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  Leipzig, Germany (SPX) Apr 13, 2019 The findings are based on a new study led by Murray Cox from Massey University in New Zealand and made possible by sampling efforts led by Herawati Sudoyo from the Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology in Jakarta, Indonesia. The data were collected and analyzed by an international team of researchers, including Mark Stoneking from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Taken together with previous work - which has pointed to a third Denisovan lineage in the genomes of modern Sib ... read more |
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New species of early human found in the PhilippinesCanberra, Australia (SPX) Apr 15, 2019 An international team of researchers have uncovered the remains of a new species of human in the Philippines, proving the region played a key role in hominin evolutionary history. The new species, H ... more  
Ice Ages occur when tropical islands and continents collideBerkeley CA (SPX) Apr 15, 2019 University of California scientists think they know why Earth's generally warm and balmy climate over the past billion years has occasionally been interrupted by cold snaps that enshroud the poles w ... more  
Earliest life may have arisen in ponds, not oceansBoston MA (SPX) Apr 15, 2019 Primitive ponds may have provided a suitable environment for brewing up Earth's first life forms, more so than oceans, a new MIT study finds. Researchers report that shallow bodies of water, o ... more  
Oil-eating bacteria found at the bottom of the oceanWashington (UPI) Apr 12, 2019 Scientists have discovered oil-eating bacteria in the planet's deepest oceanic trench, the Mariana Trench. ... more |
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IMF says could roll out storm aid for Mozambique 'next week'Washington (AFP) April 12, 2019 The International Monetary Fund will consider a $130 million accelerated aid package for storm-hit Mozambique as soon as next week, a senior IMF official said Friday. ... more 
76 dead in Iran floods as Tehran weighs costsTehran (AFP) April 14, 2019 Floods in Iran have killed 76 people and caused more than $2.2 billion in damages in recent weeks, officials said Sunday, with warnings still in place for large swathes of the country. ... more  
Child vaccination levels falling short in large parts of AfricaSouthampton UK (SPX) Apr 15, 2019 A study by the University of Southampton shows that several low-and middle-income countries, especially in Africa, need more effective child vaccination strategies to eliminate the threat from vacci ... more  
17 more detained over China blast that killed 78Beijing (AFP) April 15, 2019 Police have detained 17 more suspects connected to a chemical blast in eastern China last month which killed 78 and left hundreds injured, local authorities said Monday. ... more  
S.Sudan peace accord progress falling 'way short': monitorNairobi (AFP) April 12, 2019 Progress in implementing the peace agreement in South Sudan has been "way short" of expectations, the body responsible for monitoring it said on Friday, a day after Pope Francis urged the warring factions to achieve a lasting peace. ... more |
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Blog fined for "defaming" Beijng buildings over feng shuiBeijing (AFP) April 13, 2019 A blog operator must pay $29,000 to a real estate developer for "defamation", a Chinese court has ruled after alleging a building complex had bad energy. ... more  |
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Dalai Lama discharged from hospitalNew Delhi (AFP) April 12, 2019 The Dalai Lama told his followers on Friday to "feel at ease" as he was discharged from a New Delhi hospital three days after being admitted with a chest infection. ... more  
Next-generation gene drive arrivesSan Diego CA (SPX) Apr 15, 2019 New CRISPR-based gene drives and broader active genetics technologies are revolutionizing the way scientists engineer the transfer of specific traits from one generation to another. Scientists ... more  
How plants defend themselvesMunich, Germany (SPX) Apr 15, 2019 Like humans and animals, plants defend themselves against pathogens with the help of their immune system. But how do they activate their cellular defenses? Researchers at the Technical University of ... more 
Long-lived bats could hold secrets to mammal longevityCollege Park MD (SPX) Apr 15, 2019 University of Maryland researchers analyzed an evolutionary tree reconstructed from the DNA of a majority of known bat species and found four bat lineages that exhibit extreme longevity. They also i ... more  
Giant Antarctic sea spiders weather warming by getting holeyManoa HI (SPX) Apr 15, 2019 Scientists have wondered for decades why marine animals that live in the polar oceans and the deep sea can reach giant sizes there, but nowhere else. University of Hawai'i at Manoa zoology PhD stude ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) April 15, 2019 
Police have detained 17 more suspects connected to a chemical blast in eastern China last month which killed 78 and left hundreds injured, local authorities said Monday.
The explosion in eastern Jiangsu province was one of the worst industrial accidents in the country in recent years and led to the closure of the plant.
Police have taken "criminal coercive measures" against the 17 suspec ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Apr 08, 2019 
Satellites are among the most complex machines ever designed, but in key respects they are still hand-made. A set of ESA-approved training schools train and certify the best solderers in Europe, to ensure they have sufficient ability to work on electronic hardware for space missions.
