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  College Park MD (SPX) Apr 13, 2023 Robots are machines that can sense the environment and use that information to perform an action. You can find them nearly everywhere in industrialized societies today. There are household robots that vacuum floors and warehouse robots that pack and ship goods. Lab robots test hundreds of clinical samples a day. Education robots support teachers by acting as one-on-one tutors, assistants and discussion facilitators. And medical robotics composed of prosthetic limbs can enable someone to grasp and pick u ... read more |
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Where did the first sugars come from?La Jolla CA (SPX) Apr 14, 2023 Two prominent origin-of-life chemists have published a new hypothesis for how the first sugars-which were necessary for life to evolve-arose on the early Earth. In a paper that appeared on Apr ... more 
How did Earth get its waterWashington DC (SPX) Apr 13, 2023 Our planet's water could have originated from interactions between the hydrogen-rich atmospheres and magma oceans of the planetary embryos that comprised Earth's formative years, according to new wo ... more  
New evidence pushes open habitats in Africa back by 10 million yearsMinneapolis MN (SPX) Apr 16, 2023 The story of human evolution has long been a tale of a forested Africa that gradually became drier, giving rise to open grasslands and causing our forest-loving ape ancestors to abandon the trees an ... more  
Tongan volcanic explosion in 2022 was largest natural explosion in a centuryMiami FL (SPX) Apr 16, 2023 The 2022 eruption of a submarine volcano in Tonga was more powerful than the largest U.S. nuclear explosion, according to a new study led by scientists at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School o ... more |
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Indonesia residents run outside as shallow quake hits
Magnitude 6.1 offshore quake hits near Indonesian island: USGS Stuck in eternal drought, UAE turns to AI to make it rain Latin American classics get the streaming treatment Santorini seismic activity down but schools stay shuttered: Greece Fishermen, sailing champions clean up trash-covered Rio island CORRECTED: Two jailed for 18 years over tower block collapse in Turkey quake Two jailed for 18 years over tower block collapse in Turkey quake Islanders keen to return to Santorini even as quakes continue UN watchdog chief visits Fukushima as Japan returns to nuclear power |
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Sitael signs contact with ESA: Will make hyperspectral satellite of Iris ConstellationBari, Italy (SPX) Apr 16, 2023 SITAEL, Italy's leading space company, and a wholly privately owned part of Angel Holding, which also develops high technology for the railway, aviation, and digital mechatronics sectors, has signed ... more 
Metaspectral to bring SkyFi satellite imagery to its Fusion PlatformVancouver, Canada (SPX) Apr 13, 2023 Metaspectral, a remote sensing software company advancing computer vision using deep learning and hyperspectral imagery, has executed a Letter of Intent ("LOI") with SkyFi, a company providing on-de ... more 
L3Harris to build geostationary weather satellite sensors for JapanMelbourne FL (SPX) Apr 14, 2023 L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) received a contract to provide next-generation geostationary imaging and sounding instruments for the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) that will monitor and predic ... more  
Monkey business: Sri Lanka considers macaque sales to ChinaColombo (AFP) April 12, 2023 Cash-strapped Sri Lanka is considering exporting up to 100,000 endangered monkeys to China, the agriculture minister said Wednesday, raising concerns among conservationists. ... more |
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French villages run dry as water warnings riseCorbere-Les-Cabanes, France (AFP) April 14, 2023 Another four French villages lost their fresh water supply on Friday, local authorities told AFP, as a winter drought causes disruption and serious concerns about shortages this summer. ... more  
Iraq's ancient treasures sand-blasted by climate changeUmm Al-Aqarib, Iraq (AFP) April 16, 2023 Iraqi archaeological marvels that have survived millennia and the ravages of war now face a modern threat: being blasted and slowly buried by sandstorms linked to climate change. ... more  
G7 members commit to ending new plastic pollution by 2040Sapporo, Japan (AFP) April 16, 2023 G7 environment and climate ministers pledged to end new plastic pollution in their countries by 2040, they said in a statement released Sunday after talks in northern Japan. ... more  
