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  Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Apr 09, 2019 Dangerous airborne viruses are rendered harmless on-the-fly when exposed to energetic, charged fragments of air molecules, University of Michigan researchers have shown. They hope to one day harness this capability to replace a century-old device: the surgical mask. The U-M engineers have measured the virus-killing speed and effectiveness of nonthermal plasmas - the ionized, or charged, particles that form around electrical discharges such as sparks. A nonthermal plasma reactor was able to i ... read more |
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Stargazing Technology Used To Spot CancerLondon, UK (SPX) Apr 09, 2019 Cancer could be detected in patients far earlier by using the same technology used to observe stars millions of miles away. Cancers are often missed on traditional 2D X-rays so are sometimes o ... more 
Will cyborgs be made from melanin? Pigment breakthrough enables biocompatible electronicsWashington DC (SPX) Mar 27, 2019 The dark brown melanin pigment, eumelanin, colors hair and eyes, and protects our skin from sun damage. It has also long been known to conduct electricity, but too little for any useful application ... more  
Medicare costs are lower in places with more trees and shrubsWashington (UPI) Apr 1, 2019 When researchers analyzed healthcare expenditures and environmental data in 3,086 of the 3,103 counties in the continental United States, they found counties with more trees and shrubs have lower Medicare costs. ... more  
Cholera cases rise to 139 as Mozambique prepares mass vaccinationsBeira, Mozambique (AFP) March 28, 2019 The number of confirmed cholera cases in cyclone-ravaged Mozambique climbed sharply to 139 Thursday as authorities prepared to roll out a mass vaccination campaign to stem the spread of the deadly disease. ... more |
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Dormant viruses reactivate during spaceflightWashington DC (SPX) Mar 19, 2019 Herpes viruses reactivate in more than half of crew aboard Space Shuttle and International Space Station missions, according to NASA research published in Frontiers in Microbiology. While only a sma ... more 
Superbugs have colonized the International Space StationWashington DC (SPX) Mar 20, 2019 Astronauts leave behind many things when they boldly go. Bacteria, however, stay with them. Extreme spaceflight conditions can force these bacteria to toughen up, while simultaneously lowering ... more 
New material will allow abandoning bone marrow transplantationMoscow, Russia (SPX) Mar 20, 2019 Scientists from the National University of Science and Technology "MISIS" developed nanomaterial, which will be able to rstore the internal structure of bones damaged due to osteoporosis and osteomy ... more 
Zika study may 'supercharge' vaccine researchBrisbane, Australia (SPX) Mar 19, 2019 Scientists looking at the genetics of Zika virus have found a way to fast-track research which could lead to new vaccines. The study, led by The University of Queensland and QIMR Berghofer Med ... more 
China's finds microgravity promotes iPS cells regenerative potentialBeijing (XNA) Mar 12, 2019 Research findings from China's Tianzhou-1 Space Mission have shown that the microgravity environment in space promotes heart cell differentiation of mice induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, provid ... more |
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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  |
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Facebook launches offensive to combat misinformation on vaccinesWashington (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. ... more 
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  
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 
After IS, Mosul tackles another terror: super-resistant bacteriaMosul, Iraq (AFP) March 7, 2019 Explosives left behind by the Islamic State group in Iraq's Mosul took 12-year-old Abdallah's left leg, but another kind of terror may cost him his arm: antibiotic-resistant bacteria. ... more 
Global maps enabling targeted interventions to reduce burden of mosquito-borne diseaseOxford UK (SPX) Mar 06, 2019 Now, with an unprecedented level of accuracy, an international team of researchers, led by Dr Moritz Kramer at the University of Oxford's Department of Zoology, have used statistical mapping techniq ... more |
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 Bristol UK (SPX) Apr 09, 2019 
How long will it take our biosphere to recover from the current climate crisis? It's a question that makes for a sobering examination of Earth's ongoing destruction. And it's to the past, specifically the fossils of a tiny species that went out with the dinosaurs, that scientists have turned for the answer.
Recovering from mass extinction has a "speed limit", they reveal, with gradual patt ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Apr 10, 2019 
The GAINS project has moved one step closer to demonstrating that general aviation (GA) is able to fly instrument procedures with radius-to-fix (RF) legs, thanks to a strong collaboration with EASA and the manufacturing industry, who worked together to clear the way for existing avionics to be used.
GAINS - General Aviation Improved Navigation and Surveillance, is a project co-funded by th ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 28, 2019 
With arrays of new galaxies and their stars being discovered every day, it still remains unresolved if there is anyone, or anything, super-intelligent in control, and though the probability of the existence of extra-terrestrial civilizations is considered to be incredibly high, the evidence is a far cry from sufficient.
