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  Cambridge UK (SPX) May 18, 2022 Early animals formed complex ecological communities more than 550 million years ago, setting the evolutionary stage for the Cambrian explosion, according to a study by Rebecca Eden, Emily Mitchell, and colleagues at the University of Cambridge, UK, publishing May 17th in the open-access journal PLOS Biology. The first animals evolved towards the end of the Ediacaran period, around 580 million years ago. However, the fossil record shows that after an initial boom, diversity declined in the run-up t ... read more |
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An underwater frontierSanta Barbara CA (SPX) May 18, 2022 Occasionally, planet Earth will grab the headlines: Underwater volcanic eruptions send ash into the air, or earthquakes generate massive waves that send people running for safety as the rest of us w ... more  
Massive Hunga volcano eruption sets new standard for crowdsourcing scientific observation of seismic eventsDallas TX (SPX) May 18, 2022 The massive Jan. 15 eruption of the undersea Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano in the South Pacific Ocean was a once-in-a-century event that allowed an international group of 76 scientists using mul ... more  
Satellogic and UP42 team up to offer rapid monitoring capabilitiesNew York NY (SPX) May 18, 2022 Satellogic Inc. (NASDAQ: SATL), a leader in sub-meter resolution Earth Observation ("EO") data collection, has entered into an agreement with UP42, a geospatial developer platform and marketplace en ... more  
Magnetic resonance makes the invisible visibleVienna, Austria (SPX) May 18, 2022 A small group of researchers including Dennis Kurzbach from the Faculty of Chemistry of the University of Vienna just published in Nature Protocols an advanced NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) metho ... more |
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16 dead, seven missing in Indonesia flood: disaster agency
Storm Bert bring widespread flooding in Britain Landslide kills nine in DR Congo Storms bring chaos to Ireland, France, UK are Storms bring chaos to Ireland, France, UK Storm Bert wreaks havoc across UK and Ireland IMF sees 'limited' impact of floods on Spain GDP growth Libya's Derna hosts theatre festival year after flash flood Finland snowstorm leaves tens of thousands without power Philippines typhoon death toll rises to 12 |
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Extraterrestrial stone brings first supernova clues to EarthJohannesburg, South Africa (SPX) May 18, 2022 New chemistry 'forensics' indicate that the stone named Hypatia from the Egyptian desert could be the first tangible evidence found on Earth of a supernova type Ia explosion. These rare supernovas a ... more 
NASA selects firms for NOAA Atmospheric Composition Instrument studyWashington DC (SPX) May 18, 2022 On behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), NASA has selected two firms for the Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) Atmospheric Composition (ACX) instrument Phas ... more  
'Untapped' potential: Mineral water derived from deep-sea water may have health benefitsTokyo, Japan (SPX) May 18, 2022 The oceans have helped sustain life on Earth for billions of years and will likely continue to do so far into the future. Oceans have an abundance of minerals like calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, ir ... more 
Deep ocean warming as climate changesExeter UK (SPX) May 18, 2022 Much of the "excess heat" stored in the subtropical North Atlantic is in the deep ocean (below 700m), new research suggests. Oceans have absorbed about 90% of warming caused by humans. The stu ... more |
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NASA's Cynthia Rosenzweig Receives 2022 World Food PrizeNew York NY (SPX) May 18, 2022 Cynthia Rosenzweig, a senior research scientist and head of the Climate Impacts Group at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York City, received the 2022 World Food Prize from t ... more  
China's self-developed floating airship breaks recordBeijing (XNA) May 18, 2022 China's self-developed floating airship, designed for atmosphere observation, reached a record altitude of 9,032 meters in Tibet Autonomous Region on Sunday, according to its developer. Develo ... more  
Chimpanzees combine calls to form numerous vocal sequencesLeipzig, Germany (SPX) May 18, 2022 Humans are the only species on earth known to use language. We do this by combining sounds to form words and words to form hierarchically structured sentences. The question, where this extraordinary ... more  
The search for how life on Earth transformed from simple to complexMadison WI (SPX) May 18, 2022 Once upon a time, all life on Earth was alien. But eventually, strange single-celled organisms thriving on a harsh planet gave way to complex, multicellular organisms made up of the basic building b ... more |
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Deadbots can speak for you after your deathBarcelona, Spain (SPX) May 18, 2022 Machine-learning systems are increasingly worming their way through our everyday lives, challenging our moral and social values and the rules that govern them. These days, virtual assistants threate ... more  
Pollution behind 1 in 6 global deaths in 2019: studyParis (AFP) May 17, 2022 Pollution caused some 9 million people to die prematurely in 2019, according to a new global report published Wednesday, with experts raising alarm over increasing deaths from breathing outside air and the "horrifying" toll of lead poisoning. ... more  
Libya capital rocked by battle as rival PM vies for powerTripoli (AFP) May 17, 2022 Libya's capital was rocked early Tuesday by gunfights between backers of two rival administrations, threatening another escalation in the war-torn North African country. ... more 
Biden reestablishes US troop presence inside SomaliaWashington (AFP) May 17, 2022 President Joe Biden has ordered the reestablishment of a US troop presence in Somalia to help local authorities combat the Al-Shabaab militant group, a senior American official told reporters Monday. ... more 
Mali junta says it thwarted coup attemptBamako (AFP) May 16, 2022 Mali's military junta on Monday said it thwarted an attempted coup last week led by army officers and supported by an unnamed Western state. ... more |
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 Austin TX (The Conversation) May 16, 2022 
A baby formula shortage has added to the woes of American parents already confronted with the pressures of raising an infant during a pandemic in a country ranked low for family-friendly policies.
Media reports have highlighted the plight of mothers, fathers and caregivers across the U.S. who have scrambled to find scarce supplies, or driven long distances to buy formula.
