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  Dublin, Ireland (SPX) Oct 19, 2022 Scientists from Trinity College Dublin believe our brains could use quantum computation after adapting an idea developed to prove the existence of quantum gravity to explore the human brain and its workings. The brain functions measured were also correlated to short-term memory performance and conscious awareness, suggesting quantum processes are also part of cognitive and conscious brain functions. If the team's results can be confirmed - likely requiring advanced multidisciplinary approach ... read more |
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Sweden's new govt scraps 'feminist foreign policy'Stockholm (AFP) Oct 18, 2022 Sweden's new right-wing government said Tuesday it was ditching the country's pioneering "feminist foreign policy", launched by the left-wing in 2014, saying the label could be counter-productive. ... more  
China launches new environmental satelliteTaiyuan, China (XNA) Oct 13, 2022 China launched a new satellite for disaster reduction, emergency management, and environment monitoring from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern Shanxi province early Thursday. A L ... more  
Health of coral reefs written in the sand - and visible via satelliteSydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 17, 2022 How healthy are coral reefs? And how are they responding to climate change? After more than 10 years of monitoring the Great Barrier Reef, University of Sydney geoscientists have developed a techniq ... more 
Europe heading for warmer-than-average winter: forecasterParis (AFP) Oct 13, 2022 Europe faces a higher-than-usual chance of a cold blast of weather before the end of the year, but the winter overall is likely to be warmer than average, the continent's long-range weather forecaster said Thursday. ... more |
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'Nothing left': Flood-hit Spanish town struggles one month on
At least 15 dead, 113 missing, after Uganda landslides Indonesia's North Sumatra landslide death toll rises to 27 One dead, thousands displaced as floods hit southern Thailand At least 30 feared dead after Uganda landslides: official Senegal signs off on ruling party's parliament landslide Spain govt defends flood response and offers new aid Spain govt defends flood action as it offers new aid Moderately strong quake hits off central Japan Indonesia digs out as flooding, landslide death toll hits 20 |
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Iraq unveils archaeological park with ancient carvingsFaida, Iraq (AFP) Oct 16, 2022 Authorities in northern Iraq on Sunday unveiled an "archaeological park" of 2,700-year-old carvings from the rule of the Assyrians, including showing kings praying to the gods. ... more 
In Iraq, divorce rates soar even as stigma persists for womenBaghdad (AFP) Oct 19, 2022 Just a year into her marriage, Manal became one of the tens of thousands of Iraqis every year who divorce in a deeply conservative nation where break-up rates have risen. ... more 
Warming waters 'key culprit' in Alaska crab mass die-offWashington (AFP) Oct 18, 2022 Climate change is a prime suspect in a mass die-off of Alaska's snow crabs, experts say, after the state took the unprecedented step of canceling their harvest this season to save the species. ... more 
Scientists scour global waters testing ocean plankton and pollutionLorient, France (AFP) Oct 15, 2022 After a near two-year "Microbiome" mission around the world, scientists said on Saturday they had gathered thousands of samples of marine micro-organisms in a bid to better understand ocean plankton and pollution. ... more |
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Surfers, miners fight over South Africa's white beachesDoringbaai, South Africa (AFP) Oct 19, 2022 To those who live here, it's like a little piece of heaven, boasting pink flamingos, white beaches and blue ocean waters. ... more  
Chad floods leave victims in despairN'Djamena (AFP) Oct 19, 2022 One of the poorest and most arid states in the world, the landlocked nation of Chad has been hit by exceptional floods that have affected hundreds of thousands of lives. ... more 
China blames 'troublemakers' after consulate protest assault in UKBeijing (AFP) Oct 18, 2022 China accused demonstrators on Tuesday of "illegally entering" its consulate in the British city of Manchester, after footage of a Hong Kong pro-democracy protester being assaulted on the grounds sparked outrage in the UK. ... more 
Australian economist jailed in Myanmar moved to Yangon's Insein prison: sourceYangon, Myanmar (AFP) Oct 17, 2022 An Australian economist jailed in Myanmar has been moved from the isolated military-built capital to a sprawling prison in Yangon, a source with knowledge of the case told AFP on Monday. ... more |
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Biden gives major abortion speech in final run-up to midtermsWashington (AFP) Oct 18, 2022 President Joe Biden sought Tuesday to make the battle over abortion a centerpiece of the midterm elections, hoping to help Democrats claw back ground as polls show Americans far more concerned by the economy. ... more 
Hong Kong court allows UK trial lawyer for Jimmy LaiHong Kong (AFP) Oct 19, 2022 A Hong Kong court on Wednesday allowed a veteran British lawyer to represent jailed pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai at his upcoming national security trial despite opposition from city authorities. ... more 
Iraq's new president calls for speedy government formationBaghdad (AFP) Oct 17, 2022 Iraq's newly-elected President Abdul Latif Rashid pledged Monday on taking office to throw his weight behind efforts to rapidly form a strong new government. ... more  
Hong Kong to 'trawl world for talent' in reboot attemptHong Kong (AFP) Oct 19, 2022 Hong Kong's leader unveiled plans to resuscitate the business hub's fortunes on Wednesday, hoping to lure back international expertise after an exodus of talent - but he vowed no let-up in a political crackdown that has transformed the city. ... more 
Britain summons China diplomat over protest assaultLondon (AFP) Oct 18, 2022 The UK's foreign office on Tuesday summoned a top Chinese diplomat in London over footage of a Hong Kong pro-democracy protester being assaulted in the grounds of a Chinese consulate in Britain. ... more |
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 Las Tejerias, Venezuela (AFP) Oct 14, 2022 
"We love you princess," reads the inscription on the fresh grave of a three-year-old girl among dozens of people killed by a devastating landslide in a Venezuelan town last week.
