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  Beijing (AFP) Sept 2, 2018 More than 38,000 pigs have been culled across China, state media said Sunday, as the world's largest pork producer scrambles to contain an outbreak of African swine fever. The disease has been discovered in five Chinese provinces, the official Xinhua news service reported, quoting statistics from the country's ministry of agriculture. China reported its first case of the disease in August in northeast Liaoning province. Since then the disease has moved south, with cases discovered as far as ... read more |
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NASA investment in cholera forecasts helps save lives in YemenWashington DC (SPX) Aug 29, 2018 For the first time ever, measurements from NASA Earth-observing research satellites are being used to help combat a potential outbreak of life-threatening cholera. Humanitarian teams in Yemen are ta ... more 
Temperature model predicts transmission of mosquito-borne virusWashington (UPI) Aug 28, 2018 Scientists have designed a new model to predict how temperatures will impact the transmission patterns of the mosquito-borne Ross River virus. ... more 
China's swine fever outbreak may spread in Asia: FAOBeijing (AFP) Aug 28, 2018 An outbreak of African swine fever in China may spread to other parts of Asia, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization warned Tuesday, as the world's largest pork producer scrambled to contain the disease. ... more  
Researchers succeed in imaging quantum eventsTel Aviv, Israel (SPX) Aug 24, 2018 Quantum technology is a growing field of physics and engineering which utilizes properties of quantum mechanics as a basis for advanced practical applications such as quantum computing, sensors, inf ... more |
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China sacks six more officials over vaccine scandal Beijing (AFP) Aug 18, 2018 China said Saturday it has sacked six senior officials over a vaccine scandal that inflamed public fears over the safety of domestically produced drugs. ... more  
UTMB researchers successfully transplant bioengineered lungGalveston TX (SPX) Aug 10, 2018 A research team at the University of Texas Medical Branch have bioengineered lungs and transplanted them into adult pigs with no medical complication. In 2014, Joan Nichols and Joaquin Cortiel ... more 
Bioengineers use magnetic force to manage painLos Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 10, 2018 UCLA bioengineers have demonstrated that a gel-like material containing tiny magnetic particles could be used to manage chronic pain from disease or injury. Broadly, the study demonstrates the promi ... more 
Stem cell may explain why dogs have such a good sense of smellWashington (UPI) Aug 10, 2018 Why did some mammals, like dogs, develop such a powerful sense of smell, while others, like humans, get stuck with a relatively puny olfactory system? ... more 
Getting more out of microbes: studying shewanella in microgravityHouston TX (SPX) Aug 08, 2018 While cities, towns, and spaceships operated entirely from energy generated by microbial sources are still the stuff of science fiction, scientific knowledge needed for such a future can build from ... 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  |
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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
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 
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
India recalls vaccines made by tainted China firmNew Delhi (AFP) Aug 1, 2018 India has ordered an immediate recall of rabies vaccines made by a scandal-hit Chinese company, India's drug regulator said Wednesday, complaining it only found out about possible problems through media reports. ... more
Chinese parents stage rare public protest over vaccine scareBeijing (AFP) July 30, 2018 About a dozen people held a rare protest outside China's Health Ministry to demand action over a vaccine scandal that has inflamed public fears over the safety of domestically produced drugs. ... more |
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 St. John'S, Antigua And Barbuda (AFP) Sept 1, 2018 
Dozens of Barbudans were forcibly evicted Saturday from a shelter on neighboring Antigua, leaving them without a home almost exactly a year after powerful Hurricane Irma devastated their island.
Around 40 people - half of them children, the youngest just a month old - were ousted from the National Technical Training Center after police and government officials descended on the building in ... more |
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 London (AFP) Aug 29, 2018  Britain will invest in the possible creation of its own satellite-navigation system, the UK government announced Wednesday, after being excluded from the EU's Galileo programme because of Brexit. At the same time, London said it was continuing to negotiate with the European Union about remaining in the Galileo programme. Britain will invest 92 million pounds ($119 million, 102 million euros), ... more |
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 Leipzig, Germany (SPX) Aug 31, 2018 
Together with their sister group the Neandertals, Denisovans are the closest extinct relatives of currently living humans. "We knew from previous studies that Neandertals and Denisovans must have occasionally had children together", says Viviane Slon, researcher at the MPI-EVA and one of three first authors of the study. "But I never thought we would be so lucky as to find an actual offspring of ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 31, 2018 
What happens to endangered prey when a top predator makes a comeback?
