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  Tokyo, Japan (AFP) April 16, 2018 Asian rivals China and Japan on Monday pledged a "new starting point" for bilateral ties, vowing close co-operation amid a flurry of diplomacy on the North Korean missile threat and global trade tensions. Welcoming Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi for a rare three-day visit, Japanese Premier Shinzo Abe called for warmer relations between the two countries and said they should work together on North Korea. Abe said he would be visiting the United States for talks with President Donald Trump to se ... read more |
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N.Korea, China 'discussing Xi visit to Pyongyang'Tokyo, Japan (AFP) April 16, 2018 China and North Korea have been holding talks about a visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping to Pyongyang, a Japanese newspaper reported Monday as regional leaders step up diplomatic dialogue. ... more  
Volcano erupts in Japan, no-go warning issuedTokyo (AFP) April 19, 2018 A volcano erupted in southern Japan on Thursday, spewing steam and ash hundreds of metres into the air, as authorities warned locals not to approach the mountain. ... more  
Iceland resumes fin whale hunt after two-year pauseReykjavik (AFP) April 17, 2018 Icelandic whaling company Hvalur said Tuesday it would resume its controversial hunt of endangered fin whales after a two-year suspension, sparking angry protests from animal rights activists. ... more  
Japan faces record low eel catch, renewing stock fearsTokyo, Japan (AFP) April 13, 2018 Japan is on track for a record low catch of baby eels this year, renewing fears about declining stocks of the endangered fish, a favoured summer delicacy for Japanese. ... more |
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One killed as landslide engulfs houses in JapanTokyo (AFP) April 11, 2018 A man has been found dead and several people are missing after a landslide engulfed houses in southern Japan on Wednesday, local officials said. ... more  
MIPT physicists design a model of Martian winterMoscow, Russia (SPX) Apr 10, 2018 A team of researchers from MIPT and their German and Japanese colleagues have designed a numerical model of the annual water cycle in the Martian atmosphere. Previously, the scientists focused their ... more  
Japan's vaunted alert system runs up against limitsTokyo (AFP) April 8, 2018 On January 5, as Tokyo's commuters were struggling back to work after their long New Year break, blaring sirens from every phone pierced the sleepy atmosphere: "strong" earthquake coming. ... more 
Japan launches Marines unit amid China's growing presenceTokyo (AFP) April 7, 2018 Japan's military on Saturday launched its first Marines unit, tasked with defending remote islands in the face of China's growing maritime presence in the region. ... more  
Ariane 5 launches two satellitesKourou, French Guiana (ESA) Apr 06, 2018 Arianespace has successfully launched two telecommunications satellites: DSN-1/Superbird-8 for the Japanese operator SKY Perfect JSAT; and HYLAS 4 for the British operator Avanti Communications. ... more |
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Japan's snow monkeys use hot baths to conserve body heat, relieve stressWashington (UPI) Apr 3, 2018 According to a new study, Japan's snow monkeys use the spa just like humans do, to stay warm and relieve stress. ... more  |
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Modeling future earthquake and tsunami risk in southeast JapanAmherst MA (SPX) Apr 03, 2018 Geoscience researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Smith College and the Japanese Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology this week unveiled new, GPS-based methods for modelin ... more 
Super typhoon may flood one third of central Tokyo: surveyTokyo (AFP) March 31, 2018 One third of central Tokyo could be left under water and nearly four million people affected if a super typhoon strikes the capital causing storm surges, a new study from local authorities has warned. ... more 
Japan whalers return from Antarctic hunt after killing 333 whalesTokyo (AFP) March 31, 2018 Japanese whaling vessels returned to port on Saturday after catching more than 300 of the mammals in the Antarctic Ocean without facing any protests by anti-whaling groups, officials said. ... more  
Out of this world: Inside Japan's space colony centreTokyo (AFP) March 30, 2018 A newly created Space Colony Research centre led by Japan's first female astronaut is bringing cutting-edge technology to bear on one of mankind's greatest questions: Can we live in space? ... more  
Is glass transition driven by thermodynamics?Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 29, 2018 Glassy substances are everywhere, yet this state of matter poses many puzzles. The basic picture is clear enough - glasses are solids that lack the regular atomic structure of a crystal. How and why ... more |
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 Washington, United States (AFP) April 16, 2018 
California Governor Jerry Brown has rejected the Trump administration's initial proposals for a National Guard mission along the state's border with Mexico, a top US official said Monday.
Brown last week had said he would accept federal funding from President Donald Trump to boost his state's National Guard.
But the governor has quibbled over their role and insisted they only focus on cr ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Apr 17, 2018 
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a method for generating numbers guaranteed to be random by quantum mechanics. Described in the April 12 issue of Nature, the experimental technique surpasses all previous methods for ensuring the unpredictability of its random numbers and may enhance security and trust in cryptographic systems.