'Really hard' -- the life of an Amazon Brazil nut harvesterLuz De America, Bolivia (AFP) April 14, 2023 Assailed by mosquitoes and wary of snakes, Jorge Lengua walks watchfully through the Bolivian Amazon collecting Brazil nuts from the forest floor. ... more |
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UAE and China promise Pakistan $1.3 bln to get IMF deal on trackKarachi (AFP) April 14, 2023 Pakistan announced financial support Friday from the United Arab Emirates and China totalling $1.3 billion, giving the ailing economy a shot in the arm as it seeks to meet conditions for the resumption of an International Monetary Fund bailout. ... more 
China official visits Nicaragua to launch housing initiativeManagua (AFP) April 15, 2023 The head of China's International Development Cooperation Agency, Luo Zhaohui, arrived in Nicaragua on Friday to launch a subsidized housing project, Vice President Rosario Murillo said. ... more 
Biden to hold first meeting with Colombia's leftist presidentWashington (AFP) April 14, 2023 Colombian President Gustavo Petro will travel to Washington next week for his first meeting with President Joe Biden, the two countries announced Friday, as the longstanding US ally charts a new course under its first leftist leader. ... more  
Climate focus shouldn't 'dilute' Africa development needs: World Bank officialWashington (AFP) April 15, 2023 The World Bank must ensure that its ambitious climate agenda does not come at the expense of the pressing development needs of its African members, a senior bank official said Friday. ... more  
Turkey's quake survivors fear being left out of May voteAnkara (AFP) April 15, 2023 Ali, a 23-year-old student, lost everything in Turkey's earthquake. ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) April 14, 2023 
Colombian President Gustavo Petro will travel to Washington next week for his first meeting with President Joe Biden, the two countries announced Friday, as the longstanding US ally charts a new course under its first leftist leader.
Biden will welcome Petro on Thursday to discuss key issues involving Colombia including climate change, drug trafficking and migration, the White House said. ... more |
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 McLean VA (SPX) Apr 14, 2023 
Intelsat, operator of one of the world's largest integrated satellite and terrestrial networks and leading provider of inflight connectivity (IFC), ordered a Mission Extension Pod (MEP) from Northrop Grumman Corporation's SpaceLogistics, which will add life to an Intelsat satellite and provide uninterrupted services to many customers.
The MEP "jet pack" will be installed by SpaceLogistics' ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Apr 13, 2023  Scientists now expect the El Nino weather phenomenon to affect climate conditions and temperatures during the next six months, the NOAA said Thursday. The administration's Climate Prediction Center issued a warning for the climate pattern officially known as the El Nino-Southern Oscillation. "The most recent [International Research Institute] plume favors a transition to El Nino, beginning June-August 2023 and persisting into the winter," ... more |
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 Cincinnati OH (SPX) Apr 10, 2023 
At least five ice ages have befallen Earth, including one 635 million years ago that created glaciers from pole to pole.
Called the Marinoan Ice Age, it's named for the part of Australia where geologic evidence was first collected in the 1970s.
Scientists say the Marinoan Ice Age was one of the most extreme in the planet's history, creating glacial ice that persisted for 15 million y ... more |
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 Luz De America, Bolivia (AFP) April 14, 2023 
Assailed by mosquitoes and wary of snakes, Jorge Lengua walks watchfully through the Bolivian Amazon collecting Brazil nuts from the forest floor.
Lengua, 56, wears rubber boots to protect his ankles from stingers and fangs, and uses a long stick to pick up the softball-sized shells that contain about 20 nuts each.
"The life of a nut harvester is risky... the forest is dense, there are s ... more |
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 Miami FL (SPX) Apr 16, 2023 
The 2022 eruption of a submarine volcano in Tonga was more powerful than the largest U.S. nuclear explosion, according to a new study led by scientists at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science and the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation.
