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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  
NASA is sending E. coli to space for astronaut healthMoffett Field Ca (SPX) Nov 27, 2017 Ever wonder what would happen if you got sick in space? NASA has sent bacteria samples into low-Earth orbit to help find out. One of the agency's latest small satellite experiments is the E. c ... 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 |
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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 
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 |
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NASA investigates use of medical-like tools to study samples of the solar systemGreenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 01, 2017 A diagnostic tool, similar in theory to those used by the medical profession to non-invasively image internal organs, bones, soft tissue, and blood vessels, could be equally effective at "triaging" ... more 
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 |
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  Beijing (AFP) Nov 29, 2017 
Two dozen police swept through the pitch-black frigid hallways of tenement buildings in a ramshackle neighbourhood of northern Beijing, posting eviction notices on every door with heavy thumps of their fists.
The blunt warning gave residents just six hours to pack up and leave, as part of a city-wide campaign that has thrown throngs of migrant workers onto the freezing streets in recent days ... more Moscow (AFP) Nov 24, 2017Russia opens commission into 'nuclear incident' report  Beijing (AFP) Nov 28, 2017Seven 'trapped' after cargo ships collide off south China  Shanghai (AFP) Nov 28, 2017China port city blast caused by illegal explosives: police |
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 Denver CO (SPX) Nov 30, 2017 
The U.S. Air Force's third GPS III satellite in production flow at Lockheed Martin's advanced satellite manufacturing facility here is now fully integrated into a complete space vehicle.
GPS III Space Vehicle 03 (GPS III SV03) followed the first two GPS III satellites on a streamlined assembly and test production line. Technicians successfully integrated the satellite's major components - ... more Washington DC (SPX) Nov 29, 2017DARPA digging for ideas to revolutionize subterranean mapping  Beijing (XNA) Nov 27, 2017China's GPS network Beidou joins global rescue data network  Paris (ESA) Nov 22, 2017Galileo quartet fuelled and ready to fly |
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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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 Washington (UPI) Nov 29, 2017 
New genetic analysis suggests Asian bears help explain the myth of the Yeti.
Several museums and private collections hold what is claimed to be physical evidence of the Yeti, or Abominable Snowman, the mythical human-like creature believed to lurk among the peaks of the Himalayas. Recently, scientists collected and analyzed DNA from the evidence, which included bone, tooth, skin, hair a ... more Exeter UK (SPX) Nov 27, 2017Plant respiration could become a bigger feedback on climate than expected  Washington (UPI) Nov 27, 2017New butterfly species with 46 chromosomes discovered in Russia  Jamestown (AFP) Nov 26, 2017Jonathan, St. Helena's ancient tortoise, awaits visitors |
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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) Dec 1, 2017 
A 63-year-old Tibetan monk has self-immolated in southwest China in protest against Beijing's presence in Tibet, campaigners said, the fifth person to do so this year.
Tenga, a popular monk and volunteer teacher of village children, died after setting himself ablaze Sunday in Sichuan province's Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, said the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT), headquarter ... more Shanghai (AFP) Nov 28, 2017Shanghai schools fly the flag for China's next generation  Beijing (AFP) Nov 28, 2017Chinese general kills himself after facing graft probe  Taipei (AFP) Nov 27, 2017Different strokes: Taiwan's creative campaign for traditional characters |
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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 |
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 Washington (AFP) Nov 28, 2017 
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson re-committed the United States to opposing Moscow's "aggression" against its neighbors Tuesday and vowed to help Europe wean itself off Russian oil and gas.
Next week Washington's top diplomat will attend ministerial meetings of the NATO alliance in Brussels and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Vienna.
At both sets of talk ... more Washington (AFP) Dec 1, 2017US battles for global push on N.Korea amid Russia, China doubts  Ankara (AFP) Nov 30, 2017Turkey detains 50 over links to group blamed for coup bid  Istanbul (AFP) Nov 29, 2017Turkish police move to arrest 333 soldiers over Gulen links |
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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 Mainz, Germany (SPX) Nov 30, 2017Researchers measure magnetic moment with greatest possible precision  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 |
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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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 Rome (AFP) Nov 30, 2017  Iraq told the international community on Thursday it was "owed" a Marshall Plan after defeating the Islamic State group and a jihadist army of soldiers from more than 100 different countries.
"We are calling for a Marshall Plan to help us with the reconstruction," Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari said at a conference in Rome. "The world owes us that".
The multi-billion dollar Marshall ... more Riyadh (AFP) Nov 30, 2017Britain's May tours Mideast amid Islam row with Trump  Baghdad (AFP) Nov 28, 2017Iraqis throng to Picasso in Baghdad  Baghdad (AFP) Nov 24, 2017Baghdad cafe marks 100 years as intellectual hub |
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 Washington (AFP) Nov 28, 2017 
A large increase in US forces patrolling with Afghan counterparts will push the Taliban back in 2018, a top general said Tuesday, cautioning that they would "absolutely" be at extra risk.
General John Nicholson, who commands US and NATO forces in Afghanistan, said "well over 1,000" advisors would be out conducting combat operations on the front lines during next year's fighting season.
T ... more Ankara (AFP) Nov 29, 2017Turkey claims over 80 'terrorists' killed in northern Iraq  Islamabad (AFP) Nov 28, 2017Commuters happy, Pakistan uneasy after Islamist deal  Arbil, Iraq (AFP) Nov 27, 2017Kurds accuse Baghdad of refusing dialogue |
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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 Davis CA (SPX) Nov 28, 2017Gene discovery may halt worldwide wheat epidemic  Davis CA (SPX) Nov 30, 2017Genome of wheat ancestor sequenced  East Lansing (SPX) Nov 29, 2017Fighting plant disease at warm temperatures keeps food on the table |
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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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