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Sun unleashes four powerful solar flares
The Sun has unleashed four potent solar flares this week, marking the most intense activity yet this year and causing limited interruptions to high-frequency radio communications. One of them was classified as an X3.2 flare, with X-class flares being the most intense type, the US space agency said. “This is…
Life-giving chemicals found in 1.5 billion-year-old water in Canada
Scientists said Wednesday they had found life-giving chemicals in water at least 1.5 billion years old, which they are now combing for signs of microscopic organisms surviving from a prehistoric age. The water, isolated in pockets deep underground for billions of years, is now pouring out of boreholes from a…
New evidence proves monkeys, apes shared the earth millions of years earlier than scientists thought
Newly unearthed ape and monkey fossils prove that the cousin species lived side-by-side in Africa as long as 25 million years ago, a study said Wednesday. This is at least five million years earlier than fossil evidence has so far been able to show, according to a team of scientists…
UN, Slow Food movement sign agreement to promote ‘gastronomy of liberation’ in developing world
The UN food agency and the gastronomic and ecological movement Slow Food signed an agreement on Wednesday for joint work on promoting small farmers and local recipes around the world that they hope will put Africa on the gourmet map. “I call it the gastronomy of liberation,” said Carlo Petrini,…
Brain scans reveal marijuana-like medicine could effectively treat PTSD
Marijuana-like medicines that lack the plant’s psychoactive properties can be used to effectively treat some symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), researchers at New York University Langone Medical Center explain in a study published Tuesday in the scientific journal Molecular Psychiatry. Using brain imaging technology, researchers studied the CB1 receptors…
FDA halts U.S. poop transplants pending further review
The Food and Drug Administration has ordered clinicians to stop transplanting healthy fecal matter from one patient to another until the agency has had a chance to review and test the procedure. According to the Omaha World-Herald, the therapy is used to fight the antibiotic-resistant bug Clostridium difficile, or C.…
Hydropower projects depend on rainforest conservation: study
Large hydropower projects are the bedrock of clean energy production, by virtue of their sheer size and reliance upon natural rainfall. However, new research recently published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that a necessary part of increasing the electricity… …
Studies show that online brain games can rehab ‘chemo brain’
Did you know that playing video games is not only good for you, but that they can make you a better person? No, this is not a plug for Steven Johnson’s 2005 book “Everything Bad is Good For You,” although if you haven’t read it, you should. There’s ample… …
Cables reveal American diplomats lobbied aggressively overseas to promote genetically modified (GM) food crops
Review of more than 900 cables reveals campaign to break down resistance to GM products in Europe and other countries American diplomats lobbied aggressively overseas to promote genetically modified (GM) food crops such as soy beans, an analysis of official cable traffic revealed on Tuesday. The review of more than…
Historic carbon levels to become global average by 2016
After seeing carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere surpass a historic threshold last week, the world should brace for the new peak level to soon become the global annual average, the World Meteorological Organization warned Tuesday. “At the current rate of increase, the global annual average CO2 concentration is set…
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