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  Tokyo (AFP) Aug 18, 2017 The United States' most senior military officer on Friday said North Korea understands that an any attack on Japan is equal to one on the US itself - and vice versa. General Joe Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, held talks with his Japanese counterpart at the defence ministry in Tokyo, wrapping up a regional tour during heightened tensions with North Korea. Tokyo remains on alert against potential military provocations by Pyongyang after North Korea threatened to fire missiles tow ... read more |
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New US envoy reassures Japan over security pactNarita, Japan (AFP) Aug 17, 2017 The new US ambassador to Japan on Thursday reassured the country of an "ironclad" commitment to their security alliance, but urged Tokyo to step up its role in the pact, amid heightened tensions over North Korea's missile threats. ... more  
Kestrel Eye satellite launched to International Space Station aboard SpaceXWashington (UPI) Aug 15, 2017 The U.S. Army has successfully launched a Kestrel Eye reconnaissance microsatellite aboard a SpaceX mission to the International Space Station. ... more  
Commander dismissed after US Navy ship crashed off JapanWashington (AFP) Aug 17, 2017 The commander of a US Navy ship that collided with a Philippine-flagged cargo ship off Japan, killing seven American seamen, will be relieved of duty and several other sailors face punishment, a senior admiral said Thursday. ... more
Japan, US conduct live-fire drill amid regional tensionEniwa, Japan (AFP) Aug 16, 2017 Some 300 Japanese and US military personnel on Wednesday carried out live-fire artillery training in northern Japan, officials said, amid high regional tensions over North Korean missile threats. ... more |
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China, Russia push talks as N. Korea steps back from missile launchesSeoul (AFP) Aug 15, 2017 China and Russia pushed Tuesday for talks to defuse the "confrontational spiral" between the US and North Korea after Kim Jong-Un stepped back from a planned missile strike near Guam. ... more  
Treaty to curb mercury exposure takes effectParis (AFP) Aug 16, 2017 A 128-nation treaty to curb exposure to the dangerous heavy metal mercury entered into force Wednesday, the United Nations announced on the convention's website. ... more  
Japan launches study into suspected Chinese coral poachingTokyo (AFP) Aug 16, 2017 Japan on Wednesday launched a study into whether precious coral was being illegally poached by Chinese fishermen off its shores to be sold for use in jewellery. ... more  
Floating solar power: new frontier for green-leaning water utilitiesWashington (UPI) Aug 17, 2017 Lakes and ponds used by water utilities have long been viewed with a single purpose: holding water. Now a handful of pioneering water utilities are looking at their aquatic real estate with a new purpose in mind: solar energy generation. ... more  
Warning from history: Could Japan-style crash hit ChinaTokyo (AFP) Aug 16, 2017 Sizzling property prices, a groaning debt load, wealthy tourists and tycoons willing to slap down eye-popping sums for art: China is starting to look like Japan before its economic bubble burst in the early 90s. ... more  
Japan gives world-beating fidget spinner a whirlFujisawa, Japan (AFP) Aug 9, 2017 One company in perfectionism-obsessed Japan is claiming it has developed a fidget spinner that whirls longer than any rival on the market - 12 minutes and counting. ... more |
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Japanese seaweed is welcome invader on US coasts: studyMiami (AFP) July 17, 2017 A kind of Japanese seaweed that is considered an invasive species in the United States is actually serving an important role in restoring barren and vulnerable coastlines, US researchers said Monday. ... more  
A battery-inspired strategy for carbon fixationWashington DC (SPX) Aug 16, 2017 Scientists working toward the elusive lithium-air battery discovered an unexpected approach to capturing and storing carbon dioxide away from the atmosphere. Using a design intended for a lithium-CO ... more  
Japan deploys missile defence over N. Korea threat to GuamTokyo (AFP) Aug 12, 2017 Japan deployed its Patriot missile defence system on Saturday after North Korea threatened to fire ballistic missiles over the country towards the US Pacific territory of Guam, local officials and reports said. ... more  
Japan approves US Marine flights of Ospreys after crashTokyo (AFP) Aug 11, 2017 Japan on Friday said it would allow Osprey tilt-rotor aircrafts to continue to operate in the country, accepting US assurances that the flights are safe following a fatal crash off Australia. ... more |
  Tripoli (AFP) Aug 16, 2017 
Libya is not "preventing" NGOs from carrying out migrant rescue operations off its coast, but has set up a coastal search and rescue zone to "organise" their work, its navy said Wednesday.
The navy last week ordered unauthorised foreign vessels to stay out of Libya's coastal zone, a measure it said targeted NGOs carrying out search and rescue missions for migrants headed towards Europe.
