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  Tucson AZ (SPX) Oct 09, 2018 A progressively drying climate punctuated by variable wetter episodes may have precipitated the transition from our hominin ancestors to anatomically modern humans, according to research published on Oct. 8 in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS). Since the discovery of a rich assemblage of human fossils as well as stone tools and other archeological evidence in the rift valley of East Africa, a region often referred to as the cradle of humanity, scientis ... read more |
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When yesterday's agriculture feeds today's water pollutionMontreal, Canada (SPX) Oct 09, 2018 A study led by researchers at Universite de Montreal quantifies for the first time the maximum amount of nutrients - specifically, phosphorus - that can accumulate in a watershed before additional p ... more  
NASA Study Connects Southern California, Mexico FaultsPasadena CA (JPL) Oct 09, 2018 A multiyear study has uncovered evidence that a 21-mile-long (34-kilometer-long) section of a fault links known, longer faults in southern California and northern Mexico into a much longer continuou ... more  
Carbon emissions from Amazonian forest fires up to 4 times worse than fearedLancaster UK (SPX) Oct 09, 2018 Carbon losses caused by El Nino forest fires of 2015 and 2016 could be up to four times greater than thought, according to a study of 6.5 million hectares of forest in Brazilian Amazonia. New ... more  
Scientists develop a new way to remotely measure Earth's magnetic fieldVancouver, Canada (SPX) Oct 05, 2018 Researchers in Canada, the United States and Europe have developed a new way to remotely measure Earth's magnetic field - by zapping a layer of sodium atoms floating 100 kilometres above the planet ... more |
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Plate tectonics may have been active on Earth since the very beginningKnoxville TN (SPX) Oct 08, 2018 A new study suggests that plate tectonics - a scientific theory that divides the earth into large chunks of crust that move slowly over hot viscous mantle rock - could have been active from the plan ... more 
Viruses influenced gene sharing between Neanderthals and humansWashington DC (SPX) Oct 08, 2018 Human evolution used to be depicted as a straight line, gradually progressing from an ape-like ancestor to modern Homo sapiens. But thanks to next-generation sequencing - as well as the discovery of ... more 
Brain organizes forgettable, indelible memories during sleepWashington (UPI) Oct 5, 2018 Previous studies have highlighted the important role sleep plays in learning and memory formation. New research suggests, during sleep, a person's brain replays memories that go un-recalled when awake. ... more  
US cruise ship captain on trial over French pollution chargesMarseille (AFP) Oct 8, 2018 The American captain of a massive cruise ship faces trial in Marseille on Monday accused of using fuel with sulphur levels above European limits, as the Mediterranean port city grapples with the polluting effect of its drive to increase boat tourism. ... more  
UN warns paradigm shift needed to avert global climate chaosIncheon, South Korea (AFP) Oct 8, 2018 Avoiding global climate chaos will require a major transformation of society and the world economy that is "unprecedented in scale," the UN said Monday in a landmark report that warns time is running out to avert disaster. ... more |
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Gabon ruling party claims first-round election landslideLibreville (AFP) Oct 7, 2018 Gabonese President Ali Bongo's ruling party won a legislative election by a landslide in the first round, the presidency said on Sunday. ... more  |
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Kivu, Africa's Great Lakes battlegroundGoma, Dr Congo (AFP) Oct 5, 2018 The Democratic Republic of Congo's region of Kivu, where 2018 Nobel Peace Prize winner doctor Denis Mukwege is based, has been caught up in conflict and war for 24 years. ... more 
Blaze in Portugal national park brought under controlLisbon (AFP) Oct 7, 2018 A forest fire near Lisbon was brought under control Sunday after more than 700 Portuguese firefighters and police officers were mobilised to tackle the latest blaze to ravage the popular tourist area, officials said. ... more 
Six killed in rebel attack on DR Congo military post: armyGoma, Dr Congo (AFP) Oct 5, 2018 A rebel attack on an army post in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo left six people dead, civilian and military sources said Friday. ... more 
French air strike in Burkina Faso kills rebels: armyOuagadougou (AFP) Oct 5, 2018 French warplanes killed around 10 rebels in northern Burkina Faso following a deadly raid on a gendarmerie, the Burkinabe military command announced Friday. ... more  
Bolsonaro, Haddad hold different visions of Brazil futureRio De Janeiro (AFP) Oct 8, 2018 Right-winger Jair Bolsonaro and leftist candidate Fernando Haddad, who will contest a second-round runoff to become Brazil's next president, hold diametrically opposed visions of Brazil's future. ... more |
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 Palu, 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.
