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  Columbus OH (SPX) May 15, 2018 A recently identified pig virus can readily find its way into laboratory-cultured cells of people and other species, a discovery that raises concerns about the potential for outbreaks that threaten human and animal health. Researchers at The Ohio State University and Utrecht University in the Netherlands collaborated to better understand the new virus and its potential reach. Their study, the first to point to possible transmission of this virus between species, appears online in the journal PNAS. ... read more |
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Hostility toward minorities can spread like a contagious diseaseWashington DC (UPI) May 10, 2018 New research can help explain why inter-ethnic conflicts intensify so quickly. Social experiments suggest aggression expressed toward different ethnic groups is more likely to be imitated, all ... more  
Iranians react with sadness, defiance to TrumpTehran (AFP) May 9, 2018 Iranians reacted with a mix of sadness, resignation and defiance on Wednesday to US President Donald Trump's withdrawal from the nuclear deal, with sharp divisions among officials on how best to respond. ... more  
New CRISPR platform to make gene-editing more preciseWashington (UPI) May 8, 2018 Scientists have developed a new CRISPR platform that will make gene-editing more precise. Researchers believe the upgrade, dubbed MAGESTIC, will make CRISPR work less like scissors and more like word processors. ... more 
Highly elastic biodegradable hydrogel for bioprinting of new tissuesArlington TX (SPX) May 04, 2018 Researchers at The University of Texas at Arlington have developed a highly elastic biodegradable hydrogel for bio-printing of materials that mimic natural human soft tissues. Bio-printing uses live ... more |
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World's smallest optical implantable biodeviceIkoma, Japan (SPX) Apr 26, 2018 Japanese researchers describe a new implantable device no bigger than the width of a coin that can be used to control brain patterns. The device, which can be read about in AIP Advances, converts in ... more 
Mission to Mars? here's one hazard you haven't consideredWashington DC (SPX) Apr 20, 2018 The hazards of space flight are well known: freezing temperatures, the vacuum of space, radiation, isolation. But there's a lesser-known risk getting the attention of researchers - a possible danger ... more 
Mosquitoes reveal fatal attractionRothamsted UK (SPX) Apr 22, 2018 Malaria causes the bodies of its human hosts to emit specific odours from the skin that make the hosts even more attractive to mosquitoes, which invites further bites and risks infection of more mos ... more  
Google parent Alphabet profit leaps on ad growthSan Francisco (AFP) April 23, 2018 Google parent Alphabet on Monday reported a surge in quarterly profits, lifted by strong growth in the digital advertising segment it dominates along with Facebook. ... more  
China doctor detained over 'poison' tonic comments releasedBeijing (AFP) April 20, 2018 A Chinese doctor held without charge for three months for calling a popular brand of traditional medicine "poison" has been released on bail following a public outcry, reports said. ... more |
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Hole in cow's skull may be proof of early medical experimentationWashington DC (UPI) Apr 19, 2018 More than 5,000 years ago, a group of people living in what's now France drilled a hole in a cow's head. Researchers believe the ancient bovine skull is the earliest evidence of animal surgery yet recovered. ... more  |
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Help Stop Mosquito-borne Diseases with this App Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 19, 2018 Citizen scientists can play a role in eliminating Zika and other mosquito-transmitted diseases by downloading a free GLOBE Observer app from Google Play or the App Store. Use the Mosquito Habi ... more 
Inactivity bigger threat to muscles in space than low oxygen, study saysWashington DC (UPI) Apr 18, 2018 In experiments designed to measure the impacts of spaceflight on human muscle health and performance, researchers were surprised to find inactivity had a greater negative effect than hypoxia. ... more 
Chinese doctor detained for traditional medicine 'poison' remarksBeijing (AFP) April 17, 2018 A Chinese doctor who called a popular brand of traditional medicine "poison" has been detained without charge by police for three months, in a case that has angered the country's medical community. ... more  
In race for 5G, China leads South Korea, US: studyWashington, United States (AFP) April 16, 2018 China is slightly ahead of South Korea and the United States in the race to develop fifth generation wireless networks, or 5G, a US study showed Monday. ... more 
Thin, flexible polymers record 'conversations' deeper in the brain with less injury-riskLos Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 13, 2018 Science has yet to unravel a complete understanding of the brain and all its intricate workings. It's not for lack of effort. Over many decades, multiple research studies have sought to unders ... more |
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 Yangon (AFP) May 13, 2018 
China on Sunday condemned fighting on its border between Myanmar forces and ethnic rebels that has left 19 dead, mostly civilians, in some of the worst bloodshed on the restive frontier in recent years.
The fighting erupted on Saturday when ethnic minority insurgent groups, who are locked in a long-running battle with the Myanmar state, attacked security posts around Muse, a border town and ... more |
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 San Francisco CA (SPX) May 15, 2018 
Swift Navigation, a San Francisco-based tech firm that is building centimeter-accurate GPS technology to power a world of autonomous vehicles, has announced the latest firmware upgrade to its flagship product Piksi Multi GNSS Module.
