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  Raleigh NC (SPX) Jan 29, 2019 An international team of researchers has performed molecular analysis on fossil feathers from a small, feathered dinosaur from the Jurassic. Their research could aid scientists in pinpointing when feathers evolved the capacity for flight during the dinosaur-bird transition. Anchiornis was a small, feathered, four-winged dinosaur that lived in what is now China around 160 million years ago - almost 10 million years before Archaeopteryx, the first recognized bird. A team of researchers from the Nanj ... read more |
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Airborne Response supports fire and rescue exercise with drones and aerostatsMiami FL (SPX) Jan 30, 2019 Airborne Response, the South Florida-based provider of Mission Critical Unmanned Solutions for industry and government, completed Exercise Lightning Shield - a full-scale training exercise held on T ... more 
Researchers wing it in mimicking evolution to discover best shape for flightNew York NY (SPX) Jan 30, 2019 A team of mathematicians has determined the ideal wing shape for fast flapping flight--a discovery that offers promise for better methods for harvesting energy from water as well as for enhancing ai ... more  
How bacteria build hyper-efficient photosynthesis machinesWashington DC (SPX) Jan 25, 2019 Researchers facing a future with a larger population and more uncertain climate are looking for ways to improve crop yields, and they're looking to photosynthetic bacteria for engineering solutions. ... more  
Humans colonized diverse environments in Southeast Asia and Oceania during the PleistoceneJena, Germany (SPX) Jan 29, 2019 Investigations into what it means to be human have often focused on attempts to uncover the earliest material traces of 'art', 'language', or technological 'complexity'. More recently, however, scho ... more |
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Study: Climate change reshaping how heat moves around globeColumbus OH (SPX) Jan 29, 2019 The Earth's atmosphere and oceans play important roles in moving heat from one part of the world to another, and new research is illuminating how those patterns are changing in the face of climate c ... more  
Tipples and trash: A Japan waste plant opens its doorsTokyo (AFP) Jan 29, 2019 A group of young Japanese snap selfies as they knock back a few drinks on a Friday night. But the backdrop to their photos is a mechanical claw stuffed with trash. ... more 
Plastic dhow sails Kenya coast to highlight waste crisisWatamu, Kenya (AFP) Jan 27, 2019 A traditional dhow sailing boat made entirely of trash and flip-flops has set off on an expedition along the Kenyan coast to raise awareness about the harmful effects of plastic waste. ... more 
Plastic pollution causes mussels to lose gripCambridge UK (SPX) Jan 30, 2019 A new study shows that microplastics are affecting the ability of mussels to attach themselves to their surroundings - potentially having a devastating impact on ocean ecosystems as well as a worldw ... more 
War declared on world's growing e-waste crisisParis (AFP) Jan 24, 2019 Weighing more than all commercial airliners ever built and worth more than most countries' GDP, electronic waste poses a growing economic and environmental threat, experts said Thursday, as they launched a global initiative to clean it up. ... more |
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Brazil dam collapse toll rises to 84, mining firm's output to be hitBrumadinho, Brazil (AFP) Jan 30, 2019 The death toll from the collapse of a Brazilian dam rose to 84 on Tuesday as mining giant Vale announced that moves to dismantle similar structures would hit production. ... more  |
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Manipulating cell networks with lightKobe, Japan (SPX) Jan 29, 2019 A new optical microscope system called SIFOM (Stimulation and Imaging-based Functional Optical Microscopy) can stimulate multiple cells simultaneously by a holographic method and monitor cell activi ... more  
Cattle urine's planet-warming power can be curtailed with land restorationCali, Columbia (SPX) Jan 30, 2019 The exceptional climate-altering capabilities of cattle are mainly due to methane, which they blast into the atmosphere during their daily digestive routine. Cattle urine is a lesser-known climate o ... more 
Weather at key growth stages predicts Midwest corn yield and grain qualityUrbana, IL (SPX) Jan 30, 2019 Corn is planted on approximately 90 million acres across the United States every year. With all that data, it takes months after harvest for government agencies to analyze total yield and grain qual ... more  
'Several thousand' more US troops to go to southern border: PentagonWashington (AFP) Jan 29, 2019 Thousands more troops will head to the US-Mexico border, Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said Tuesday, as part of a controversial mission to enhance security along the frontier. ... more  
Ultra-slow earthquake indicates deep crustal movement near IstanbulPotsdam, Germany (SPX) Jan 30, 2019 A big earthquake occurred south of Istanbul in the summer of 2016, but it was so slow that nobody noticed. The earthquake, which took place at mid-crustal depth, lasted more than fifty days. Only a ... more |
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 Brumadinho, Brazil (AFP) Jan 27, 2019  Fears of a second dam breach at a Brazilian mining complex receded Sunday, enabling a search to resume for the more than 300 people still missing two days after a dam collapse that has killed at least 58 people.
Loudspeakers rang out at 5:30 am (0730 GMT) among homes surrounding the Corrego do Feijao mining complex in southeastern Brazil, warning of dangerously high water levels, according ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jan 28, 2019  Meet Helga and Zohar, the dummies destined for a pioneering lunar flyby to help protect space travelers from cosmic rays and energetic solar storms.
