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  Corvallis OR (SPX) Feb 12, 2019 The anopheline mosquitoes that carry malaria were present 100 million years ago, new research shows, potentially shedding fresh light on the history of a disease that continues to kill more than 400,000 people annually. "Mosquitoes could have been vectoring malaria at that time, but it's still an open question," said the study's corresponding author, George Poinar Jr. of Oregon State University's College of Science. "Back then anopheline mosquitoes were probably biting birds, small mammals and rep ... read more |
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Defending Against Adversarial Artificial IntelligenceWashington DC (SPX) Feb 07, 2019 Today, machine learning (ML) is coming into its own, ready to serve mankind in a diverse array of applications - from highly efficient manufacturing, medicine and massive information analysis to sel ... more  
Intelligent Healing for Complex WoundsWashington DC (SPX) Feb 07, 2019 Blast injuries, burns, and other wounds experienced by warfighters often catastrophically damage their bones, skin, and nerves, resulting in months to years of recovery for the most severe injuries ... more 
Engineers harvest heart's energy to power life-saving devicesHanover NH (SPX) Feb 05, 2019 The heart's motion is so powerful that it can recharge devices that save our lives, according to new research from Dartmouth College. Using a dime-sized invention developed by engineers at the ... more  
Venezuela opposition warns military against preventing entry of aidCaracas (AFP) Feb 5, 2019 Venezuela's armed forces would be crossing a "red line" if they were to block humanitarian aid from entering the country, the opposition dominated National Assembly said on Tuesday. ... more |
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Environmental protection in outer spaceFrankfurt, Germany (SPX) Jan 25, 2019 On earth, environmental protection has the primary goal of ensuring the availability of clean water and clean air for human beings in the future. Human interests usually take also precedent when it ... more 
Artificial skin could give superhuman perceptionStorrs CT (SPX) Jan 29, 2019 A new type of sensor could lead to artificial skin that someday helps burn victims 'feel' and safeguards the rest of us, University of Connecticut researchers suggest in a paper in Advanced Material ... more  
Microplastic contamination found in common source of groundwater, researchers reportChampaign IL (SPX) Jan 28, 2019 Microplastics contaminate the world's surface waters, yet scientists have only just begun to explore their presence in groundwater systems. A new study is the first to report microplastics in fractu ... more  
Novel strategy enables tiny semiconductor particles for wide-ranging applicationsSingapore (SPX) Jan 28, 2019 Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) nanomaterials such as molybdenite (MoS2), which possess a similar structure as graphene, have been donned the materials of the future for ... more  
Moving on the MoonParis (ESA) Jan 25, 2019 Europe is preparing to go forward to the Moon, but how will astronauts move once they get there? Despite the Apollo missions, little is known about what lunar gravity may mean for our bodies. ESA's ... more |
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 Brain condition related to long-term spaceflights needs more attention, data 
Prolonged spaceflight could weaken astronauts' immune systemsTucson AZ (SPX) Jan 24, 2019 NASA hopes to send humans to Mars by 2030 on a round-trip mission that could take up to three years - far longer than any human has ever traveled in space. Such long-term spaceflights could adversel ... more  |
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China clones gene-edited monkeys to aid disorder researchShanghai (AFP) Jan 24, 2019 Chinese scientists announced Thursday they had cloned five monkeys from a single animal that was genetically engineered to have a sleep disorder, saying it could aid research into human psychological problems. ... more 
Superpowered salamander may hold the key to human regenerationLexington KY (SPX) Jan 25, 2019 Regeneration is one of the most enticing areas of biological research. How are some animals able to regrow body parts? Is it possible that humans could do the same? If scientists could unlock the se ... more  
A new method developed to produce precursors for high-strength carbon fibers processingNizhny Novgorod, Russia (SPX) Jan 23, 2019 Carbon fiber is an important structural material of the 21st century. Due to its high strength, which is not inferior to metal alloys, in combination with low specific weight and high oxidative stab ... more 
China's second gene-edited foetus is 12-14 weeks old: scientistBeijing (AFP) Jan 22, 2019 The second woman carrying a gene-edited foetus in China could now be 12 to 14 weeks into her pregnancy, according to a US physician in close contact with the researcher who claimed to have created the world's first genetically-modified babies last year. ... more
Second woman carrying gene-edited baby in ChinaBeijing (AFP) Jan 21, 2019 A researcher who claimed to have created the world's first genetically-edited babies will face a Chinese police investigation, state media said Monday, as authorities confirmed that a second woman fell pregnant during the experiment. ... more |
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 Srinagar, India (AFP) Feb 8, 2019  Three policemen were rescued Friday while five other bodies were recovered from an avalanche that buried 10 people in Indian-administered Kashmir following two days of heavy snowfall, police said.
The avalanche hit a fire emergency facility late Thursday in the Banihal area of the Kashmir valley. Six police, two prisoners and two other personnel had taken refuge there during a storm.