The new ... more |
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 Townsville, Australia (SPX) Apr 19, 2018 
A new study published online in Nature shows that corals on the northern Great Barrier Reef experienced a catastrophic die-off following the extended marine heatwave of 2016.
"When corals bleach from a heatwave, they can either survive and regain their colour slowly as the temperature drops, or they can die. Averaged across the whole Great Barrier Reef, we lost 30 per cent of the corals in ... more |
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 Lausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 21, 2018 
2D materials, which consist of a few layers of atoms, may well be the future of nanotechnology. They offer potential new applications and could be used in small, higher-performance and more energy-efficient devices. 2D materials were first discovered almost 15 years ago, but only a few dozen of them have been synthesized so far.
Now, thanks to an approach developed by researchers from EPFL ... more |
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 Damascus, Syria (AFP) April 17, 2018 
Syrian air defence shot down missiles over the central province of Homs, the state news agency said Tuesday, with the strikes reportedly targeting regime air bases.
The news agency did not give further details and it was unclear who was behind the attack, which Syrian state television branded as an "aggression".
Big explosions were heard near Al Shayrat Air base, southeast of the city of ... more |
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 Beijing (Sputnik) Apr 17, 2018 
Talk about a trade war, as intra-solar-system transport of silk - one of the world's most popular commodities - could be made on the moon, and imported to earth.
Just because China's upcoming moon mission is unmanned doesn't mean it will be unoccupied, as - in an effort to test possible self-sustaining biospheres that could lead to larger projects - cohabitating flora and fauna will be tra ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Apr 19, 2018 
If Star Wars' R2-D2 is your idea of a robot, think again. Researchers led by a University of Houston engineer have reported a new class of soft robot, composed of ultrathin sensing, actuating electronics and temperature-sensitive artificial muscle that can adapt to the environment and crawl, similar to the movement of an inchworm or caterpillar.
Cunjiang Yu, Bill D. Cook Assistant Professo ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) April 19, 2018  China's gay community scored a victory after a massively popular social media platform reversed a ban on "homosexual" content, but challenges remain in a country where LGBT culture remains taboo in the entertainment industry.
Gay-themed films struggle to make it into movie theatres, same-sex relationships are banned from television screens and gay content is forbidden on online streaming pla ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Apr 17, 2018  An Earth observation satellite, called TanSat, has produced its first global carbon dioxide maps. TanSat was launched by a collaborative team of researchers in China, and these maps are the first steps for the satellite to provide global carbon dioxide measurements for future climate change research.
The researchers published the maps, based on data collected in April and July 2017, in the ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (AFP) April 13, 2018 
Japan is on track for a record low catch of baby eels this year, renewing fears about declining stocks of the endangered fish, a favoured summer delicacy for Japanese.
At the end of March, Japan had 8.8 tons of baby "Anguilla japonica" eels in culture ponds, including imports from China, Taiwan and South Korea, according to a preliminary tally by the fisheries agency.
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 Austin TX (SPX) Apr 13, 2018 
Researchers from the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) have helped discover the first subglacial lakes ever found in the Canadian High Arctic.
The two new lakes are a potential habitat for microbial life and may assist scientists in the search for life beyond Earth. The findings, published in the April 13 edition of Science Advances, were made possible by airborne radar d ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 19, 2018 
Citizen scientists can play a role in eliminating Zika and other mosquito-transmitted diseases by downloading a free GLOBE Observer app from Google Play or the App Store.
Use the Mosquito Habitat Mapper module to report the location of mosquitoes that potentially transmit disease. The app will show you how to find mosquito larvae, photograph the breeding site and then eliminate sites near ... more |
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 N'Djamena (AFP) April 17, 2018 
Three Chadian soldiers were killed in a clash with Boko Haram jihadists on Sunday, Chad's national television reported on Tuesday.
The three were given a posthumous award by the Chadian army chief of staff, the report said, adding that they were buried at the N'Djamena military cemetery.
The report gave no details of where the clash happened.
A military source said fighting took plac ... more |
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 Colorado Springs CO (Sputnik) Apr 19, 2018 
The European Space Agency (ESA) hopes that the Skripal case will not affect the agency's cooperation with Russia, ESA Director-General Jan Woerner told Sputnik.
"In our case, our relation with Russia is not at all effected so far," Woerner said. "We are doing space activities and therefore, we try to keep out of all these discussions. I hope that space can also in the future bridge earthly ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (AFP) April 16, 2018 
China and North Korea have been holding talks about a visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping to Pyongyang, a Japanese newspaper reported Monday as regional leaders step up diplomatic dialogue.
The North is using its Beijing embassy to arrange Xi's itinerary with the international department of the Chinese Communist Party's Central Committee, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported, quoting Chinese and N ... more |
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