These two female phantoms will occupy the passenger seats during Orion's first mission around the Moon, going further than any human has flown before.
Fitted with more than 5600 sensors, the pair will measure the amount of radiation astr ... more |
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 Sydney (AFP) Jan 29, 2019 
"Hundreds of thousands" of fish have died in drought-stricken Australia in the last few days and more mass deaths are likely to occur, the authorities warned Tuesday.
Locals around the Darling River were confronted with a sea of white, as dead fish carpeted the waters near the southeastern Outback town of Menindee.
Just weeks after up to a million were killed - with scientists pointing ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Jan 28, 2019 
Glacial retreat in the Canadian Arctic has uncovered landscapes that haven't been ice-free in more than 40,000 years and the region may be experiencing its warmest century in 115,000 years, new University of Colorado Boulder research finds.
The study, published in the journal Nature Communications, uses radiocarbon dating to determine the ages of plants collected at the edges of 30 ice cap ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Jan 28, 2019 
To defeat the intertwined pandemics of obesity, hunger and climate change, governments must curb the political influence of major corporations, said a major report Monday calling for a 'global treaty' similar to one for tobacco control.
But this will not happen unless ordinary citizens demand a "radical rethink" of the relationship between policymakers and business, nearly four dozen experts ... more |
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 Kiel, Germany (SPX) Jan 29, 2019 
In recent decades, extratropical eruptions including Kasatochi (Alaska, USA, 2008) and Sarychev Peak (Russia, 2009) have injected sulfur into the lower stratosphere. The climatic forcing of these eruptions has however been weak and short-lived. So far, scientists have largely assumed this to be a reflection of a general rule; that extratropical eruptions lead to weaker forcing than their tropica ... more |
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 Abidjan (AFP) Jan 24, 2019 
Africa's arms market is likely to grow by 50 percent over the next five years, analyst Stephane Konan said at a four-day trade show in Ivory Coast.
"The African market in defence represents only a drop of water in relation to the world market: 42.6 billion dollars out of 1,731 billion in 2017," Konan told AFP, citing figures from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). ... more |
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 Jena, Germany (SPX) Jan 29, 2019 
Investigations into what it means to be human have often focused on attempts to uncover the earliest material traces of 'art', 'language', or technological 'complexity'. More recently, however, scholars have begun to argue that more attention should be paid to the ecological uniqueness of our species.
A new study, published in Archaeological Research in Asia, reviews the palaeoecological i ... more |
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 Canberra, Australia (SPX) Jan 29, 2019 
Scientists from The Australian National University (ANU) have used new space technology to predict droughts and increased bushfire risk up to five months in advance.
ANU researcher Siyuan Tian said the team knew they needed to move into space to get closer to understanding the complex nature of drought.
They used data from multiple satellites to measure water below the Earth's surfac ... more |
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Jan 30, 2019 
Water levels in the Mekong basin, which extends through six countries in South-East Asia, are subject to considerable seasonal fluctuations. A new model now makes it possible to compute how water levels are impacted on various sections of the river by extreme weather events such as heavy rainfall or drought over extended periods.
To model the flow patterns of the river, with its complex ne ... more |
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 Davis CA (SPX) Jan 25, 2019 
No animal alive today looks quite like a duckbilled platypus, but about 250 million years ago something very similar swam the shallow seas in what is now China, finding prey by touch with a cartilaginous bill. The newly discovered marine reptile Eretmorhipis carrolldongi from the lower Triassic period is described in the journal Scientific Reports Jan. 24.
Apart from its platypus-like bill ... 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."
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 Houston TX (SPX) Jan 28, 2019 
Researchers from the University of Houston have reported a new way to raise the transition temperature of superconducting materials, boosting the temperature at which the superconductors are able to operate.
The results, reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggest a previously unexplored avenue for achieving higher-temperature superconductivity, which offers a ... more |
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 Cerrito, Colombie (AFP) Jan 28, 2019 
By all accounts, Dasan and Illika should have died of poisoning.
But they are back on their feet, poking their beaks through the bars of their cages, impatient to return to the skies over Colombia, which have been transformed into hostile territory for the so-called king of the Andes - the condor.
Dasan, a five-year-old male, fell victim first. Locals found him in November - weak and s ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Jan 28, 2019  Prominent Chinese human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang was sentenced on Monday to four and a half years in prison for state subversion, sealing the fate of another attorney swept up in a 2015 crackdown.
Wang, 42, who defended political activists and victims of land seizures, disappeared in a sweep aimed at courtroom critics of Communist authorities known as the "709" clampdown because the arre ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jan 29, 2019 
Russian scientists studied abandoned arable land in the European part of Russia where temperate forests grow. The study showed that trees start to grow on the abandoned fields immediately after the land has been withdrawn from agricultural use.
This finding contradicts the belief that trees appear on the fields only after grass that was approved earlier. As it turned out, the presence or a ... more |
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