Some 8,000 years ago, the band stretching across North Africa was green, home to diverse vegetation and populations of ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 04, 2018 
Fossil teeth from Italy, among the oldest human remains on the Italian Peninsula, show that Neanderthal dental features had evolved by around 450,000 years ago, according to a study published October 3, 2018 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Clement Zanolli of the Universite Toulouse III Paul Sabatier in France and colleagues. These teeth also add to a growing picture of a period of complex ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Oct 1, 2018  Diplomats gathering in South Korea Monday find themselves in the awkward position of vetting and validating a major UN scientific report that underscores the failure of their governments to take stronger action on climate.
"This will be one of the most important meetings in IPCC history," Hoesung Lee, chair of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, told delegates at the opening ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 04, 2018 
The laser instrument that launched into orbit last month aboard NASA's Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) fired for the first time Sept. 30. With each of its 10,000 pulses per second, the instrument is sending 300 trillion green photons of light to the ground and measuring the travel time of the few that return: the method behind ICESat-2's mission to monitor Earth's changing i ... more |
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 Austin TX (SPX) Sep 27, 2018 
Birds tote around two vocal organs inside their bodies, but only one works.
New interdisciplinary research suggests that this distinctly avian anatomy arose because birds, somewhere in their evolutionary history, opted for building a brand new vocal organ - the syrinx - instead of modifying an existing one that is present in an array of animals but silent in birds - the larynx.
The r ... more |
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 Buffalo NY (SPX) Oct 01, 2018 
A new study suggests the power industry is underestimating how climate change could affect the long-term demand for electricity in the United States.
The research, published in the journal Risk Analysis, was led by the University at Buffalo and Purdue University.
It describes the limitations of prediction models used by electricity providers and regulators for medium- and long-term e ... more |
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 Osaka, Japan (SPX) Oct 04, 2018 
An international joint research group led by Osaka University demonstrated that it was possible to efficiently heat plasma by focusing a relativistic electron beam (REB) accelerated by a high-intensity short-pulse laser with the application of a magnetic field of 600 tesla (T), about 600 times greater than the magnetic energy of a neodymium magnet (the strongest permanent magnet). Their research ... more |
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 Ahmedabad, India (AFP) Oct 2, 2018 
Ten endangered Asiatic lions have died in the last two weeks in India, authorities confirmed Tuesday, four of them from a virus that killed around 1,000 lions in Tanzania in the 1990s.
The new deaths take the toll at the Gir sanctuary in the western Gujarat state, home to India's entire population of around 500 wild Asiatic lions, to 21 since September.
India's National Institute of Viro ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Sept 28, 2018  Hundreds gathered in Hong Kong Friday to mark the fourth anniversary of the mass pro-democracy Umbrella Movement rallies as concerns grow that freedoms are disappearing under an assertive Beijing.
The subdued gathering comes days after the Hong Kong government banned a political party which promotes independence, calling it a threat to national security.
Britain and the United States exp ... more |
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 Libreville (AFP) Sept 26, 2018 
Gabon will pull forestry permits from firms that have not embraced an international standard on responsible logging by 2022, President Ali Bongo Ondimba said Wednesday.
Ondimba made the statement in support of a certification process run by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), an international NGO devoted to better forestry management.
By 2022, all loggers have to be "committed" to FSC ... more |
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