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  Moscow (AFP) Nov 30, 2017 Fewer than half of Russians with HIV are taking antiretroviral drugs, in part because of a conspiracy theory that the AIDS-causing virus is a myth invented by the West, officials and activists say. While AIDS-related deaths and new HIV infections are falling across the globe, in Eastern Europe and Central Asia statistics grow more alarming by the year. According to official figures, 80 people died daily from AIDS-related issues in Russia in the first six months of 2017, up from about 50 daily d ... read more |
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PrEP: A shield against AIDSParis (AFP) Nov 30, 2017 "It's magic," said Francois, smiling. "Every time I take a pill I think about the people who aren't so lucky as to have this option." ... more 
Nigeria's flourishing 'miracle cure' business for HIV/AIDSLagos (AFP) Nov 30, 2017 Blessing wanted to believe the advert on Facebook that promised "a cure for AIDS". ... more 
Plague first came to Europe during the Stone AgeWashington (UPI) Nov 22, 2017 The earliest evidence of the plague-causing bacterium Yersinia pestis suggests the disease first arrived in Europe during the Stone Age, several millennia before the first documented epidemics. ... more 
Heavy rainfall precedes outbreaks of mosquito-borne virusesWashington (UPI) Nov 22, 2017 New research suggests outbreaks of mosquito-borne viruses Zika and Chikungunya tend to begin three weeks after heavy rainfall. ... more |
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Kill switches for engineered microbes gone rogueBoston MA (SPX) Nov 20, 2017 Synthetic biologists are fitting the genomes of microorganisms with synthetic gene circuits to break down polluting plastics, non-invasively diagnose and treat infections in the human gut, and gener ... more 
Making mosquitoes self-destructRiverside CA (SPX) Nov 15, 2017 Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have developed transgenic mosquitoes that stably express the Cas9 enzyme in their germline. The addition of Cas9 will enable the use of the CRI ... more  
In China's e-commerce boom, it takes a villageXuzhou, China (AFP) Nov 9, 2017 Workers wielding screeching hand-held wood sanders toil overtime in Cheng Huaibao's bunk bed factory, rushing to prepare for the wave of orders about to break on manufacturing businesses like his across China. ... more 
Last season's flu shot protected only 1 in 5 peopleMiami (AFP) Nov 6, 2017 Last season's flu shot protected as few as one in five people and this year's could be similarly ineffective, researchers said Monday, calling for a better way to make the vaccine. ... more  
Graphene enables high-speed electronics on flexible materialsGothenburg, Sweden (SPX) Nov 03, 2017 Terahertz radiation has a wide range of uses and can occur in everything from radio astronomy to medicine. The term refers to the electromagnetic waves whose frequencies range from 100 gigahertz to ... more
Tracking mosquitoes with your cellphoneStanford CA (SPX) Nov 03, 2017 It's a sound that can keep even the weariest among us from falling asleep: the high-pitched whine of a mosquito. This irritating buzz already makes us run, slap and slather on repellant. But if Stan ... more |
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 NASA investigates use of medical-like tools to study samples of the solar system  
Study unveils changes in the brain during extended missions in spaceCharleston SC (SPX) Nov 02, 2017 It's been 55 years since NASA astronaut John Glenn successfully launched into space to complete three orbits aboard the Friendship 7 Mercury spacecraft, becoming the first American to orbit the Eart ... more 
Advanced artificial limbs mapped in the brainLausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Oct 30, 2017 Targeted motor and sensory reinnervation (TMSR) is a surgical procedure on patients with amputations that reroutes residual limb nerves towards intact muscles and skin in order to fit them with a li ... more  
Puerto Rico 'heartbreaking' five weeks post-stormNew York (AFP) Oct 27, 2017 Conditions in Puerto Rico are still heartbreaking more than five weeks after Hurricane Maria wrought devastation, with the lack of power and clean water compounding chronic conditions, medics say. ... more 
Space Station Crew Takes a Breather with Lung Tissue InvestigationHouston TX (SPX) Oct 25, 2017 The microgravity environment of the International Space Station impacts nearly every system within the human body. Researchers are studying the effects to the eyes, heart, muscles, and bones, but an ... more |
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  Beijing (AFP) Nov 28, 2017 
Five people have been rescued after two cargo ships collided off the coast of China's southern Guangdong province, but seven crew members are still "trapped" inside a cabin, state media said Tuesday.
The five rescued from a sunken ship cabin on Tuesday afternoon told rescue staff that the other seven were trapped inside and still alive, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
The colli ... moreWashington (UPI) Nov 27, 2017Army contracts for temporary electricity for Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands  Beijing (AFP) Nov 29, 2017Beijing evicts migrants onto cold streets, sparking outcry  Shanghai (AFP) Nov 28, 2017China port city blast caused by illegal explosives: police |
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 Beijing (XNA) Nov 27, 2017 
China's domestically developed navigation satellite system Beidou has been included in a global network that collects and distributes data for search and rescue missions, the Ministry of Transport said on Thursday.
