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  Oak Ridge TN (SPX) Feb 01, 2019 Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have developed a process that removes CO2 from coal-burning power plant emissions in a way that is similar to how soda lime works in scuba diving rebreathers. Their research, published January 31 in the journal Chem, offers an alternative but simpler strategy for carbon capture and requires 24% less energy than industrial benchmark solutions. Soda lime is a solid off-white mixture of calcium and sodium hydroxides used in ... read more |
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Innovative GEDI Instrument Now Gathering Forest DataGreenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 04, 2019 NASA instrument scientist Bryan Blair had just finished writing the flight software for the agency's Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter, or MOLA, when he was invited in 1991 to fly a lidar instrument aboa ... more  
Variations in seafloor create freak ocean wavesTallahassee FL (SPX) Feb 04, 2019 Florida State University researchers have found that abrupt variations in the seafloor can cause dangerous ocean waves known as rogue or freak waves - waves so catastrophic that they were once thoug ... more  
Lost ice age found in the African desertMorgantown WV (SPX) Feb 05, 2019 A field trip to Namibia to study volcanic rocks led to an unexpected discovery by West Virginia University geologists Graham Andrews and Sarah Brown. While exploring the desert country in sout ... more 
Antarctic meltwater streams shed light on longstanding hydrological mysteryBoulder CO (SPX) Feb 04, 2019 In one of the coldest, driest places on Earth, CU Boulder scientists have developed a possible answer to a longstanding mystery about the chemistry of streamflow, which may have broad implications f ... more |
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Death toll in Cuba tornado rises to sixHavana (AFP) Feb 4, 2019 The number of people killed in the powerful tornado that ripped through part of Havana last week has risen to six, authorities said Sunday. ... more  
Avalanches in Alps kill at least 10Rome (AFP) Feb 4, 2019 A series of avalanches in the Alps over the weekend killed at least 10 people, emergency services and media reported. ... more  
Deadly Indonesian Quake Was a Rare 'Superfast' EventPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 05, 2019 Last September's major earthquake near Palu City on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi was a rare supershear event, a new study has found. Fewer than 15 of these superfast-moving, extra-powerful eart ... more  
14 dead, seven missing in Bolivian landslidesLa Paz (AFP) Feb 4, 2019 Two landslides in Bolivia left 14 people dead and seven missing, national police chief Romulo Delgado said on Monday. ... more 
US sends 3,750 more troops to Mexico border: PentagonWashington (AFP) Feb 4, 2019 The United States will send an additional 3,750 troops to its frontier with Mexico, the Pentagon said Sunday, as President Donald Trump doubled down on his call for a wall to boost border security. ... more |
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 Military steps in as Australia floods bring crocs to the streets  
Protecting those on the frontline from EbolaCharleston SC (SPX) Feb 04, 2019 In a world where we can travel the globe by jet, diseases that were once thought to plague faraway places can now strike close to home. The U.S. had to learn this the hard way. In 2014, a pati ... more  |
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Sudan protesters chant 'freedom' as police fire tear gasKhartoum (AFP) Feb 4, 2019 Crowds of Sudanese protesters chanted "freedom, freedom," as riot police fired tear gas on anti-government rallies in the capital and its twin city of Omdurman on Monday, witnesses said. ... more 
French air strikes 'repel incursion into Chad from Libya'Paris (AFP) Feb 4, 2019 French warplanes on Sunday struck twice to halt an armed group that crossed into northern Chad from Libya in a column of 40 pickup trucks, the French military said, adding it acted at Chad's request. ... more 
'Unprecedented' flooding to hit northeast AustraliaSydney (AFP) Feb 3, 2019 Thousands of people in northeast Australia should expect "unprecedented flooding", authorities have warned, after relentless downpours forced a dam to be fully opened on Sunday. ... more  
First fossil feather didn't belong to famed Archaeopteryx birdWashington (UPI) Feb 4, 2019 The first fossil feather was discovered 157 years ago. Though found in isolation, scientists linked the feather with the famed Archaeopteryx bird. ... more  
Early spring rain boosts methane from thawing permafrost by 30 percentSeattle WA (SPX) Feb 05, 2019 Arctic permafrost is thawing as the Earth warms due to climate change. In some cases, scientists predict that this thawing soil will release increasing amounts of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, t ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Feb 3, 2019 
The Chinese chemical firm responsible for an explosion that killed 24 people and injured 21 others in northern China last year hid information and misled investigators, said local authorities in a report published Sunday.
A gas leak caused the explosion last November at a PVC production plant in Zhangjiakou, a northern Chinese city in Hebei province that will host part of the 2022 Winter Oly ... more |
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 Johannesburg, South Africa (SPX) Feb 01, 2019 
We've all seen it before. The beautifully painted butterfly that appears when you spread open two sheets of paper, after covering them with paint and pushing them together. The geometrically shaped patterns of a shell of a tortoise, or the construction of the shell of a snail; the leaves of a succulent plant that repeat themselves over and over again, to create an intricate pattern; or the frost ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Feb 05, 2019 
Climate change is causing significant changes to phytoplankton in the world's oceans, and a new MIT study finds that over the coming decades these changes will affect the ocean's color, intensifying its blue regions and its green ones. Satellites should detect these changes in hue, providing early warning of wide-scale changes to marine ecosystems.
