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  Washington (AFP) March 7, 2019 Facebook launched an offensive Thursday to suppress the spread of misinformation about vaccines on the 2.3-billion-member social network. The company has faced pressure in recent weeks to tackle the problem, amid outbreaks of measles around the United States attributed to growing numbers of parents who refuse to vaccinate their children. US lawmakers have decried the higher incidences of preventable diseases in the wake of a movement against child vaccination, in large part due to rumors they ca ... read more |
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Department of Managed Health of California Fines Healthnet Multiple Times For AppealLos Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 08, 2019 Being Diagnosed with prostate cancer shakes your foundation, then when Healthnet plays shenanigans it gets disturbing. Brad Bartz fancies himself an advocate for a level playing field where everyone ... more  
Listening to quantum radioDelft, Netherlands (SPX) Mar 11, 2019 Researchers at Delft University of Technology have created a quantum circuit that enables them to listen to the weakest radio signal allowed by quantum mechanics. This new quantum circuit opens the ... more  
Fast, flexible ionic transistors for bioelectronic devicesNew York NY (SPX) Mar 06, 2019 Many major advances in medicine, especially in neurology, have been sparked by recent advances in electronic systems that can acquire, process, and interact with biological substrates. These bioelec ... more  
Effects of spaceflight on heart cell formation from stem cellsNew Rochelle NY (SPX) Mar 08, 2019 Researchers used time-lapse imaging to show that mouse induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) grown during spaceflight differentiated into cardiomyocytes significantly faster than similar cells grow ... more |
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Iraq doctors say vendettas threaten their lives as they save othersBaghdad (AFP) Feb 28, 2019 In Iraq, medicine is a matter of life or death - not just for patients, but for doctors facing threats by vengeful relatives and emigrating en masse. ... more
China eyes bans for rogue scientists after gene-editing uproarBeijing (AFP) Feb 27, 2019 China has drafted new rules to supervise biotechnology research, with fines and bans against rogue scientists after a Chinese researcher caused a global outcry by claiming that he gene-edited babies. ... more  
Pharmaceutical residues in fresh water pose a growing environmental riskNijmegen, Netherlands (SPX) Feb 25, 2019 Over the past 20 years, concentrations of pharmaceuticals have increased in freshwater sources all over the world, as research by environmental experts at Radboud University has revealed. Levels of ... more 
A new layer of medical preparedness to combat emerging infectious diseaseWashington DC (SPX) Feb 20, 2019 DARPA has selected five teams of researchers to support PREventing EMerging Pathogenic Threats (PREEMPT), a 3.5-year program first announced in January 2018 to reinforce traditional medical prepared ... more 
Chinese food producer says swine fever found in dumplingsShanghai (AFP) Feb 18, 2019 A major Chinese food producer said Monday that traces of the African swine fever virus had been found in its frozen dumplings. ... more |
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 China measles Study has implications for worldwide epidemic control 
Study shows hope for fighting disease known as Ebola of frogsOrlando FL (SPX) Feb 18, 2019 Despite widespread infection, some frog populations are surviving a deadly disease that is the equivalent of mankind's Ebola virus. The reason - genetic diversity. That's the finding of a new ... 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 
Tourists at upmarket Chinese ski resort hit by novovirusBeijing (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. ... 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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 Washington (AFP) March 7, 2019 
The administration of US President Donald Trump has asked the Department of Defense to prepare to house up to 5,000 unaccompanied migrant children amid what it calls a mounting "crisis" at the US-Mexico border, the Pentagon said Thursday.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) "requested DoD support to identify space to house up to 5,000 unaccompanied alien children on DoD install ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 6, 2019 
Israel Aerospace Industries has unveiled an upgrade to its satellite operational navigation systems, which it says repels attempts at jamming.
While most navigation, communication and electronic warfare systems rely on continuous availability of multiple satellites for navigation, the majority of worldwide avionics systems are vulnerable to localized, low-power jamming emitters.
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 Washington (AFP) March 7, 2019 
Like humans, chimpanzees are culturally diverse but those differences are being eroded by human incursion, international researchers say in a groundbreaking study published Thursday.
The striking results, published in the American journal "Science," show that the behavioral diversity of chimpanzees was reduced by an average 88 percent in areas with the highest human impact, compared to remot ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 7, 2019 
Scientists have developed a "smart house" for mice, which will allow scientists to observe the behavior of tested mice while limiting disturbance levels.
