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  Beijing (AFP) Feb 13, 2019 Dozens of tourists celebrating the lunar new year at an upmarket ski resort in northeastern China have been struck down by novovirus, the winter vomiting bug, the tour operator admitted. French luxury holiday group Club Med expressed its regret, saying it took the outbreak - which saw guests suffer from vomiting and diarrhoea - "very seriously". "We plan to offer all customers who have been affected by the virus compensation equivalent to three times the price they spent," Club Med said in a ... read more |
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Mosquitoes that carry malaria may have been doing so 100 million years agoCorvallis 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 ... more  
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 |
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Unlocking graphene's superconducting powers with a twist and a squeezeNew York NY (SPX) Jan 25, 2019 Graphene has been heralded as a wonder material. Not only is it the strongest, thinnest material ever discovered, its exceptional ability to conduct heat and electricity paves the way for innovation ... more 
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 |
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 Moving on the Moon 
Brain condition related to long-term spaceflights needs more attention, dataCharleston SC (SPX) Jan 25, 2019 More people today are poised to explore space than ever before; those who do will experience the effects of microgravity on the human body. Recognizing the need for more data related to those effect ... more  |
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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 
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 |
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 Washington (AFP) Feb 12, 2019 
As congressional Democrats counter President Donald Trump's border wall plan with a high-tech solution, the idea of a "smart" security barrier is raising fresh questions over the potential for intrusive surveillance.
Last month, the Democratic lawmakers endorsed what they described as "a strong, but smart, border security posture," without "costly physical barriers."
Some test projects a ... more |
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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 14, 2019 
According to a new study, orangutans make complex economic decisions related to tool usage.
Biologists have long considered tool usage a sign of advanced cognition, but increasingly, scientists are realizing tools can be used in primitive, less-sophisticated ways, as well as more flexible, innovative and intelligent ways.
The new research - published in the journal PLOS ONE - s ... more |
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 Lusaka (AFP) Feb 13, 2019 
Zambia plans to slaughter 2,000 hippopotamuses to control overpopulation, officials said Wednesday, as conservationists lashed the scheme as a ploy to make money from trophy hunters.
An official at the tourism ministry, who did not want to be named, said a five-year cull of hippos in a park in eastern Zambia would start in May.
"Currently the hippo population in the South Luangwa Nationa ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Feb 13, 2019 
Dozens of tourists celebrating the lunar new year at an upmarket ski resort in northeastern China have been struck down by novovirus, the winter vomiting bug, the tour operator admitted.
French luxury holiday group Club Med expressed its regret, saying it took the outbreak - which saw guests suffer from vomiting and diarrhoea - "very seriously".
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 Berlin (AFP) Feb 14, 2019 
A moving Chinese epic looking at the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution, the one-child policy and forced abortion made it past censors to premiere at the Berlin film festival Thursday despite a widening crackdown.
"Di jiu tian chang" (So Long, My Son) by Wang Xiaoshuai, clocking in at more than three hours, is a sweeping allegorical drama about two families whose fates become intricately i ... more |
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 Tokyo (AFP) Feb 14, 2019 
Campaigning began Thursday ahead of a referendum in Japan's Okinawa on the controversial relocation of a US military base to a remote part of the island.
The non-binding vote will be held on February 24, with Governor Denny Tamaki campaigning against the relocation of the Futenma airbase.
The base is currently located in a densely-populated part of the southern island, and has caused fri ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Feb 15, 2019 
Measurements of gravitational waves from ~50 binary neutron stars over the next decade will definitively resolve an intense debate over how fast our universe is expanding, find an international team including UCL and Flatiron Institute cosmologists.
The cosmos has been expanding for 13.8 billion years and its present rate of expansion, known as the Hubble constant, gives the time elapsed s ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Feb 12, 2019 
Beijing called the latest US warning against using Huawei equipment "groundless" on Tuesday, as the Chinese telecom giant faces espionage fears in a growing number of countries.
The world's second-largest smartphone maker and biggest producer of telecommunications gear has been under fire in recent months after the arrest of a top executive in Canada and a global campaign by Washington to bl ... more |
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 Baghdad (AFP) Feb 13, 2019 
Acting Pentagon chief Patrick Shanahan made an unannounced visit to the Iraqi capital on Tuesday for talks on the sensitive issue of a continued US troop presence after Washington withdraws from neighbouring Syria.
Shanahan is keen to reassure Iraqi leaders after President Donald Trump angered many by saying he wanted to maintain some troops at the Al-Asad airbase, northwest of Baghdad, to k ... more |
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 Brussels (AFP) Feb 14, 2019  Washington will not unilaterally withdraw from Afghanistan, the Pentagon chief said Thursday, as NATO said the Kabul government must be brought into US peace talks with the Taliban to end the country's 17-year war.
Acting defence secretary Patrick Shanahan said any decision to reduce the number of US troops in Afghanistan would be taken in coordination with NATO, which runs a training and su ... 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 13, 2019 
Growing plants can be tough, whether you're on a spaceship or Earth. A special fertilizer made it easier for astronauts on the International Space Station and farmers down below, resulting in just one of the space program's many contributions to agriculture.
Numerous farming tools have roots at NASA. Over the years, companies large and small have partnered with the agency, honed technologi ... more |
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 Austin TX (SPX) Feb 13, 2019 
A recent NASA mission to the dwarf planet Ceres found brilliant, white spots of salts on its surface. New research led by The University of Texas at Austin in partnership with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) delved into the factors that influenced the volcanic activity that formed the distinctive spots and that could play a key role in mixing the ingredients for life on other worlds.
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