... more Freetown (AFP) Aug 17, 2017Mass burials begin for 400 Sierra Leone flood victims  Washington (UPI) Aug 14, 2017Urban flooding on the rise, as countryside dries up  New Delhi (AFP) Aug 12, 2017Hunter fells elephant that killed 15 in India |
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 Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 16, 2017 
Archinaut, a NASA Technology Demonstration Mission (TDM) project developing cutting-edge technology to build and assemble complex hardware and supersized structures on demand in space, achieved an unprecedented milestone this summer.
"To our knowledge, this is the first time additive manufacturing has been successfully tested on such a large scale in the vacuum and temperature conditions o ... more Washington (UPI) Aug 16, 2017Air Force tests new radar receivers for rescue helicopters  Denver CO (SPX) Aug 14, 2017Lockheed Martin integrates first modernized A2100 satellite  Washington (UPI) Aug 16, 2017Marine Corps testing mobile 3D printing lab |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 14, 2017 
This past week marks the 25th anniversary of the launch of a revolutionary ocean research vessel - a space "ship." As the NASA/CNES Topex-Poseidon satellite ascended into orbit, it ushered in a new era of oceanography with the first highly accurate, global measurements of sea levels.
That mission and its three successors, all named Jason, have continuously mapped global ocean currents and ... more Cape Cod MA (SPX) Aug 16, 2017New technique offers clues to measure the deoxygenation of the ocean  Cambridge, UK (SPX) Aug 17, 2017Meadow of dancing brittle stars shows evolution at work  Tallahassee FL (SPX) Aug 17, 2017Ancient ocean deoxygenation provides an urgent warning |
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 Trieste, Italy (SPX) Aug 17, 2017 
To move a nanoparticle on the surface of a graphene sheet, you won't need a "nano-arm": by applying a temperature difference at the ends of the membrane, the nanocluster laying on it will drift from the hot region to the cold one. In addition, contrary to the laws ruling the world at the macroscale, the force acting on the particle - the so-called thermophoretic force - should not decrease as th ... more Chicago IL (SPX) Jul 31, 2017New method promises easier nanoscale manufacturing  Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Jul 21, 2017Nanoparticles could spur better LEDs, invisibility cloaks  Barcelona, Spain (SPX) Jul 18, 2017New material resembling a metal nanosponge could reduce computer energy consumption |
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 9, 2017 
Jacobs Technology is receiving a contract with a maximum value of $4.6 billion for services for the Missile Defense Agency, the Department of Defense announced on Wednesday.
The services will go toward the Missile Defense Integration and Operations Center and communications and informations technology for MDA. The work will primarily be conducted at Schriever Air Force Base in Colorado, ... moreTokyo (AFP) Aug 12, 2017Japan deploys missile defence over N. Korea threat to Guam  Washington (AFP) July 30, 2017US successfully tests missile intercept system Seoul (AFP) July 29, 2017S. Korea speeds up US missile defence over North's missile test |
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 Beijing (XNA) Aug 14, 2017 
Chinese scientists have become the first to realize quantum key distribution from a satellite to the ground, laying the foundation for building a hack-proof global quantum communication network.
The achievement based on experiments conducted with the world' s first quantum satellite, Quantum Experiments at Space Scale (QUESS), was published in the authoritative academic journal Nature on T ... more Xi'an, China (XNA) Aug 14, 2017Xian Satellite Control Center resolves over 10 major satellite faults in 50 years  Beijing (XNA) Jul 10, 2017China develops sea launches to boost space commerce Beijing (XNA) Jul 07, 2017Chinese satellite Zhongxing-9A enters preset orbit |
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 14, 2017 
Northrop Grumman will demonstrate autonomous unmanned undersea and unmanned surface vehicles at the Advanced Naval Technology Exercise at the Naval Surface Warfare Center this week.
The demonstration will coordinate multiple undersea and surface autonomous vehicles alongside an aerial vehicle to collect targeting data for enemy seabed infrastructure, followed by an undersea vehicle enga ... more Palo Alto CA (SPX) Aug 14, 2017SSL and NASA complete preliminary design review for on-orbit robotic servicing spacecraft  Washington DC (SPX) Aug 07, 2017Why humans find faulty robots more likeable  Washington (AFP) Aug 3, 2017Mishap doesn't dampen enthusiasm for security robots |
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 Beijing (AFP) Aug 16, 2017 
China on Wednesday denied violations of religious freedom after the United States accused Beijing of persecuting Christians, Muslims, Falun Gong members and Tibetan Buddhists in an annual report.
"All Chinese people of all ethnic groups and all regions are fully entitled to religious belief. The so-called report ignores facts," foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said at a regular pres ... more Hong Kong (AFP) Aug 18, 2017Hong Kong activists fear more jailings; As Beijing defends crackdown Hong Kong (AFP) Aug 16, 2017Hong Kong activists defiant in face of possible jail term  Hong Kong (AFP) Aug 18, 2017Street joints and empires in noodle-crazed Hong Kong |
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 Toulouse, France (SPX) Aug 14, 2017 
MetOp-C is the third and final satellite of the first generation of MetOp polar-orbiting meteorological satellites.
