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  Lausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Nov 06, 2018 Some of the most useful and versatile materials today are the metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). MOFs are a class of materials demonstrating structural versatility, high porosity, fascinating optical and electronic properties, all of which makes them promising candidates for a variety of applications, including gas capture and separation, sensors, and photocatalysis. Because MOFs are so versatile in both their structural design and usefulness, material scientists are currently testing them in a numb ... read more |
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Enhanced views of Earth tectonicsLondon, UK (SPX) Nov 06, 2018 Scientists from Germany's Kiel University and British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have used data from the European Space Agency (ESA), Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) mis ... more 
Mexico City's massive water outage extendedMexico City (AFP) Nov 6, 2018 Authorities in Mexico City said Monday they had to extend a massive water outage that has affected millions of people for five days by another 40 hours because of an infrastructure glitch. ... more  
A call for the coldParis (ESA) Nov 06, 2018 As the Northern hemisphere starts to feel the cold winter approaching, research stations in Antarctica are emerging from their long dark winter and awaiting the arrival of fresh supplies after livin ... more  
Ozone hole in northern hemisphere to recover completely by 2030Washington (UPI) Nov 5, 2018 Scientists expect the Northern hemisphere and mid-latitude ozone holes to be completely repaired some time in the 2030s, according to the first assessment of the ozone hole since 2014. ... more |
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One-third of threatened plant species unfit for seed bankWashington (UPI) Nov 5, 2018 At least 36 percent of endangered plant species can't be conserved in seed banks because the seeds can't be frozen, according to a new study. ... more 
France bans popular pesticide suspected of sickening dozensParis (AFP) Nov 5, 2018 French health authorities announced Monday a permanent ban on a widely used pesticide, after alarms were raised when several dozen people fell ill in western France recently. ... more 
Turning marginal farmlands into a win for farmers and ecosystemsIndianapolis, IN (SPX) Nov 06, 2018 Many farms have areas where the ground either floods or does not retain enough water or fertilizer for crops to thrive. Such marginal lands could become useful and potentially profitable if they are ... more 
Heineken seals $3 bn deal with China's top brewerThe Hague (AFP) Nov 5, 2018 Dutch brewing behemoth Heineken said Monday it had finalised a $3 billion deal to merge its Chinese operations with the country's top brewer, expanding its access to the world's largest beer market. ... more  
Hospital ship USNS Comfort performing medical operations in PeruWashington (UPI) Nov 5, 2018 About 900 personnel operating, off of the hospital ship USNS Comfort, have started medical operations in Paita, Peru, as part of U.S. Southern Command's Enduring Promise initiative. ... more |
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 Five years after Typhoon Haiyan, scores still in harm's way  
'Life goes on': Long road for Typhoon Haiyan survivorsTacloban, Philippines (AFP) Nov 5, 2018 The Philippines' catastrophic Super Typhoon Haiyan stole almost everything from Juvilyn Luana and Joel Aradana - their spouses, children and homes - but in each other they found love and the strength to start a new family. ... more  |
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Deadly storms spotlight Italy's illegal housingRome (AFP) Nov 5, 2018 Devastating floods in Italy that saw an entire family killed when their home was engulfed in water triggered a bitter row Monday over the country's vast illegal housing problem. ... more  
Use of monkeys for medical research hits all-time highWashington (UPI) Nov 5, 2018 Use of monkeys in medical research hit an all-time high in 2017, according to United States Department of Agriculture data. ... more  
'Total disaster' as Italy storms kill at least 30Casteldaccia , Italy (AFP) Nov 4, 2018 Floods killed 12 people on the island of Sicily, including nine members of a single family, pushing Italy's week-long storm toll beyond 30, rescuers said Sunday. ... more  
Rebels kill at least seven civilians in eastern DRCongo: armyBeni, Dr Congo (AFP) Nov 4, 2018 Rebels killed at least seven civilians and abducted 15 others, including children, in fresh overnight raids in the far eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, civilian and military sources said Sunday. ... more 
Madagascar, troubled vanilla islandAntananarivo (AFP) Nov 5, 2018 The Indian Ocean island of Madagascar is the leading global producer of vanilla and blessed with a bountiful biodiversity, yet it remains one of the poorest countries in the world. ... more |
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 United Nations, United States (AFP) Nov 1, 2018 
China has invited the UN Security Council for a visit this month that will showcase its growing support for peacekeeping and include a tour of the modern cities of Shenzhen and Guangzhou, the UN ambassador said on Thursday.
The visit will highlight China's role as a global player at a time when the United States is pulling back from multilateral institutions like the United Nations.
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 Madrid, Spain (SPX) Nov 05, 2018 
Phase transitions are common occurrences that dramatically change the properties of a material, the most familiar being the solid-liquid-gas transition in water. Each phase corresponds to a new arrangement of the atoms within the material, which dictate the properties of the substance.
While these arrangements can be easily studied in each phase individually, it is significantly harder to ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Nov 2, 2018 
Some coral reefs have a stronger genetic makeup to fight off bleaching, a recent study said.
