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  Bristol UK (SPX) Feb 25, 2019 Amiskwia was originally described by the famous palaeontologist Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850-1927) in 1911 who compared it to the modern arrow worms (chaetognaths) - a group of ocean-dwelling worms that are fierce predators, equipped with an array of spines on their head for grasping small prey. Such organisms are found world-wide at sites like the famous Burgess Shale in the Canadian Rockies, where their soft bodies are preserved intact. The strange anatomies exhibited by these animals l ... read more |
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Renewable energy generation with kites and dronesMadrid, Spain (SPX) Feb 20, 2019 Airborne Wind Energy Systems (AWES) are a new kind of technology to harvest wind energy. The expensive and heavy tower and rotor of a conventional wind turbine are here substituted by a light tether ... more  
More water resources over the Sahel region of Africa in the 21st century under global warmingBeijing, China (SPX) Feb 25, 2019 precipitation change under global warming is essential. However, current climate models exhibit large uncertainty on the projection of Sahel precipitation. A group of scientists from Institute ... more  
Pharmaceutical residues in fresh water pose a growing environmental riskNijmegen, Netherlands (SPX) Feb 25, 2019 Over the past 20 years, concentrations of pharmaceuticals have increased in freshwater sources all over the world, as research by environmental experts at Radboud University has revealed. Levels of ... more  
Earth may be 140 years away from reaching carbon levels not seen in 56 million yearsWashington DC (SPX) Feb 25, 2019 Total human carbon dioxide emissions could match those of Earth's last major greenhouse warming event in fewer than five generations, new research finds. A new study finds humans are pumping c ... more |
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'Abused' Saudi sisters trapped in Hong Kong risk deportationHong Kong (AFP) Feb 23, 2019 Two Saudi sisters trapped in Hong Kong say chronic physical abuse by male family members prompted them to flee the kingdom, where they now fear they will be forcibly returned. ... more  
Winds battering central Italy kill fourRome (AFP) Feb 23, 2019 Strong winds whipping through central Italy killed four people on Saturday, including a teenager who died when his father fell off the roof and crushed him, media reports said. ... more  
One dead, one missing after German avalancheBerlin (AFP) Feb 23, 2019 One person was killed and another went missing in an avalanche in the southern German state of Bavaria close to the Austrian border, police said Saturday. ... more  
In Russia, a battle to free nearly 100 captured whalesMoscow (AFP) Feb 22, 2019 Dozens of orcas and beluga whales captured for sale to oceanariums have brought Russia's murky trade into the spotlight, but efforts to free them have been blocked by government infighting. ... more  
Chinese-Australian political donor wins defamation caseSydney (AFP) Feb 22, 2019 A Chinese-Australian billionaire businessman on Friday won a high-profile defamation case against a newspaper that alleged he was co-conspirator in a plot to bribe a top United Nations official, amid fears of Beijing meddling in domestic politics. ... more |
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Worms help scientists understand memory formation and recallWashington (UPI) Feb 21, 2019 The 302 nerve cells inside roundworms are helping scientists understand why some events or associations can't be remembered. ... more  |
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World's biggest bee, thought extinct, rediscovered in IndonesiaWashington (UPI) Feb 21, 2019 The world's largest bee species, missing for 38 years, was presumed extinct, but scientists have discovered a female specimen of Wallace's giant bee inside a termite nest on one of Indonesia's Maluku Islands. ... more 
Botswana mulls proposal to lift hunting banGaborone, Botswana (AFP) Feb 21, 2019 Botswana's government on Thursday proposed ending a strict ban on hunting, which was introduced to protect wildlife in this game-rich southern African country, prompting conservationists to warn it could harm tourism. ... more 
New species of tiny tyrannosaur foreshadows rise of T. rexRaleigh NC (SPX) Feb 25, 2019 A newly discovered, diminutive - by T. rex standards - relative of the tyrant king of dinosaurs reveals crucial new information about when and how T. rex came to rule the North American roost. ... more 
Did volcanoes kill the dinosaurs? New evidence points to 'maybe.'Princeton NJ (SPX) Feb 25, 2019 Princeton geoscientists Blair Schoene and Gerta Keller led an international team of researchers who have assembled the first high-resolution timeline for the eruptions in India's Deccan Traps. Their ... more  
Researchers discover a flipping crab feeding on methane seepsCorvallis OR (SPX) Feb 25, 2019 Researchers have documented a group of tanner crabs vigorously feeding at a methane seep on the seafloor off British Columbia - one of the first times a commercially harvested species has been seen ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Feb 23, 2019  Two Saudi sisters trapped in Hong Kong say chronic physical abuse by male family members prompted them to flee the kingdom, where they now fear they will be forcibly returned.
The siblings are the latest example of Saudi women plotting their escape from the ultra-conservative kingdom only to find themselves dodging officials and angry family members at every turn, as the country battles crit ... more |
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 Moffett Field CA (SPX) Feb 22, 2019 
In a research breakthrough funded by NASA, scientists have synthesized a molecular system that, like DNA, can store and transmit information. This unprecedented feat suggests there could be an alternative to DNA-based life, as we know it on Earth - a genetic system for life that may be possible on other worlds.