Members of METI (Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence), a San Franc ... more |
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 Austin TX (SPX) Apr 09, 2019 
It takes at least 10 million years for life to fully recover after a mass extinction, a speed limit for the recovery of species diversity that is well known among scientists. Explanations for this apparent rule have usually invoked environmental factors, but research led by The University of Texas at Austin links the lag to something different: evolution.
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 Paris (ESA) Apr 08, 2019 
A laboratory that enables first responders to combat biological hazards and infectious diseases rapidly and safely has demonstrated its strengths during a simulated biological incident conducted in Belgium.
The Biological Light Fieldable Laboratory for Emergencies (B-LiFE) is designed to provide rapid identification of pathogens and to do so safely. B-LiFE teams successfully used the syste ... more |
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 Geneva (AFP) April 1, 2019  Diplomats and activists on Monday denounced intense Chinese lobbying, pressure and even threats to rein in criticism of Beijing during last month's session of the UN Human Rights Council.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) charged that the Chinese mission in Geneva had sent a letter to a number of missions urging them to stay away from a US-organised event on March 13 about China's treatment of Uighur ... more |
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 The Hague (AFP) April 1, 2019 
The International Criminal Court's top official has called on the United States to join and support its work after Washington recently stepped up its dispute with the global legal body.
ICC president Chile Eboe-Osuji called on the US to "join her closest allies and friends at the table of the Rome Statute", referring to the court's founding document.
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 Manila (AFP) April 9, 2019 
Protesters descended on the Chinese embassy in Manila on Tuesday to oppose the Asian superpower's growing sway in the Philippines and as tensions rise over Beijing's presence in the disputed South China Sea.
Filipino flag-waving marchers chanted "China out" and brandished a banner saying "Defend our sovereign rights", referring to Beijing's expansive claims to the resource-rich waterway.
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 Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Apr 08, 2019 
The history of science is filled with stories of enthusiastic researchers slowly winning over skeptical colleagues to their point of view. Astrophysicist Scott Hughes can relate to these tales.
"For the first 15 or 16 years of my career I was speaking to astronomers, and I always had the impression that they were politely interested in what I had to say, but regarded me as a little bit of ... more |
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 Moscow (AFP) April 9, 2019  Russian prosecutors on Tuesday called for a 14-year prison sentence for a Norwegian accused by Moscow of spying on its nuclear submarines.
A verdict in the trial of 63-year-old Frode Berg is expected on April 16, prosecutor Milana Digayeva was quoted by the Interfax news agency as saying.
She urged that Berg serve the sentence in a strict penal camp, Interfax said.
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 Tehran (AFP) April 7, 2019  Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called on Iraq to demand US troops leave "as soon as possible", warning that Washington is plotting to remove the Iraqi government.
The remarks came during a visit to Tehran on Saturday by Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi, whose country is under pressure from the United States to distance itself from Iran.
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 New Delhi (AFP) April 8, 2019 
India's air force presented what it called "irrefutable evidence" Monday that it downed a Pakistan fighter jet in February, as the regional foes offer competing narratives over what happened in the dogfight.
Pakistan has repeatedly denied that it lost an F-16 over the skies in Kashmir while a US magazine, citing top defence officials, has also cast doubt on India's assertion that a jet was s ... more |
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 Sydney (AFP) April 9, 2019 
A major Australian coal mine project near the Great Barrier Reef was controversially approved by the federal government Tuesday, days before national elections are expected to be called.
The controversial Queensland project backed by India's Adani would significantly boost coal production, but must now get approval from state and local governments.
The project faces fierce opposition and ... more |
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 Leibniz, Germany (SPX) Apr 10, 2019 
Scientists from the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK Gatersleben) participated to perform the assembly of the genome using the method of 3D-Conformation Capture Sequencing (Hi-C). Thanks to the sequenced durum wheat genome, the researchers were able to unravel its domestication history, going as far back as to the progenitor species wild emmer wheat (Triticum turg ... more |
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 Santa Cruz CA (SPX) Apr 09, 2019 
Metallic asteroids are thought to have started out as blobs of molten iron floating in space. As if that's not strange enough, scientists now think that as the metal cooled and solidified, volcanoes spewing liquid iron could have erupted through a solid iron crust onto the surface of the asteroid.
This scenario emerged from an analysis by planetary scientists at UC Santa Cruz whose investi ... more |
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