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  Paris (ESA) May 14, 2019 One has a thick poisonous atmosphere, one has hardly any atmosphere at all, and one is just right for life to flourish - but it wasn't always that way. The atmospheres of our two neighbours Venus and Mars can teach us a lot about the past and future scenarios for our own planet. Rewind 4.6 billion years from the present day to the planetary construction yard, and we see that all the planets share a common history: they were all born from the same swirling cloud of gas and dust, with the newborn Su ... read more |
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Space Station science looking at EarthParis (ESA) May 14, 2019 In this edition of our bi-weekly update on European research run on the International Space Station, we're taking our cue from the Living Planet Symposium - the largest conference on Earth Observati ... more 
Spotlight on the pulse of our planetParis (ESA) May 14, 2019 Satellites deliver crucial information to help solve what is our biggest global problem: climate change. As well as taking the pulse of our planet, satellite data are used in a myriad of daily appli ... more 
Joining forces on Earth science to benefit societyParis (ESA) May 14, 2019 With human activity leaving its indelible mark on the landscape and affecting the climate, our natural world is changing faster than at any other time in history. Science is fundamental to understan ... more  
New research accurately predicts Australian wheat yield months before harvestUrbana IL (SPX) May 14, 2019 Topping the list of Australia's major crops, wheat is grown on more than half the country's cropland and is a key export commodity. With so much riding on wheat, accurate yield forecasting is necess ... more |
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Mount Blanc glacier reveals traces of Roman-era pollutionWashington (UPI) May 13, 2019 Scientists have measured the remnants of Roman-era pollution trapped in the icy layers of the glacier at the top of Dôme du Goûter, a mountain in the Mount Blanc massif, which is part of the Alps. ... more 
Delhi hit by rare summer air pollution alertNew Delhi (AFP) May 13, 2019 New Delhi suffered a rare summer air pollution alert Monday as dust storms and heat over northern India took smog to hazardous levels. ... more  
415.26 parts per million: CO2 levels hit historic highParis (AFP) May 14, 2019 Scientists in the United States have detected the highest levels of planet-warming carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere since records began, sounding new alarm over the relentless rise of man-made greenhouse gas emissions. ... more  
Indian cyclone death toll rises, anger growsNew Delhi (AFP) May 13, 2019 The death toll from a major cyclone that hit eastern India and Bangladesh in early May rose to 77 on Monday as anger grew over millions of people still without power and water. ... more  
Glassy menagerie of particles in beach sands near Hiroshima is fallout debrisBerkeley CA (SPX) May 14, 2019 Mario Wannier, a career geologist with expertise in studying tiny marine life, was methodically sorting through particles in samples of beach sand from Japan's Motoujina Peninsula when he spotted so ... more |
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180 nations agree UN deal to regulate export of plastic wasteGeneva (AFP) May 10, 2019 Around 180 governments on Friday agreed on a new UN accord to regulate the export of plastic waste, some eight million tonnes of which ends up in the oceans each year, organisers said. ... more  |
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Crowdfunding brings life-saving water to Myanmar's deerMagway, Myanmar (AFP) May 10, 2019 A herd of endangered deer wait under the shade of one of the sparse trees in this parched central Myanmar landscape, watching as rangers dispatch drinking water - a life-saving resource funded by wellwishers across the country. ... more 
Protests reported as millions without power, one week after India cycloneNew Delhi (AFP) May 11, 2019 Millions of people are living without power or shelter in eastern India, a week after a devastating cyclone hit the region, officials said Saturday, as reports emerged of angry survivors protesting over the slow pace of relief. ... more  
Indigenous Australians take government to UN over climate changeSydney (AFP) May 13, 2019 Indigenous residents of low-lying islands off northern Australia will submit a landmark complaint with the United Nations on Monday accusing the government of violating their human rights by failing to tackle climate change. ... more  
A late-night disco in the forest reveals tree performanceHelsinki, Finland (SPX) May 14, 2019 In 2017, the group from the Optics of Photosynthesis Lab (OPL) developed a new method to measure a small but important signal produced by all plants, and in this case trees. This signal is a called ... more  
What we've learned from water in motionPasadena CA (JPL) May 14, 2019 When you hear news about ice loss from Greenland or Antarctica, an aquifer in California that is getting depleted, or a new explanation for a wobble in Earth's rotation, you might not realize that a ... more |
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 Berkeley CA (SPX) May 14, 2019 
Mario Wannier, a career geologist with expertise in studying tiny marine life, was methodically sorting through particles in samples of beach sand from Japan's Motoujina Peninsula when he spotted something unexpected: a number of tiny, glassy spheres and other unusual objects.
Wannier, who is now retired, had been comparing biological debris in beach sands from different areas in an effort ... more |
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 Cocoa FL (UPI) May 09, 2019 
Rocket Crafters, a Cocoa, Fla.-based space startup, has signed an agreement with RUAG Space to use RUAG components.
