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  Bristol UK (SPX) Dec 06, 2018 An international group of scientists led by researchers from the University of Bristol have advanced our understanding of how ancient animals saw the world by combining the study of fossils and genetics. Ancestors of insects and crustaceans that lived more than 500 million years ago in the Cambrian period were some of the earliest active predators, but not much is known about how their eyes were adapted for hunting. Work published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B today suggests that ... read more |
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Mantle neon illuminates Earth's formationDavis CA (SPX) Dec 06, 2018 The Earth formed relatively quickly from the cloud of dust and gas around the Sun, trapping water and gases in the planet's mantle, according to research published Dec. 5 in the journal Nature. Apar ... more  
Greenland ice sheet melt 'off the charts' compared with past four centuriesCape Cod MA (SPX) Dec 06, 2018 Surface melting across Greenland's mile-thick ice sheet began increasing in the mid-19th century and then ramped up dramatically during the 20th and early 21st centuries, showing no signs of abating ... more  
Earth needs climate 'reality check', space pioneer warnsKatowice, Poland (AFP) Dec 4, 2018 The world needs a "reality check" on the threat posed by climate change, NASA astronaut Mae Jemison said Tuesday at a UN summit to chart mankind's path away from runaway global warming. ... more 
Siberian region fights to preserve permafrost as planet warmsYakutsk, Russia (AFP) Dec 5, 2018 Eduard Romanov points to a spot on a block of flats where a major supporting beam has sagged and begun to crack, destabilising the nine storeys of apartments above. ... more |
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Austrian court upholds acquittal for cashing in scrap eurosVienna (AFP) Dec 5, 2018 An Austrian court confirmed Wednesday the acquittal of a man accused of fraud after he cashed in dozens of kilos of scrap euro coins imported from China. ... more 
Lynas mulls 'legal options' after Malaysia imposes new conditionsKuala Lumpur (AFP) Dec 5, 2018 Australian rare earths miner Lynas said Wednesday it would consider "legal options" after Malaysia imposed tough new conditions on waste removal for the renewal of its licences due next year. ... more  
Climate crusading schoolgirl pleads next generation's caseKatowice, Poland (AFP) Dec 5, 2018 By the time 15-year-old Greta Thunberg is 45, tens of millions of people are expected to have fled their homes as climate change unleashes a maelstrom of extreme weather, crop failures and devastating forest fires. ... more 
Macroscopic phenomena governed by microscopic physicsOsaka, Japan (SPX) Dec 03, 2018 It has been difficult to simultaneously obtain micro- and macroscopic information in outer space. Global images of distant astrophysical phenomena provide macroscopic information; however, local inf ... more  
Why a curious crustacean could hold secret to making renewable energy from woodYork UK (SPX) Dec 04, 2018 Scientists studying the digestive system of a curious wood-eating crustacean have discovered it may hold the key to sustainably converting wood into biofuel. Gribble are small marine invertebr ... more |
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Hong Kong democrats 'furious' over new election banHong Kong (AFP) Dec 3, 2018 A Hong Kong legislator has been barred from standing in a local election after being accused of supporting independence from China, sparking fury Monday among the city's pro-democracy camp who warn of tightening ideological control. ... more  |
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Germany's top human rights official says barred from XinjiangBeijing (AFP) Dec 5, 2018 Germany's top human rights official said she has been denied entry to China's Xinjiang region, where the UN estimates that up to one million Muslims are being held in detention camps. ... more  
Iraq's Mohamed al-Daradji battles inner demons through filmLos Angeles (AFP) Dec 3, 2018 The Iraq War may have ended in 2011, but for filmmaker Mohamed al-Daradji, the conflict that tore his country apart remains very much part of his everyday life. ... more 
Iraq's ancient pottery struggles to outlive modern plasticNajaf, Iraq (AFP) Dec 3, 2018 Adel al-Kawwaz expertly spins the potter's wheel, shaping the wet clay into a smooth jug. His family is famous for this millennia-old Iraqi craft, but Kawwaz is struggling to keep it alive. ... more  
Flint, Michigan lead crisis should have buried the city in water bottles. So, why didn't it?West Lafayette IN (SPX) Dec 06, 2018 One hundred thousand residents of Flint, Michigan could only use water from bottles or filters during a years-long lead contamination crisis, which started when the city switched to a new drinking w ... more  
CO2 emissions up 2.7%, world 'off course' to curb warming: studyParis (AFP) Dec 5, 2018 Global emissions of carbon dioxide mainly from fossil fuel burning will rise 2.7 percent in 2018, scientists said Wednesday, signalling a world "completely off course" in the fight against climate change. ... more |
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 Frankfurt Am Main (AFP) Dec 4, 2018 
A German start-up offering online insurance policies, DFV, on Tuesday became the first so-called "insurtech" firm in Europe to make its debut on the stock exchange, setting up a growing challenge to traditional insurance giants.
DFV, which stands for Deutsche Familienversicherung or German Family Insurance, priced its initial public offering on the Frankfurt stock exchange at 12 euros ($13.7 ... more |
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 San Diego CA (SPX) Dec 04, 2018 
Bioengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a 3D bioprinting technique that works with natural materials and is easy to use, allowing researchers of varying levels of technical expertise to produce lifelike organ tissue models.
