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  Kochi, India (AFP) Sept 4, 2018 "Rat fever" and other diseases have killed 14 people in the southern Indian state of Kerala after the worst floods in almost a century, authorities said Tuesday. The separate death toll from the monsoon floods that forced more than a million people from their homes in Kerala last month has meanwhile risen to 486, the government said. "We had anticipated leptospirosis (rat fever) due to contaminated water and are taking all measures to distribute preventive drugs in camps," Kerala health director ... read more |
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Virus' potency depends on the shape of its DNAWashington (UPI) Sep 4, 2018 Sometimes a virus lies dormant inside a host cell. Other times, the virus destroys everything. ... more 
UN emergency talks to head off swine fever spread in AsiaBangkok (AFP) Sept 5, 2018 An emergency meeting to head off an outbreak of African swine fever across Asia opened in Bangkok on Wednesday, after a mass pig cull in China sparked fears of a potential pandemic. ... more 
Deadly 'rat fever' in flood-ravaged Indian stateKochi, India (AFP) Sept 4, 2018 "Rat fever" has killed at least 12 people with another 54 suspected fatal cases in the southern Indian state of Kerala since August, after the worst floods in almost a century, authorities said Tuesday. ... more 
China culls 38,000 pigs as swine fever spreadsBeijing (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. ... more |
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Biosensor allows real-time oxygen monitoring for 'organs-on-a-chip'Raleigh NC (SPX) Aug 24, 2018 A new biosensor allows researchers to track oxygen levels in real time in "organ-on-a-chip" systems, making it possible to ensure that such systems more closely mimic the function of real organs. Th ... more  
Nanobot pumps destroy nerve agentsWashington DC (SPX) Aug 22, 2018 Once in the territory of science fiction, "nanobots" are closer than ever to becoming a reality, with possible applications in medicine, manufacturing, robotics and fluidics. Today, scientists repor ... more 
China culls thousands of pigs as African swine fever spreadsBeijing (AFP) Aug 22, 2018 More than 14,500 pigs have been culled in an eastern Chinese city, officials said Wednesday, as the world's largest pork producer scrambles to contain an outbreak of African swine fever. ... more
China sacks regional officials as vaccine scandal mountsBeijing (AFP) Aug 17, 2018 China's Communist Party has sacked a dozen provincial and local officials and vowed to punish a pharmaceutical firm over a vaccine scandal that inflamed public fears over the safety of domestically produced drugs. ... more
China sacks six more officials over vaccine scandalBeijing (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 |
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 UTMB researchers successfully transplant bioengineered lung 
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  |
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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  
More than 70,000 homeless after deadly Lombok quakeMataram, 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. ... more  
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  
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 |
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 Tokyo (AFP) Sept 12, 2018 
Flooded runways, thousands of passengers stranded and a tanker smashing into an access bridge: last week's typhoon in Japan highlighted the vulnerability of Kansai Airport which serves a region with an economy bigger than Belgium's.
Because of concerns about engine noise, Kansai - located in the bay of Osaka - is the world's first airport entirely situated on a huge man-made island, puttin ... more |
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 Hatfield, UK (SPX) Sep 10, 2018 
ntenova Ltd, manufacturer of antennas and RF antenna modules for connected devices and the Internet of Things, is now shipping its latest module for tiny positioning devices - the RADIONOVA M20047-1. This is an active antenna module for GNSS applications in the 1559-1609 MHz satellite bands using GPS, GLONASS, GALILEO or BeiDou.
The M20047-1 antenna module comprises an SMD antenna with bui ... more |
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 Leipzig, Germany (SPX) Sep 13, 2018 
"Chimpanzee hunting success increased when more chimpanzees participated in the hunt or in joint prey searches prior to the start of a hunt", says Liran Samuni of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and first author of the study.