Beidou will be part of the International Cospas-Sarsat Programme, a nonprofit, intergovernmental and humanitarian cooperative with 44 members, including the United States, Canad ... more Washington DC (SPX) Nov 29, 2017DARPA digging for ideas to revolutionize subterranean mapping  Paris (ESA) Nov 22, 2017Galileo quartet fuelled and ready to fly  Beijing (XNA) Nov 10, 2017China's BeiDou Navigation Satellite System Expands Into a Global Network |
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 Chicago IL (SPX) Nov 29, 2017 
Research has shown human disturbance can have detrimental effects on great ape populations but now, due to a study published in Biological Conservation on Nov. 27 by Lincoln Park Zoo, there is evidence showing how selective logging impacts chimpanzees and gorilla populations differently by utilizing data collected before, during and after timber extraction.
David Morgan, Ph.D., of the Lest ... more Durham NC (SPX) Nov 30, 2017Chimp females who leave home postpone parenthood  Kyoto, Japan (SPX) Nov 27, 2017What grosses out a chimpanzee?  London, UK (SPX) Nov 22, 2017Human evolution was uneven and punctuated, suggests new research |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 27, 2017 
Life. It's the one thing that, so far, makes Earth unique among the thousands of other planets we've discovered. Since the fall of 1997, NASA satellites have continuously and globally observed all plant life at the surface of the land and ocean. During the week of Nov. 13-17, NASA is sharing stories and videos about how this view of life from space is furthering knowledge of our home planet and ... more Minneapolis MN (SPX) Nov 27, 2017Carbon emissions by plant respiration will have large impact on climate  Washington (UPI) Nov 29, 2017The Yeti of the Himalayas is probably an Asian bear, DNA shows  Exeter UK (SPX) Nov 27, 2017Plant respiration could become a bigger feedback on climate than expected |
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 Paris (AFP) Nov 30, 2017 
"It's magic," said Francois, smiling. "Every time I take a pill I think about the people who aren't so lucky as to have this option."
Taking a drug normally prescribed to treat AIDS as a way to shield against the deadly disease - known as PrEP - is catching on, and proponents hope that it will soon have a measurable impact in reducing the number of infections.
"Besides its undeniable b ... moreLagos (AFP) Nov 30, 2017Nigeria's flourishing 'miracle cure' business for HIV/AIDS  Moscow (AFP) Nov 30, 2017HIV denial movement fuels Russian epidemic Washington (UPI) Nov 22, 2017Heavy rainfall precedes outbreaks of mosquito-borne viruses |
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 Beijing (AFP) Nov 28, 2017 
A Chinese general has killed himself in his Beijing home after becoming the latest top official ensnared by President Xi Jinping's sweeping anti-corruption campaign, state media said Tuesday.
Zhang Yang, a member of the state's Central Military Commission, was being investigated over connections to two graft-tainted former senior military officers when he hanged himself on November 23, accor ... more Shanghai (AFP) Nov 28, 2017Shanghai schools fly the flag for China's next generation  Taipei (AFP) Nov 27, 2017Different strokes: Taiwan's creative campaign for traditional characters  Shenyang, China (AFP) Nov 21, 2017Secrets and wives: Gay Chinese hide behind 'sham marriage' |
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 Sydney (AFP) Aug 4, 2017 
A massive cocaine haul bound for Australia in the hull of a yacht has been intercepted by the French navy in the Pacific, officials said on Friday.
The 1.46 tonnes of the drug with an estimated street value of Aus$322 million (US$256 million) was seized in the South Pacific and four crew members, believed to be Lithuanian and Latvian nationals, arrested.
The vessel "Afalina", which set s ... more Jakarta (AFP) Aug 1, 2017Indonesia to deport 153 Chinese for $450 million scam  Washington (AFP) June 28, 2017US lists China among worst human trafficking offenders Bangkok (AFP) June 1, 2017Golden Triangle narco-gangs churning out new highs, UN warns |
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 Sydney (AFP) Nov 23, 2017 
Australia warned on Thursday against American disengagement from Asia at a time of rising Chinese power as traditional US allies grow nervous about President Donald Trump's isolationist tilt.
