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  Washington DC (SPX) Dec 05, 2017 A feature of science fiction stories for decades, nanorobot potential ranges from cancer diagnosis and drug delivery to tissue repair and more. A major hurdle to these endeavors, however, is finding a way to cheaply make a propulsion system for these devices. New developments may now propel nanoswimmers from science fiction to reality thanks to unexpected help from bacteria. An international research team has demonstrated a new technique for plating silica onto flagella, the helix-shaped tails fou ... read more |
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Men at higher risk of dying of AIDS than women: UNAIDSOttawa (AFP) Dec 1, 2017 Men are less likely to test for HIV or access antiretroviral therapy and, therefore, are more likely to die of AIDS-related illnesses than women, UNAIDS said on Friday. ... more 
Mosquitoes transmit dengue virus more frequently when temperatures riseWashington (UPI) Dec 1, 2017 Mosquitoes are more likely to transmit dengue virus on warmer days, according to new research published Friday in the journal Frontiers in Microbiology. ... more 
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 |
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HIV denial movement fuels Russian epidemicMoscow (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. ... 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
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 |
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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 
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 |
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  Beijing (AFP) Dec 1, 2017 
China may have invented fireworks but Beijing banned them from the capital Friday ahead of Lunar New Year celebrations, as authorities clamp down on potentially dangerous activities.
The new regulation was passed by the local government, state news agency Xinhua said, and comes amid a city-wide campaign that is driving an estimated tens of thousands of migrants from homes that authorities de ... more Santiago (AFP) Dec 1, 2017Southern Chile iceberg splits from glacier, threatens navigation  Beijing (AFP) Dec 1, 2017China, Myanmar hail close ties amid Rohingya outcry  Bethlehem PA (SPX) Dec 05, 2017Identifying optimal adaptation of buildings threatened by hurricanes, climate change |
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 Paris (ESA) Dec 05, 2017 
ESA Director General Jan Worner signed a Memorandum of Intent with Rolls-Royce today, as the two entities agree to investigate how space technology can be used to develop autonomous and remote-controlled ships.
The partners will pool their expertise to analyse and implement space-enabled services for autonomous and remote-controlled shipping, which reduces the opportunity for human error a ... more Denver CO (SPX) Nov 30, 2017Lockheed Martin assembles third US Air Force GPS 3 satellite  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 |
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 Washington (UPI) Dec 4, 2017 
Gorillas don't need to witnesses others cleaning their food to adopt the behavior. They can learn it on their own - spontaneously.
Many of the gorilla's abilities are thought to be socially acquired, including food cleaning behavior. But during a series of tests, researchers found gorillas cleaned sand from a dirty apple 75 percent of the time.
"In four of our five gorillas, at ... more Salt Lake City, United States (AFP) Dec 5, 2017Trump removes protection for swaths of Utah parks  Durham NC (SPX) Nov 30, 2017Chimp females who leave home postpone parenthood  Chicago IL (SPX) Nov 29, 2017Long-term logging study demonstrates impacts on chimpanzees and gorillas |
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 Colombo (AFP) Dec 1, 2017 
Sri Lankan police have arrested five men for allegedly killing a wild elephant, with officers seizing ivory and tusk-cutting tools, officials said Friday.
Villagers in the island's northwest had alerted wildlife authorities after a popular local elephant called "Dala Poottuwa", or crossed tusker, disappeared.
Its carcass was later found with a bullet wound in the skull.
Authorities b ... more Beijing (AFP) Nov 30, 2017China seizes 12 tonnes of endangered pangolin scales  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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 Washington (UPI) Dec 1, 2017 
Mosquitoes are more likely to transmit dengue virus on warmer days, according to new research published Friday in the journal Frontiers in Microbiology.
The findings suggest health officials should consider weather forecasts when working to prevent and respond to outbreaks of the mosquito-borne disease.