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 Madrid, Spain (SPX) May 18, 2022 
The E.T.PACK-Fly consortium, coordinated by the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and made up of the University of Padova, the Technical University of Dresden (TU Dresden), the Spanish company SENER Aeroespacial and the German start-up Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA), has received euro 2.5 million from the European Innovation Council (EIC) to develop a device based on a space tether to deor ... more |
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 Exeter UK (SPX) May 18, 2022 
Much of the "excess heat" stored in the subtropical North Atlantic is in the deep ocean (below 700m), new research suggests.
Oceans have absorbed about 90% of warming caused by humans. The study found that in the subtropical North Atlantic (25 N), 62% of the warming from 1850-2018 is held in the deep ocean.
The researchers - from the University of Exeter and the University of Brest - ... more |
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 Cambridge UK (SPX) May 16, 2022 
Despite the rapid melting of ice in many parts of Antarctica during the second half of the 20th century, researchers have found that the floating ice shelves which skirt the eastern Antarctic Peninsula have undergone sustained advance over the past 20 years.
Ice shelves - floating sections of ice which are attached to land-based ice sheets - serve the vital purpose of buttressing against t ... more |
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 Gainsville FL (SPX) May 13, 2022 
In the early days of the space age, the Apollo astronauts took part in a visionary plan: Bring samples of the lunar surface material, known as regolith, back to Earth where they could be studied with state-of-the-art equipment and saved for future research not yet imagined.
Fifty years later, at the dawn of the Artemis era and the next astronaut return to the Moon, three of those samples h ... more |
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 Santa Barbara CA (SPX) May 13, 2022 
The Hunga volcano ushered in 2022 with a bang, devastating the island nation of Tonga and sending aid agencies, and Earth scientists, into a flurry of activity. It had been nearly 140 years since an eruption of this scale shook the Earth.
UC Santa Barbara's Robin Matoza led a team of 76 scientists, from 17 nations, to characterize the eruption's atmospheric waves, the strongest recorded fr ... more |
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 Algiers (AFP) May 15, 2022 
An Algerian military officer and close ally of the former army chief has been sentenced to death over charges of "high treason", the French-language daily El Watan reported Sunday.
Guermit Bounouira, who was known to be close to late army chief Ahmed Gaid Salah, appeared Thursday in front of an appeals court where he was found guilty of a roster of charges including disclosing classified inf ... more |
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 Leipzig, Germany (SPX) May 18, 2022 
Humans are the only species on earth known to use language. We do this by combining sounds to form words and words to form hierarchically structured sentences. The question, where this extraordinary capacity originates from, still remains to be answered.
In order to retrace the evolutionary origins of human language, researchers often use a comparative approach - they compare the vocal pro ... more |
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 Riyadh (AFP) May 17, 2022 
A sandstorm engulfed Saudi Arabia's capital and other regions of the desert kingdom Tuesday, hampering visibility and slowing road traffic.
A thick grey haze made iconic Riyadh buildings such as Kingdom Centre nearly impossible to see from more than a few hundred metres (yards) away, though there were no announced flight delays or cancellations.
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 New Brunswick NJ (SPX) May 12, 2022 
Algorithms that help consumers decide what to stream or buy online can do more than predict customers' habits: They can help satellites see the Earth better, according to a Rutgers study.
Optical satellites lose sight of the Earth's surface when it is covered by clouds, and researchers have long relied on inaccurate tools to fill the blind spots, particularly along coastlines. By adapting ... more |
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 Cambridge UK (SPX) May 18, 2022 
Early animals formed complex ecological communities more than 550 million years ago, setting the evolutionary stage for the Cambrian explosion, according to a study by Rebecca Eden, Emily Mitchell, and colleagues at the University of Cambridge, UK, publishing May 17th in the open-access journal PLOS Biology.
The first animals evolved towards the end of the Ediacaran period, around 580 mill ... more |
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 Ottawa (AFP) April 26, 2022 
Canada's environmental watchdog on Tuesday slammed the government for bungling a transition to a low-carbon economy, accusing it of providing no support for energy workers facing job losses and overestimating the role of hydrogen fuel.
"When it comes to supporting a just transition to a low-carbon economy, the government has been unprepared and slow off the mark," Climate Commissioner Jerry ... more |
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 Washington DC (The Conversation) May 16, 2022 
As the world's need for large amounts of portable energy grows at an ever-increasing pace, many innovators have sought to replace current battery technology with something better.
Italian physicist Alessandro Volta tapped into fundamental electrochemical principles when he invented the first battery in 1800. Essentially, the physical joining of two different materials, usually metals, gene ... more |
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 Vienna, Austria (SPX) May 18, 2022 
A small group of researchers including Dennis Kurzbach from the Faculty of Chemistry of the University of Vienna just published in Nature Protocols an advanced NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) method to monitor fast and complicated biomolecular events such as protein folding.
For example, protein folding was long considered as one of the great mysteries of modern research. This crucial pro ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) May 12, 2022 
China on Thursday defended the arrest of a 90-year-old Catholic cardinal under Hong Kong's national security law, a move that triggered international outrage and deepened concerns over Beijing's crackdown on freedoms in the financial hub.
Retired cardinal Joseph Zen, one of the most senior Catholic clerics in Asia, was among a group of veteran democracy advocates arrested Wednesday for "coll ... more |
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 Salt Lake City UT (SPX) May 16, 2022 
When people talk about ways to slow climate change, they often mention trees, and for good reason. Forests take up a large amount of the planet-warming carbon dioxide that people put into the atmosphere when they burn fossil fuels. But will trees keep up that pace as global temperatures rise? With companies increasingly investing in forests as offsets, saying it cancels out their continuing gree ... more |
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