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  San Francisco (AFP) July 19, 2019 A bold vision by tech entrepreneur Elon Musk to mesh human brains with artificial intelligence remains more science fiction than reality. Even as Musk claimed his Neuralink startup had enabled a monkey to control a computer with its brain, experts were quick to dampen expectations for a futuristic scenario from "The Matrix" films, based on people with cybernetic implants. Musk this week revealed his Neuralink startup is making progress on its brain-computer interface effort, and said the company ... read more |
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Snow cannons could stabilize West Antarctic ice sheetWashington (UPI) Jul 18, 2019 If the collapse of West Antarctica's ice was a certainty, what could be done to save the cultural heritage and economies along the world's coast? ... more  
Algae-killing virus stimulates nutrient recylcing in the oceansWashington (UPI) Jul 18, 2019 All of the ocean's many complex food chains rely on nutrients. Nutrient cycles fuel algae and phytoplankton blooms, which nourish the smaller life forms that feed larger predators. ... more  
'My entire world was gone': floods devastate northern PakistanLaswa Valley, Pakistan (AFP) July 19, 2019 Once a small cluster of houses stood along a gentle stream in Pakistani Kashmir. Now only jagged rocks and a few damaged homes remain after torrential rains wreaked havoc on the picturesque mountain village in the Laswa Valley. ... more  
Bolsonaro says claims of hunger in Brazil 'a big lie'Brasilia (AFP) July 20, 2019 Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro said Friday there was no hunger in the country, citing the lack of rail-thin poor people in the streets as proof. ... more |
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Pentagon: 2,100 more troops headed to U.S.-Mexico border in TexasWashington (UPI) Jul 18, 2019 An additional 2,100 troops, including 1,100 active-duty service members and 1,000 Texas National Guard soldiers, will be deployed to the U.S.-Mexico border "in the next several weeks," the Pentagon announced. ... more 
Italy's Etna volcano erupts on Sicily, closing two airportsRome (AFP) July 20, 2019 Italy's Mount Etna, Europe's biggest live volcano, erupted overnight with lava flows and explosive burps, vulcanologists said Saturday. ... more  
US braces for second day of scorching weekend temperaturesWashington (AFP) July 21, 2019 Americans braced for a second - and equally scorching - day of dangerously hot weather Sunday, with daytime temperatures forecast to approach 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius) across a number of major US cities. ... more  
In eastern DR Congo, influx of Ebola money is source of frictionButembo, Dr Congo (AFP) July 18, 2019 The UN is about to pound the drum for millions of dollars to stiffen the fight against Ebola in DR Congo, but at the heart of the epidemic, a money influx may worsen grassroots problems. ... more 
Athens settles for uneasy night after 5.1-magnitude quakeAthens (AFP) July 19, 2019 Athenians settled for an uneasy night Friday after a strong 5.1-magnitude earthquake temporarily knocked out phone connections, damaged buildings and caused power outages. ... more |
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More than 1,000 firefighters battle Portugal wildfiresAmendoa, Portugal (AFP) July 21, 2019 More than a thousand firefighters battled Sunday to control wildfires in central Portugal that have forced village evacuations, in a region where dozens were killed in huge blazes in 2017. ... more  |
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New EU chief faces battle for stable majorityBrussels (AFP) July 17, 2019 EU president-elect Ursula von der Leyen may have won a narrow majority in the European Parliament, but to lead the divided bloc she must build a stable support base. ... more  
Hong Kong braces for fresh anti-government marchHong Kong (AFP) July 21, 2019 Hong Kong is bracing for another huge anti-government march on Sunday afternoon with seemingly no end in sight to the turmoil engulfing the finance hub, sparked by years of rising anger over Beijing's rule. ... more 
Beijing and Canberra trade barbs over detained Australian citizenBeijing (AFP) July 19, 2019 China and Australia clashed on Friday over the detention of an Australian-Chinese writer who is held in Beijing on national security grounds - the latest source of tension between the two countries. ... more 
Thirty years of unique data reveal what's really killing coral reefsBoca Raton FL (SPX) Jul 22, 2019 Coral reefs are considered one of the most threatened ecosystems on the planet and are dying at alarming rates around the world. Scientists attribute coral bleaching and ultimately massive coral dea ... more 
Long-term measurements document sea level rise in the ArcticMunich, Germany (SPX) Jul 22, 2019 Over the past 22 years, sea levels in the Arctic have risen an average of 2.2 millimeters per year. This is the conclusion of a Danish-German research team after evaluating 1.5 billion radar measure ... more |
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 Brasilia (AFP) July 20, 2019 
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro said Friday there was no hunger in the country, citing the lack of rail-thin poor people in the streets as proof.
Speaking to foreign journalists, Bolsonaro blamed "populists" for propagating "a big lie" that some of Brazil's 209 million people did not have enough to eat.
"There is no hunger," the far-right leader said, noting Brazil "was rich in practic ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Jul 18, 2019 
In 1972, it took an astronaut going on a spacewalk to do what Lynn Carter now can do with a few mouse clicks over lunch. Carter, a planetary science professor at the Univerity of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, points to a small, framed photograph above her desk. It shows the Apollo 17 spacecraft, the last crewed mission to the moon, cruising high above the grey, cratered expanse below. ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jul 17, 2019 
A U.S. Navy request for proposals calls for a new class of unmanned surface vessels.