Gravediggers have had their hands full at the cemetery of Las Tejerias, a town of some 50,000 people laid to waste by a torrent of mud, stones and trees that followed hours of heavy rains.
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 Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany (SPX) Oct 17, 2022 
Satellites are increasingly becoming network nodes of the internet. Terrestrial nodes are integrated via fibre optic networks, and satellites can only keep up with current developments on the ground if they are also optically networked. European Commission programmes such as the 'Secure Connectivity Initiative' depend on this technology, as do many commercial networks such as Starlink or Oneweb, ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 17, 2022 
When the research vessel Bold Horizon sailed from Newport, Oregon, in early October, it joined a small armada of planes, drones, and other high-tech craft chasing the ocean's shapeshifting physics.
NASA's Sub-Mesoscale Ocean Dynamics Experiment (S-MODE) is converging on a patch of sea 110 nautical miles off the coast of San Francisco. Over the course of 28 days, the team will deploy a new ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Oct 17, 2022 
Certain estimates of Antarctica's total contribution to sea-level rise may be over, or even underestimated, after researchers detected a previously unknown source of ice loss variability. In a new paper published in The Cryosphere, researchers using Copernicus Sentinel-1 data, found that glaciers feeding the George VI Ice Shelf speed up by approximately 15% during the Antarctic summer. This is t ... more |
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 New York (AFP) Oct 14, 2022 
A lack of rainfall in the central United States has brought the mighty Mississippi River to its lowest depth in years, causing headaches for shippers and squeezing farmers who rely on the busy waterway to take their product to the Gulf of Mexico.
According to the US Geological Survey (USGS), the river's depth at shipping hub Memphis, Tennessee, is at its lowest level since 2011.
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 Washington (AFP) Oct 15, 2022 
Pakistan's finance minister has promised international lenders to stay true to economic reforms despite a new estimate that his country quickly needs more than $16 billion to recover from devastating floods.
Finance Minister Ishaq Dar also said that a flood donors' conference promised by French President Emmanuel Macron would take place next month which he hoped would help Pakistan both with ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Oct 14, 2022  US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen accused China on Friday of obstructing efforts to provide debt relief to African countries and other developing nations at IMF and World Bank talks in Washington.
Yellen took aim at Beijing at several events during the groups' annual meetings in the US capital this week.
At talks with European Union finance ministers, she said the situation of African c ... more |
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 Baghdad (AFP) Oct 19, 2022 
Just a year into her marriage, Manal became one of the tens of thousands of Iraqis every year who divorce in a deeply conservative nation where break-up rates have risen.
For Manal, like many other women, the reason was clear - her husband's financial dependence on his family's business meant that "he couldn't take any decisions of his own".
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 London (AFP) Oct 17, 2022 
Two UK climate protesters scaled a major road bridge over the River Thames on Monday causing huge traffic delays, days after activists threw tomato soup over Vincent van Gogh's "Sunflowers" masterpiece.
The Just Stop Oil protesters climbed more than 80 metres (260 feet) up one of the towers of the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge, which is used by an estimated 160,000 vehicles a day and links up to ... more |
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 Louisville CO (SPX) Oct 17, 2022 
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has awarded Orion Space Solutions a grant to build a dynamic, seamless one-stop platform to process, analyze, and visualize Earth observations using advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and digital technologies.
The resulting system will further human understanding of environmental change on Earth, considering both current and pas ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Oct 17, 2022 
The amazing survival strategies of polar marine creatures might help to explain how the first animals on Earth could have evolved earlier than the oldest fossils suggest according to new research. These first, simple and now extinct, animals might have lived through some of the most extreme, cold and icy periods the world has ever seen. The study is published in the journal Global Change Biology ... more |
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 Canberra (AFP) Oct 18, 2022 
Australia touted a world-first project Tuesday that could help make the country a "renewable energy superpower" by shifting huge volumes of solar electricity under the sea to Singapore.
Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong met Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese in Canberra to ink a new green energy deal between the two countries.
Albanese said the pact showed a "collective reso ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 17, 2022 
the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) awarded $47 million to U.S. scientists conducting experimental research in fusion energy science at tokamak and spherical tokamak facilities in the U.S. and around the globe.
The awards support research that aims to close gaps in the science and technology basis for the tokamak approach to fusion energy. These awards will help support the Biden Administr ... more |
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 Sydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 17, 2022 
A global cross-disciplinary team of scientists led by UNSW Sydney researchers has developed the first comprehensive classification of the world's ecosystems across land, rivers and wetlands, and seas. The ecosystem typology will enable more coordinated and effective biodiversity conservation, critical for human wellbeing.
The extensive collaboration includes the International Union for Con ... more |
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 London (AFP) Oct 18, 2022  The UK's foreign office on Tuesday summoned a top Chinese diplomat in London over footage of a Hong Kong pro-democracy protester being assaulted in the grounds of a Chinese consulate in Britain.
China's Charge d'Affaires Yang Xiaoguang was summoned after Beijing earlier Tuesday accused demonstrators of "illegally entering" the consulate in the northern British city of Manchester.
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 Cork, Ireland (SPX) Oct 17, 2022 
Treemetrics, a global leader in forestry management software, has signed a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) valued at euro 1.2 million. Under the two-year contract, Treemetrics will be utilising satellite imaging, data analytics and its advanced forest measurement technology to provide more accurate forest carbon credit estimates.
The global demand for forest carbon credits i ... more |
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