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  Pullman WA (SPX) Nov 28, 2018 A Washington State University researcher for the first time has modeled how microplastic fibers move through the environment. The work, published in the November print issue of the journal Advances in Water Resources, could someday help communities better understand and reduce plastics pollution, which is a growing problem around the world. Millions of tons of plastic waste in tiny microscopic pieces are bobbing around the world's oceans and are finding their way into soil, sediments and fre ... read more |
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A water treatment breakthrough, inspired by a sea creatureNew Haven CT (SPX) Nov 27, 2018 Inspired by Actinia, a sea organism that ensnares its prey with its tentacles, a team of researchers has developed a method for efficiently treating water. The research, a collaboration of the labs ... more 
Newly discovered deep-sea microbes gobble greenhouse gases and perhaps oil spills, tooAustin TX (SPX) Nov 28, 2018 Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin's Marine Science Institute have discovered nearly two dozen new types of microbes, many of which use hydrocarbons such as methane and butane as energy ... more 
Mere sunlight can be used to eradicate pollutants in waterHalle, Germany (SPX) Nov 27, 2018 Advances in environmental technology: You don't need complex filters and laser systems to destroy persistent pollutants in water. Chemists at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) have dev ... more  
UN climate talks need compromise, not stubbornness: UN chiefUnited Nations, United States (AFP) Nov 28, 2018 UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged leaders at the UN climate conference kicking off next week to set aside stubbornness and instead compromise to seal a deal on implementing the Paris climate accord. ... more |
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MIT engineers fly first-ever plane with no moving partsBoston MA (SPX) Nov 23, 2018 Since the first airplane took flight over 100 years ago, virtually every aircraft in the sky has flown with the help of moving parts such as propellers, turbine blades, and fans, which are powered b ... more  
Making an eye for youKyoto, Japan (SPX) Nov 26, 2018 If you want to build an organ, such as for transplant, you need to think in 3D. Using stem cells, scientists for some time have been able to grow parts of organs in the lab, but that is a far ... more 
Brain-computer interface enables people with paralysis to control tablet devicesProvidence RI (SPX) Nov 26, 2018 Tablets and other mobile computing devices are part of everyday life, but using them can be difficult for people with paralysis. New research from the BrainGate* consortium shows that a brain-comput ... more  
Scientists uncovered the mechanism of fungal luminescence and created luminescent yeastsMoscow, Russia (SPX) Nov 27, 2018 Russian scientists together with colleagues from UK, Spain, Brazil, Japan and Austria have fully described the mechanism of fungal luminescence. They found that fungi utilize only four key enzymes t ... more  
Seven dead in China as car drives onto sidewalkBeijing (AFP) Nov 27, 2018 A car drove onto a sidewalk in southwest China on Tuesday, killing seven people and injuring another four, police said, days after another driver deliberately rammed into schoolchildren in the country's northeast. ... more |
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Early human ancestors not to blame for extinctions of giant African mammalsTempe AZ (SPX) Nov 27, 2018 Africa harbors the greatest diversity of large-bodied mammals today, though this was not always the case. As recently as 50,000 years ago, virtually all of Earth's continents were populated with a g ... more  |
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NASA Terra Satellite Outlines Burn Scar from California's Camp FireGreenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 28, 2018 Just like the Woolsey Fire's scar which was highlighted on the NASA Fire page on November 16, the Camp Fire scar is visible from space in this image taken by the Terra satellite on November 26, 2018 ... more  
Oxygen could have been available to life as early as 3.5 billion years agoLondon, UK (SPX) Nov 28, 2018 Microbes could have performed oxygen-producing photosynthesis at least one billion years earlier in the history of the Earth than previously thought. The finding could change ideas of how and ... more  
Extreme weather 'major' issue for Tokyo 2020Tokyo (AFP) Nov 29, 2018 The possibility of extreme summer heat and typhoons in Tokyo is a "major issue" for the 2020 Olympics, a top official said Thursday, admitting there would be a knock-on effect on the budget. ... more  
9,000-year-old stone mask excavated in Israel's Hebron HillsWashington (UPI) Nov 28, 2018 Archaeologists have recovered an ancient limestone mask from Israel's Hebron Hills, located on the West Bank. The 9,000-year-old mask dates to the Neolithic period, offering insights to the cultural traditions of the regions earliest agricultural societies. ... more  
Future uncertain for Australia's unique platypusSydney (AFP) Nov 29, 2018 Australia's unique platypus population is shrinking under pressure from agriculture and pollution, putting the egg-laying mammals' future in doubt, researchers said in a report published Thursday. ... more |
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 Zhangjiakou, China (AFP) Nov 28, 2018 
A truck carrying combustible chemicals exploded at the entrance of a chemical factory in a northern Chinese city that will host the 2022 Winter Olympics Wednesday, leaving 23 people dead and 22 others injured, state media and authorities said.
