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  Washington (AFP) March 18, 2017 People who received regular lifestyle counseling online were able to lower their blood pressure as much as a medication would, researchers said Saturday. Their study involved 264 people with high blood pressure and an average age of 58. The subjects' average blood pressure began at around 140/90 mmHg, meaning they had what is clinically known as stage 1 hypertension. Most were already taking at least one drug to cut their blood pressure. Patients enrolled through the website of the Hear ... read more |
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UN body urges China to act as bird flu deaths spikeRome (AFP) March 17, 2017 The UN's food agency on Friday urged China to step up efforts to contain and eliminate a strain of bird flu which has killed scores of people this year. ... more  
Exhaust fumes as a resourceNuremberg, Germany (SPX) Mar 17, 2017 Chemists at Friedrich-Alexander Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg (FAU) have developed a process in which nitrogen oxides generated during industrial processes can be used in the manufacture of colouran ... more 
700 dead as malaria 'epidemic' hits BurundiNairobi (AFP) March 14, 2017 About 700 people have died from malaria in Burundi so far this year, the health minister said, with the authorities having registered 1.8 million infections in a rising epidemic. ... more  
Making resistant superbugs sensitive to antibioticsCopenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Mar 15, 2017 New research is paving the way for the development of innovative drugs that restore antibiotic susceptibility in antibiotic-resistant superbugs such as Klebsiella pneumoniae, a main cause of fatal l ... more |
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Scientists zoom in on AIDS virus hideoutParis (AFP) March 15, 2017 French scientists said Wednesday they had found a way to pinpoint elusive white blood cells which provide a hideout for the AIDS virus in people taking anti-HIV drugs. ... more 
Paris's overworked rat-catchers on strikeParis (AFP) March 14, 2017 Paris's overworked rat-catchers staged a one-day strike Tuesday, protesting outside city hall to demand reinforcements and bonuses two months after carrying out a massive cull in the French capital. ... more
Paris mayor to spend 1.5 million euros for 'war on rats'Paris (AFP) March 12, 2017 The mayor of Paris said Sunday the city would spend 1.5 million euros ($1.6 million) to rid the French capital of rats and install more public ashtrays to clean up the city's streets. ... more 
New material regrows boneChicago IL (SPX) Mar 09, 2017 A team of researchers repaired a hole in a mouse's skull by regrowing "quality bone," a breakthrough that could drastically improve the care of people who suffer severe trauma to the skull or face. ... more 
New technology platform propels the use of 'organs-on-chips'Boston MA (SPX) Mar 09, 2017 A research team led by scientists from Brigham and Women's Hospital has developed a novel technology platform that enables the continuous and automated monitoring of so-called "organs-on-chips" - ti ... more 
Groundbreaking technology rewarms large-scale tissues preserved at low temperaturesMinneapolis MN (SPX) Mar 03, 2017 A research team, led by the University of Minnesota, has discovered a groundbreaking process to successfully rewarm large-scale animal heart valves and blood vessels preserved at very low temperatur ... more |
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 Czech scientists build non-metal magnet out of carbon 
Group blazes path to efficient, eco-friendly deep-ultraviolet LEDIthaca NY (SPX) Mar 06, 2017 The darkest form of ultraviolet light, known as UV-C, is unique because of its reputation as a killer - of harmful organisms. With wavelengths of between 200 and 280 nanometers, this particula ... more 
New advance could boost available organs for transplantMiami (AFP) March 1, 2017 /> A new scientific advance could boost the number of donated organs available for transplant, and possibly reduce a critical shortage that leads to thousands of deaths each year, researchers said ... more 
More mosquito species than previously thought may transmit ZikaAthens GA (SPX) Mar 01, 2017 Zika virus could be transmitted by more mosquito species than those currently known, according to a new predictive model created by ecologists at the University of Georgia and the Cary Institute of ... more 
Flu meds do not harm unborn babies: studyParis (AFP) Feb 28, 2017 Unborn children suffer no harm when their mothers take flu medication during pregnancy, a study of some 700,000 women said Wednesday. ... more |
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The U.S. Coast Guard will not see the budget cuts the Trump administration planned for the branch after a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers blocked the move.
While President Donald Trump continues to push Congress to boost budgets for military branches managed by the Department of Defense, the administration sought to strip $1.3 billion in spending for the Coast Guard. The cut would hav ... more Mosul, Iraq (AFP) March 19, 2017Mosul families go against the tide to return home Mosul, Iraq (AFP) March 18, 2017Death carts carry family ripped apart by Mosul campaign  Washington (AFP) March 18, 2017Do US self-defense laws trigger more crime? |
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Scientists studying the Northern Lights say they think their research will lead to new technology to reduce outages from satellite navigation systems.
