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  Washington (UPI) Jun 13, 2017 An international team of scientists is taking a unique approach in the battle against malaria-carrying mosquitoes. The team, lead by researchers from the University of Maryland, have designed a mosquito-targeting fungus that replicates spider and scorpion toxins. The fungus is not a risk to humans and early test results suggest it is safe for honeybees and other beneficial insects. "In this paper, we report that our most potent fungal strains, engineered to express multiple toxins, are a ... read more |
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Space-traveling flatworms help scientists enhance understanding of regenerative healthMedford MA (SPX) Jun 12, 2017 Flatworms that spent five weeks aboard the International Space Station are helping researchers led by Tufts University scientists to study how an absence of normal gravity and geomagnetic fields can ... more 
Georgia State neuroscientists rewire brain of 1 species to have connectivity of anotherAtlanta GA (SPX) Jun 05, 2017 Scientists at Georgia State University have rewired the neural circuit of one species and given it the connections of another species to test a hypothesis about the evolution of neural circuits and ... more 
Cholera epidemic timelineParis (AFP) June 8, 2017 Cholera, which has killed 789 and infected 100,000 in war-ravaged Yemen since the end of April, is a water-borne disease which goes hand in hand with poverty. ... more 
Emergency medicine in space: Normal rules don't applyGeneva, Switzerland (SPX) Jun 06, 2017 Experts at this year's Euroanaesthesia congress in Geneva (3-5 June) will discuss the unusual and challenging problem of how to perform emergency medical procedures during space missions. "Spa ... more |
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Texas team debuts battery-less pacemakerHouston TX (SPX) Jun 07, 2017 A wireless, battery-less pacemaker that can be implanted directly into a patient's heart is being introduced by researchers from Rice University and their colleagues at the Texas Heart Institute (TH ... more 
NASA 1-year mission investigators identify links to vision problemsHouston TX (SPX) Jun 01, 2017 Coinciding with May - Healthy Vision Month, NASA's One-Year Mission investigators are peering into their new findings to help address astronaut vision issues. While the One-Year Mission has conclude ... more 
Chemical cocktail found in Barrier Reef turtlesSydney (AFP) June 2, 2017 Human medicines and household substances have been discovered in the blood of green turtles in Australia's Great Barrier Reef, researchers said Friday, highlighting the impact of man-made matter on marine life. ... more 
CRISPR gene editing can cause hundreds of unintended mutationsNew York NY (SPX) May 31, 2017 As CRISPR-Cas9 starts to move into clinical trials, a new study published in Nature Methods has found that the gene-editing technology can introduce hundreds of unintended mutations into the genome. ... more 
Engines of twingenuity: NASA's twin study investigators have a meeting of the mindsHouston TX (SPX) May 28, 2017 If you took all the DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) in your body and strung it end-to-end, it would reach all the way to Pluto and back. The Twins Study, looking at the effects of space on the human bod ... more  
A new tool for discovering nanoporous materialsLausanne, Switzerland (SPX) May 30, 2017 Materials classified as "nanoporous" have structures (or "frameworks") with pores up to 100 nm in diameter. These include diverse materials used in different fields from gas separation, catalysis, a ... more |
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Toward an HIV cure: Pitt team develops test to detect hidden virusPittsburgh PA (SPX) May 30, 2017 The quest to develop a cure for HIV has long been plagued by a seemingly simple question: How do doctors determine if someone is cured? The virus has a knack for lying dormant in immune cells at lev ... more 
New antibiotic packs a punch against bacterial resistanceLa Jolla CA (SPX) May 30, 2017 Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have given new superpowers to a lifesaving antibiotic called vancomycin, an advance that could eliminate the threat of antibiotic-resistant infect ... more 
Nanosubmarine with self-destroying activityNijmegen, Netherlands (SPX) May 31, 2017 Autonomous targeting and release of drugs at their site of action are desired features of nanomedical systems. Now, a team of Dutch scientists has designed a nanomotor that has these functions: An a ... more 
'Freak': meet Cuba's last self-infected HIV punk rebelPinar Del Rio, Cuba (AFP) May 28, 2017 Like many young punks, Gerson Govea saw himself as a misfit. But few embraced the role as self-destructively as this Cuban rocker: he deliberately infected himself with HIV. ... more |
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  Baghdad (AFP) June 13, 2017 
A mass food poisoning at a camp for displaced Iraqi civilians outside Mosul has left hundreds of people requiring urgent treatment, the UN and Iraqi officials said Tuesday.
Health ministry spokesman Seif al-Badr had told AFP that there were 752 cases of food poisoning and two deaths, a woman and child, at the Hasansham camp.