While the Navy floated performance specifications in February for a fleet of "medium unmanned surface vehicles," the request was officially announced Tuesday. It seeks developers for a craft of up to 164 feet long, to function as a sensor and communications relay in part of a family of unmanned surface ... more |
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Jul 22, 2019 
Over the past 22 years, sea levels in the Arctic have risen an average of 2.2 millimeters per year. This is the conclusion of a Danish-German research team after evaluating 1.5 billion radar measurements of various satellites using specially developed algorithms.
"The Arctic is a hotspot of climate change," explains Prof. Florian Seitz of the German Geodetic Research Institute at the Techn ... more |
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 Chatuzange-Le-Goubet, France (AFP) July 21, 2019 
Working its way across a purple-green field in southern France, a claw-fitted tractor harvests plants of lavender destined to become essential oil as a traditional sector stages a modest comeback.
"They are slightly grey because they are starting to wilt, it is the best point for the quantity and quality of essential oils," explains Vincent Jamonet who runs the operation in the Drome region ... more |
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 Athens (AFP) July 19, 2019 
Athenians settled for an uneasy night Friday after a strong 5.1-magnitude earthquake temporarily knocked out phone connections, damaged buildings and caused power outages.
Noting that many people were likely afraid to sleep indoors, citizen's protection minister Michalis Chrysohoidis said additional police would be deployed and remain on standby for the entire weekend.
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 Juba (AFP) July 19, 2019 
South Sudan's armed forces and rebels were on Friday ordered to report to military camps, a much-awaited step towards creating a unified national army as part of a peace accord.
The deal, signed in September 2018 in a bid to end almost six years of conflict, has suffered heavy delays.
One of its biggest hurdles has been the logistics of creating so-called cantonment sites, where troops a ... more |
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 San Francisco (AFP) July 19, 2019 
A bold vision by tech entrepreneur Elon Musk to mesh human brains with artificial intelligence remains more science fiction than reality.
Even as Musk claimed his Neuralink startup had enabled a monkey to control a computer with its brain, experts were quick to dampen expectations for a futuristic scenario from "The Matrix" films, based on people with cybernetic implants.
Musk this week ... more |
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 Brussels (AFP) July 19, 2019  Momentum is growing across Europe toward a mid-century target for climate neutrality that UN scientists say the world must embrace to avert catastrophe.
But experts say the 28 EU countries must accelerate measures on many fronts once they set the goal of emitting no more greenhouse gases than they absorb by 2050.
They insist that "climate neutrality" is achievable, but only provided the ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 22, 2019 
In 1972, Apollo 16 astronauts John Young and Charles Duke stood on the Moon and looked back at Earth. From the lunar surface, they took a picture of Earth like none before: the first view of our planet in far ultraviolet light.
This picture highlights Earth's ionosphere, a region of the upper atmosphere that is mostly invisible to our eyes - aside from aurora or airglow, if you're in the r ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jul 18, 2019  Unlike reptiles and birds, which scarf down large chunks of food or even swallow prey whole, most mammals chew before they swallow. The discovery of the 165-million-year-old remains of a shrew-like animal, Microdocodon gracilis, suggests some of the earliest ancestors of modern mammals chewed before they swallowed, too.
The newly found Jurassic fossil features the earliest known example ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) June 24, 2019 
Even modest climate change will increase global energy demand by up to a quarter before mid-century, and by nearly 60 percent if humanity fails to curb greenhouse gas emissions, researchers said Monday.
To the extent this energy comes from fossil fuels, the extra power needed to cool industries, homes and retail outlets in the coming decades will itself contribute to more warming, they repor ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jul 22, 2019 
Imagine powering your devices by walking. With technology recently developed by a group of researchers at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, that possibility might not be far out of reach.
The group describes the technology in Applied Physics Letters, from AIP Publishing. An energy harvester is attached to the wearer's knee and can generate 1.6 microwatts of power while the wearer walks ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jul 17, 2019 
Most people don't just want to live a long time, they want to age well. They want to stay healthier for longer. The quality of a person's life as they age is called healthspan, and new research suggests different genes control lifespan and healthspan.
While tracking the healthspan of an aging population, including factors like mobility and immune resistance, is difficult, researchers su ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) July 22, 2019  Anger soared in Hong Kong on Monday over a vicious assault against pro-democracy protesters by a mob of suspected triad gangsters that left dozens wounded, one critically, in a dramatic escalation of the political violence plaguing the financial hub.
The city's roiling unrest took a dark turn late Sunday when gangs of men - most wearing white t-shirts and carrying bats, sticks and metal pol ... more |
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 Reykjavik (AFP) July 17, 2019 
Before being colonised by the Vikings, Iceland was lush with forests but the fearsome warriors razed everything to the ground and the nation is now struggling to reforest the island.
The country is considered the least forested in Europe; indeed, forests in Iceland are so rare, or their trees so young, that people often joke that those lost in the woods only need to stand up to find their wa ... more |
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