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  Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 31, 2020 Nearly a millennium and a half ago, red light streaked the night sky over Japan. Witnesses compared it to the tail of a pheasant - it appeared as a fan of beautiful red feathers stretched across the sky. Since the event, scientists have studied the witness accounts written in the year 620 A.D. and speculated about what the cosmic phenomenon could have actually been. Now, researchers from The Graduate University for Advanced Studies may have found the answer. They published their results on March 3 ... read more |
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Europe to Conduct BepiColombo Flyby Amid Coronavirus CrisisParis (ESA) Mar 31, 2020 Controllers at ESA's mission control centre are preparing for a gravity-assist flyby of the European-Japanese Mercury explorer BepiColombo. The manoeuvre, which will see the mission adjust its traje ... more  
Japan destroyer, China fishing boat in collision: mediaTokyo (AFP) March 30, 2020 A Japanese naval destroyer and a Chinese fishing boat have collided in the sea off Shanghai but there were no injuries, Japanese media reported early Tuesday. ... more  
Nature takes back world's empty city streetsParis (AFP) March 29, 2020 As humans retreat into their homes as more and more countries go under coronavirus lockdown, wild animals are slipping cover to explore the empty streets of some of our biggest cities. ... more  
Nike says China is coming back as online growth cushions virus blowNew York (AFP) March 24, 2020 Nike executives said Tuesday that shoppers in key Asian markets are beginning to return to stores as the company reported a rare drop in Chinese quarterly revenues cushioned by stronger e-commerce sales. ... more |
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Japan's imports from China plunged in February on virus woesTokyo (AFP) March 18, 2020 Japan's imports from China almost halved last month from a year earlier to log the steepest fall since 1986 as the new coronavirus outbreak disrupted trade, official data showed Wednesday. ... more  
Fujifilm shares soar after China backs drug to treat virusTokyo (AFP) March 18, 2020 Shares in Japanese firm Fujifilm Holdings sky-rocketed on Wednesday after Chinese authorities said a drug produced by the company could be effective for treating coronavirus patients. ... more  
Long-distance fiber link poised to create powerful networks of optical clocksWashington DC (SPX) Mar 18, 2020 An academic-industrial team in Japan has connected three laboratories in a 100-kilometer region with an optical telecommunications fiber network stable enough to remotely interrogate optical atomic ... more 
Asteroid Ryugu likely link in planetary formationBerlin, Germany (SPX) Mar 17, 2020 The Solar System formed approximately 4.5 billion years ago. Numerous fragments that bear witness to this early era orbit the Sun as asteroids. Around three-quarters of these are carbon-rich C-type ... more  
Shifts in deep geologic structure may have magnified great 2011 Japan tsunamiNew York NY (SPX) Mar 17, 2020 On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9 earthquake struck under the seabed off Japan - the most powerful quake to hit the country in modern times, and the fourth most powerful in the world since modern rec ... more |
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For some Fukushima evacuees, Olympics no reason for cheerNaraha, Japan (AFP) March 9, 2020 The Olympic torch relay that begins in Japan this month will start from Fukushima, highlighting what the government dubs the "Recovery Olympics", but not everyone in the region will be cheering. ... more  |
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Surf's up in Fukushima 9 years after nuclear accidentMinamisoma, Japan (AFP) March 9, 2020 Every morning, come rain or shine, 64-year-old Koji Suzuki grabs his board and checks out the surf crashing onto the Fukushima coastline, some of the best rollers in Japan. ... more 
Virus scales back Japan events marking 2011 disasterTokyo (AFP) March 11, 2020 Japan on Wednesday marked the ninth anniversary of the killer tsunami that triggered the Fukushima nuclear meltdown, but fears about the new coronavirus forced a scaling back of public commemorations. ... more 
Japan unveils fresh economic package to offset virus damageTokyo (AFP) March 10, 2020 Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday announced a second emergency package to tackle economic woes stemming from the coronavirus outbreak, including $15 billion in loan programmes to support small businesses. ... more 
Japan readies 'state of emergency' coronavirus measuresTokyo (AFP) March 10, 2020 Japan's government Tuesday approved draft "state of emergency" measures that would allow authorities to keep people inside and commandeer buildings for hospitals, as Tokyo steps up its fight against coronavirus five months before the Olympics. ... more  
Japan to partner with U.S. on next-generation fighter planeWashington DC (UPI) Mar 09, 2020 Japan's Air Self-Defense Force will partner with U.S. firms to build its next-generation fighter plane. ... more |
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 Arlington VA (AFNS) Mar 27, 2020 
Gen. John "Jay" Raymond, Chief of Space Operations, United States Space Force and Commander, United States Space Command said Friday the U.S. Space Force and U.S. Space Command are maintaining all mission requirements and capabilities despite the expanding scope of COVID-19 and the aggressive actions necessary to shield personnel from the disease.