This new molecular system, which is not a new life form, suggests scientists lo ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 18, 2019 
Goliath grouper, black sea bass, and snapping shrimp, along with bioluminescent plankton and other microorganisms, are set to be the unlikely heroes of DARPA's Persistent Aquatic Living Sensors (PALS) program.
Five teams of researchers are developing new types of sensor systems that detect and record the behaviors of these marine organisms and interpret them to identify, characterize, and ... more |
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 Aboard The Icebreaker Polaris, Finland (AFP) Feb 22, 2019 
The steel behemoth pushes ahead, crunching the ice as it navigates the northernmost tip of the Baltic, considered one of the most polluted seas in the world. But unlike other icebreakers spewing diesel, this state-of-the-art ship boasts cleaner fuel.
In the freezing darkness of a February morning, the immense Polaris, which at 10,000 tonnes weighs more than the Eiffel Tower, ploughs effortle ... more |
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 Kearny, United States (AFP) Feb 24, 2019 
Workers at Bowery Farming's warehouse near New York have swapped out a farmer's hoe for a computer tablet that takes real-time readings of light and water conditions.
Launched in 2015, Bowery is part of the fast-growing vertical farming movement, which employs technology in a controlled, man-made setting to grow fresh vegetables indoors all year long.
Champions of the practice see vertic ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Feb 25, 2019 
When Mount Agung in Indonesia erupted in 2017, the search was on to find out why it had stirred. Thanks to information on ground deformation from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission, scientists now have more insight into the volcano's hidden secrets that caused it to reawaken.
After lying dormant for more than 50 years, Mount Agung on the Indonesian holiday island of Bali rumbled back to lif ... more |
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 Niamey (AFP) Feb 20, 2019 
Heads of state of 17 countries in the Sahel region of Africa will hold a summit on Monday in Niamey to approve a climate investment plan worth $400 billion over 12 years, the Niger government said Wednesday.
The "ambitious" plan for the period 2018-30 will involve "17 nations from the Atlantic Ocean to the Horn of Africa" and will represent the "translation (into actions) of our nations' com ... more |
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 Jakarta (AFP) Feb 22, 2019 
Armed with crowbars and wearing protective gear, three women assembled at a Jakarta stress clinic survey the cluster of bottles they're about to smash to pieces.
"I feel relieved. It's like something I have been holding inside is finally released when I smashed those bottles," Genta Kalbu Tanjung, a 20-year-old university student, told AFP as blaring rock music pulsated in the background. ... more |
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 Brussels (AFP) Feb 21, 2019 
Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish climate activist who has inspired pupils worldwide to boycott classes, urged the European Union on Thursday to double its ambition for greenhouse gas cuts.
At an EU conference, Thunberg warned that politicians who fail to tackle climate change will be "remembered as the greatest villains of all time" for leading the world to disaster.
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 22, 2019 
Work has begun on a new CubeSat mission that will demonstrate for the first time a new, highly promising technique for measuring soil moisture from space - data important for early flood and drought warnings as well as crop-yield forecasts.
The technology-demonstration mission, SigNals of Opportunity: P-band Investigation, will validate a remote-sensing technique called signals of opportun ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Feb 21, 2019 
Every school child knows the dinosaurs were killed off by an asteroid smashing into the Earth some 66 million years ago.
But scientists say the story may not be quite that simple, and that massive volcanic eruptions over hundreds of thousands of years may have contributed to the dinosaurs' demise at the end of the Cretaceous period.
Two studies published Thursday in the journal Science ... more |
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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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 Newark DE (SPX) Feb 20, 2019 
You probably use batteries every single day, but do you actually understand how they work? Koffi Pierre Yao, a new assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Delaware, is uncovering novel insights about what happens inside the batteries that power our smartphones, laptops, and electric vehicles. He plans to use this knowledge to develop faster-charging batteries that make ... more |
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 Birmingham UK (SPX) Feb 20, 2019 
The rich levels of biodiversity on land seen across the globe today are not a recent phenomenon: diversity on land has been similar for at least the last 60 million years, since soon after the extinction of the dinosaurs.
According to a new study led by researchers at the University of Birmingham and involving an international team of collaborators, the number of species within ecological ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Feb 21, 2019 
A propaganda app that puts China's powerful President Xi Jinping in anyone's pockets has become a hit in the country - with a helpful nudge from Communist Party officials.
Millions have downloaded the app, which tracks the amount of time users spend browsing inspirational quotes from the Chinese leader and watching short videos of his speeches and travels.
People are rewarded with point ... more |
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 Leipzig, Germany (SPX) Feb 25, 2019 
The biodiversity of our planet is one of our most precious resources. However, for most places in the world, we only have a tiny picture of what this diversity actually is. Researchers at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) and Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) have now succeeded in constructing, from scattered data, a world map of biodiversity showing nu ... more |
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