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  Paris (ESA) Feb 11, 2019 Since it was first measured in 1831, we have known that the magnetic north is constantly on the move. However, its tendency to slowly roam has stepped up a pace recently - so much so that the World Magnetic Model has had to be updated urgently with the pole's new location, vital for navigation on smartphones, for example. ESA's magnetic field Swarm mission has been key for this update. The World Magnetic Model, the basis for many navigation systems used by ships, Google maps and smartphones, relie ... read more |
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Uncovering the evolution of the brainLa Jolla CA (SPX) Feb 13, 2019 What makes us human, and where does this mysterious property of "humanness" come from? Humans are genetically similar to chimpanzees and bonobos, yet there exist obvious behavioral and cognitive dif ... more  
Climate of North American cities will shift hundreds of miles in one generationFrostburg MD (SPX) Feb 13, 2019 In one generation, the climate experienced in many North American cities is projected to change to that of locations hundreds of miles away - or to a new climate unlike any found in North America to ... more  
Shedding light on the science of auroral breakupsTokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 11, 2019 Auroras, also known as Northern or Southern lights depending on whether they occur near the North or South Pole, are natural displays of light in the Earth's sky. Typically these lights are dimly pr ... more 
Climate change: Scientists tap nature, space and societyZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Feb 13, 2019 Three scientists share their research from the natural, physical, and social sciences on novel responses to climate change. Thomas Crowther will identify long-disappeared forests available for ... more |
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Malaysia makes record 30-tonne pangolin seizureKuala Lumpur, Malaysia (AFP) Feb 12, 2019 Malaysian authorities have made a record seizure of about 30 tonnes of pangolins and their scales worth some $2 million in raids on major processing facilities, police and environmentalists said Tuesday. ... more 
Dutch scientists probing mystery of mass bird deathsDen Helder, Netherlands (AFP) Feb 12, 2019 It was late on a stormy Saturday night when marine biologist Mardik Leopold's phone rang at his home on the remote northern Dutch island of Texel. ... more 
New tarantula species discovered with horn-like feature on its backWashington (UPI) Feb 12, 2019 Biologists have discovered a new tarantula species with a one-of-a-kind horn-like protuberance on the arachnid's back. The unusual spider was found in Angola. ... more  
US Senate votes to expand nationals parks, protected landsWashington (AFP) Feb 13, 2019 The US Senate approved a landmark expansion of protected lands Tuesday, the first major gain for conservationists in two years after repeated setbacks by the Trump administration. ... more  
Australia cattle giant warns of 'extreme losses' from floodsSydney (AFP) Feb 12, 2019 Australia's largest cattle company has warned of "extreme losses" after record-breaking floods, as producers said more than 300,000 cows were drowned or washed away in the vast continent's northeast. ... more |
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Niger former rebels hand over weapons: local officialsNiamey (AFP) Feb 11, 2019 Former rebels from the minority Toubou ethnic group in northern Niger, who surrendered to authorities last week, handed in their weapons Monday, local officials told AFP. ... more  |
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Main terms of peace accord in Central African RepublicLibreville (AFP) Feb 12, 2019 A peace agreement between the government of Central African Republic and 14 armed groups which control most of the country has taken effect after the final signatories inked the document. ... more  
French 'yellow vests' more prone to conspiracy theories: surveyParis (AFP) Feb 11, 2019 "Yellow vest" protesters are more likely to believe conspiracy theories than other French people, according to a survey published Monday. ... more 
Former NASA astronaut Mark Kelly seeking Arizona Senate seatWashington (AFP) Feb 12, 2019 Retired NASA astronaut Mark Kelly, whose wife, congresswoman Gabby Giffords was severely wounded in a 2011 assassination attempt, announced on Tuesday that he was running for the US Senate seat from Arizona once held by John McCain. ... more  
Chinese film yanked from Berlin festival competitionBerlin (AFP) Feb 11, 2019 The Berlin film festival said Monday that a new movie by acclaimed Chinese director Zhang Yimou had been pulled from the competition days before its scheduled world premiere. ... more 
With despair and hope, Berlin film fest tackles climate changeBerlin (AFP) Feb 12, 2019 True to its nature as a socially conscious film festival, this month's Berlinale showcases a string of unflinching climate change documentaries raising the alarm about mankind's destructive behaviour while proposing some solutions. ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Feb 12, 2019 
As congressional Democrats counter President Donald Trump's border wall plan with a high-tech solution, the idea of a "smart" security barrier is raising fresh questions over the potential for intrusive surveillance.
Last month, the Democratic lawmakers endorsed what they described as "a strong, but smart, border security posture," without "costly physical barriers."
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 Lausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Feb 12, 2019 
Optical circuits are set to revolutionize the performance of many devices. Not only are they 10-100 times faster than electronic circuits, but they also consume a lot less power. Within these circuits, light waves are controlled by extremely thin surfaces called metasurfaces that concentrate the waves and guide them as needed. The metasurfaces contain regularly spaced nanoparticles that can modu ... more |
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 Kisumu, Kenya (AFP) Feb 8, 2019 
With nets piled onto wooden boats, a group of fishermen joke while gazing out across Lake Victoria and the vast green weed clogging up the waterway. But their laughter has a worried edge as the sun sets.