More than a thousand operators and inspectors take the courses annually. The resulting highly-skilled perso ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 12, 2019  An El Nino that began to form last fall has matured and is now fully entrenched across the Pacific Ocean. Changes in sea surface temperatures (SSTs) brought about by an El Nino affect the atmosphere, resulting in distinctive changes in the rainfall pattern across the Pacific Basin. These changes show up as anomalies or deviations in NASA's analysis of climatological rainfall.
In a typical ... more |
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 Berkeley CA (SPX) Apr 15, 2019 
University of California scientists think they know why Earth's generally warm and balmy climate over the past billion years has occasionally been interrupted by cold snaps that enshroud the poles with ice and occasionally turn the planet into a snowball.
The key trigger, they say, is mountain formation in the tropics as continental land masses collide with volcanic island arcs, such as th ... more |
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 Leipzig, Germany (SPX) Apr 15, 2019 
Around 80 percent of land area in Europe is used for settlement, agriculture and forestry. In order to increase yields even further than current levels, exploitation is being intensified. Areas are being consolidated in order to cultivate them more efficiently using larger machines. Pesticides and fertilisers are increasingly being used and a larger number of animals being kept on grazing land. ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) April 12, 2019  The International Monetary Fund will consider a $130 million accelerated aid package for storm-hit Mozambique as soon as next week, a senior IMF official said Friday.
"We have moved very rapidly to support Mozambique through a Rapid Credit Facility," Abebe Selassie, head of the fund's Africa department, told reporters during the IMF spring meetings.
"We expect the executive board to cons ... more |
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 Cairo (AFP) April 10, 2019  Support within Sudan for embattled President Omar al-Bashir seems be waning as some ranks in the army, a major pillar of his three decades in power, appear to be tilting towards the demonstrators, analysts say.
Thousands of protesters have been camping outside the military complex housing Bashir's official residence in Khartoum since Saturday, braving tear gas and deadly gun shots from secur ... more |
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 Leipzig, Germany (SPX) Apr 13, 2019 
The findings are based on a new study led by Murray Cox from Massey University in New Zealand and made possible by sampling efforts led by Herawati Sudoyo from the Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology in Jakarta, Indonesia. The data were collected and analyzed by an international team of researchers, including Mark Stoneking from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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 Bethesda MD (SPX) Apr 08, 2019  Scientific findings on climate change indicate that the excess production of carbon dioxide and other gases is increasingly threatening our way of life. In the long term, this may well become a serious problem for the world's population. In addition to manmade pollutants, the Sun will emit increased amounts of energy as it ages.
Thus, global warming will further increase. If we could contr ... more |
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 Philadelphia PA (SPX) Apr 09, 2019 
In the 1950s and early '60s, with the Cold War at its peak, the United States flew U2 spy planes across Europe, the Middle East, and central eastern Asia, taking images of interesting military targets. Though the missions typically connected Point A to Point B, say an air field and an important city, in many cases the camera kept recording between those spots, capturing thousands of photos of th ... more |
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 Bath UK (SPX) Apr 15, 2019 
The evolution of aquatic creatures to start living on land made them into more attentive parents, says new research on frogs led by the Milner Centre for Evolution at the University of Bath.
A study by an international team of researchers, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, looked at the parental care of over 1000 species of frogs and toads, and found those that rep ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) March 30, 2019 
The Eiffel Tower, the Sydney Opera House and even the ancient Acropolis in Athens were plunged into darkness for an hour Saturday as part of a global campaign to raise awareness about climate change and its impact on the planet's vanishing plant and animal life.
The 13th edition of Earth Hour, organised by green group WWF, saw millions of people across 180 countries turn off their lights at ... more |
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 Chicago IL (SPX) Apr 10, 2019 
Lithium batteries are what allow electric vehicles to travel several hundred miles on one charge. Their capacity for energy storage is well known, but so is their tendency to occasionally catch on fire - an occurrence known to battery researchers as "thermal runaway."
These fires occur most frequently when the batteries overheat or cycle rapidly. With more and more electric vehicles on the ... more |
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Apr 15, 2019 
Like humans and animals, plants defend themselves against pathogens with the help of their immune system. But how do they activate their cellular defenses? Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have now discovered that receptors in plant cells identify bacteria through simple molecular building blocks.
"The immune system of plants is more sophisticated than we thought," s ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) April 11, 2019 
China is planning to send millions of youth "volunteers" back to the villages, raising fears of a return to the methods of Chairman Mao's brutal Cultural Revolution of 50 years ago.
The Communist Youth League (CYL) has promised to despatch more than 10 million students to "rural zones" by 2022 in order to "increase their skills, spread civilization and promote science and technology," accord ... more |
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 Libreville (AFP) April 12, 2019 
Gabon has suspended a logging licence issued to a Chinese timber company after a British watchdog group, the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), accused the firm of bribery and breaches of forestry laws.
The EIA, in a report on March 25, said Dejia Group "routinely bribes ministers" in Gabon and the neighbouring Republic of Congo.
The group has "continuously broken the most fundame ... more |
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