And UN migration agency spokesman Joel Millman had confirmed th ... more Marawi, Philippines (AFP) June 9, 2017Philippine war refugees facing deadly health risks  Ruskie Piaski, Pologne (AFP) June 12, 2017Flower power: gardening as therapy in Poland  Khazir, Iraq (AFP) June 8, 2017Scorpions the new threat for displaced Mosul civilians |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jun 14, 2017 
The Precise Service System of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) has been used in creating 317 smart cities in China, according to the Smart BDS Precise Application Summit opened on Monday.
BDS Precise Service System can provide precise positioning services for household gas and heat, power grid, water supplies,drainage and smart transportation.
Sun Jiadong, an academician ... more Paris (ESA) Jun 09, 2017Galileo grows: two more satellites join working constellation  Washington DC (SPX) May 30, 2017GIS is a powerful tool that should be used with caution  Tokyo (AFP) June 1, 2017Japan launches satellite in bid for super accurate GPS system |
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 Leipzig, Germany (SPX) Jun 14, 2017 
An international research team led by Jean-Jacques Hublin of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig, Germany) and Abdelouahed Ben-Ncer of the National Institute for Archaeology and Heritage (INSAP, Rabat, Morocco) uncovered fossil bones of Homo sapiens along with stone tools and animal bones at Jebel Irhoud, Morocco.
The finds are dated to about 300 thousand years ... more La Jolla CA (SPX) Jun 12, 2017How the brain recognizes what the eye sees  Ulsan, South Korea (SPX) Jun 14, 2017Removal of aging cells could extend human life  (UPI) Jun 12, 2017Hand-washing is like hitting a reset button in the brain |
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 Berlin (AFP) June 14, 2017  Two long-awaited giant pandas from China will arrive in Germany in two weeks time, with Berlin rolling out the red carpet for the furry ambassadors' arrival.
The two new residents, Meng Meng and Jiao Qing, will fly into Berlin on a special Lufthansa cargo plane on June 24, accompanied by two Chinese vets, Berlin zoo's chief vet, and a tonne of bamboo.
The pandas will be served "bamboo sn ... more Bucharest (AFP) June 13, 2017Romania to ban wild animals in circuses  Washington (UPI) Jun 8, 2017Dogs and wolves have an innate sense of inequity  Houston TX (SPX) Jun 12, 2017Mussels add muscle to biocompatible fibers |
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 Washington (UPI) Jun 13, 2017 
An international team of scientists is taking a unique approach in the battle against malaria-carrying mosquitoes. The team, lead by researchers from the University of Maryland, have designed a mosquito-targeting fungus that replicates spider and scorpion toxins.
The fungus is not a risk to humans and early test results suggest it is safe for honeybees and other beneficial insects.
... moreParis (AFP) June 8, 2017Cholera epidemic timeline Pittsburgh PA (SPX) May 30, 2017Toward an HIV cure: Pitt team develops test to detect hidden virus Pinar Del Rio, Cuba (AFP) May 28, 2017'Freak': meet Cuba's last self-infected HIV punk rebel |
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 Taipei (AFP) June 12, 2017  Lawmakers in Taiwan launched a new group to help promote democracy in Hong Kong on Monday, a move likely to rile Beijing ahead of the 20th anniversary of the handover of the city from Britain back to China.
Taiwan and Hong Kong are thorns in Beijing's side - both saw huge anti-China protests in 2014, known respectively as the Sunflower Movement and Umbrella Movement.
Ties with self-ruli ... more Hong Kong (AFP) June 14, 2017Hong Kong tycoon and ex-deputy leader lose graft appeal  Shanghai (AFP) June 11, 2017China web users take aim at property clampdown  Hong Kong (AFP) June 9, 2017Hong Kong wealth gap hits 46-year high |
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 Bangkok (AFP) June 1, 2017 
Southeast Asian drug cartels are diversifying the narcotics they produce, the UN's crime agency warned Wednesday, with more than 160 new highs hitting the market in the last eight years.
The Golden Triangle - where Laos, southern China, Thailand and Myanmar intersect - is the world's second largest drug producer after Latin America.
It is notorious for churning out heroin and methamphe ... more Bogota (AFP) May 4, 2017UN counter-drug official kidnapped in Colombia: officials  New Delhi (AFP) April 9, 2017Indian, Chinese navies rescue ship hijacked by Somali pirates Manila (AFP) Feb 8, 2017Philippines seeks US, China help to combat sea pirates |
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 Washington (AFP) June 9, 2017  US President Donald Trump said Friday that the United States remained committed to NATO's mutual defense pledge, after he failed to endorse it in a speech in Brussels last month.