As a proof of concept, the UC San Diego team used their method to create blood vessel networks capable of keeping a breast cancer tumor al ... more |
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 West Lafayette IN (SPX) Dec 06, 2018 
One hundred thousand residents of Flint, Michigan could only use water from bottles or filters during a years-long lead contamination crisis, which started when the city switched to a new drinking water source in 2014.
As part of a class assignment that grew into a case study, Purdue University researchers found that during the first three weeks of the disaster alone, anywhere from 31 to 1 ... more |
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 Ottawa (AFP) Dec 3, 2018 
A committee of wildlife experts warned Monday that Canada's largest land predator, the polar bear, was at risk of disappearing from its vast Arctic landscape as melting Arctic sea ice makes hunting prey a challenge.
"It is clear we will need to keep a close eye on this species," Graham Forbes, co-chair of the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) said in a statem ... more |
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 Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Dec 06, 2018 
Farmers in developing countries often rely heavily on their yearly harvest to feed their families. A bad crop can have severe consequences for their livelihood. Despite the significant advantages crop insurances would offer in alleviating this risk, only a small percentage of farmers insure their crops. A simple but effective solution tested by researchers from the University of Zurich has incre ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Dec 4, 2018 
The traditional model of volcanic eruptions is wrong, according to new research.
Volcanoes aren't fueled by a large chamber of molten magma, scientists found - they're fed by reservoirs of "mush." These so-called mush chambers are mostly filled with solid crystals. Magma is found in between the crystals.
The new findings could help scientists built more accurate models of a vari ... more |
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 Kano, Nigeria (AFP) Dec 4, 2018 
The Nigerian Army on Tuesday said eight soldiers have been confirmed dead in a Boko Haram attack on a military base over the weekend in the country's restive northeast.
Gunmen from the self-styled Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) faction of Boko Haram attacked the base in Buni Gari village, in Yobe state, on Saturday.
Military sources initially said two soldiers and six insurge ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Dec 4, 2018  As humans continue to alter the landscape and transform environments, ecosystems across the globe are becoming increasingly homogenous.
New research suggests the same cosmopolitan species are taking advantage of humankind's environmental disruption. And as the same cosmopolitan species thrive across planet Earth, more unique species are disappearing.
To quantify the phenomenon, a ... more |
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 Katowice, Poland (AFP) Dec 5, 2018 
By the time 15-year-old Greta Thunberg is 45, tens of millions of people are expected to have fled their homes as climate change unleashes a maelstrom of extreme weather, crop failures and devastating forest fires.
Although it's her parent's generation and those before who have made climate change possible, it the billions of young people like her who will bare its brunt.
And she's had ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Dec 06, 2018 
Measurements of atmospheric ozone from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite are now being used in daily forecasts of air quality.
Launched in October 2017, Copernicus Sentinel-5P - short for Sentinel-5 Precursor - is the first Copernicus satellite dedicated to monitoring our atmosphere. It is part of the fleet of Copernicus Sentinel missions that ESA develops for the European Union's envir ... more |
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 Davis CA (SPX) Dec 06, 2018 
The Earth formed relatively quickly from the cloud of dust and gas around the Sun, trapping water and gases in the planet's mantle, according to research published Dec. 5 in the journal Nature. Apart from settling Earth's origins, the work could help in identifying extrasolar systems that could support habitable planets.
Drawing on data from the depths of the Earth to deep space, Universit ... more |
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 Behror, India (AFP) Dec 4, 2018 
Ratan Kumar once battled India's brutal summers with damp bedsheets and midnight baths. Now he is among millions upon millions of Indians using air conditioning - helping make the world hotter still.
With India's AC market expected to explode from 30 million to a billion units by 2050, the world's second-most populous country could become the planet's top user of electricity for cooling. ... more |
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 Meguro, Japan (SPX) Dec 03, 2018 
NIMS, Kyushu University and Kyoto University jointly identified a mechanism by which a hybrid material composed of palladium (Pd) and metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) is capable of storing approximately twice as much hydrogen as a material composed solely of Pd.
The greater hydrogen storage capacity of the hybrid material is associated with a slight change in its electronic state caused by ... more |
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 San Francisco CA (SPX) Dec 04, 2018 
In an era of rapid ecological change, scientists are turning to historical periods of persistence to better understand what drives stability. A team from the California Academy of Sciences and the Field Museum of Natural History has examined the structural complexity of ancient ecosystems by looking at the number of species and how they're organized by function, such as top predators or decompos ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Dec 3, 2018 
A Hong Kong legislator has been barred from standing in a local election after being accused of supporting independence from China, sparking fury Monday among the city's pro-democracy camp who warn of tightening ideological control.
The disqualification of popular lawmaker Eddie Chu is the latest blow to the democratic movement as room for opposition in semi-autonomous Hong Kong shrinks unde ... more |
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 New York NY (SPX) Dec 03, 2018 
Researchers conducting a 5-year-long study examining snow cover in a northern hardwood forest region found that projected changes in climate could lead to a 95 percent reduction of deep-insulating snowpack in forest areas across the northeastern United States by the end of the 21st century. The loss of snowpack would likely result in a steep reduction of forests' ability to store climate-changin ... more |
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