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  Tempe AZ (SPX) Aug 08, 2022 In the beginning, there was boredom. Following the emergence of cellular life on earth, some 3.5 billion years ago, simple cells lacking a nucleus and other detailed internal structure dominated the planet. Matters would remain largely unchanged in terms of evolutionary development in these so-called prokaryotic cells-the bacteria and archaea-for another billion and a half years. Then, something remarkable and unprecedented took place. A new type of cell, known as a eukaryote, emerged. The eukaryo ... read more |
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China receives data from newly launched ecosystem monitoring satelliteBeijing (XNA) Aug 08, 2022 China has received data from its newly launched terrestrial ecosystem carbon monitoring satellite, scientists in charge of receiving the satellite data said. The satellite was carried into spa ... more 
BlackSky expands its dynamic monitoring capabilities with Airbus Reseller PartnershipHerndon VA (SPX) Aug 04, 2022 BlackSky Technology Inc. (NYSE: BKSY) and Airbus (EPA: AIR) have signed a reseller agreement enabling BlackSky to expand its dynamic monitoring platform's all-weather, day and night, and very high-r ... more  
Half of species not assessed for endangered list risk extinction: studyParis (AFP) Aug 4, 2022 More than half of species whose endangered status cannot be assessed due to a lack of data are predicted to face the risk of extinction, according to a machine-learning analysis published Thursday. ... more  
Drought forces water use rethink in SpainMadrid (AFP) Aug 8, 2022 Faced with a historic drought and threatened by desertification, Spain is rethinking how it spends its water resources, which are used mainly to irrigate crops. ... more |
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Jihadists, allies enter Syria's second city in lightning assault
Traumatised Spain marks one month since catastrophic floods Floods kill 8, tens of thousands evacuate in Malaysia, Thailand Spain urged to 'build differently' after deadly floods Malaysia floods kill 4, force over 80,000 to evacuate Saudi Arabia hosts UN talks on drought, desertification Tanzania's ruling party wins landslide victory in local vote At least 15 dead, 113 missing, in Uganda landslides Flood-hit Spain introduces 'climate leave' for workers 'Nothing left': Flood-hit Spanish town struggles one month on |
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Making hydropower plants more sustainableBoston MA (SPX) Aug 05, 2022 Growing up on a farm in Texas, there was always something for siblings Gia Schneider '99 and Abe Schneider '02, SM '03 to do. But every Saturday at 2 p.m., no matter what, the family would go down t ... more  
More Ukraine grain sets sail as new strike hits nuclear siteKyiv, Ukraine (AFP) Aug 8, 2022 Four more ships loaded with grain set off from Ukrainian ports on Sunday, as Moscow and Kyiv blamed each other for a new strike at a Russian-occupied nuclear plant. ... more  
NASA data on plant 'sweating' could help predict wildfire severityPasadena CA (JPL) Aug 05, 2022 A new study uses data from the ECOSTRESS instrument aboard the space station to better understand why some parts of a wildfire burn more intensely than others. Even in drought-stricken California, n ... more  
Millions hungry but drought overlooked as Kenya prepares to votePurapul, Kenya (AFP) Aug 8, 2022 In the dust bowl of Kenya's drought-stricken north, the people of Purapul are edging closer to starvation, surviving on nothing but wild berries as their children waste away from hunger. ... more |
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US Senate adopts sweeping climate and health plan, in major victory for BidenWashington (AFP) Aug 7, 2022 After 18 months of arduous negotiations and a marathon night of debate, the US Senate on Sunday passed Joe Biden's ambitious climate, tax and health care plan - a significant victory for the president ahead of crucial midterm elections. ... more  
Study: Scientists restore vital organs of pigs, cause bioethical concernsWashington DC (UPI) Aug 3, 2021 Researchers said in a new study they were able to restore circulation and cellular activity in the dead vital organs of pigs, something originally thought was impossible, which raises bioethical questions about future work. ... more 
