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  Mataram, Indonesia (AFP) Aug 8, 2018 More than 70,000 people have been left homeless in the deadly earthquake that hit Lombok island, forced to sleep in makeshift shelters and lacking food, medicine and clean water, authorities said Wednesday. The shallow 6.9-magnitude quake killed at least 105 people and triggered panic among locals and tourists on Lombok on Sunday, just a week after another tremor surged through the holiday island and killed 17. Some 236 people have been severely injured in the latest quake, with tens of thousand ... read more |
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More problems found in Chinese-made heart medicationsShanghai (AFP) Aug 6, 2018 Two more Chinese drugmakers have announced that a blood-pressure medication they exported to Taiwan contained a potentially cancer-causing impurity, a month after the same problem at another Chinese manufacturer prompted a global recall. ... more  
China reports first African swine fever outbreakParis (AFP) Aug 3, 2018 China reported Friday its first outbreak of African swine fever, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said, and had destroyed 336 pigs as it tried to prevent the spread of the disease. ... more  
Individual silver nanoparticles observed in real timeBochum, Germany (SPX) Aug 03, 2018 Chemists at Ruhr-Universitat Bochum have developed a new method of observing the chemical reactions of individual silver nanoparticles, which only measure a thousandth of the thickness of a human ha ... more 
India bans vaccine imports from tainted China companyNew Delhi (AFP) Aug 1, 2018 India has banned the import of a rabies vaccine from a Chinese manufacturer embroiled in a safety scandal, the head of India's drug regulator told a newspaper in comments published Wednesday. ... more |
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Surge for kids' vaccines in Hong Kong after China scandalHong Kong (AFP) July 24, 2018 Hong Kong clinics said they have seen a surge in demand for children's vaccines Tuesday after a safety scandal rocked mainland China. ... more  
Electrical contact to molecules in semiconductor structures established for the first timeBasel, Switzerland (SPX) Jul 25, 2018 Electrical circuits are constantly being scaled down and extended with specific functions. A new method now allows electrical contact to be established with simple molecules on a conventional silico ... more
Censors jump into action as China's latest vaccine scandal ignitesBeijing (AFP) July 22, 2018 Chinese censors on Sunday deleted articles and postings about the vaccine industry as an online outcry over the country's latest vaccine scandal intensified. ... more  
FEFU scientists reported on toxicity of carbon and silicon nanotubes and carbon nanofibersVladivostok, Russia (SPX) Jul 19, 2018 Nanoparticles with a wide range of applying, including medicine, damage cells of microalgae Heterosigma akashivo badly. This algae species is widely spread in the Russian Far East marine area. The a ... more 
Nanofiber-based wound dressings induce production of antimicrobial peptideCorvallis OR (SPX) Jul 18, 2018 Nanofiber-based wound dressings loaded with vitamin D spur the production of an antimicrobial peptide, a key step forward in the battle against surgical site infections, or SSIs. The findings ... more |
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MyotonPRO tests muscle tension and stiffnessParis (ESA) Jul 11, 2018 This gadget looks like a precursor to the devices medical officers use to scan patients in science fiction, and it is not far off. The MyotonPRO tests muscle tension and stiffness. The device ... more  |
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Enzyme boost could hasten production of biofuels and other bioprocessed materialsLondon, UK (SPX) Jul 03, 2018 This could lead to cheaper and more environmentally friendly biofuel production and more efficient plastic recycling. Bioprocessing, which uses living cells or their components to make product ... more 
China's organ transplant system feted despite transparency doubtsMadrid (AFP) July 6, 2018 Just a few years ago, China was persona non grata in the transplantation world over its use of organs from executed inmates, some of them prisoners of conscience. ... more 
Help NASA Track and Predict Mosquito-Borne Disease OutbreaksGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 03, 2018 Picnics, parades and fireworks are the attributes of a grand July Fourth celebration. So are the itch and scratch of mosquito bites. While the bites are annoying, they don't tend to stop the festivi ... more 
Low-cost prosthetic foot mimics natural walkingBoston MA (SPX) Jul 03, 2018 Prosthetic limb technology has advanced by leaps and bounds, giving amputees a range of bionic options, including artificial knees controlled by microchips, sensor-laden feet driven by artificial in ... more 
Versatile ultrasound system could transform how doctors use medical imagingWashington DC (SPX) Jul 03, 2018 While ultrasound is one of the most common medical imaging tools, conventional electronic ultrasound devices tend to be bulky and cannot be used at the same time as some other imaging technologies. ... more |
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 Koriyama, Japan (AFP) Aug 1, 2018 
The pumpkin is diced, the chicken carved and the eggs beaten into an omelette, but the people preparing the food are not chefs - they are scientists testing produce from Japan's Fukushima region.
Seven years after the March 2011 nuclear disaster caused by a devastating tsunami, rigorous testing shows no radioactive threat from Fukushima's produce, officials and experts say.
