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Researchers from the Teruel-Dinopolis Joint Palaeontology Foundation have compared an Allosauroidea tooth found in deposits in Riodeva, Teruel, with other similar samples. The palaeontologists have concluded that this is the largest tooth of a carnivorous dinosaur to have been found to date in Spain. The features and size of the 9.83cm tooth provide key information needed to identify its ... read more 
Funchal, Portugal (AFP) June 25, 2009The International Whaling Commission's annual conference ended in disarray Thursday, keeping in place a ban on commercial whaling amid deep rifts between hunters and conservationists. The commission's new chairman said the IWC should now question its role as the conference on the Portuguese island of Madeira wrapped up a day early with delegates agreeing only to extend negotiations on whaling ... more |
Cyclone kills six people in Mozambique
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Paris (AFP) June 25, 2009A third of the world's open water sharks -- including the great white and hammerhead -- face extinction, according to a major conservation survey released Thursday. Species hunted on the high seas are particularly at risk, with more than half in danger of dying out, reported the Shark Specialist Group at the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The main culprit is ... more  
Madison WI (SPX) Jun 26, 2009Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) losses from tile drains are an underquantified portion of the terrestrial carbon cycle. This is particularly important in the eastern corn belt where tile drainage dominates the agricultural landscape. Specific land management practices, such as manure application, can play a large role in the export of DOC as soluble organic carbon is applied to or injected ... more 
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 26, 2009According to the most recent report on the status of the world's fisheries by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, fisheries supply at least 15% of the animal protein consumed by humans, provide direct and indirect employment for nearly 200 million people worldwide and generate $US85 billion annually. This same report indicates that 28% of the world's fisheries stocks are ... more  
Cape Town (AFP) June 25, 2009Storms, driving rain and gale force winds have battered Cape Town, leaving some 1,200 people homeless after flooding in shanty towns, South African disaster management officials said Thursday. "We had heavy downpours and in our informal settlements we had about 600 dwellings that have been affected, leaving about 1,200 people seeking temporary shelter," disaster management spokeswoman ... more |
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KP Labs Unveils Smart Mission Lab to Revolutionize Space Technology ValidationBerlin, Germany (SPX) Mar 05, 2025 KP Labs has launched Smart Mission Lab, an innovative platform aimed at transforming the development and testing of AI models and onboard data processing for space missions. Supported by ESA InCubed ... more  
Goonhilly Provides Critical Communications for Lunar Mission, Advancing Moon EconomyLos Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 05, 2025 Goonhilly Earth Station Ltd continues to play a pivotal role in lunar exploration and infrastructure expansion, reinforcing its importance in humanity's return to the Moon. Goonhilly is delive ... more 
Spire Establishes Two-Way Optical Link Between Satellites in OrbitLos Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 04, 2025 Spire Global, Inc. (NYSE: SPIR), a leading provider of space-based data, analytics, and space services, has successfully demonstrated a two-way optical communication link between two satellites in o ... more
  
Alibaba shares surge after launch of new DeepSeek competitorBeijing (AFP) Mar 6, 2025 Alibaba shares surged more than seven percent in Hong Kong trade on Thursday after the Chinese tech giant launched an artificial intelligence model it says can compete with DeepSeek, this year's surprise tech star. ... more 
Christie's first AI art auction sees hits... and plenty of missesNew York (AFP) Mar 5, 2025 Christie's first auction of art made by artificial intelligence (AI) ended Wednesday with mixed results, providing scant clues as to the future of the new and controversial medium. ... more 
Amazon Prime Video tests AI-assisted dubbingSan Francisco (AFP) Mar 5, 2025 Amazon's Prime Video streaming service announced Wednesday it will begin testing AI-assisted dubbing to make its international content more accessible to viewers worldwide. ... more
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Washington DC (SPX) Jun 26, 2009Without the process of domestication, humans would still be hunters and gatherers, and modern civilization would look very different. Fortunately, for all of us who do not relish the thought of spending our days searching for nuts and berries, early civilizations successfully cultivated many species of animals and plants found in their surroundings. Current studies of the domestication of ... more  
Southampton, UK (SPX) Jun 26, 2009In a paper in Nature Geoscience, a team from the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOCS), along with colleagues from Tubingen (Germany) and Bristol presents a novel continuous reconstruction of sea level fluctuations over the last 520 thousand years. Comparison of this record with data on global climate and carbon dioxide (CO2) levels from Antarctic ice cores suggests that even ... more  
Washington (AFP) June 25, 2009The United States is giving Somalia's embattled government urgent supplies of weapons and ammunition to fight off Islamist insurgents, a US official said Thursday. The United States has also approached Eritrea with "concerns" that it is aiding the insurgents and warned that such support would be a "serious obstacle" to better ties, State Department spokesman Ian Kelly added. "We remain ... more 
Washington (AFP) June 24, 2009Supporters of sweeping US legislation to fight climate change ramped up their push for a "green energy revolution" Wednesday with a vote on the massive bill expected at week's end. "We are going to create a green energy revolution -- not only for our country but for the entire world," Democratic Representative Ed Markey, one of the measure's lead authors, said with a vote due as early as ... more |
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