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  Lesbos Island, Greece (AFP) April 22, 2019 Knee-deep in water on a picture-postcard Lesbos island beach, a team of Greek university students gently deposits a wall-sized PVC frame on the surface before divers moor it at sea. Holding in plastic bags and bottles, four of the 5 metre-by-5-metre (16 foot-by-16-foot) frames are part of an experiment to determine if seaborne litter can be detected with EU satellites and drones. "This was the first big day," says project supervisor Konstantinos Topuzelis, an assistant professor at the Universit ... read more |
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Solar evaporator offers a fresh route to fresh waterCollege Park MD (SPX) Apr 17, 2019 About a billion people around the world lack access to safe drinking water. Desalinating salty water into drinkable water can help to fill this dangerous gap. But traditional desalination systems ar ... more  
Children judge people based on facial features, just like adultsWashington (UPI) Apr 19, 2019 Children judge and adjust their behavior toward people based on the person's facial features, just like adults do. ... more  
London climate protesters seek talks with governmentLondon (AFP) April 21, 2019 Climate change protesters who have brought parts of London to a standstill said Sunday they were prepared to call a halt if the British government will discuss their demands. ... more  
Ukraine comedian Zelensky wins presidency in landslideKiev (AFP) April 22, 2019 A comedian with no political experience won a landslide victory in Ukraine's presidential election, drawing congratulations from global leaders while dealing a stunning rebuke to his country's political establishment. ... more |
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Notre-Dame paintings removed amid lead pollution fearsParis (AFP) April 19, 2019 French art experts headed into the stricken Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris to remove all the remaining paintings on Friday despite warnings from an environmental group that the site could be a toxic health threat. ... more  
Extinction Rebellion: the green movement with global ambitionsLondon (AFP) April 18, 2019 Activists climb atop buses, glue themselves to buildings and block traffic as Extinction Rebellion expands its campaign of civil disobedience. ... more  
Scientists measure what makes viper fangs so sharpWashington (UPI) Apr 18, 2019 In an effort to figure out which physical characteristics best correlate with puncturing performance, scientists chose to study the sharpness of viper fangs. ... more  
Three mountaineers presumed dead in Canada avalancheMontreal (AFP) April 19, 2019 Three world-renowned professional mountaineers - two Austrians and an American - were missing and presumed dead after an avalanche on a western Canadian summit, the country's national parks agency said Thursday. ... more  
Landslide in northern Malawi kills three, injures manyLilongwe, Malawi (AFP) April 21, 2019 Three people died after a landslide hit a village in the Rumphi district in northern Malawi, with at least five still missing Sunday and many others injured and hospitalised. ... more |
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We now know how insects and bacteria control iceSalt Lake City UT (SPX) Apr 16, 2019 Contrary to what you may have been taught, water doesn't always freeze to ice at 32 degrees F (zero degrees C). Knowing, or controlling, at what temperature water will freeze (starting with a proces ... more  |
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Researchers restore functions to pig brains hours after deathWashington (UPI) Apr 17, 2019 Using a solution created to preserve brain tissue and an artificial circulatory system called BrainEx, scientists at the Yale School of Medicine were able to restore some basic cellular functions inside several pigs' brains hours after death. ... more 
Unique oil-eating bacteria found in world's deepest ocean trenchNorwich UK (SPX) Apr 17, 2019 Scientists from the University of East Anglia have discovered a unique oil eating bacteria in the deepest part of the Earth's oceans - the Mariana Trench. Together with researchers from the Ch ... more 
Seals, caviar and oil: Caspian Sea faces pollution threatBaku (AFP) April 16, 2019 Seals waddling along the waterfront were once a common sight in Baku Bay, the Caspian Sea home of Azerbaijan's capital. ... more 
Scientists recover liquid blood from 42,000-year-old foalWashington (UPI) Apr 18, 2019 An international team of scientists have extracted liquid blood and urine from a 42,000-year-old foal recovered Siberian permafrost. Russian and South Korean researchers hope to use the preserved fluids to clone the ancient horse species. ... more 
Poachers threaten precious Madagascar forest and lemursVohibola, Madagascar (AFP) April 22, 2019 Under a leaden sky, six rangers walk silently in single file through Vohibola, one of the last primary forests in eastern Madagascar. ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) April 19, 2019 
The International Monetary Fund board on Friday approved an $118.2 million credit that will be rushed out for cyclone-devastated Mozambique to help with the recovery efforts.
The zero-interest, 10-year loan will help shore up the country's budget amid the reconstruction efforts after the massive damage caused last month by Cyclone Idai, the IMF said in a statement.
