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  Yakutsk, Russia (AFP) Jan 4, 2019 Crouching near a wooden shed in his snowy backyard, Prokopy Nogovitsyn lifts up a grey tarpaulin and takes out a vertebra the size of a saucer: part of a mammoth skeleton. "Some friends found this in the north and wanted to sell it," says Nogovitsyn, who lives in a village in the northern Siberian region of Yakutia. "But it lacks tusks, so nobody wanted it." Mammoth bones are widespread in Yakutia, an enormous region bordering the Arctic Ocean covered by permafrost, which acts as a giant fre ... read more |
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Floods, blackouts after Thai storm, but tourist islands sparedNakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand (AFP) Jan 5, 2019 Floods and blackouts caused by Tropical Storm Pabuk left nearly 30,000 people in evacuation shelters across southern Thailand Saturday, as relieved tourists stranded on islands further north were spared the worst and began to plot routes home. ... more  
Death toll from Philippine storm, landslides climbs to 126Manila (AFP) Jan 6, 2019 The death toll from a storm that devastated the Philippines shortly after Christmas rose to 126, authorities said Sunday, adding landslides caused by torrential rain were the top cause. ... more  
Three dead during cold snap in GreeceAthens (AFP) Jan 6, 2019 Three people have died in Greece as stormy weather and freezing temperatures gripped most of the country, officials said Sunday. ... more 
Strong 6.6-magnitude quake hits off IndonesiaJakarta (AFP) Jan 6, 2019 A strong 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck off the Indonesian coast early Monday, sending residents running out of their homes, but no tsunami warning was issued. ... more |
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Pentagon asked for more help on the US-Mexico border: officialWashington (AFP) Jan 4, 2019 The Pentagon received a new request Friday to provide support for the US Border Patrol, a defense official said, without specifying whether more troops would be sent to the US border with Mexico. ... more 
British navy joins patrol for Channel migrant dinghiesLondon (AFP) Jan 4, 2019 A British navy ship was patrolling the Channel on Friday in response to a wave of mostly Iranian asylum seekers risking the crossing from France in dinghies. ... more 
Army helps Dutch island clean-up after ship spills cargoThe Hague (AFP) Jan 4, 2019 The Dutch military joined beach clean-up efforts on Friday, two days after some 270 shipping containers tumbled from one of the world's biggest cargo boats into the North Sea in stormy weather. ... more 
Killing 'zombie cells' cures anxiety in obese miceWashington (UPI) Jan 4, 2019 Obesity increases the number of "zombie" cells, or senescent cells, inside the brain, causing more anxiety, new research says. ... more 
Bolivian bees under threat from coca pesticidesCoroico, Bolivia (AFP) Jan 4, 2019 High up in the Bolivian cloud forest, a woman tends to her bees, smoker in hand, working from hive to hive under a canopy of leaves to delicately gather panels of honeycomb. It's a bucolic scene that experts say won't last, for the bees are dying. ... more |
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Forest soundscapes could aid biodiversity studies and conservationWashington (UPI) Jan 4, 2019 Field studies are laborious, time-consuming and often limited in scope. Monitoring forest conservation efforts can be expensive. To study and protect forests more cost-effectively, scientists suggest listening. ... more  |
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Record $3.1 million paid in New Year's tuna auction at Japan's new marketTokyo (AFP) Jan 5, 2019 A Japanese sushi entrepreneur paid a record $3.1 million for a giant tuna Saturday as Tokyo's new fish market, which replaced the world-famous Tsukiji late last year, held its first pre-dawn New Year's auction. ... more  
Plant hedges help curb roadside pollutionWashington (UPI) Jan 4, 2019 New research suggests trees alone aren't enough to keep roadside pollution out of adjacent environs. Hedges or a combination of hedges and trees offer a stronger buffer against vehicle pollution for roadside communities. ... more  
Somalia refuses to take back expelled UN envoyUnited Nations, United States (AFP) Jan 5, 2019 UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday agreed to appoint a new UN envoy to Somalia after its president refused to reverse a decision to expel a representative for raising human rights concerns. ... more 
Thousands stung in Australian jellyfish 'invasion'Sydney (AFP) Jan 7, 2019 Highly venomous jellyfish have stung more than three thousand people on Australia's northeastern shores in just a few days, authorities said Monday, forcing the closure of several beaches. ... more  
Third woman enters flashpoint Indian templeThiruvananthapuram, India (AFP) Jan 4, 2019 Indian police said Friday that a third woman has defied traditionalists to enter one of Hinduism's holiest temples, stoking tensions after two days of clashes that left some 275 people injured. ... more |
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 Rio De Janeiro (AFP) Jan 5, 2019 
A special deployment of Brazilian troops began fanning out in the northern city of Fortaleza Saturday with orders to stop a spike in violent attacks by criminal gangs against banks, buses and shops, officials said.
By the end of the weekend, 300 soldiers will be patrolling that city and other towns in Ceara state in a bid to halt the rampage, national public security secretary Guilherme Teop ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jan 4, 2019 
Raytheon has been awarded a contract to Elbit Systems of America for the Two Color Laser System, a surveillance system element onboard military aircraft.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed in a news release on Elbit Systems' website, but the U.S. subsidiary of the Israeli company said the contract would be carried out in 2019. The Two Color Laser System serves the Multi-Spec ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jan 04, 2019 
Chilly reminders of a centuries-long cold snap can be found deep within the Pacific, a new study finds.