In a major Foreign Policy White Paper - the first to be issued by the Australian government in 13 years - Canberra outlined its approach to the "Indo-Pacific" region amid "changing power balances". ... more Washington (AFP) Nov 28, 2017US vows to help Europe repel Russian aggression  Istanbul (AFP) Nov 29, 2017Turkish police move to arrest 333 soldiers over Gulen links  Budapest (AFP) Nov 27, 2017Chinese premier offers billions more to EEurope |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 28, 2017 
An international collaboration of scientists from RIKEN's Ulmer Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory (FSL), Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz, Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg and GSI Darmstadt, have used high-precision techniques to make the most precise measurement to date of the magnetic moment of the proton, finding it to be 2.79284734462 plus or minus 0.00000000082 nucle ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 15, 2017Listening for gravitational waves using pulsars  New York NY (SPX) Nov 14, 2017Gravity waves from merging supermassive black holes will be found soon  Yekaterinburg, Russia (SPX) Oct 27, 2017Russian scientists have found flaws in popular theories of gravity |
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 Brooklyn NY (SPX) Nov 30, 2017 
The next generation of electronic hardware security may be at hand as researchers at New York University Tandon School of Engineering introduce a new class of unclonable cybersecurity security primitives made of a low-cost nanomaterial with the highest possible level of structural randomness. Randomness is highly desirable for constructing the security primitives that encrypt and thereby secure ... more Durham NC (SPX) Nov 28, 2017Quantum computers help create hack-proof forms of data encryption  Washington (AFP) Nov 27, 2017US charges three Chinese for hacking Moody's, Siemens Shanghai (AFP) Nov 22, 2017Skype joins list of apps on China blacklist |
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 Baghdad (AFP) Nov 27, 2017 
Two suicide bombers blew themselves up at a market on Baghdad's outskirts Monday, leaving 11 people dead, a security official said, in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group.
"Five suicide bombers attacked a market and shops in the Nahrawan area" east of the Iraqi capital, a police captain told AFP.
"The police killed three of them but the other two blew themselves up" killing 11 c ... more Baghdad (AFP) Nov 28, 2017Iraqis throng to Picasso in Baghdad  Baghdad (AFP) Nov 24, 2017Baghdad cafe marks 100 years as intellectual hub  Baghdad (AFP) Nov 24, 2017Iraq to resume paying war reparations to Kuwait |
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 Qamishli, Syria (AFP) Nov 27, 2017  Washington will "adjust" its delivery of weapons to an anti-jihadist alliance in Syria dominated by Kurdish fighters, Kurdish officials said Monday, insisting that collaboration with the United States will "continue".
The Pentagon, however, was vague about what an adjustment might mean, and the comments come after Turkey said it had received White House assurances that it would halt weapons ... more Islamabad (AFP) Nov 26, 2017Pakistan protests grow as military stays silent  Arbil, Iraq (AFP) Nov 27, 2017Kurds accuse Baghdad of refusing dialogue  Washington (AFP) Nov 28, 2017Over 1,000 US troops to patrol with Afghans in 2018 |
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 Bonn (AFP) Nov 16, 2017 
A score of mostly wealthy nations banded together at UN climate talks Thursday to swear off coal-fired power, a key driver of global warming and air pollution.
To cap global warming at "well under" two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) - the planet-saving target in the 196-nation Paris Agreement - coal must be phased out in developed countries by 2030, and "by no later than 2050 in ... more Bonn (AFP) Nov 16, 2017Anti-coal drive at UN climate talks stalked by pro-coal White House  Hambach Coal Mine, Near Niederzier, Germany (AFP) Nov 5, 2017Protest at open-pit coal mine near Bonn ahead of UN climate talks Washington (UPI) Oct 17, 2017Coal still holds a slight edge as U.S. power source |
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 Istanbul (AFP) Nov 29, 2017 
After half a century of fishing, 65-year-old Fuat, a retired Turkish civil servant, is nostalgic for the good old days when the Bosphorus Strait in Istanbul teemed with fish.
Wearing a black woolly hat, Fuat is one of hundreds of amateur anglers passing their spare time on the Galata Bridge on the European side of Istanbul, trying to fill their buckets.
"I've been fishing since I was 15 ... more East Lansing (SPX) Nov 29, 2017Fighting plant disease at warm temperatures keeps food on the table  Burlington VT (SPX) Nov 28, 2017To address hunger effectively, first check the weather  Paris (AFP) Nov 28, 2017France to monitor air-borne farm chemicals |
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 Paris (ESA) Nov 30, 2017 
While scanning the sky, ESA's Gaia mission maps not only the stellar content of our Galaxy, but also the Solar System's asteroid population.
This visualisation shows the detection by Gaia of more than 13 000 asteroids as the spacecraft (represented by the pale blue dot) scanned the sky between August 2014 and May 2016. This is a subset of the total number of asteroids seen by Gaia - the sa ... more Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 23, 2017NASA telescope studies quirky comet 45P  Kaliningrad (Sputnik) Nov 20, 2017Russian Astronomers Show Big Asteroid Approaching the Earth  Munich, Germany (SPX) Nov 21, 2017ESO observations show first interstellar asteroid is like nothing seen before |
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