The payload module of MetOp-C, developed and built by Airbus in Germany, was delivered to Toulouse after it completed a series of tests at ESTEC, the technical centre of the European Space Agency (ESA) in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.
The satellite, weighing in at four to ... more Washington DC (SPX) Aug 16, 2017Ozone treaty taking a bite out of US greenhouse gas emissions  Edwards AFB CA (SPX) Aug 17, 2017NASA-led airborne mission studies storm intensification in northern hemisphere  Washington (UPI) Jul 13, 2017Nickel key to Earth's magnetic field, research shows |
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 Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Aug 16, 2017 
Covering 70 percent of Earth's surface, the world's oceans are vast and deep. So vast, in fact, that nearly every coastal country has the potential to meet its own domestic seafood needs through aquaculture. In fact, each country could do so using a tiny fraction of its ocean territory.
So finds a study led by scientists from UC Santa Barbara and including researchers from the Nature Conse ... more Waterloo, UK (SPX) Aug 16, 2017Efforts to reduce pollution from agriculture paying off slowly  Exeter UK (SPX) Aug 16, 2017'Inefficient' sailing fleet keeps oyster fishery alive  Miami (AFP) Aug 15, 2017Climate change will cut crop yields: study |
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 Seattle WA (SPX) Aug 16, 2017 
Many exoplanets to be found by coming high-powered telescopes will probably be tidally locked - with one side permanently facing their host star - according to new research by astronomer Rory Barnes of the University of Washington.
Barnes, a UW assistant professor of astronomy and astrobiology, arrived at the finding by questioning the long-held assumption that only those stars that are mu ... more Arecibo PR (SPX) Jul 17, 2017A New Search for Extrasolar Planets from the Arecibo Observatory  Washington (UPI) Jul 17, 2017Gulf of Mexico tube worm is one of the longest-living animals in the world  Garching, Germany (SPX) Jul 14, 2017Molecular Outflow Launched Beyond Disk Around Young Star |
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 Johannesburg (AFP) Aug 18, 2017 
Oscar-winning Hollywood actress Charlize Theron hopes to create an AIDS-free generation in her home country South Africa which has one of the highest rates of HIV infection in the world.
The star who is the founder of Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project which supports community-based HIV programmes said the country's "ridiculously large" HIV burden was hard to ignore and that prompted he ... more Manila (AFP) Aug 11, 2017Philippines declares first ever H5 bird flu outbreak  Washington (UPI) Aug 2, 2017Magnetized viruses can break through biofilms, attack bacteria  Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Jul 31, 2017Malaria already endemic in the Mediterranean by the Roman period |
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 New Delhi (AFP) Aug 12, 2017 
The Dalai Lama has cancelled a trip next week to Botswana because of "exhaustion" after Beijing expressed anger at the African country for allowing the visit.
The 82-year-old Tibetan spiritual leader, who lives in exile in India, was to speak at a three day conference in Botswana's capital Gaborone, which begins on August 17.
An official statement released late Friday said the Dalai Lama ... more Maiduguri, Nigeria (AFP) Aug 12, 2017UN says Nigeria relations 'intact' after unauthorised raid  Kano, Nigeria (AFP) Aug 11, 2017Nigerian forces in 'unauthorised search' of UN camp  Nairobi (AFP) Aug 10, 2017Kenyan opposition demands Odinga be 'declared president' |
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 Miami (AFP) Aug 14, 2017 
SpaceX on Monday blasted off its unmanned Dragon cargo ship toward the International Space Station, carrying a host of science experiments and the most powerful computer ever sent into orbit.
"Three, two, one, and liftoff," a SpaceX commentator said as the white Falcon 9 rocket climbed into the blue sky over Cape Canaveral, Florida at 12:31 pm (1631 GMT).
Three minutes after launch, the ... more Washington (AFP) Aug 15, 2017NASA: let's say something to Voyager 1 on 40th anniversary of launch  Washington DC (SPX) Aug 14, 2017Disruptioneering: Streamlining the Process of Scientific Discovery  Washington DC (SPX) Jul 17, 2017NASA Offers Space Station as Catalyst for Discovery in Washington |
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 New York (AFP) Aug 16, 2017  US President Donald Trump on Wednesday praised North Korea's leader for backing off on plans to fire missiles toward the US Pacific territory of Guam.
"Kim Jong-Un of North Korea made a very wise and well reasoned decision. The alternative would have been both catastrophic and unacceptable!" Trump wrote on Twitter.
Trump stunned the world last week by warning North Korea it faced "fire a ... more Seoul (AFP) Aug 18, 2017Joint exercises could send Korea tensions soaring again  United Nations, United States (AFP) Aug 16, 2017UN chief offers help in N.Korea diplomacy efforts Seoul (AFP) Aug 15, 2017China, Russia push talks as N. Korea steps back from missile launches |
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