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 London (Sputnik) Aug 03, 2018 
The Guardian has reported that the UK law enforcement and military will continue to access the encrypted signal of the Galileo satellite system post-Brexit.
According to the sources, the EU chief Brexit negotiator is contemplating an offer to the UK that will give London an advantage over the use of the encrypted service compared to other third-party nations.
Radio Sputnik has discus ... more |
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 Oxford UK (SPX) Aug 08, 2018 
Despite over a century of intense study, we still know very little about the people buried at Stonehenge or how they came to be there. Now, a new University of Oxford research collaboration, published in Scientific Reports suggests that a number of the people that were buried at the Wessex site had moved with and likely transported the bluestones used in the early stages of the monument's constr ... more |
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 Baltimore MD (SPX) Aug 07, 2018 
Microorganisms in colder climates darken themselves to capture more heat from the sun and improve their ability to survive, according to a study from scientists at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
The scientists, in a study to be published in Current Biology on August 2, examined yeasts collected at different latitudes, and found that dark-pigmented ones were more frequentl ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Aug 3, 2018 
China reported Friday its first outbreak of African swine fever, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said, and had destroyed 336 pigs as it tried to prevent the spread of the disease.
The notification on the OIE website said the outbreak in Shenyang, the capital of the northeastern Liaoning province, began on Wednesday and was ongoing.
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 Beijing (AFP) Aug 6, 2018  Hundreds of police patrolled the streets of Beijing's financial district Monday as Chinese authorities thwarted a planned protest against money lost in risky peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platforms and a lack of government help.
Protesters told AFP they had come from every corner of China in hopes that by gathering en masse the government would recognise their grievances and take action.
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 Mexico City (AFP) Aug 7, 2018 
In the middle of the street, corpses riddled with bullets. Underground, thousands of bodies heaped in clandestine graves. And in the mountains, drug gangs locked in armed conflict with the military.
These grim scenes have increasingly become the norm in Mexico, a country gripped by violence stemming from its war on drugs which since 2006 has seen more than 200,000 murders and 30,000 people g ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Aug 5, 2018 
Ten years ago, in August 2008, Russia and Georgia went to war over South Ossetia, a small separatist Georgian region which Moscow would later controversially recognise as independent, in the face of international criticism.
Here is a recap of the five-day war in South Ossetia, a territory of 50,000 people which remains one of several sticking points in Russia's ties with the West.
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 Paris, France (SPX) Jul 27, 2018 
Observations made with the Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) have, for the first time, detected the effects of general relativity predicted by Einstein, in the movement of a star passing into the intense gravitational field of Sagittarius A*, a massive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way.
These results were obtained by the GRAVITY consortium, led b ... more |
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 San Francisco (AFP) Aug 4, 2018 
Word that Google is crafting a search engine to meet China's draconian censorship rules has sparked widespread employee anger at the company which has responded by limiting workers' access to documents about the project, a report said Friday.
Google was scurrying to stop leaks and quell outrage inside the company over what had been a stealth project prior to a report this week by news websit ... more |
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 Baghdad (AFP) Aug 6, 2018 
The United Nations on Monday hailed Iraq's "credible" vote recount, which paves the way for a government to be formed nearly three months after polls.
Iraq's May 12 parliamentary elections were marred by allegations of fraud, prompting the country's supreme court to order a partial manual recount.
As an official announced the checks had concluded, the UN said it had observed the recount ... more |
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 Pule Alam, Afghanistan (AFP) Aug 7, 2018 
NATO is investigating reports that at least nine Afghan police officers were killed in a US air strike during heavy fighting with the Taliban in eastern Afghanistan, its mission said Tuesday.
Afghan officials have confirmed the deaths, with interior ministry spokesman Nasrat Rahimi saying nine police were killed and 14 wounded in the aerial bombardment in Azra district of Logar province.
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 6, 2018 
Coal consumption in the U.S. power sector last year was the lowest in more than 30 years and the fourth straight year for a decline, the government stated.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration reported in a daily brief on Friday that the nation's power sector consumed 661 million short tons of coal last year, the lowest level since 1983.
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 Washington DC (SPX) Aug 07, 2018 
The remains of domesticated crop plants at an archaeological site in southwest Amazonia supports the idea that this was an important region in the early history of crop cultivation, according to a study published July 25, 2018 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Jennifer Watling from the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil and colleagues.
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 Boston MA (SPX) Aug 07, 2018 
The Perseid meteor shower, an annual celestial event beloved by millions of skywatchers around the world, is about to make its annual return to the night sky. And thanks to a new Moon, there'll be no bright moonlight to hinder the view.
Sky and Telescope magazine predicts that this year's Perseid shower will reach its peak on Sunday night, August 12th, and early morning on the 13th. You wi ... more |
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