In central Kenya, lions are making a resurgence. Some conservationists have expressed concern that the comeback of the lion will jeopardize the health of another imperiled species, the Grevy's zebra.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature classifies the lion as threatened. Grevy's zebra, Equus grevy ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Sept 2, 2018 
More than 38,000 pigs have been culled across China, state media said Sunday, as the world's largest pork producer scrambles to contain an outbreak of African swine fever.
The disease has been discovered in five Chinese provinces, the official Xinhua news service reported, quoting statistics from the country's ministry of agriculture.
China reported its first case of the disease in Augus ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Sept 2, 2018  Police in central China said Sunday they arrested nearly 50 people after a violent protest sparked by dissatisfaction with the local school system.
More than 600 protesters gathered outside a police station in Leiyang city in Hunan province around midnight Saturday after security personnel stopped a protest earlier in the day, police said in a statement on their website.
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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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 Tokyo (AFP) Aug 31, 2018 
Japan's defence ministry on Friday made its biggest-ever budget request, seeking better missile defence and bolstered air power amid ongoing threats from North Korea and China.
The ministry wants 5.298 trillion yen ($47 billion) for the next fiscal year from April, the seventh straight annual increase and 2.1 percent more than last year.
Among the items on the defence ministry's shopping ... more |
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 Cambridge UK (SPX) Aug 09, 2018 
An everyday occurrence spotted when we turn on the tap to brush our teeth has baffled engineers for centuries - why does the water splay when it hits the sink before it heads down the plughole?
Famous inventor and painter Leonardo da Vinci documented the phenomenon, now known as a hydraulic jump, back in the 1500s. Hydraulic jumps are harmless in our household sinks but they can cause viol ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Aug 30, 2018  A senior Republican senator on Thursday urged US regulators to reopen an antitrust investigation into Google, citing "important developments" since the review was closed in 2013.
Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah called on the Federal Trade Commission "to reconsider the competitive effects of Google's conduct in search and digital advertising."
Lawmakers have no official role in determining ho ... more |
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 Arbil, Iraq (AFP) Sept 2, 2018 
With artificial limbs in the place of legs they lost to jihadists, a group of Iraqis plunged into a swimming pool for a special race aimed at helping them overcome the horrors of war.
Abdel Zahra Kazem, a soldier from southern Iraq who was wounded in an attack in Baghdad, said getting back in the pool had helped him to rediscover one of his passions in life.
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 Beijing (AFP) Aug 30, 2018 
China on Thursday sharply rebuked US lawmakers who called on President Donald Trump's administration to slap sanctions on Chinese officials involved in the internment of a Muslim minority in the country's far-west Xinjiang region.
"The US has no right to criticise China on this issue, to be a judge in this regard," said foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying, pointing to America's own is ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Aug 22, 2018 
President Donald Trump's administration announced a plan Tuesday to weaken regulations on US coal plants, giving a boost to an industry that former leader Barack Obama had hoped to phase out to cut harmful emissions that drive global warming.
The Environmental Protection Agency's new Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule would allow states the flexibility to set their own standards for performa ... more |
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 Norwich UK (SPX) Aug 31, 2018 
Globally, wheat, together with maize and rice, provides the most human nutrition. It can thrive in a whole range of different environments, even within a similar geographical region.
Exploring one hundred different wheat lines worldwide, the research team led by the Earlham Institute in collaboration with Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen, University of Liverpool and the John Innes Centre have rev ... more |
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 Andalusia, Spain (SPX) Aug 28, 2018 
There is just over two months to go until asteroid 2015 TB145 approaches Earth once again, just as it did in 2015 around the night of Halloween, an occasion which astronomers did not pass up to study its characteristics. This dark object measures between 625 and 700 metres, its rotation period is around three hours and, in certain lighting conditions, it resembles a human skull.
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