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  Boston MA (SPX) May 28, 2025 The human brain contains about 86 billion neurons. These cells fire electrical signals that help the brain store memories and send information and commands throughout the brain and the nervous system. The brain also contains billions of astrocytes - star-shaped cells with many long extensions that allow them to interact with millions of neurons. Although they have long been thought to be mainly supportive cells, recent studies have suggested that astrocytes may play a role in memory storage and ot ... read more |
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AI constellation to monitor UK water networks with Quub techLondon, UK (SPX) May 28, 2025 Quub UK has secured GBP 1.3 million in funding through the OFWAT Water Breakthrough Challenge to launch its SpaceEye initiative. Over the next three years, the project will deploy six low-cost satel ... more  
Along Ghana's vanishing coast, climate change swallows history, homesKeta, Ghana (AFP) May 27, 2025 The salty wind blows across the ruins of Ghana's Fort Prinzenstein, where thick walls once held thousands of enslaved Africans before their journey across the Atlantic. ... more  
Gold and precious metals traced to Earth's core in Hawaiian lavaBerlin, Germany (SPX) May 26, 2025 Researchers at the University of Gottingen have uncovered evidence that material from Earth's core, including gold and other precious metals, is leaking into the planet's upper layers. Their study, ... more  
Nanchang satellite drives environmental protection and low altitude innovationTokyo, Japan (SPX) May 28, 2025 Jiangxi province has marked a technological milestone with the launch of its first domestically developed ecological monitoring satellite, "Nanchang Aerospace-1". Lifted into orbit aboard a Zhuque ... more |
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Invasive species cost trillions in damages: studyParis (AFP) May 26, 2025 From river-clogging plants to disease-carrying insects, the direct economic cost of invasive species worldwide has averaged about $35 billion a year for decades, researchers said Monday. ... more |
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UN experts urge release of Azerbaijani rights defenderGeneva (AFP) May 26, 2025 Four UN special rapporteurs on Monday demanded the release of Azerbaijani rights defender and climate advocate Anar Mammadli, who has been in detention for more than a year. ... more  
Massive lava columns in Kilauea volcano's latest display in HawaiiLos Angeles, United States (AFP) May 26, 2025 One of the world's most active volcanoes spewed columns of lava exceeding 1,000 feet above Hawaii, according to US vulcanologists and spectacular footage released Sunday. ... more  
India races to contain oil spill after container ship sinksBengaluru, India (AFP) May 26, 2025 India's coastguard raced on Monday to contain an oil spill from a container ship with hazardous cargo that sank off the southern coast a day earlier, Kerala's state government said. ... more 
Germany brands allegations against ambassador in Uganda 'absurd'Berlin (AFP) May 26, 2025 Germany on Monday branded allegations against its ambassador to Kampala "absurd", a day after the Ugandan army accused him of being "engaged in subversive activities" there. ... more |
 
SE Asian leaders meet China's Li and Gulf states to bolster tiesKuala Lumpur (AFP) May 27, 2025 Southeast Asian leaders are looking to insulate their trade-dependent economies from geopolitical uncertainty, in particular US tariffs, as they hold talks with Chinese Premier Li Qiang and Gulf state dignitaries in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday. ... more  Available on Amazon Books |
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Trump attacks opponents, judges on day honoring US war deadArlington, United States (AFP) May 26, 2025 President Donald Trump marked the annual day for honoring the US war dead Monday by tearing into his "scum" opponents and judges who don't rule in his favor. ... more 
Venezuela's Maduro wins landslide in election boycotted by oppositionCaracas (AFP) May 26, 2025 Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's party swept the board in parliamentary and regional elections that were boycotted by the opposition in protest over his disputed re-election last year. ... more 
Japan says China conducted research near Pacific atollTokyo (AFP) May 27, 2025 Japan has accused China of conducting unnotified maritime scientific research within its exclusive economic zone around its southernmost island in the Pacific Ocean, Tokyo said Tuesday. ... more 
Iraq's water reserves lowest in 80 years: officialBaghdad (AFP) May 25, 2025 Iraq's water reserves are at their lowest in 80 years after a dry rainy season, a government official said Sunday, as its share from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers shrinks. ... more |
India's monsoon lashes Mumbai as rains arrive earlyMumbai (AFP) May 26, 2025 Lashing rains swamped India's financial capital Mumbai on Monday as the annual monsoon arrived some two weeks earlier than usual, according to weather forecasters. ... more 
Rare wild cattle herded in Cambodia by helicopterPhnom Penh (AFP) May 24, 2025 A helicopter successfully herded 16 critically endangered banteng onto a truck in Cambodia for the first time, conservationists said, marking a "significant achievement" in a country with high rates of deforestation. ... more  
Pentagon deploys more U.S. troops to southern borderWashington DC (UPI) May 23, 2025 The Pentagon is sending an additional 1,115 soldiers to the U.S.-Mexico border, U.S. Northern Command announced Thursday. ... more 
S.Africa moves to ease black empowerment law under Starlink pressureJohannesburg (AFP) May 23, 2025 South Africa's government is moving towards easing its black ownership laws in the telecoms sector - a policy change that would smooth the way for Elon Musk's Starlink to enter the local market. ... more |
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Ancient town and its manuscripts face ravages of the Sahara Oualata, Mauritania (AFP) May 26, 2025 From his roof, Sidi Mohamed Lemine Sidiya scans the mediaeval town of Oualata, a treasure that is disappearing under the sands of the Mauritanian desert. ... more 
Turkey arrests 65 soldiers, police for ties to late Erdogan foeIstanbul (AFP) May 23, 2025 Turkey arrested 65 soldiers and police officers early Friday over alleged ties to the late preacher Fethullah Gulen, who was accused of masterminding the failed 2016 coup. ... more 
Myanmar ex-general slain in attack claimed by anti-coup fightersYangon (AFP) May 22, 2025 A retired Myanmar general who formerly served as ambassador to Cambodia was shot dead on Thursday, two military sources said, in an attack claimed by anti-coup fighters. ... more 
NASA-French Satellite Spots Large-Scale River Waves for First TimePasadena CA (JPL) May 22, 2025 The SWOT mission captured the flood waves, which stretched from 47 to 166 miles long, as they traveled down rivers in Montana, Texas, and Georgia. In a first, researchers from NASA and Virgini ... more |
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Deep mantle carbon flow influences diamond formation and craton stabilityTokyo, Japan (SPX) May 22, 2025 A recent study led by scientists at the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (GIG-CAS), in collaboration with international partners, uncovers how deeply subducted ... more |
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At least 14 killed in Pakistan storms after heatwaveLahore, Pakistan (AFP) May 25, 2025 "Destructive" windstorms that raged across central and northern Pakistan after an intense heatwave have killed at least 14 people and injured over 100 more, officials said Sunday. ... more  
Ice age species evolved in stages across changing climatesLondon, UK (SPX) May 26, 2025 A recent study by researchers from Bournemouth University has unveiled distinct evolutionary phases among animals and plants during the ice age, providing new context for how cold-adapted species de ... more  
Membranes may have shaped the selection of life's building blocksLondon UK (SPX) May 21, 2025 Scientists investigating the origin of life suggest that primitive membranes may have influenced which biomolecules became foundational to life. Their study examines how the earliest cell membranes ... more  
Ancient pollen reveals stories about Earth's history, from the asteroid strike that killed the dinosaurs to the Mayan collapseRolla MO (SPX) May 21, 2025 If you are sneezing this spring, you are not alone. Every year, plants release billions of pollen grains into the air, specks of male reproductive material that many of us notice only when we get wa ... more |
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