A total of 1,411 people have been confirmed dead and over 2,500 injured after the monster earthquake struck Friday sending destructive waves barrelling into Sulawesi i ... more |
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 Styria, Austria (SPX) Oct 04, 2018 
In his research, Markus Koch, Associate Professor at the Institute of Experimental Physics of Graz University of Technology (TU Graz), concentrates on processes in molecules and clusters which take place on time scales of picoseconds (10^-12 seconds) and femtoseconds (10^ -15 seconds).
Now Koch and his team have achieved a breakthrough in the research on completely novel molecular systems. ... more |
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 Princeton NJ (SPX) Oct 04, 2018 
When nitrogen-based fertilizers flow into water bodies, the result can be deadly for marine life near shore, but what is the effect of nitrogen pollution far out in the open ocean?
A 130-year-old brain coral has provided the answer, at least for the North Atlantic Ocean off the East Coast of the United States. By measuring the nitrogen in the coral's skeleton, a team of researchers led by ... more |
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 New Brunswick NJ (SPX) Oct 04, 2018 
Persistent weather conditions, including dry and wet spells, generally have increased in the United States, perhaps due to rapid Arctic warming, according to a Rutgers-led study.
Persistent weather conditions can lead to weather extremes such as drought, heat waves, prolonged cold and storms that can cost millions of dollars in damage and disrupt societies and ecosystems, the study says. ... more |
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 Sydney (AFP) Oct 5, 2018 
Farmers in drought-stricken parts of Australia are celebrating after the heavens opened up this week, inundating parched lands with more than a month's rain in one day following the country's driest September on record.
Eastern Australia has been suffering from an extended dry period - in some regions stretching across several years - leaving farmers struggling to keep their sheep and cat ... 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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 Goma, Dr Congo (AFP) Oct 5, 2018 
A rebel attack on an army post in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo left six people dead, civilian and military sources said Friday.
The Ugandan Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) is suspected of having carried out Thursday night's attack in the city of Beni, which sits near the DRC border with Uganda.
The raid is thought to have targeted General Marcel Mbangu but instead killed four othe ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 5, 2018 
Previous studies have highlighted the important role sleep plays in learning and memory formation. New research suggests, during sleep, a person's brain replays memories that go un-recalled when awake.
For their study, neuroscientists in Germany recruited epilepsy patients electrodes implanted in their brains for surgical planning. The electrodes allowed scientists to precisely record b ... more |
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 Incheon, South Korea (AFP) Oct 8, 2018 
Dismissed a decade ago as far-fetched and dangerous, schemes to tame global warming by engineering the climate have migrated from the margins of policy debates towards centre stage.
"Plan A" remains tackling the problem at its source. But a major UN climate science report released in South Korea on Monday makes it clear that slashing carbon pollution - even drastically - won't be enough to ... 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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 New York NY (SPX) Oct 04, 2018 
A newly discovered fossil suggests that large, flowering trees grew in North America by the Turonian age, showing that these large trees were part of the forest canopies there nearly 15 million years earlier than previously thought.
Researchers from Adelphi University and the Burpee Museum of Natural History found the fossil in the Mancos Shale Formation in Utah, in ancient delta deposits ... 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) Oct 6, 2018  China on Saturday warned foreign countries not to "interfere" over Hong Kong's decision to effectively blacklist a senior Financial Times journalist, after the UK and other governments expressed alarm over eroding freedoms in the former British colony.
Victor Mallet, the FT's Asia news editor and a British national, earned the ire of authorities for hosting a speech in August by Andy Chan, t ... more |
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 St Louis MO (SPX) Oct 08, 2018 
Secondary forests, or forests that have regrown after agriculture use, only last an average of 20 years, according to a recently released scientific paper.
The finding presents a major problem for large-scale restoration policy, which often focuses on commitments to restore a certain number of hectares by a given year. But the benefits of restoration depend on those forests persisting. It ... more |
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