Amid worries by Washington's European partners that the US leader had not fully bought into the Atlantic alliance, Trump told reporters: "I'm committing the United States to Article Five. Certainly we are there to p ... more Washington (AFP) June 9, 2017Pentagon praises 'very helpful' Russia in southern Syria  Astana, Kazakhstan (AFP) June 9, 2017India, Pakistan join China and Russia-led security bloc  Prague (AFP) June 9, 2017Juncker says Europe can no longer 'outsource' protection |
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 Baltimore MD (SPX) Jun 08, 2017 
Astronomers have used the sharp vision of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to repeat a century-old test of Einstein's general theory of relativity. The Hubble team measured the mass of a white dwarf, the burned-out remnant of a normal star, by seeing how much it deflects the light from a background star.
This observation represents the first time Hubble has witnessed this type of effect creat ... more Innsbruck, Austria (SPX) Jun 05, 2017Breaking Newton's Law  San Francisco CA (SPX) Jun 05, 2017Are dense star clusters the origin of the gravitational waves discovered by LIGO? Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 02, 2017Gravitational Waves Detected for Third Time |
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 Washington (UPI) Jun 8, 2017 
Thales has launched a new cyber-security center in Belgium that will allow the replicating of network and information systems to prepare for cyber attacks.
The company's Cyberlab, located south of Brussels, will also educate students and enhance the skills of cyber-security specialists.
"As the recent worldwide cyber-attack WannaCry, which affected in particular the operational f ... more Seattle WA (SPX) Jun 05, 2017SeaGlass brings transparency to cell phone surveillance  Washington (UPI) Jun 5, 2017Saab starts cyber-security company Tallinn (AFP) June 3, 2017'Tallinn Manual 2.0' -- the rulebook for cyberwar |
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 Mosul, Iraq (AFP) June 13, 2017 
The bullets of jihadists rain down outside the Mosul kindergarten, where dozens of terrified Iraqi civilians are sheltering from fighting in their northern city.
Confused, scared and exhausted, the civilians - mostly women, including one in a wheelchair - huddle in the pre-school after Iraqi forces brought them in for protection.
The sounds of sniper fire, air strikes, and shelling ech ... more Khazir, Iraq (AFP) June 11, 2017Tired, traumatised Mosul mothers unable to breastfeed  Khazir, Iraq (AFP) June 12, 2017Down to the river for youths from Iraq's embattled Mosul  Mosul, Iraq (AFP) June 9, 2017Iraq on cusp of Mosul victory three years after major defeat |
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 Baghdad (AFP) June 13, 2017  Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Tuesday said he understood the Kurdish minority's statehood aspirations but bemoaned its leadership's decision to hold an independence referendum in September.
"Every part of Iraq has aspirations and has a dream, and we respect that, even if we disagree with it," he said, responding to the Kurdish push to achieve statehood.
"We live in one homeland ... more Washington (AFP) June 13, 2017US 'not winning' in Afghanistan: Pentagon chief  Washington (AFP) June 14, 2017Trump lets Pentagon set Afghanistan troop levels: US official  Jalalabad, Afghanistan (AFP) June 10, 2017Three US soldiers killed in Afghan 'insider attack' |
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 Tomsk, Russia (SPX) Jun 12, 2017 
Scientists from Tomsk Polytechnic University are developing a technology for obtaining liquid fuel from coal wastes for thermal power stations (TPSs). This fuel is ten times more environmentally friendly that will make it possible to resolve two problems at once: to reduce the amount of anthropogenic emissions of TPSs and efficiently dispose wastes from coal processing and beneficiation. The res ... more Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jun 12, 2017Researchers compute their way toward cleaner coal plants  Sydney (AFP) June 11, 2017Foreign bidding war for Rio's Australia coal mines  Sydney (AFP) June 6, 2017India's Adani to start work on mine near Great Barrier Reef |
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 Jabugo, Spain (AFP) June 11, 2017 
The aroma is so extraordinary it's like "a punch in your mouth" says Luqi Wu, one of several Chinese businessmen standing in a cellar in southwestern Spain surrounded by thousands of hanging ham legs.
While he samples the product, three of his colleagues learn to cut the ham as finely as possible - a crucial detail that they will put into practice back in Shanghai at tasting events for thei ... more Washington DC (SPX) Jun 12, 2017Bee buzzes could help determine how to save their decreasing population  Minsk (AFP) June 14, 2017Dairy dispute sours Belarus-Russia relations  Washington (UPI) Jun 8, 2017Scientists design laser to kill weeds |
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 Paris (ESA) Jun 12, 2017 
The challenging detection, by ESA's Rosetta mission, of several isotopes of the noble gas xenon at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko has established the first quantitative link between comets and the atmosphere of Earth. The blend of xenon found at the comet closely resembles U-xenon, the primordial mixture that scientists believe was brought to Earth during the early stages of Solar System format ... more Silicon Valley CA (SPX) Jun 14, 2017B612 Creates Asteroid Institute  Washington (UPI) Jun 7, 2017Scientists solve meteorite mystery with high-pressure X-ray experiments  Hamburg, Germany (SPX) Jun 08, 2017High-pressure experiments solve meteorite mystery |
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