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 New Delhi (Sputnik) Apr 17, 2019 
US Strategic Command chief General John E. Hyten defended India before members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, saying that the country had tested the anti-satellite missile because it needed the capability to defend itself in space. The general called for international norms of behaviour in space to curtail the dangerous debris issue.
According to Indian daily The Hindu, the Pentag ... more |
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 Tallinn, Estonia (SPX) Apr 17, 2019 
The environment around us is becoming increasingly polluted. This includes one of our most precious natural resources - water. Clean water is essential to human survival. Due to increased pollution, water treatment methods are becoming increasingly important as well.
As regards scientifically proven methods, the plasma water treatment by electrical discharge method patented from 2013 is ou ... more |
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 College Park MD (SPX) Apr 17, 2019 
The Antarctic Peninsula is the northernmost part of Earth's coldest continent, making it particularly vulnerable to a changing global climate. Surface melting of snow and ice initiated the breakup of the peninsula's northernmost Larsen A ice shelf in 1995, followed in 2002 by the Larsen B ice shelf to the south, which lost a section roughly the size of Rhode Island.
New University of Maryl ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 19, 2019 
The study of an ancient microbrewery in Peru and its supply of a sour beer has provided scientists new insights into the stability of the Wari empire.
For several years, researchers have been studying the remains of a brewing site at Cerro Baúl, an ancient city in southern Peru and the political center of the Wari empire, which lasted from 600 to 1100 AD - a long time for an ancient d ... more |
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 Taipei (AFP) April 18, 2019 
A 6.1-magnitude earthquake jolted Taiwan on Thursday, the US Geological Survey said, shaking buildings and disrupting traffic.
In the capital Taipei, highrises swayed while some panicked schoolchildren fled their classrooms in eastern Yilan county, according to reports.
The quake was felt across the island and a highway connecting Yilan and Hualien was shut down due to falling rocks, aut ... more |
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 Lilongwe, Malawi (AFP) April 21, 2019 
Three people died after a landslide hit a village in the Rumphi district in northern Malawi, with at least five still missing Sunday and many others injured and hospitalised.
Rumphi police spokesperson Tupeliwe Kabwilo told AFP that incessant rains in the area led to the landslide early Saturday which washed away an entire village nestled between Mphompha Hills and Lake Malawi.
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 12, 2019  Scientists expect a new microscopy technique to offer a more comprehensive picture of deep brain activity.
Imaging the brain is hard. Not only is it composed of millions of neurons and host to fast-moving signals, but also much of the activity is buried deep within tissue. So far, most brain imaging technologies focus on either speed or resolution, but struggle to do both together well. ... more |
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 London (AFP) April 21, 2019  Climate change protesters who have brought parts of London to a standstill said Sunday they were prepared to call a halt if the British government will discuss their demands.
Some 963 arrests have been made and 42 people charged in connection with the ongoing Extinction Rebellion protests.
On the seventh day of demonstrations that have occupied key spots in the British capital, Swedish t ... more |
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 Bonn, Germany (SPX) Apr 08, 2019 
Earth observation satellites play a key role in weather forecasting, climate research, monitoring of the planet's surface and the detection of forest fires. These tasks require satellites to transmit very large amounts of data to the ground for analysis. Today's radio systems are reaching their limits in this area.
Optical transmission methods, however, offer the possibility of sending dat ... 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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 Troy NY (SPX) Apr 17, 2019 
Creating a lithium-ion battery that can charge in a matter of minutes but still operate at a high capacity is possible, according to research from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute just published in Nature Communications. This development has the potential to improve battery performance for consumer electronics, solar grid storage, and electric vehicles.
A lithium-ion battery charges and di ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 15, 2019  Not all ants serve a single queen. Researchers have discovered colonies of tropical fire ants, insects native to Florida and coastal Georgia, living under the rule of multiple queens.
Scientists discovered the multi-queen colonies situated next to single-queen colonies.
"The coexistence of two dramatically different social structures fascinated me," researcher Kip Lacy said in a ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) April 22, 2019  Some 100 Chinese workers suffering from a work-related disease have signed a petition demanding the release of three prominent activists in southern China amid a crackdown on labour activism.
Wei Zhili and Ke Chengbing, editors of a labour rights news site that reported on the workers' cases, were arrested last month for "picking quarrels and provoking trouble" - a broad charge that Chinese ... more |
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 New York (AFP) April 16, 2019 
New York's Museum of Natural History announced Monday it had canceled a private function booked to take place there that would honor Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.
The leader, who has been attacked at home and abroad for policies that critics say threaten the environment and indigenous communities, was due to receive an award at the museum from the Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerce ... more |
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