This marks the fifth major point release to Piksi Multi and is available free of charge to Swift customers. The firmware release also enhances Duro, the rugge ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) May 10, 2018 
It's very difficult to determine when, how and why human language began. While fossil primates provide important clues about human evolution, the sounds they made and the soft tissue involved in making those sounds weren't preserved.
But chimpanzees - one of our closest living relatives - provide important points of comparison for inferring the sorts of sounds our early ancestors may have ... more |
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 Santa Barbara CA (SPX) May 15, 2018 
The average hippo weighs more than 3,000 pounds and consumes about 100 pounds of vegetation daily. This naturally results in large quantities of dung being deposited into the rivers and lakes where hippos spend their days.
In general, the nutrients delivered via hippo dung to such aquatic ecosystems are perceived to be beneficial. For millennia, they provided a natural source of fertilizer ... more |
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 Columbus OH (SPX) May 15, 2018 
A recently identified pig virus can readily find its way into laboratory-cultured cells of people and other species, a discovery that raises concerns about the potential for outbreaks that threaten human and animal health.
Researchers at The Ohio State University and Utrecht University in the Netherlands collaborated to better understand the new virus and its potential reach. Their study, ... more |
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 Los Angeles (AFP) May 15, 2018 
More than a century before President Donald Trump began blocking arrivals from the Middle East and Africa, the American immigration debate was already being forged in the crucible of Chinese exclusion.
On May 6, 1882 - the eve of the greatest wave of immigration in US history - president Chester A. Arthur signed a history-making yet little-known piece of legislation called the Chinese Excl ... more |
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 Acapulco, Mexico (AFP) May 9, 2018 
Three Mexican soldiers were killed in an ambush in the violent state of Guerrero, in a town whose mayor was also found murdered the same day, the defense ministry said Wednesday.
After receiving an anonymous tip that armed men were hiding out at a ranch in the municipality of Coyuca de Catalan, an army patrol went to the site Tuesday night and was attacked by unknown gunmen, the ministry sai ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) May 8, 2018 
Donald Trump's decision to pull out of the landmark 2015 deal curbing Iran's nuclear programme is a bitter pill to swallow for European leaders and risks a creating a major transatlantic rift.
French President Emmanuel Macron, who has spent the past year cultivating the closest ties with Trump among EU leaders, made saving the Iran deal one of his priorities during his state visit to Washin ... more |
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 Hannover, Germany (SPX) Apr 13, 2018 
A permanent Max Planck Independent Research Group under the leadership of Dr. M. Alessandra Papa has been established at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute; AEI) in Hannover.
The primary goal of the research group "Searching for Continuous Gravitational Waves" is to make the first direct detection of gravitational waves from rapidly rotating neutr ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) May 9, 2018 
The US Justice Department announced Tuesday it had indicted a former CIA operative for spying for China, in a case that could be tied to the dramatic collapse of the CIA's China network eight years ago.
Three years after he left the CIA in 2007, Jerry Chun Shing Lee took money from Chinese intelligence officers in exchange for information "relating to the national defense of the United State ... more |
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 Baghdad (AFP) May 14, 2018  An alliance headed by nationalist cleric Moqtada Sadr and a rival bloc of pro-Iranian former fighters appeared to surge Monday in surprise preliminary results from Iraq's first poll since the defeat of the Islamic State group.
If confirmed, the outcome would throw open the race to become the next prime minister, as internationally favoured incumbent Haider al-Abadi lagged behind after a vote ... more |
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 Islamabad (AFP) May 14, 2018 
Former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif has sparked a firestorm at home and in India after suggesting Pakistani militants were behind the 2008 Mumbai attacks, with the National Security Council slamming his remarks on Monday.
The former premier approached what is seen as a red line in the country by touching on criticism of Pakistan's armed forces, especially their alleged use of proxies ... more |
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 Warsaw (AFP) May 6, 2018 
Two miners were killed and rescuers were struggling to locate three others after an earthquake hit a coal mine in the country's south, the mine's management company said Sunday.
The rescue workers managed to pull two miners up to the surface on Sunday but doctors there pronounced them dead, Daniel Ozon, the CEO of the Jastrzebie Coal Company (JSW) managing the mine, told reporters.
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 Urbana IL (SPX) May 14, 2018 
Cassava is a staple in the diet of more than one billion people across 105 countries, yet this "orphaned crop" has received little attention compared to popular crops like corn and soybeans. While advances in breeding have helped cassava withstand pests and diseases, cassava yields no more s than it did in 1963. Corn yields, by comparison, have more than doubled.
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 Silicon Valley, CA (SPX) May 11, 2018 
The Asteroid Institute, a program of the B612 Foundation, has announced a new collaboration with York Space Systems to explore a data-gathering constellation of satellites for a new asteroid tracking system. In addition, the Institute will join York's innovative program with Metropolitan State University (MSU) of Denver, by engaging students to work on the project, providing both motivation and ... more |
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