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World edges towards official swine flu pandemic
Geneva (AFP) June 10, 2009
Health authorities edged towards global swine flu pandemic status Wednesday as the virus wreaked havoc with Australian sports scheduling and Colombia reported its first death. While critics say the alert system is in need of repair, with the A(H1N1) virus proving milder than other flu strains, experts are watching developments in Australia, Britain, Chile and Japan especially carefully. ... read more

When Evolution Is Not So Slow And Gradual
Riverside CA (SPX) Jun 11, 2009
What's the secret to surviving during times of environmental change? Evolve...quickly. A new article in The American Naturalist finds that guppy populations introduced into new habitats developed new and advantageous traits in just a few years. This is one of only a few studies to look at adaptation and survival in a wild population. A research team led by Swanne Pamela Gordon from the ... more

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US Navy says Red Sea could be new pirate hunting ground
Manama (AFP) June 9, 2009
The US Navy warned on Tuesday that the southern Red Sea was a potential new target area for attack by Somalia-based pirates threatening shipping in one of the world's busiest maritime trade routes. The Bahrain-based Fifth Fleet also said in an advisory aimed at helping ships tackle the threat that the May-September monsoon season was likely to disrupt pirate strikes, and that commercial ship ... more

Climate Change Could Drive Vast Human Migrations
New York NY (SPX) Jun 11, 2009
By mid-century, people may be fleeing rising seas, droughts, floods and other effects of changing climate, in migrations that could vastly exceed the scope of anything before, says a major new report. The document, authored by researchers at Columbia University's Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), the United Nations University and CARE International, was ... more

Water stress, ocean levels to unleash climate exodus: study
Bonn, Germany (AFP) June 10, 2009
Tens of millions of people will be displaced by climate change in coming years, posing social, political and security problems of an unprecedented dimension, a new study said on Wednesday. "Unless aggressive measures are taken to halt global warming, the consequences for human migration and displacement could reach a scope and scale that vastly exceed anything that has occurred before," its ... more

Typhoons trigger earthquakes on Taiwan: scientists
Paris (AFP) June 10, 2009
Surprised scientists say that typhoons which hit Taiwan unleash long, slow earthquakes, a phenomenon that may save the island from devastating temblors. Seismologists installed movement sensors in boreholes at depths of 200-270 metres (650-870 feet) in eastern Taiwan, monitoring a spot where two mighty plates, the Philippine Sea Plate and the Eurasian plate, bump and jostle in an oblique ... more

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    TECH SPACE
    Flexential Links Up with Lonestar to Support First Commercial Space Data Center
    Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 22, 2025
    Flexential, a prominent provider of secure and adaptive data center solutions, has joined forces with Lonestar Data Holdings Inc. (Lonestar), a leading innovator in lunar infrastructure and Resilien ... more
    Surrey Satellite Opens Advanced Imaging R&D Cleanroom
    London, UK (SPX) Jan 22, 2025
    Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has officially opened its advanced Research and Development Imaging Cleanroom at its Guildford headquarters. This new facility is designed to strengthen the co ... more
    Bright Ascension software powers Czech Republic's largest satellite mission
    Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 21, 2025
    Bright Ascension Ltd., a leading provider of space software technology, has announced the successful deployment of its software aboard the Czech Republic's largest satellite, TROLL. The satellite wa ... more

    ROBO SPACE
    Exploring ethical dimensions of aware AI in Uppsala
    Paris, France (SPX) Jan 22, 2025
    Artificially intelligent systems are increasingly prevalent in our daily lives, from automated vehicles to delivery robots and virtual assistants. As research shifts towards developing systems with ... more
    Young Chinese turn to AI pets for emotional relief
    Beijing (AFP) Jan 20, 2025
    At a shopping mall in Beijing, Zhang Yachun murmurs quietly to her closest confidant, a fluffy AI-powered robot whose soothing chirps remind her that she is not alone. ... more
    Robots should be repurposed to combat e-waste crisis
    London, UK (SPX) Jan 17, 2025
    Researchers from the University of Bristol and the University of West England have urged the robotics industry to focus on developing robots that can be reprogrammed and repurposed for alternative t ... more

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    Archeological Evidence Of Human Activity Found Beneath Lake Huron
    Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Jun 11, 2009
    More than 100 feet deep in Lake Huron, on a wide stoney ridge that 9,000 years ago was a land bridge, University of Michigan researchers have found the first archeological evidence of human activity preserved beneath the Great Lakes. The researchers located what they believe to be caribou-hunting structures and camps used by the early hunters of the period. "This is the first time we ... more

    Surviving Seven Cooling And Warming Phases Over Past 41,000 Years
    Madrid, Spain (SPX) Jun 11, 2009
    In 1996, an international team of scientists led by the University of Zaragoza (UNIZAR) started to carry out a paleontological survey in the cave of El Miron. Since then they have focused on analysing the fossil remains of the bones and teeth of small vertebrates that lived in the Cantabrian region over the past 41,000 years, at the end of the Quaternary. The richness, great diversity and ... more

    Nairobi slum dwellers worry at looming eviction
    Nairobi (AFP) June 9, 2009
    The 19-year-old leans against a rusty metal wall at his school in a Nairobi slum, pondering the government's plan to tear down the building as part of a new round of forced evictions. "We need a conducive environment to proceed with our exams," said O-level pupil Ben Ogada, who sits for his final pre-university examinations in December. "The government's threats are disrupting our learning ... more

    Mexico to host swine flu summit in Cancun
    Mexico City (AFP) June 8, 2009
    Mexico will next month host an international summit on swine flu at the Caribbean beach resort of Cancun, the country's health minister said Monday. Representatives from 40 countries and the directors general of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Pan American Health Organization will take part in the summit from July 1 to 3, Jose Angel Cordova said in a statement. Less than two ... more

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  • Indonesia launches eco-friendly investment index


  • WHO pandemic alert system needs repair: experts


  • Full climate deal unlikely in Copenhagen, warns UN's de Boer
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  • EU seeks common strategy on swine flu vaccine
  • AIDS stabilising in SAfrica as new cases drop among youth: study
  • Reduce Emissions From Deforestation Could Preserve Endangered Mammals
  • 16 dead or missing as flood season hits China
  • Taiwan president suggests using simplified Chinese characters
  • US parents rearing a gadget generation: NPD Group
  • Ancient Mammals Shifted Diets As Climate Changed

  • Geography And History Shape Genetic Differences In Humans
  • Japanese diplomat leads race to head UN atomic watchdog
  • China's Hu to attend first BRIC summit: govt
  • China industry group slams 'monopolistic' BHP-Rio deal
  • China eyes 20 pct renewable energy by 2020: report
  • Study determines strength of rammed earth
  • Serbia to ship nuclear waste to Russia: officials
  • Report blames petroleum industry for 25 pct of toxic pollutants

  • IMF hails China move to purchase bonds
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  • China stops imports of some Renault cars
  • 65 still missing as China landslide rescue continues: govt
  • Swine flu spreads to 73 countries with over 25,000 infected
  • Scientists Use High-Energy Particles From Space To Probe Thunderstorms
  • New Formula Uncovers Our Planet's Past And Helps Predict Future
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