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  Hong Kong (AFP) Nov 26, 2018 A scientist in China claims to have created the world's first genetically-edited babies, in a potentially ground-breaking and controversial medical first. Chinese university professor He Jiankui posted a video on YouTube saying that the twin girls, born a few weeks ago, had had their DNA altered to prevent them from contracting HIV. The professor, who was educated at Stanford in the US and works from a lab in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, said their DNA was modified using CRISPR, a tec ... read more |
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Campaigners dig in against Ghana bauxite mining plansKyebi, Ghana (AFP) Nov 25, 2018 Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo smiles and waves from fading billboards in his hometown of Kyebi, in the Akyem Abuakwa area of the country's Eastern Region. ... more  
Taiwan's progressive image takes hit after divisive pollsTaipei (AFP) Nov 25, 2018 LGBT activists in Taiwan fear their newly won right to marriage equality is under threat, while the president is battling for her political future after a wide-ranging vote that saw the island swing towards conservatism. ... more  
In Iraq, an ancient board game is making a comebackRaniye, Iraq (AFP) Nov 26, 2018 After rolling pyramid-shaped dice, Iraqi Kurdish artisan Hoshmand Muwafaq shifted his pebble around an ornate board, his handmade recreation of one of the Middle East's oldest and most popular games. ... more 
To reclaim Baghdad, Iraqi artists grapple with its ghostsBaghdad (AFP) Nov 24, 2018 Dressed in a multi-coloured beanie and grey sneakers, Zaid Saad had just finished setting up his contemporary art exhibit on Baghdad's sandy riverbank when police showed up. ... more |
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New Zealand pressured to defend rights of China researcherWellington (AFP) Nov 26, 2018 Prominent New Zealand researchers called on Wellington Monday to defend academic freedoms following the harassment of a university professor investigating Beijing's foreign policy. ... more  
Climate correction: when scientists get it wrongParis (AFP) Nov 23, 2018 On November 1, AFP joined news outlets around the world in covering the release of a major academic paper warning that our oceans were warming dramatically quicker than previously thought. ... more  
How to convert carbon dioxide into plastics and other productsNew Brunswick NJ (SPX) Nov 23, 2018 Rutgers scientists have developed catalysts that can convert carbon dioxide - the main cause of global warming - into plastics, fabrics, resins and other products. The electrocatalysts are the ... more  
Study reveals one of universe's secret ingredients for lifeCanberra, Australia (SPX) Nov 23, 2018 A new study led by The Australian National University (ANU) has investigated the nature of a cosmic phenomenon that slows down star formation, which helps to ensure the universe is a place where lif ... more  
Gigantic mammal 'cousin' discoveredUppsala, Sweden (SPX) Nov 26, 2018 During the Triassic period (252-201 million years ago) mammal-like reptiles called therapsids co-existed with ancestors to dinosaurs, crocodiles, mammals, pterosaurs, turtles, frogs, and lizards. On ... more |
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 US missionary's body could be lost in battle to preserve isolated tribe 
What magnetic fields can tell us about life on other planetsBerkeley CA (SPX) Nov 23, 2018 Every school kid knows that Earth has a magnetic field - it's what makes compasses align north-south and lets us navigate the oceans. It also protects the atmosphere, and thus life, from the Sun's p ... more  |
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Human ancestors not to blame for ancient mammal extinctions in AfricaSalt Lake City UT (SPX) Nov 26, 2018 New research disputes a long-held view that our earliest tool-bearing ancestors contributed to the demise of large mammals in Africa over the last several million years. Instead, the researchers arg ... more
Anti-gay marriage groups win Taiwan referendum battleTaipei (AFP) Nov 24, 2018 Voters in Taiwan backed anti-gay marriage referendums Saturday in what LGBT activists said was a major blow to the island's reputation as a rights trailblazer. ... more  
Australia's spring brings fires, snow, wild winds and dust stormsSydney (AFP) Nov 23, 2018 Dust storms, raging bushfires, gale-force winds, heatwaves, thunder and snow, flash flooding and driving rain - Australia is enduring a bout of wild weather that's hit all parts of the vast continent in recent days. ... more  
Escaping death and rebirth on Varanasi's sacred riverbanksVaranasi, India (AFP) Nov 23, 2018 Boats loaded with wood arrive almost constantly at the ghats of Varanasi for around 200 cremations per day on the banks of India's holy Ganges river. ... more  
French wine market to shrink further, but organics surge: reportParis (AFP) Nov 23, 2018 Sales of French wines made with organically grown grapes are set to double between now and 2022, even as the downward trend for overall wine consumption appears firmly in place, an industry research group reported Friday. ... more |
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 Rabat (AFP) Nov 24, 2018 
Morocco's navy on Saturday found the bodies of 15 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa on board a boat stranded at sea for days and rescued 53 survivors, a military source said.
Coastguards recovered "15 lifeless corpses" from the vessel in the Mediterranean Sea after it was left drifting for four days following engine failure on its way to Spain, the source said.
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 Backnang, Germany (SPX) Nov 23, 2018 
Sentinel-1C will be ESA's 8th satellite of its Copernicus program. Despite monitoring arctic sea-ice, mapping and surveilling marine environment, Sentinel-1C will support in monitoring and mapping land-surface as well as forest, water and soil and support humanitarian aid in crisis situations.