Researchers recently discovered that so-called "robust" coral, which includes certain brain corals and mushroom corals, are capable of producing special amino acids that prevent bleaching.
Other coral, like "complex" coral, have a special relationship with microalgae called Symbiodinium, ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Nov 06, 2018 
As the Northern hemisphere starts to feel the cold winter approaching, research stations in Antarctica are emerging from their long dark winter and awaiting the arrival of fresh supplies after living months in isolation.
A truly unique experience, ESA is calling medical research doctors to spend a year on the ice conducting researching into how humans adapt to living in extreme environment ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Nov 5, 2018 
At least 36 percent of endangered plant species can't be conserved in seed banks because the seeds can't be frozen, according to a new study.
If scientists can't freeze the seeds, they can't bank the seeds, they said, which could lead to the extinction of some important plant varieties.
The study - conducted by researchers at the Kew Botanical Gardens in the UK and published thi ... more |
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 Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Nov 02, 2018 
One of the high-risk geological structures lies near Istanbul, a megacity of 15 million people. The North Anatolian fault, separating the Eurasian and Anatolian tectonic plates, is a 1.200 kilometer-long fault zone running between eastern Turkey and the northern Aegean Sea.
Since the beginning of the 20th century its seismic activity has caused more than 20.000 deaths. A large (Mw > 7) ear ... more |
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 Antananarivo (AFP) Nov 5, 2018 
The Indian Ocean island of Madagascar is the leading global producer of vanilla and blessed with a bountiful biodiversity, yet it remains one of the poorest countries in the world.
Here is some background:
- Fourth largest island -
Stretching across 587,000 square kilometres (nearly 227,000 square miles), Madagascar is the world's fourth largest island, bigger than Spain or Thailand ... more |
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 Spokane WA (SPX) Nov 01, 2018 
Star-shaped brain cells called astrocytes appear to play an essential role in sleep, a new study by scientists from the Washington State University Sleep and Performance Research Center confirms. Published in PLOS Genetics, their study shows that astrocytes communicate to neurons to regulate sleep time in fruit flies and suggests it may do the same in mammals, including humans.
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 Booligal, Australia (AFP) Nov 1, 2018 
From abandoned baby kangaroos to wallabies being blinded by the sun and koalas having to go walkabout to look for eucalyptus leaves, Australia's exotic wild animals are struggling to adapt to a crippling drought.
The "big dry", lasting for several years in some areas, is turning vast swathes of lush green land across the continent's eastern interior brown.
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 Washington DC (SPX) Nov 06, 2018 
In the world of web mapping, the process of gathering data and making it visible on the Internet comes at great cost, along with lots of time consuming procedures and potential mistakes. For consumers, opening their favorite map app on their smartphone is convenient and easy, yet the complexity of delivering a dependable and accurate map is often underappreciated.
In order to maintain the ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Nov 1, 2018 
The spectrum of colors seen on modern bird eggs likely evolved from dinosaurs, a new study suggests.
According to a new study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, non-bird dinosaurs laid eggs in open or partially open nests. Modern bird eggs, even those that are spotted or speckled, are primarily based on two color pigments: red and blue.
The research suggests with the open ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Nov 5, 2018 
Extracting a dollar's worth of cryptocurrency such as bitcoin from the deep Web consumes three times more energy than digging up a dollar's worth of gold, researchers said Monday.
There are now hundreds of virtual currencies and an unknown number of server farms around the world running around the clock to unearth them, more than half of them in China, according to a recent report from the U ... more |
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 Ames IA (SPX) Nov 05, 2018 
Using solid state nuclear magnetic resonance (ssNMR) techniques, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory discovered a new quantum criticality in a superconducting material, leading to a greater understanding of the link between magnetism and unconventional superconductivity.
Most iron-arsenide superconductors display both magnetic and structural (or nematic) transitio ... more |
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 Lucknow, India (AFP) Nov 5, 2018 
Villagers in northern India stalked and killed a tiger in a nature reserve just days after the state-sanctioned shooting of another big cat caused outrage and threats of legal action.
In the latest incident, a female tiger was beaten with sticks inside a protected forest by villagers who believed the big cat had attacked a local resident.
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 Beijing (AFP) Nov 5, 2018 
China's first "cyber-dissident" Huang Qi is in danger of dying under police custody if he does not receive medical treatment for a host of severe health conditions, human rights groups warned on Monday.
Huang, 55, who was arrested in 2016 for "leaking state secrets", is currently being held in Mianyang Detention Centre in southwestern Sichuan province, according to his mother.
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 Rome (AFP) Nov 3, 2018 
Fierce winds and rains have killed at least 20 people in Italy this week and razed thousands of hectares of forest in the country's devastated north, officials said.
An 87-year-old woman and a 62-year-old German tourist were killed Friday after being struck by lightning in Sardinia.
It brings to 20 the number of people killed by bad weather in Italy since the start of the week, accordin ... more |
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