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  Vancouver, Canada (SPX) Sep 17, 2018 Engineers at the University of British Columbia have developed a new ultrasound transducer, or probe, that could dramatically lower the cost of ultrasound scanners to as little as $100. Their patent-pending innovation - no bigger than a Band-Aid - is portable, wearable and can be powered by a smartphone. Conventional ultrasound scanners use piezoelectric crystals to create images of the inside of the body and send them to a computer to create sonograms. Researchers replaced the piezoelectric cryst ... read more |
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Indonesia's quake-hit Lombok battles with malaria, 137 infectedMataram, Indonesia (AFP) Sept 16, 2018 A malaria outbreak has infected at least 137 people in Indonesia's West Lombok after the island was rocked by a series of earthquakes in recent months, an official said Sunday. ... more 
Artificial synaptic device simulating the function of human brainSeoul, South Korea (SPX) Sep 13, 2018 A research team led by Director Myoung-Jae Lee from the Intelligent Devices and Systems Research Group at DGIST has succeeded in developing an artificial synaptic device that mimics the function of ... more 
Deadly 'rat fever' in flood-ravaged Indian stateKochi, 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. ... more 
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 |
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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 
Scientists track how yellow fever raced through BrazilWashington (AFP) Aug 23, 2018 The yellow fever virus lurked deep in the Amazon jungle until around July 2016 when it leapt toward the highly populated south of Brazil, carried by monkeys and the mosquitoes that liked to bite them. ... more 
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 |
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 China culls thousands of pigs as African swine fever spreads
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  |
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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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 Washington (AFP) Sept 14, 2018  Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, the richest person on the planet, announced Thursday he was creating a philanthropic fund to help homeless families and launch preschools in low-income communities, committing an initial $2 billion.
Bezos made the announcement on Twitter a year after asking for ideas on how he could use his personal fortune - now estimated at more than $160 billion - for charitab ... more |
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 Washington DC (AFNS) Sep 19, 2018 
The U.S. Air Force announced selection of Lockheed Martin for a fixed-price-type production contract for 22 GPS III Follow-On satellites with a total estimated contract value up to $7.2 billion.
"The world is dependent on GPS, from getting directions to getting cash from an ATM or trading on the stock exchange," said Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson. "These satellites will provide ... more |
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 Johannesburg, South Africa (SPX) Sep 17, 2018 
The earliest evidence of a drawing made by humans has been found in Blombos Cave in the southern Cape in South Africa. The drawing, which consists of three red lines cross-hatched with six separate lines, was intentionally drawn on a smooth silcrete flake about 73 000 years ago. This predates previous drawing from Africa, Europe and Southeast Asia by at least 30 000 years.
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 Athens GA (SPX) Sep 18, 2018 
About 61 percent of the world's 356 turtle species are threatened or already extinct, and the decline could have ecological consequences. These findings are according to a new paper in Bioscience synthesizing the global status of turtles and their ecological roles by scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey, Tennessee Aquarium Conservation Institute, University of California, Davis, and the Un ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Sept 18, 2018 
US President Donald Trump unveiled a new strategy Tuesday aimed at reducing the risks of man-made and naturally occurring biological threats.
The announcement came on the anniversary of the 2001 anthrax bio-terror attacks in Washington and elsewhere that killed five people.
"Biological threats emanate from many sources, and they know no borders," Trump said in a statement.
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 Beijing (AFP) Sept 13, 2018  A Chinese Protestant pastor is vowing to keep preaching to his flock despite the closure of his prominent underground church in Beijing, defying the government's intensifying pressure on religious groups.
Pastor Jin Mingri had given sermons at the Zion Church, one of the biggest unofficial congregations in the country, for the past decade until local officials shut it down on Sunday.
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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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 Skopje (AFP) Sept 17, 2018 
US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis arrived in skopje Monday to back a 'yes' vote at this month's referendum on Macedonia's name change and counter what he called "Russian influence" against the move.
On September 30, Macedonians vote on whether to change the country's name to the Republic of North Macedonia, which could open the door to NATO and EU membership.
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 17, 2018 
The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO) mission team plans to switch to a backup system in the Microwave Instrument (MWI) on one of the twin spacecraft this month. Following the switch-over, GRACE-FO is expected to quickly resume science data collection.
A month after launching this past May, GRACE-FO produced its first preliminary gravity field map. The mission ha ... more |
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 New York (AFP) Sept 7, 2018 
A 35-year-old Russian was extradited to the United States from Georgia on Friday to answer criminal charges over the massive theft of customer data from JPMorgan Chase and Dow Jones, officials announced.
Andrei Tyurin is accused of orchestrating major hacking crimes against US financial institutions, brokerage firms and financial news publishers, including the largest theft of customer data ... more |
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 Baghdad (AFP) Sept 15, 2018  The Iraqi parliament elected pro-Iran candidates as speaker and first deputy speaker on Saturday, boosting the country's chances of forming a new administration more than four months after national elections.
National politics has been in paralysis since the May 12 ballot, but Saturday's selections are expected to solidify new parliamentary alliances.
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 Koysinjaq, Iraq (AFP) Sept 13, 2018 
A man wearing a white surgeon's mask sprays red paint at pockmarks left in a white wall by shrapnel - honouring comrades who died in an Iranian missile attack in Iraqi Kurdistan.
The man is a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran, a rebel group based in northern Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, whose headquarters were targeted by the missile attack on September 8.
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 Berlin (AFP) Sept 16, 2018 
Nine environmental activists were injured and 34 detained in an operation to evict protesters holed up in forest treehouses in a bid to block the expansion of an open-pit coal mine, police said Sunday.
Police officers have mobilised against fierce resistance since the middle of last week to clear the demonstrators from Hambach Forest near the border with Belgium and the Netherlands.
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 Cambridge UK (SPX) Sep 17, 2018 
Agriculture that appears to be more eco-friendly but uses more land may actually have greater environmental costs per unit of food than "high-yield" farming that uses less land, a new study has found.
There is mounting evidence that the best way to meet rising food demand while conserving biodiversity is to wring as much food as sustainably possible from the land we do farm, so that more n ... more |
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 Socorro NM (SPX) Sep 17, 2018 
In an unusual observation, astronomers used the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) to study the effects on radio waves coming from a distant radio galaxy when an asteroid in our solar system passed in front of the galaxy. The observation allowed them to measure the size of the asteroid, gain new information about its shape, and greatly improve the accuracy with which i ... more |
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