"The sharing of meat following successful hunts encouraged hunt participation, as prey catchers shared more frequently with hunters than non-hu ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Sep 11, 2018 
Blister beetles are chemical con artists, and according to new research, they can adapt their trickery to dupe a variety of bee species.
During one of several larval stages, Meloe franciscanus beetles infiltrate bee nests by mimicking the chemicals emitted by female bees - perfume-like compounds called pheromones. The perfume attracts males, which the larvae attach themselves to, hitch ... more |
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 Kochi, India (AFP) Sept 4, 2018 
"Rat fever" and other diseases have killed 14 people in the southern Indian state of Kerala after the worst floods in almost a century, authorities said Tuesday.
The separate death toll from the monsoon floods that forced more than a million people from their homes in Kerala last month has meanwhile risen to 486, the government said.
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 Beijing (AFP) Sept 10, 2018  Beijing officials have shut down one of China's largest "underground" Protestant churches for operating without a licence, the Communist government's latest move to ramp up control over religious worship.
Around 70 officials stormed into the Zion Church - housed on the third floor of a nondescript office building in the north of the capital - after its Sunday afternoon service, said church ... more |
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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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 New Delhi (AFP) Sept 6, 2018  Top Indian and US officials on Thursday touted deepening ties that will see greater cooperation between the two countries' militaries - and will likely result in India buying more American arms.
The US has gone to great lengths to forge a closer bond with India as Washington seeks partners to push back against China's economic and military rise across the region.
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 Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Sep 07, 2018 
A group of scientists from the Niels Bohr Institute (NBI) at the University of Copenhagen will soon start developing a new line of technical equipment in order to dramatically improve gravitational wave detectors.
Gravitational wave detectors are extremely sensitive and can e.g. register colliding neutron stars in space. Yet even higher sensitivity is sought for in order to expand our know ... more |
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 Strasbourg, France (AFP) Sept 12, 2018  The European Union proposed steps Wednesday to compel social media and websites to remove "terrorist" propaganda within an hour of receiving the order from authorities.
If they do not, companies such as Facebook and Twitter will risk massive fines under the legislation mooted by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker.
Having long left it to internet firms to voluntarily remove ... more |
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 Mosul, Iraq (AFP) Sept 9, 2018 
Two hospitals reopened on Sunday in the heavily damaged western sector of Mosul, over a year since Iraqi security forces seized the city back from the Islamic State group.
The hospitals - one an emergency centre, the other specialising in gynaecology and obstetrics - replace buildings that were destroyed in fighting that culminated in the jihadists' defeat in the city in July 2017.
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 Islamabad (AFP) Sept 10, 2018  Pakistan's army chief has confirmed death sentences for 13 militants, authorities said Monday, bringing the total executions ordered by secret military courts over the past month to at least 28.
The military said the 13 convicted militants sentenced Monday were involved in attacks on the armed forces, destruction of schools, and killing of innocent civilians.
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 Kerpen, Germany (AFP) Sept 13, 2018 
German activists living in treehouses to protect an ancient forest from being razed for a nearby coal mine on Thursday vowed to resist as police began evicting them, in a major escalation of the long-running environmental battle.
Hundreds of police officers descended on the area in the early morning, after local authorities ordered the Hambach Forest in western Germany to be cleared immediat ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Sep 12, 2018 
Researchers have discovered evidence of beer brewing dating to 13,000 years ago, several thousand years before the cultivation of grains in the Near East.
The discovery lends credence to those who argue beer, not bread, inspired the earliest grain growers.
Scientists didn't find beer steins or stout recipes. Instead, they found telling plant residues on stone mortars inside a cav ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Sep 7, 2018 
A new mosaic image shared Friday by NASA showcases one of Ceres' bright spots.
The dwarf planet's bright spots were first discovered and photographed in 2015. In the time since, high resolution images have offered scientists clearer and clearer views of the bright spots.
Ceres' brightest spot is located on a feature called Cerealia Facula, found in the Occator Crater. The latest ... more |
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