According to the results, ongoing cooling observed in Pacific deep-ocean temperatures indicates that the deep Pacific is still adjusting to the surface cooling that occurred during the Little Ice Age, which began nearly 1,000 years ago.
The common-era climate anomaly known as the L ... more |
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 Bristol UK (SPX) Jan 04, 2019 
Melting ice sheets release tons of methane into the atmosphere, study finds
The Greenland Ice Sheet emits tons of methane according to a new study, showing that subglacial biological activity impacts the atmosphere far more than previously thought.
An international team of researchers led by the University of Bristol camped for three months next to the Greenland Ice Sheet, sampling t ... more |
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 University Park PA (SPX) Jan 04, 2019 
A natural antioxidant found in grain bran could preserve food longer and replace synthetic antioxidants currently used by the food industry, according to researchers at Penn State.
"Currently, there's a big push within the food industry to replace synthetic ingredients with natural alternatives, and this is being driven by consumers," said Andrew S. Elder, doctoral candidate in food scienc ... more |
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 Jakarta (AFP) Jan 6, 2019 
A strong 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck off the Indonesian coast early Monday, sending residents running out of their homes, but no tsunami warning was issued.
The quake hit at a depth of 60 kilometres (40 miles) under the Molucca Sea, some 175 kilometres north northwest of the city of Ternate, according to the USGS.
There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties and Indonesia' ... more |
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 Libreville (AFP) Jan 7, 2019 
A group of soldiers sought to take power in Gabon on Monday while the country's ailing president was abroad, but the government declared the bid had failed and the rebels had been arrested.
Soldiers burst into state radio offices at dawn and called on the public to "rise up" after President Ali Bongo suffered a stroke last year while out of the country.
Shots were heard around state broa ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jan 01, 2019 
Zinc is one of the essential components in the diet of all living organisms. It is the second most abundant biological trace element after iron. Zinc is of great importance in various metabolic functions and its deficiency can cause many problems.
It is involved in cellular metabolism, growth, development, cellular physiology, and immune function. Approximately 300 enzymes and 100 transcri ... more |
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 Prague (AFP) Jan 5, 2019 
The Czech capital Prague has experienced its hottest year since records started in 1775, the weather institute said on Saturday.
"In 2018, the average annual temperature in Prague-Clementium was 12.8 degrees Celsius (55.04 Fahrenheit), or 3.2 degrees more compared to the average between 1775-2014," the Hydrometeorological Institute said in a statement that referred to its historic Clementi ... more |
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 Beer-Sheva, Israel (SPX) Jan 07, 2019 
Ben-Gurion University researchers have developed a new satellite imaging system that could revolutionize the economics and imagery available from space-based cameras and even earth-based telescopes.
"This is an invention that completely changes the costs of space exploration, astronomy, aerial photography, and more," says Angika Bulbul, a BGU Ph.D. candidate under the supervision of Prof. ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Dec 28, 2018 
Paleontologists have recovered the earliest known remains of three plant groups from Permian deposits in Jordan. The excavation revealed a "hidden cradle of plant evolution," according to scientists on the project.
The Permian period began 300 million years ago and lasted 50 million years. Among the Permian sediments, researchers recovered remains of plants from the Podocarpaceae family ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Dec 21, 2018 
The US Justice Department announced Friday the arrest of a Chinese national who allegedly stole trade secrets from a US oil company he worked for.
Tan Hongjin, 35, was arrested on Thursday in Oklahoma where he lived as a permanent resident.
The Justice Department said he stole trade secrets "related to a product worth more than $1 billion."
Tan, who lived in the United States for 12 ... more |
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 Berkeley CA (SPX) Jan 07, 2019 
In the 1980s, the discovery of high-temperature superconductors known as cuprates upended a widely held theory that superconductor materials carry electrical current without resistance only at very low temperatures of around 30 Kelvin (or minus 406 degrees Fahrenheit). For decades since, researchers have been mystified by the ability of some cuprates to superconduct at temperatures of more than ... more |
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 Rochester UK (SPX) Jan 04, 2019 
Most evolutionary biologists distinguish one species from another based on reproductivity: members of different species either won't or can't mate with one another, or, if they do, the resulting offspring are often sterile, unviable, or suffer some other sort of reduced fitness.
For most of the 20th century, scientists believed that this reproductive incompatibility evolved gradually betwe ... more |
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 Ottawa (AFP) Jan 4, 2019  Thirteen Canadians have been detained in China following the arrest on December 1 of a senior executive from Chinese telecoms equipment giant Huawei, Ottawa said Thursday, with eight subsequently released.
Global Affairs Canada spokesperson Guillaume Berube confirmed the detentions to AFP, adding the figures excluded Hong Kong.
The thirteen include former diplomat Michael Kovrig and cons ... more |
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 Sao Paulo, Brazil (SPX) Jan 07, 2019 
Up to 15 million hectares of tropical rainforest in the Brazilian Amazon could lose protection and be clear-cut because of an article in the country's new Forest Code.
The warning comes from Brazilian researchers at the University of Sao Paulo's Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture (ESALQ-USP) and Swedish researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and Chalmers Universi ... more |
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