As well as its predecessors, Sentinel 1A and B and 2A and B, it will also be equipped with a stan ... more |
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 Varanasi, India (AFP) Nov 23, 2018 
Boats loaded with wood arrive almost constantly at the ghats of Varanasi for around 200 cremations per day on the banks of India's holy Ganges river.
Each pyre needs between 200 and 400 kilogrammes (440 and 880 pounds) of wood, meaning the sacred city in northern India burns through as much as 80 tonnes every day.
To reduce the volume used, as well as air and water pollution, authorities ... more |
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 Seoul, South Korea (SPX) Nov 26, 2018 
Long-term observations of surface temperatures show an intensified surface warming in Canada, Siberia, Alaska and in the Arctic Ocean relative to global mean temperature rise. This warming pattern, commonly referred to as Arctic amplification, is consistent with computer models, simulating the response to increasing greenhouse gas concentrations. However, the underlying physical processes for th ... more |
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 San Francisco (AFP) Nov 21, 2018 
Monsanto on Tuesday said it was asking a US appeals court to toss out a damning verdict in a landmark Roundup weed-killer cancer trial and grant it another hearing.
"By its appeal from the judgment and amended judgment, Monsanto also seeks appellate review of the trial court's order denying Monsanto's motion for new trial," an attorney for the agrochemical giant said in a filed notice-of-app ... more |
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 Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Nov 23, 2018 
The Phlegraean Fields near the bustling metropolis of Naples is one of the world's most active and volatile volcanic regions. Its calderas were formed by enormous eruptions that took place 39,000 and 15,000 years ago, in addition to countless minor eruptions. Smaller volcanoes also erupted repeatedly during the period in between. The Phlegraean Fields have become more active again in recent year ... more |
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 Bamako (AFP) Nov 22, 2018 
About a dozen Fulani herders have been killed in the town of Ouenkoro in Mali in recent days, local authorities said Thursday, accusing members of the Dogon hunter community.
The claims come a day after a Dogon-linked armed group pulled out of a month-old ceasefire with the Fulani, saying it needed to protect its own.
Since the 2015 emergence of a jihadist movement led by Fulani preacher ... more |
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 Mountain View, United States (AFP) Nov 21, 2018 
With the embers still raining from blackened skies choked by California's massive wildfires, the effort turns to rebuilding Paradise - a town of almost 30,000 that was wiped off the map.
But experts warn that with megafires the new normal in a warming global climate, housing in the western United States is going to need a revolutionary rethink along the lines of villages dotting Europe's wo ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Nov 19, 2018 
By century's end, many parts of the world may have to cope with up to six climate catastrophes at once, ranging from heat waves and wildfires to diluvian rains and deadly storm surges, researchers warned Monday.
"Human society will be faced with the devastating combined impacts of multiple interacting climate hazards," said co-author Erik Franklin, a researcher at the University of Hawaii' ... more |
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 Guildford, UK (SPX) Nov 26, 2018 
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has released the first Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images taken from orbit by NovaSAR-1, a technology demonstration mission launched into a 580km sun-synchronous orbit on 16 September 2018.
The S-Band SAR images released have been acquired using the satellite's stripmap mode at 6 metre resolution and are 20km wide by 87km long. They were taken over ... more |
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 Lawrence KS (SPX) Nov 16, 2018 
Islands have been vital laboratories for advancing evolutionary theory since the pioneering work of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace in the 19th century.
Now, a new paper appearing in PLOS ONE from an international team of investigators describes two new fossil relatives of marsupials that shed light on how a unique island ecosystem evolved some 43 million years ago during the Eoce ... more |
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 Brussels (AFP) Nov 8, 2018 
An EU court ruled Thursday that Brussels regulators are wrong to test the energy efficiency of vacuum cleaners using empty dust bags, in a victory for British manufacturer Dyson.
Household vacuums sold in Europe must carry energy labelling to allow consumers to judge which models are more efficient and thus cheaper to run and less damaging to the environment.
But Dyson, which makes clean ... more |
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 Cambridge UK (SPX) Nov 26, 2018 
Scientists have discovered that semiconducting molecules with unpaired electrons, termed 'radicals' can be used to fabricate very efficient organic-light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), exploiting their quantum mechanical 'spin' property to overcome efficiency limitations for traditional, non-radical materials.
Radicals are usually noted for their high chemical reactivity and often detrimental ef ... more |
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 Uppsala, Sweden (SPX) Nov 26, 2018 
During the Triassic period (252-201 million years ago) mammal-like reptiles called therapsids co-existed with ancestors to dinosaurs, crocodiles, mammals, pterosaurs, turtles, frogs, and lizards. One group of therapsids are the dicynodonts.
Researchers at Uppsala University in Sweden, together with colleagues in Poland, have discovered fossils from a new genus of gigantic dicynodont. The n ... more |
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 Wellington (AFP) Nov 26, 2018  Prominent New Zealand researchers called on Wellington Monday to defend academic freedoms following the harassment of a university professor investigating Beijing's foreign policy.
The open letter to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern from 29 university academics and human rights campaigners, including Amnesty International New Zealand, was triggered by the alleged intimidation of prominent China ... more |
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 Gothenburg, Sweden (SPX) Nov 16, 2018 
Up to 15 million hectares of the Brazilian Amazon is at risk of losing its legal protection, according to a new study from researchers at Chalmers University of Technology and KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, and the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. This is equivalent to more than 4 times the entire forest area of the UK.
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