The blast ignited other vehicles, leaving charred and smoking remains of trucks and cars scattered on a road as firefighters worked at the scene, acco ... more |
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 Durham NC (SPX) Nov 27, 2018 
Materials scientists at Duke University and UC San Diego have discovered a new class of carbides expected to be among the hardest materials with the highest melting points in existence. Made from inexpensive metals, the new materials may soon find use in a wide range of industries from machinery and hardware to aerospace.
A carbide is traditionally a compound consisting of carbon and one o ... more |
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 London (AFP) Nov 28, 2018 
Britain's environment minister reassured the country on Wednesday that it would have plenty of safe drinking water should it crash out of the European Union without a deal.
The unusual message from Michael Gove came in response to a media report of cabinet ministers being briefed about various doomsday scenarios.
One of them reportedly included the possibility of the UK running out of th ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Nov 27, 2018 
An ancient rhino species known as the Siberian unicorn persisted on the Eurasian steppe for longer than previously estimated.
According to a new study, the Siberian unicorn, Elasmotherium sibiricum, went extinct around 35,000 years ago.
There were once as many as 250 rhino species. Today, only five rhino species survive. Researchers think the Siberian rhino was one of the last ex ... more |
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 Niamey Nov 26, 2018 
Floods destroyed more than 400 hectares (1,000 acres) of rice in Niger's southeastern Diffa region, already beset by deadly attacks by Boko Haram jihadists, the local governor said.
Nearly 3,000 tonnes of rice worth 717 million CFA francs (more than one million euros, $1.13 million) have been lost as a result, Governor Mahamadou Bakabe said on state television late Sunday.
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 Baghdad (AFP) Nov 25, 2018 
At least 21 people have died and tens of thousands displaced by heavy rains that have battered Iraq over two days, the health ministry and United Nations said on Sunday.
Women and children were among the dead, health ministry spokesman Seif al-Badr told AFP. Some had drowned, but others had died in car accidents, were electrocuted, or were trapped when their houses collapsed.
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 Paris (AFP) Nov 28, 2018  French judges have rejected a bid by survivors of Rwanda's genocide to reopen an investigation into claims that French troops were responsible for the deaths of hundreds of people they had promised to rescue.
A source close to the case said Wednesday that three war crimes judges had on November 22 dismissed the bid to reopen an investigation that symbolises deep wounds between Rwanda and Fra ... more |
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 Edinburgh UK (SPX) Nov 28, 2018 
Some of the world's oldest cave paintings have revealed how ancient people had relatively advanced knowledge of astronomy.
The artworks, at sites across Europe, are not simply depictions of wild animals, as was previously thought. Instead, the animal symbols represent star constellations in the night sky, and are used to represent dates and mark events such as comet strikes, analysis sugge ... more |
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 United Nations, United States (AFP) Nov 28, 2018  UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged leaders at the UN climate conference kicking off next week to set aside stubbornness and instead compromise to seal a deal on implementing the Paris climate accord.
Guterres will join delegates from nearly 200 countries at the COP24 conference that opens Sunday in the southern Polish city of Katowice, with the aim of agreeing a plan to move forward ... more |
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 Tokyo (AFP) Nov 29, 2018 
The possibility of extreme summer heat and typhoons in Tokyo is a "major issue" for the 2020 Olympics, a top official said Thursday, admitting there would be a knock-on effect on the budget.
Speaking to bosses from Olympic Committees around the world, Tokyo CEO Toshiro Muto said the Japanese capital had endured "unprecedented heat weather and typhoons last summer."
"Tokyo 2020 considers ... 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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 Garching, Germany (SPX) Nov 27, 2018 
During the course of the step-by-step upgrading of Wendelstein 7-X, the plasma vessel was fitted with inner cladding since September of last year. Graphite tiles are now protecting the vessel walls. In addition, the so-called "divertor" is used to regulate the purity and density of the plasma.
In ten broad strips on the wall of the plasma vessel, the divertor tiles follow the contour of th ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Nov 28, 2018 
Scientists have for the first time isolated the biochemical pathway that allows fungi to glow-in-the-dark.
The ability to light up at night is called bioluminescence. Until now, scientists weren't exactly sure how organisms generate luminescence, but a rather ordinary brown fungus species, Neonothopanus nambi, one of 100 bioluminescent mushrooms, helped researchers solve the mystery. ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Nov 27, 2018 
Jack Ma, founder of Chinese tech giant Alibaba, is among the world's richest people but he has now emerged as a member of another club: China's 89-million-strong Communist Party.
The billionaire's Communist bona fides were revealed by the People's Daily, the party's official mouthpiece, in an article praising contributors to China's development.
He is not the first nor likely the last Ch ... more |
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 Tannourine, Lebanon (AFP) Nov 28, 2018 
High up in Lebanon's mountains, the lifeless grey trunks of dead cedar trees stand stark in the deep green forest, witnesses of the climate change that has ravaged them.
Often dubbed "Cedars of God", the tall evergreens hark back millenia and are a source of great pride and a national icon in the small Mediterranean country.
The cedar tree, with its majestic horizontal branches, graces t ... more |
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