MIT engineers develop stickers that can see inside the bodyBoston MA (SPX) Aug 03, 2022 Ultrasound imaging is a safe and noninvasive window into the body's workings, providing clinicians with live images of a patient's internal organs. To capture these images, trained technicians manip ... more 
Biden to host White House Pacific island summitNuku'Alofa, Tonga (AFP) Aug 6, 2022 US President Joe Biden will host Pacific island leaders at the White House in September, a senior American diplomat said Saturday, deepening a regional charm offensive to counter growing Chinese influence. ... more |
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Researchers surprised by Greenland shark found in Caribbean off BelizeWashington DC (UPI) Aug 2, 2021 An 11-foot Greenland shark, known to inhabit the Arctic, was recently captured off the shores of Belize in Central America, surprising researchers on an expedition to tag tiger sharks. ... more  
When particles moveSanta Barbara CA (SPX) Aug 03, 2022 Landslides are one striking example of erosion. When the bonds that hold particles of dirt and rock together are overwhelmed by a force - often in the form of water - sufficient to pull the rock and ... more 
Brussels urges EU members to reuse city water in farmsBrussels (AFP) Aug 3, 2022 The European Commission on Wednesday urged EU member states to re-use treated urban waste water as irrigation on the continent's parched farms. ... more  
Climate, poverty collude to torment Central AmericaSan Salvador (AFP) Aug 4, 2022 Every time it rains, Blanca Arias in El Salvador and Sandra Ramos in Honduras fear that flooding will raze their precarious homes and leave their families destitute. Again. ... more
France orders crisis task force over 'historic' droughtParis (AFP) Aug 5, 2022 The French government said Friday that it had activated a crisis task force to coordinate efforts to alleviate the impacts of a "historic" drought exacerbated by a third extreme heatwave of the summer. ... more |
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 Atlanta GA (SPX) Aug 03, 2022 
SpaceWorks successfully demonstrated RED-Rescue, its new, low-cost solution in delivering life-saving food, supplies and equipment to downed or isolated Airmen. The flight test was conducted in March near Albuquerque, NM.
The U.S. Air Force had recently challenged industry to develop capabilities that provide on-demand and cost-efficient delivery of Personnel Recovery Kits (PRKs) to downed ... more |
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 Madrid, Spain (SPX) Aug 03, 2022 
After more than three and a half years of project, Madrid Flight On Chip (MFoC) successfully culminates providing an important milestone for the implementation of advanced technological products and introduces disruptive changes in the design and verification of complex space systems. The researchers, engineers and technicians of the consortium organizations have positioned Madrid at the forefro ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Aug 02, 2022 
Utah's Great Salt Lake dropped to its lowest recorded water level last month as a megadrought persists across the US southwest, forcing the fast-growing city to curb its water use. From space, satellite images show how water levels have fallen from 1985 to 2022 - exposing large expanses of lakebed.
According to data from the US Geological Survey, the Great Salt Lake's surface water elevati ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Aug 03, 2022 
Deep evolution casts a longer shadow than previously thought, scientists report in a new paper published the week of Aug. 1 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Smithsonian scientists and colleagues looked at eelgrass communities-the foundation of many coastal marine food webs along the north Atlantic and Pacific coasts-and discovered their ancient genetic history can play a s ... more |
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 Kyiv, Ukraine (AFP) Aug 8, 2022 
Four more ships loaded with grain set off from Ukrainian ports on Sunday, as Moscow and Kyiv blamed each other for a new strike at a Russian-occupied nuclear plant.
Odessa regional authorities, meanwhile, announced that another two grain shipments were due to leave on Monday.
Kyiv's infrastructure ministry wrote on Telegram on Sunday that a convoy of Ukrainian supplies had left, with th ... more |
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 Manila (AFP) July 29, 2022  The death toll from a major earthquake in the northern Philippines rose to 10 Friday after another four bodies were found in rubble, authorities said, as aftershocks continued to rock the mountainous region.