"If the outdoor temperature is high for a sustained period, dengue prevention ... moreOttawa (AFP) Dec 1, 2017Men at higher risk of dying of AIDS than women: UNAIDS Paris (AFP) Nov 30, 2017PrEP: A shield against AIDS Lagos (AFP) Nov 30, 2017Nigeria's flourishing 'miracle cure' business for HIV/AIDS |
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 Beijing (AFP) Nov 29, 2017 
A Beijing kindergarten teacher used sewing needles to punish children for not sleeping, police said, but other abuse claims have been rejected by an investigation into a scandal that sparked national outrage.
Authorities opened the probe into RYB Education New World kindergarten last week after parents said toddlers were given mysterious pills and had apparent needle marks.
The 22-year-o ... more Beijing (AFP) Dec 1, 2017Tibetan monk self-immolates in China: campaigners  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 |
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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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 Brussels (AFP) Dec 5, 2017  US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson meets his EU and NATO counterparts in Brussels Tuesday to shore up ties, with allies insisting he still plays a "key role" despite doubts over his future.
Tillerson will hold talks over lunch with European Union foreign ministers and the bloc's diplomatic chief Federica Mogherini, before a two-day NATO meeting set to focus on North Korea's missile programm ... more Tokyo (AFP) Dec 5, 2017Dozens of Japan MPs visit controversial war shrine  Saint-Aignan-Sur-Cher, France (AFP) Dec 4, 2017Brigitte Macron fetes first panda born in France  Sydney (AFP) Dec 4, 2017New Australia laws to deal with foreign political meddling |
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 Mainz, Germany (SPX) Nov 30, 2017 
The magnetic moment of an individual proton is inconceivably small, but can still be quantified. The basis for undertaking this measurement was laid over ten years ago, and physicists of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, GSI Darmstadt, and the RIKEN research institute in Japan are still performing experiments to measure this force with a sin ... more Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 28, 2017Physicists make most precise measurement ever of a proton's magnetic moment  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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 Baghdad (AFP) Dec 3, 2017  Iraqi officials have blasted calls to disband a Shiite-dominated militia coalition that has been key in battling the Islamic State group, after French President Emmanuel Macron said it should disarm.
The 60,000-strong Hashed al-Shaabi, or Popular Mobilisation Forces, was formed in 2014 after IS routed government forces to seize swathes of northern Iraq, and it played a central role in helpin ... more Baghdad (AFP) Dec 4, 2017Iraq death toll at lowest level in five years  The Hague (AFP) Dec 4, 2017'Reasonable basis' for British war crimes in Iraq: ICC  Baghdad (AFP) Dec 5, 2017Rights group criticises Iraq over jihadist suspects |
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 Moscow (AFP) Dec 4, 2017 
Russia's defence ministry said Monday its planes made hundreds of sorties in support of Kurdish and local militias in eastern Syria, predicting that the whole area will soon be free of jihadist fighters.
The statement came the day after a Russian military delegation met with officials of the Kurdish People's Protection Units militia (YPG), which acknowledged receiving direct support from Mos ... more Islamabad (AFP) Dec 4, 2017US defense chief lands in Pakistan as ties between allies fray  Islamabad (AFP) Dec 4, 2017US defense chief lands in Pakistan as ties between allies fray  Washington (AFP) Dec 1, 2017US-funded border inspection gear sits idle in Afghanistan |
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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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 Tokyo (AFP) Dec 4, 2017 
International Olympic officials will be fed produce from northern Japan hit by the 2011 tsunami and nuclear disaster, as Tokyo 2020 organisers aim to dispel fears over food from the region.
"Restoration of the disaster-hit area is an important pillar of our Games," a spokeswoman for the Tokyo 2020 organising committee told AFP.
"By offering food from three disaster-hit prefectures, we ho ... more Rome (AFP) Nov 30, 2017UN dishes up prickly pear cactus in answer to food security  Davis CA (SPX) Nov 28, 2017Gene discovery may halt worldwide wheat epidemic  Istanbul (AFP) Nov 29, 2017Istanbul anglers keep up tradition despite stocks alarm |
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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 Stirling UK (SPX) Dec 04, 2017Metal asteroid Psyche is all set for an early visit from NASA  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 23, 2017NASA telescope studies quirky comet 45P  Kaliningrad (Sputnik) Nov 20, 2017Russian Astronomers Show Big Asteroid Approaching the Earth |
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