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 Oslo (AFP) Feb 11, 2019 
Norway's foreign intelligence unit on Monday expressed renewed concerns that its GPS signals in the country's Far North were being jammed, as Oslo again blamed Russia for the "unacceptable" acts.
In its annual national risk assessment report, the intelligence service said that in repeated incidents since 2017, GPS signals have been blocked from Russian territory in Norwegian regions near the ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Feb 7, 2019 
The western lowland gorilla is characterized by a dynamic social structure and peaceful familial relations, according to a new survey of the primate's behavior inside the African equatorial rainforest.
For five years, biologists from the University of Barcelona monitored three families of the western lowland gorilla, Gorilla gorilla gorilla, in the dense rainforest of the Republic of Co ... more |
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 University Park PA (SPX) Feb 12, 2019 
A new automated method to prepare digital photos for analysis will help wildlife researchers who depend on photographs to identify individual animals by their unique markings. A wildlife biologist from Penn State teamed up with scientists from Microsoft Azure, a cloud computing service, using machine learning technology to improve how photographs are turned into usable data for wildlife research ... more |
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 Corvallis OR (SPX) Feb 12, 2019 
The anopheline mosquitoes that carry malaria were present 100 million years ago, new research shows, potentially shedding fresh light on the history of a disease that continues to kill more than 400,000 people annually.
"Mosquitoes could have been vectoring malaria at that time, but it's still an open question," said the study's corresponding author, George Poinar Jr. of Oregon State Unive ... more |
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 Berlin (AFP) Feb 11, 2019 
The Berlin film festival said Monday that a new movie by acclaimed Chinese director Zhang Yimou had been pulled from the competition days before its scheduled world premiere.
The highly unusual move, which comes amid a Beijing crackdown on the domestic entertainment industry, was announced in a festival statement citing "technical difficulties encountered during post-production".
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 Washington (UPI) Feb 11, 2019 
Two U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyers sailed within 12 nautical miles of a disputed artificial island in the South China Sea on Monday, prompting "strong dissatisfaction" from China.
The USS Spruance and USS Preble - both Arleigh Burke-class destroyers - participated in what the U.S. Navy calls a "freedom of navigation operation," according to a statement by Cmdr. Clay Doss, a spoke ... more |
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 Hannover, Germany (SPX) Dec 17, 2018 
The detection of Einstein's gravitational waves relies on highly precise laser measurements of small length changes. The kilometer-size detectors of the international network (GEO600, LIGO, Virgo) are so sensitive that they are fundamentally limited by tiny quantum mechanical effects.
These cause a background noise which overlaps with gravitational-wave signals. This noise is always presen ... more |
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 San Francisco (AFP) Feb 8, 2019 
He built one of the world's most valuable companies from scratch, becoming the richest person on the planet.
Now Jeff Bezos is intent on showing he won't be bullied in a battle of wills with the politically connected owner of a supermarket tabloid.
The 55-year-old Bezos founded Amazon in his garage in 1994 and went on to grow it into a colossus that dominates online retail, with operatio ... more |
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 Al-Qaim, Iraq (AFP) Feb 10, 2019  French howitzer-guns deployed in the Euphrates Valley desert just inside Iraq stand ready to pour fury on Islamic State group diehards in their last holdout across the border in Syria.
Warplanes flash through the sky, followed seconds later by explosions on the Syrian side that send up a mushroom cloud.
"We're less than 10 kilometres (six miles) from the frontline here," points out Colon ... more |
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 Kabul (AFP) Feb 11, 2019 
Acting Pentagon chief Patrick Shanahan made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan Monday, where he met with President Ashraf Ghani as the United States leads a push for peace talks with the Taliban.
The visit comes after Washington held major talks with Taliban officials in Qatar last month that negotiators hope could herald a breakthrough in the grinding 17-year conflict.
US President Don ... more |
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 Sydney (AFP) Feb 8, 2019 
An Australian court on Friday delivered a landmark ruling by rejecting plans to build a coal mine on the grounds it would worsen climate change.
Chief Justice Brian Preston said a planned open cut coal mine in a scenic part of New South Wales state would be in "the wrong place at the wrong time".
The ruling by the New South Wales Land and Environment Court was notable for citing not only ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 07, 2019 
Warren Dick has worked with gypsum for more than two decades. You'd think he'd be an expert on drywall and plastering because both are made from gypsum. But the use of gypsum that Dick studies might be unfamiliar to you: on farmland.
"Gypsum is a good source of both calcium and sulfur, which crops need for good yields," says Dick. "We also found that it improves many other soil characteris ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 08, 2019 
Astronomers have discovered an asteroid looping through the inner solar system on an exotic orbit. The unusual object is among the first asteroids ever found whose orbit is confined almost entirely within the orbit of Venus. The asteroid's existence hints at potentially significant numbers of space rocks arcing unseen in uncharted regions nearer to the sun.
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