The 15-megaton volcanic explosion from Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai, one of the largest natural explosi ... more |
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 Khartoum (AFP) April 16, 2023  Fighting in Sudan raged for a second day Sunday in battles between rival generals in control since their 2021 coup, leaving at least 56 civilians dead, hundreds wounded and sparking international alarm.
Deafening explosions and intense gunfire rattled buildings in the capital Khartoum's densely-populated northern and southern suburbs as tanks rumbled on the streets and fighter jets roared ov ... more |
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 Minneapolis MN (SPX) Apr 16, 2023 
The story of human evolution has long been a tale of a forested Africa that gradually became drier, giving rise to open grasslands and causing our forest-loving ape ancestors to abandon the trees and become bipedal. Even though ecological and fossil evidence suggested this narrative was too simplistic, the theory remains prominent in many evolutionary scenarios.
Two new studies recently p ... more |
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 Umm Al-Aqarib, Iraq (AFP) April 16, 2023 
Iraqi archaeological marvels that have survived millennia and the ravages of war now face a modern threat: being blasted and slowly buried by sandstorms linked to climate change.
Ancient Babylonian treasures, painstakingly unearthed, are slowly disappearing again under wind-blown sand in a land parched by rising heat and prolonged droughts.
Iraq, one of the countries worst-hit by climate ... more |
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 Vancouver, Canada (SPX) Apr 13, 2023 
Metaspectral, a remote sensing software company advancing computer vision using deep learning and hyperspectral imagery, has executed a Letter of Intent ("LOI") with SkyFi, a company providing on-demand satellite imagery from a growing network of over 70 satellites.
Once integrated, SkyFi Earth observation data will be made available to users of Metaspectral Fusion. Fusion is a cloud-based ... more |
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 La Jolla CA (SPX) Apr 14, 2023 
Two prominent origin-of-life chemists have published a new hypothesis for how the first sugars-which were necessary for life to evolve-arose on the early Earth.
In a paper that appeared on April 13, 2023, in the journal Chem, the chemists from Scripps Research and the Georgia Institute of Technology propose that key sugars needed for making early life forms could have emerged from reaction ... more |
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 Lund, Sweden (SPX) Apr 12, 2023 
Dense urban areas amplify the effects of higher temperatures, due to the phenomenon of heat islands in cities. This makes cities more vulnerable to extreme climate events. Large investments in the electricity network will be necessary to cool us down during heatwaves and keep us warm during cold snaps, according to a new study led by Lund University in Sweden.
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 Niversity Park PA (SPX) Apr 11, 2023 
A research lab at Penn State will equally share a three-year, $2.55 million grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) with three other teams at Carnegie Mellon University and the Adolphe Merkle Institute of the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. The multidisciplinary research collaboration aims to develop a framework for the design and production of soft, self-charging, ... more |
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 Colombo (AFP) April 12, 2023 
Cash-strapped Sri Lanka is considering exporting up to 100,000 endangered monkeys to China, the agriculture minister said Wednesday, raising concerns among conservationists.
The toque macaque is endemic to Sri Lanka and common on the island but is classed as endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) red list.
Sri Lanka bans almost all live animal exports and ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) April 14, 2023  Brazilian leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is set to forge closer ties with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a meeting in Beijing on Friday, a day after he lashed out at the power of the US dollar and the IMF.
The veteran leftist, whose government recently announced a deal with Beijing to trade in their own currencies - ditching the dollar as an intermediary - is in China to boost ties ... more |
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 Los Alamos CA (SPX) Apr 10, 2023 
Ponderosa pine forests in the Sierra Nevada that were wiped out by western pine beetles during the 2012-2015 megadrought won't recover to pre-drought densities, reducing an important storehouse for atmospheric carbon.
"Forests store huge amounts of atmospheric carbon, so when western pine beetle infestations kill off millions of trees, that carbon dioxide goes back into the atmosphere," sa ... more |
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