The memo of understanding is a further step toward launching a suborbital rocket test this winter, according to Robert Fabian, president at Rocket Crafters. The firm is aiming for a piece of the expanding small-satellite market. Its rocket under development is called Intrepid ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) May 13, 2019  To better protect coral reefs, scientists suggest an improved understanding of the coral-algae relationship is necessary.
During coral bleaching events, environmental stress triggers a breakup of the symbiotic relationship between coral and algae.
In a new study published in the journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution, scientists argue most of the research into coral bleaching ha ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) May 10, 2019 
For more than half a century, biologists studying Antarctica focused their research on understanding how organisms cope with the continent's severe drought and the coldest conditions on the planet.
One thing they didn't really factor in, however, was the role played by the nitrogen-rich droppings from colonies of cute penguins and seals - until now.
A new study published Thursday in the ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) May 11, 2019 
Hong Kong will cull 6,000 pigs after African swine fever was detected in an animal at a slaughterhouse close to the border with China, the first case of the disease in the densely populated financial hub.
"In order to minimise the risk of ASF virus spreading from the slaughterhouse, all pigs in Sheung Shui Slaughterhouse will be culled so that thorough cleansing and also disinfection could b ... more |
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 Panama City (AFP) May 13, 2019  A 6.1-magnitude earthquake hit Panama on Sunday, injuring at least five people and causing damage to businesses and homes, officials said.
The strong quake struck at a depth of 37 kilometers (23 miles) in the far west of the country near the Costa Rican border, according to the US Geological Survey.
The National Civil Protection System, or Sinaproc, said five people were hurt and four ho ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) May 10, 2019  French special forces have freed two French hostages, an American and a South Korean in northern Burkina Faso in an overnight raid in which two soldiers died, authorities announced Friday.
The operation was launched to free two French tourists who had disappeared while on holiday in the remote Pendjari National Park in neighbouring Benin on May 1.
But during the raid, the French troops w ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) May 9, 2019 
Some 8,000 years ago, South American's climate suddenly shifted. According to a new study, the abrupt change precipitated a decline among the continent's human populations.
"Archaeologists working in South America have broadly known that some 8,200 years ago, inhabited sites in various places across the continent were suddenly abandoned," Philip Riris, researcher at University College L ... more |
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 Sydney (AFP) May 13, 2019 
Indigenous residents of low-lying islands off northern Australia will submit a landmark complaint with the United Nations on Monday accusing the government of violating their human rights by failing to tackle climate change.
The Torres Strait Islanders will tell the UN Human Rights Committee in Geneva that rising seas caused by global warming are threatening their homelands and culture, lawy ... more |
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 New Haven CT (SPX) May 08, 2019 
A Yale-led team of scientists may have found a new factor to help explain the ebb and flow of Earth's magnetic field - and it's something familiar to anyone who has made a vinaigrette for their salad.
Earth's magnetic field, produced near the center of the planet, has long acted as a buffer from the harmful radiation of solar winds emanating from the Sun. Without that protection, life on E ... more |
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 Lincoln UK (SPX) May 10, 2019 
Micro-CT scanning of a tiny snake-like fossil discovered in Scotland has shed new light on the elusive creature, thought to be one of the earliest known tetrapods to develop teeth that allowed it to crush its prey.
Detailed scans of Acherontiscus caledoniae showed a unique combination of different tooth shapes and sizes as well as a deep lower jaw which scientists believe would have given ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) May 13, 2019 
The world must double spending on renewable power and slash investment in oil and coal by 2030 to keep the Paris climate treaty temperature targets in play, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said Tuesday.
For that to happen, however, trend lines on both fronts moved in the wrong direction last year, the agency reported in its 4th annual World Energy Investment overview.
Money going i ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) May 13, 2019 
In the strongly correlated materials such as cuprate high-temperature superconductors, superconductivity can be controlled either by changing the number of electrons or by changing the kinetic energy, or transfer energy, of electrons in the system.
Although a large number of strongly correlated materials have been examined with different parameters to understand the mechanism of supercondu ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) May 9, 2019 
Evolution produced the same flightless bird species twice, with each occurrence separated by tens of thousands of years. The phenomena, called iterative evolution, helped bring the flightless rail species back from the dead.
According to a new study, the bird twice settled on an isolated atoll near the Seychelles called Aldabra, losing its ability to fly after a several thousand years o ... more |
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 Lyon (AFP) May 13, 2019 
The wife and children of former Interpol chief Meng Hongwei, who vanished while visiting China in September last year, have been granted political asylum in France, the family's lawyer told AFP on Monday.
Grace Meng, who was given police protection after she alleged an abduction attempt at the start of the year, was granted asylum on May 2 along with the couple's two children, their lawyer E ... more |
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 Helsinki, Finland (SPX) May 14, 2019 
In 2017, the group from the Optics of Photosynthesis Lab (OPL) developed a new method to measure a small but important signal produced by all plants, and in this case trees. This signal is a called chlorophyll fluorescence and it is an emission of radiation at the visible and near-infrared wavelengths.
Chlorophyll fluorescence relates to photosynthesis and the health status of plants, and ... more |
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