Researchers at the University of Bath in England found for the first time that turbulence does not take place within the Northern Lights and instead that unknown mechanisms are responsible for the outages of Global Navigation Satellite Sy ... more Los Angeles CA (UPI) Mar 07, 2017DevOps process reduces GPS OCX development time for Raytheon  Beijing (AFP) Feb 21, 2017Police in China's restive Xinjiang to track cars by GPS  New Delhi (Sputnik) Feb 15, 2017GLONASS station in India to expedite 'space centric' warfare command |
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 University Park PA (SPX) Mar 17, 2017 
Big, small, broad, narrow, long or short, turned up, pug, hooked, bulbous or prominent, humans inherit their nose shape from their parents, but ultimately, the shape of someone's nose and that of their parents was formed by a long process of adaptation to our local climate, according to an international team of researchers.
"We are interested in recent human evolution and what explains the ... more Washington (UPI) Mar 17, 2017Human skull and bipedalism evolved side-by-side  Tanjung Gusta, Indonesia (AFP) March 17, 2017Indonesian tribes gather amid push to protect homelands  Binghamton NY (SPX) Mar 15, 2017400,000-year-old fossil human cranium is oldest ever found in Portugal |
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New research by Professor Beth Shapiro of the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute and University of Alberta Professor Duane Froese has identified North America's oldest bison fossils and helped construct a bison genealogy establishing that a common maternal ancestor arrived between 130,000 and 195,000 years ago, during a previous ice age.
Shapiro, Froese and colleagues used new techniques for ... more Paris (AFP) March 14, 2017Science unravels spiders' monstrous food web  Beirut (AFP) March 18, 2017Lebanon rescues 3 Siberian tiger cubs en route to Syria  Washington (UPI) Mar 15, 2017Study: Some bed bugs climb better than others |
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 Rome (AFP) March 17, 2017 
The UN's food agency on Friday urged China to step up efforts to contain and eliminate a strain of bird flu which has killed scores of people this year.
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned that countries neighbouring China were at "high risk" of exposure to the H7N9 strain, which has recently mutated to become far more deadly for chicken than it had been.
The agency also w ... more Paris (AFP) March 15, 2017Scientists zoom in on AIDS virus hideout  Nairobi (AFP) March 14, 2017700 dead as malaria 'epidemic' hits Burundi  Paris (AFP) March 14, 2017Paris's overworked rat-catchers on strike |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) March 17, 2017 
An Andy Warhol portrait of former Chinese leader Mao Zedong will be auctioned in Hong Kong in a landmark sale that could fetch $15 million - but mainland buyers may be wary of putting in a bid.
The classic 1973 screen print by the legendary US pop artist will go under the hammer at Sotheby's next month with the highest estimate the auction house has ever seen for a painting in Asia.
It ... more Hong Kong (AFP) March 17, 2017Hong Kong protesters jailed for 3 years for anti-China clashes  Hong Kong (AFP) March 18, 2017Fashion renaissance: from slick city to hip Hong Kong  Beijing (AFP) March 14, 2017'Tell it like it is': China delegate rips meek Congress |
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 Manila (AFP) Feb 8, 2017 
The Philippines is seeking US and Chinese help to guard a major sea lane as Islamic militants shift attacks to international shipping, officials said Wednesday.
Manila does not want the Sibutu Passage between Malaysia's Sabah state and the southern Philippines to turn into a Somalia-style pirate haven, coast guard officials said.
The deep-water channel, used by 13,000 vessels each year, ... moreLome (AFP) Oct 15, 2016African leaders tackle piracy, illegal fishing at Lome summit  New York (AFP) Oct 5, 2016US to deport ex-navy chief drug trafficker to Guinea-Bissau  Culiacan, Mexico (AFP) Sept 30, 2016Gunmen ambush Mexican military convoy, kill 5 soldiers |
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 Beijing (AFP) Oct 19, 2016 
Chinese growth stabilised in the third quarter, data showed Wednesday, as ample credit and hot property markets propped up the world's second-largest economy.
But while the forecast-beating reading was in line with state targets, it came as experts warned that authorities have relied too much on easy credit, which has in turn increased financial risks.
The economy grew 6.7 percent in Jul ... moreNew York (AFP) Oct 14, 2016China data and US banks propel equities higher  Beijing (AFP) Oct 11, 2016No debt-for-equity cure for zombie firms, says China  Beijing (AFP) Oct 13, 2016China's ranks of super-rich rise despite economic slowdown |
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 Tallinn (AFP) March 17, 2017 
British troops will arrive in Estonia on Friday, part of a NATO move to reinforce its eastern flank in a bid to deter a militarily resurgent Russia, the military said.
The 130 soldiers will head to the northern town of Tapa, to be joined by up to 50 French soldiers on Monday as well as the rest of the battalion in the coming weeks.