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 Morgantown WV (SPX) Feb 05, 2019 
A field trip to Namibia to study volcanic rocks led to an unexpected discovery by West Virginia University geologists Graham Andrews and Sarah Brown.
While exploring the desert country in southern Africa, they stumbled upon a peculiar land formation - flat desert scattered with hundreds of long, steep hills. They quickly realized the bumpy landscape was shaped by drumlins, a type of hill o ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jan 30, 2019 
Several studies have suggested parasitic mites both spread and worsen the effects of Deformed Wing Virus among honey bees. But new research shows the link between the two threats is tenuous.
In a new study published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, scientists in Australia argue mites pose the greater threat to honey bee health. The virus, they say, is mostly an innocent bystan ... more |
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 Cairns, Australia (AFP) Feb 4, 2019  Australia's military has been deployed to tackle devastating "once-in-a-century" floods that have inundated homes, schools and airports in the country's northeast, forcing hundreds to flee and bringing crocodiles onto the streets.
The Australian Defence Forces delivered 70,000 sandbags, deployed amphibious cargo vehicles and helped pluck flashlight-wielding residents from their rooftops Mond ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Feb 4, 2019  French warplanes on Sunday struck twice to halt an armed group that crossed into northern Chad from Libya in a column of 40 pickup trucks, the French military said, adding it acted at Chad's request.
A rebel group opposed to President Idriss Deby said it had been the target of the strikes, and warned France that its act could stir "hostility towards the French."
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 Jena, Germany (SPX) Feb 05, 2019 
An international research team, coordinated by the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (MPI-SHH) and the Eurasia Department of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) in Berlin, is the first to carry out systematic genetic investigations in the Caucasus region.
The study, published in Nature Communications, is based on analyses of genome-wide data from 45 individuals in ... more |
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 Tampa (AFP) Jan 30, 2019 
An Arctic-like deep freeze gripping much of the United States with double-digit subzero temperatures is the coldest of its kind in two decades, but is it linked to climate change?
Experts say it could be, but whether global warming plays a role in this particular extreme weather phenomenon is still up for debate. Here's why:
- What is a polar vortex? -
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 London, UK (SPX) Feb 04, 2019 
New Space pioneer Earth-i has announced that it has completed the third annual update of the satellite map of the state of Queensland.
The map covers the whole of Queensland's 1.9 million km2 and was created by Earth-i for the Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Energy (DNRME). The first map was produced in 2016 with Earth-i reappointed for updates in both 2017 and 2018.
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 University Park PA (SPX) Feb 01, 2019 
Membraneless assemblies of positively- and negatively-charged molecules can bring together RNA molecules in dense liquid droplets, allowing the RNAs to participate in fundamental chemical reactions. These assemblies, called "complex coacervates," also enhance the ability of some RNA molecules themselves to act as enzymes - molecules that drive chemical reactions. They do this by concentrating th ... more |
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 Ames IA (SPX) Feb 01, 2019 
Polar vortexes. Hurricanes. Wildfires. With climate change making extreme weather events more frequent and intense, it is getting harder to keep the lights on and HVAC systems running.
As a power system researcher, I believe utilities need to get better at withstanding disasters and the disruption they cause. Investing more heavily is key, especially in infrastructure upgrades, renewable e ... more |
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 Nagoya, Japan (SPX) Feb 04, 2019 
Researchers at the Nagoya Institute of Technology (NITech) in Japan have demonstrated that a specific material can act as an efficient battery component for sodium-ion batteries that will compete with lithium-ion batteries for several battery characteristics, especially speed of charge.
The findings were published in Scientific Reports in November of 2018 and was headed by Naoto Tanibata, ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Feb 4, 2019 
As Hong Kong prepares to celebrate the Year of the Pig, the city is facing its own peculiar porcine pickle - a furious debate about what to do with its growing and emboldened wild boar population.
Best known for its densely packed skyscrapers, Hong Kong also boasts large tracts of subtropical mountains and parkland that host a thriving number of Eurasian wild pigs.
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 Beijing (AFP) Feb 2, 2019 
A bishop from China's "underground" Catholic church is slated to step up as the official state-backed clergyman for a diocese in central China, state-run media reported, amid a thaw in relations between Beijing and the Holy See.
China's estimated 10 million Catholics are legally supposed to attend only churches governed by a state-controlled body with clergy appointed by the Communist Party. ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 04, 2019 
NASA instrument scientist Bryan Blair had just finished writing the flight software for the agency's Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter, or MOLA, when he was invited in 1991 to fly a lidar instrument aboard a P-3 research aircraft to test new lidar techniques over the ice sheets in Greenland. En route, he gathered measurements of forested areas in New York state. What he discovered in the data stunned ... more |
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