Researchers are constantly working to ensure external factors and outside influence, like the presence of a peering scientists, aren't influencing test results. Designers of the new digs claim their "Autonomouse" system will improve th ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) March 7, 2019 
Facebook launched an offensive Thursday to suppress the spread of misinformation about vaccines on the 2.3-billion-member social network.
The company has faced pressure in recent weeks to tackle the problem, amid outbreaks of measles around the United States attributed to growing numbers of parents who refuse to vaccinate their children.
US lawmakers have decried the higher incidences of ... more |
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 Dharamsala, India (AFP) March 10, 2019 
Huge crowds gathered at the Dalai Lama's temple in India Sunday to commemorate 60 years since the failed Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule that drove the spiritual leader into exile.
Supporters of the 83-year-old peace icon chanted and prayed at the Buddhist shrine in mountainous Dharamsala, where the Dalai Lama established a government-in-exile after fleeing a deadly Chinese crackdown i ... more |
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 Khartoum (AFP) March 9, 2019 
A Turkish military ship arrived in Port Sudan on Saturday for a three-day visit aimed at enhancing "security and safety" in the Red Sea, a Sudanese general said.
Ties between Khartoum and Ankara have grown since Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited Sudan in December 2017 as part of a plan to gain a strategic foothold in Africa.
The Turkish ship, Gojka Ada, arrived on Saturday m ... more |
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 Hanoi (AFP) March 8, 2019 
Vietnam's Communist Party has purged a prominent researcher whose work on his country's claims to the disputed South China Sea had threatened to ruffle feathers in Beijing, which says it owns most of the resource-rich waterway.
Tran Duc Anh Son, deputy head of a state-run research institute in central Danang City, was expelled from the party this week after being accused of eroding its prest ... more |
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 Bonn, Germany (SPX) Feb 22, 2019 
An international research team including astronomers from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, has combined radio telescopes from five continents to prove the existence of a narrow stream of material, a so-called jet, emerging from the only gravitational wave event involving two neutron stars observed so far. With its high sensitivity and excellent performance, the 100- ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) March 8, 2019 
China threw its weight behind Huawei's legal battle against the United States on Friday, saying the telecom giant will not be a "silent lamb to the slaughter" and vowing to defend the rights of Chinese companies.
Foreign Minister Wang Yi voiced Beijing's support as Huawei mounts a legal and public relations campaign to counter US warnings that the company's networks and equipment could serve ... more |
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 Baghdad (AFP) March 6, 2019 
Iraqi authorities are prosecuting children suspected of ties to the Islamic State group in a "deeply flawed" process, using flimsy accusations or confessions obtained through torture, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday.
The rights group's extensive report was based on interviews with 29 Iraqi children who are current or former detainees in the Kurdish Regional Government, as well as relative ... more |
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 Almaty, Kazakhstan (AFP) March 10, 2019 
Kazakh police on Sunday arrested an activist who has campaigned for victims of China's re-education drive in Xinjiang, sealing his informal group's office and taking its computers.
Serikjan Bilash, who has led a loud awareness drive centred on ethnic Kazakh victims of China's crackdown in the region, was arrested in Kazakhstan's largest city Almaty and flown to the capital Astana, his partne ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Feb 28, 2019 
Five officials are under investigation in northern China after 22 miners were killed when their transport crashed into the side of a mine tunnel, local authorities said.
The accident, which left another 28 miners injured, happened last Saturday in the region of Inner Mongolia after the vehicle experienced brake failure.
A photo published by state-run media shows a bus-like vehicle with h ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 11, 2019 
Farmers irrigating their crops may soon be getting some help from space. In 2018, scientists launched ECOSTRESS, a new instrument now attached to the International Space Station. Its mission: to gather data on how plants use water across the world.
"Technically, the instruments are measuring surface temperature, which reflects the heat stress of plants," explains Joshua Fisher of NASA's Je ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 6, 2019 
Japan's space agency, JAXA, released a video this week showcasing Hayabusa-2's successful asteroid touchdown.
Last month, the probe skimmed the surface of the asteroid Ryugu. A review of the landing data by JAXA scientists confirmed the touchdown sequence happened as expected.
"Data analysis from Hayabusa-2 confirms that the sequence of operation proceeded, including shooting a p ... more |
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