By mid-April more than 800 British troops and nearly 3 ... more Berlin (AFP) March 17, 2017Germany wants change to NATO two-percent budget goal  Vilnius (AFP) March 16, 2017Lithuania wants NATO command headquarters on eastern flank  Beijing (AFP) March 19, 2017Xi, Tillerson vow to work toward closer US-China ties |
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 Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 01, 2017 
Mammalian cells are optimally adapted to gravity. But what happens in the microgravity environment of space if the earth's pull disappears? Previously, many experiments exhibited cell changes - after hours or even days in zero gravity. Astronauts, however, returned to Earth without any severe health problems after long missions in space, which begs the question as to how capable cells are of ada ... more Moscow, Russia (SPX) Feb 22, 2017'Gravitational noise' interferes with determining distant sources  Chicago IL (SPX) Feb 17, 2017New method uses heat flow to levitate variety of objects  Washington DC (SPX) Feb 14, 2017Increasing the sensitivity of next-generation gravitational wave detectors |
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 Washington (AFP) March 16, 2017  US charges that Russia's FSB security service was behind the hacking of Yahoo underscored a worrisome run of successes in Moscow's cyber-efforts against its longtime rival.
Coming after Russian President Vladimir Putin allegedly masterminded an effort to shape the US presidential election last year, the accusations add to concerns that the Kremlin is besting Washington on multiple fronts, fr ... more Washington (AFP) March 19, 2017Secrets from smart devices find path to legal system  Beijing (AFP) March 17, 2017China blocks Pinterest: censorship watchdogs  Washington (AFP) March 15, 2017US charges two Russian spies in massive Yahoo cyberattack |
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 Mosul, Iraq (AFP) March 19, 2017  Iraqi forces backed by helicopter strikes engaged in heavy fighting with jihadists on the outskirts of the Old City on Sunday as they pressed their offensive to recapture west Mosul.
The elite Rapid Response Force and Iraqi federal police attacked the Islamic State group militants with rifles, machineguns, mortar rounds and rockets a month after the west Mosul operation began.
The joint ... more Mosul, Iraq (AFP) March 18, 2017Iraq forces say near Mosul mosque where IS declared 'caliphate' Mosul, Iraq (AFP) March 17, 2017Iraq commander announces gains in Mosul Old City Baghdad (AFP) March 16, 2017More than 150,000 Iraqis fled west Mosul fighting: ministry |
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 Washington (AFP) March 9, 2017 
The top US military commander for the Middle East warned Thursday that the United States would need more troops on the ground in Afghanistan to stave off a resurgent Taliban.
General Joseph Votel, who heads US Central Command (Centcom), told the Senate Armed Forces Committee he was currently working on a new strategy to break the war out of a stalemate.
"I do believe it will involve addi ... more Sulaimaniyah, Iraq (AFP) March 3, 2017Iraqi Kurds, PKK fight proxy battle in north Iraq  Beijing (AFP) March 1, 2017Bloody Islamic State video puts China in cross-hairs  Peshawar, Pakistan (AFP) March 2, 2017US drone kills two on motorbike in Pakistan: officials |
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 Washington (AFP) March 17, 2017  World Bank investments in commercial financial institutions is indirectly allowing land-grabs, evictions and pollution in Southeast Asia, a watchdog group charged in a report Friday.
By investing in banks and other so-called financial intermediaries, World Bank funds can increase poverty, social strife and promote projects which hasten climate change, according to a report by Inclusive Devel ... morePrague (AFP) March 19, 2017Czech energy group bucks green trend with bet on coal Washington (AFP) March 17, 2017World Bank indirectly backs harmful SE Asian projects: report  Beijing (AFP) March 14, 201717 killed in China coal mine accident: state media |
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 Brussels (AFP) March 15, 2017 
The EU's chemicals agency said Wednesday that glyphosate, one of the world's most widely used weedkillers, should not be classed as a carcinogen.
The assessment paves the way for Brussels to make a final decision on the chemical, despite deep divisions in the 28-member European Union over its use.
Glyphosate is used in the best-selling herbicide Roundup, produced by the US agro-chemicals ... more Geneva, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 15, 2017Greenhouse gases: First it was cows now it's larvae  Munich, Germany (SPX) Mar 17, 2017Molecular mechanism responsible for blooming in spring identified  London (AFP) March 16, 2017Cocoa industry agrees plan to tackle deforestation |
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 Gottingen, Germany (SPX) Mar 15, 2017 
Among the most striking features on the surface of Ceres are the bright spots in the center of Occator crater which stood out already as NASA's space probe Dawn approached the dwarf planet. Scientists under the leadership of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) have now for the first time determined the age of this bright material, which consists mainly of deposits of special ... more Mountain View CA (SPX) Mar 09, 2017Warped Meteor Showers Hit Earth at All Angles  Onna, Japan (SPX) Mar 09, 2017Mechanism underlying size-sorting of rubble on asteroid Itokawa revealed  Zurich (UPI) Mar 7, 2017Earth is bombarded at random, crater study shows |
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