The thick green carpet of water hyacinth is again choking Kisumu bay, floating on the surface and blocking Kenya's main entry to the largest body of water in Africa.
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 London, UK (SPX) Feb 12, 2019 
A new study on ice cores shows that reductions in sea ice in the Arctic in the period between 30-100,000 years ago led to major climate events. During this period, Greenland temperatures rose by as much as 16 degrees Celsius. The results are published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
A team from British Antarctic Survey (BAS), University of Cambridge and Unive ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 13, 2019 
Growing plants can be tough, whether you're on a spaceship or Earth. A special fertilizer made it easier for astronauts on the International Space Station and farmers down below, resulting in just one of the space program's many contributions to agriculture.
Numerous farming tools have roots at NASA. Over the years, companies large and small have partnered with the agency, honed technologi ... more |
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 Yogyakarta, Indonesia (AFP) Feb 8, 2019 
Indonesia's Mount Merapi, one of the world's most active volcanoes, has spewed a plume of grey ash into the sky as fiery red molten lava streamed down from its crater.
Authorities did not raise the rumbling volcano's alert status after the eruption on Thursday evening.
But any activity at Merapi raises concern and local residents have previously been ordered to stay outside a five-kilome ... more |
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 Libreville (AFP) Feb 11, 2019 
A Chadian rebel group on Monday vowed to pursue its campaign against President Idriss Deby, despite suffering losses to government forces after being targeted by French air strikes.
"A battle has been lost, but not the war," Youssouf Hamid, spokesman of the Union of Resistance Forces (UFR) told AFP.
On Saturday, the Chadian military said it had captured more than 250 rebels, including fo ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Feb 12, 2019 
Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory have identified nearly 2,000 previously unknown bacterial species living in the human gut.
Researchers with the lab's European Bioinformatics Institute collected gut cultures from study participants around the world. The microbiologists used a variety of computational methods to sequence the genes found in the samples.
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 Washington (AFP) Feb 12, 2019 
Climate change and a deteriorating environment are likely to fuel social disorder and could threaten some US military bases, a top admiral said Tuesday.
Admiral Philip Davidson, who heads the US military's vast Indo-Pacific Command, told lawmakers he concurred with a recent assessment from the US intelligence community that listed climate change as a global threat.
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 13, 2019 
Space isn't silent. In fact, an entire orchestra of instruments fills our near-Earth environment with eerie sounds. Scientists have long known about space phenomena involving electromagnetic waves travelling around Earth that resonate like string instruments and whistle like wind instruments. Now, new research published in Nature Communications has added a percussive member to the cosmic ensembl ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Feb 7, 2019  Bone cancer may be nearly as old as bones.
Researchers have discovered evidence of an aggressive malignant tumor in the femur of a 240-million-year-old proto-turtle - the oldest case of bone cancer in amniotes, a lineage of four-limbed vertebrates that includes birds, reptiles and mammals.
Scientists described their diagnosis this week in the journal JAMA Oncology.
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 Johannesburg (AFP) Feb 11, 2019 
South Africa on Monday introduced its most severe electricity rationing in nearly five years, presenting President Cyril Ramaphosa with a major political challenge just months ahead of a May general election.
The debt-laden state power utility Eskom is at the centre of the country's economic troubles and has been hit by allegations of government graft.
Ramaphosa who last week admitted th ... more |
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 La Paz (AFP) Feb 7, 2019 
Bolivia's public mining company Yacimientos de Litio Bolivianos (YLB) has reached agreement with China's Xinjiang TBEA Group-Baocheng to build eight lithium producing factories in the Andes, YLB said on Thursday.
The agreement aims to develop "strategic cooperation" between the two companies to ensure the "financing and realization of industrial projects" in the saline lakes of Coipasa and P ... more |
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 University Park PA (SPX) Feb 12, 2019 
A new automated method to prepare digital photos for analysis will help wildlife researchers who depend on photographs to identify individual animals by their unique markings. A wildlife biologist from Penn State teamed up with scientists from Microsoft Azure, a cloud computing service, using machine learning technology to improve how photographs are turned into usable data for wildlife research ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Feb 12, 2019 
A Chinese billionaire barred from Australia on suspicions he is part of a Communist Party influence campaign has lashed out at Canberra, calling it a "giant baby" that hasn't found its place in international politics.
Huang Xiangmo, a long-term Sydney resident, had been a prominent donor to Australia's two major parties before he was blocked from re-entering the country last week - with his ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Feb 13, 2019 
The US Senate approved a landmark expansion of protected lands Tuesday, the first major gain for conservationists in two years after repeated setbacks by the Trump administration.
The Senate voted 98-2 in support of the Natural Resources Management Act, which gives new or strengthened protection from mining and encroachment to more than two million acres (810,000 hectares), expands eight nat ... more |
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