Rescuers in the town of Luba in the hardest hit province of Abra retrieved the remains of the men on a section of road that was buried by a landslide during Wednesday's 7.0-magnitude qua ... more |
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 Juba (AFP) Aug 4, 2022  South Sudan's leaders announced Thursday that the country's post-war transitional government would remain in power two years beyond an agreed deadline, in a move foreign partners warned lacked legitimacy.
Martin Elia Lomuro, the minister of cabinet affairs, said the decision was taken "to address the challenges that impede the implementation of the peace agreement", following a 2018 deal to ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Aug 2, 2022 
China's population will begin to shrink by 2025, officials have said, as family sizes grow smaller and citizens age.
The world's most-populous country has been grappling with a looming demographic crisis as it faces a rapidly ageing workforce, slowing economy and its weakest population growth in decades.
And although officials relaxed the nation's strict "one-child policy" in 2016 and la ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Aug 7, 2022 
After 18 months of arduous negotiations and a marathon night of debate, the US Senate on Sunday passed Joe Biden's ambitious climate, tax and health care plan - a significant victory for the president ahead of crucial midterm elections.
Voting as a unified bloc and with the tie-breaking vote cast by Vice President Kamala Harris, Democrats approved the $430-billion spending plan, which will ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Aug 04, 2022 
On 23 December 2021, Copernicus Sentinel-1B experienced an anomaly related to the instrument electronics power supply provided by the satellite platform, leaving it unable to deliver radar data. Since then spacecraft operators and engineers have been working tirelessly to rectify the issue. Unfortunately, despite all concerted efforts, ESA and the European Commission announce that it is the end ... more |
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 Vancouver, Canada (SPX) Jul 26, 2022 
Trilobites- extinct marine arthropods that roamed the world's oceans from about 520 million years ago until they went extinct 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period - may have grown in a similar fashion and reached ages that match those of extant crustaceans, a new study has found.
In a paper published in the journal Paleobiology, researchers from the University of British ... more |
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 Madrid (AFP) July 29, 2022 
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Friday called on office workers to throw sartorial caution to the wind and ditch their ties amid scorching summer temperatures.
In a move some might be surprised was even necessary given Spain's famously hot climate, Sanchez urged office workers to follow his own tie-free lead.
"I would like you to see that I am not wearing a tie," said Sanchez, sm ... more |
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 Seoul, South Korea (SPX) Aug 04, 2022 
On 1 August, the Korea Institute of Fusion Energy(KFE) announced that a new fusion simulation code was developed to project and analyze the Toroidal-Alfven-Eigenmode (TAE). In TAE, instabilities occur in the course of interactions between fast ions and the perturbed magnetic fields surrounding them. It disturbs a tokamak's plasma confinement by disengaging fast ions from the plasma core.
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 Paris (AFP) Aug 4, 2022 
More than half of species whose endangered status cannot be assessed due to a lack of data are predicted to face the risk of extinction, according to a machine-learning analysis published Thursday.
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) currently has nearly 150,000 entries on its Red List for threatened species, including some 41,000 species threatened with extinction. ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Aug 2, 2022 
A Hong Kong court delivered a landmark ruling on Tuesday that will help lift the lid on secrecy-shrouded pre-trial hearings held under a national security law.
The security law was imposed by Beijing after huge democracy protests and has largely snuffed out dissent in the city.
About 100 people have been charged under the law with the vast majority denied bail, held for months - some mo ... more |
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 Bogota (AFP) Aug 3, 2022  Colombian President Ivan Duque's environmental policies "failed" according to experts who dispute the outgoing right-wing government's claims to have reduced deforestation.
With conservative Duque due to hand over to his left-wing successor Gustavo Petro on Sunday, the new government will have to find solutions to the problem.
The South American country is one of the most biodiverse in t ... more |
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