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 Washington DC (UPI) Mar 30, 2020 
A radar system known as Space Fence, which can track material in space as small as 10 centimeters, is fully operational, the U.S. Space Force announced.
Using enhanced S-band radar, the Space Fence improves on previous capabilities of the Space Surveillance Network in tracking objects such as commercial and military satellites, depleted rocket boosters and space debris in low, medium, a ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Mar 26, 2020 
The distribution and abundance of hundreds of marine species, including mammals, plankton, fish, plants and seabirds, has changed significantly during the past century in response to rising ocean temperatures, a new survey shows.
For the study, published this week in the journal Current Biology, scientists mined some 540 records of changes in species abundance.
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 Atlanta GA (SPX) Mar 04, 2020 
Through a technique known as DNA origami, scientists have created the fastest, most persistent DNA nano motor yet. Angewandte Chemie published the findings, which provide a blueprint for how to optimize the design of motors at the nanoscale - hundreds of times smaller than the typical human cell.
"Nanoscale motors have tremendous potential for applications in biosensing, in building synthe ... more |
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 Baghdad (AFP) March 30, 2020 
The United States has deployed Patriot air defence batteries to Iraqi bases to protect American troops recently targeted by Iranian missiles, US and Iraqi military sources told AFP Monday.
Washington and Baghdad had been negotiating the placement of the defence system since January, when Tehran fired ballistic missiles at the western Iraqi base of Ain al-Asad, which hosts American and other ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Mar 25, 2020 
A trial version of China's new-generation manned spaceship is being tested at the Wenchang Space Launch Center on the coast of south China's island province of Hainan, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA).
The experimental spacecraft is scheduled to launch with no crew in mid to late April on the maiden flight of the Long March-5B carrier rocket, a variant of the Long March-5, ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) March 25, 2020 
Robots are expected to demonstrate their value for "dirty and dangerous" medical tasks in the fight to quell the coronavirus pandemic, researchers said Wednesday.
An editorial in Science Robotics noted that robots can help with telemedicine, decontamination, handling of hazardous waste and monitoring compliance with voluntary quarantines.
"Historically, robots have been developed to take ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) March 27, 2020 
Virtually blind and penniless, Leung Ping-kuen usually spends his nights dozing in one of Hong Kong's many 24-hour McDonald's but now finds himself back on the streets because of the coronavirus.
The 37-year-old is one of the city's so-called "McRefugees", a small community of homeless and rough sleepers who use the fast food chain as a shelter.
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 Paris (AFP) March 22, 2020 
Air quality is improving in countries under coronavirus quarantines, experts say, but it is far too early to speak of long-term change.
Images by the US space agency NASA are clear, in February the concentration of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) fell dramatically in Wuhan, China, the epicentre of the COVID-19 pandemic, passing from an indicator that was red/orange to blue.
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 31, 2020 
A single desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria) can consume its body weight in vegetation in one day. That may not sound like much for one 2.5-gram locust, but when 40 million of them gather-considered a small swarm-they can devour as much food as 35,000 people. In one day, a small swarm can jeopardize a farmer's livelihood.
Since December 2019, croplands in Kenya have been inundated by the ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 31, 2020 
NASA's Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) will search for planets outside our solar system toward the center of our Milky Way galaxy, where most stars are. Studying the properties of exoplanet worlds will help us understand what planetary systems throughout the galaxy are like and how planets form and evolve.
Combining WFIRST's findings with results from NASA's Kepler and Transi ... more |
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 Brasilia, Brazil DC (AFP) Mar 31, 2020 
Facebook and Instagram removed videos of Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro on Monday, saying they spread misinformation about the coronavirus, a day after Twitter did the same.
"We remove content on Facebook and Instagram that violates our terms of use, which do not allow misinformation that could cause physical harm to individuals," Facebook said in a statement in Portuguese.
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 Lagos (AFP) March 30, 2020 
More than 20 million Nigerians on Monday scrambled to prepare for lockdown in sub-Saharan Africa's biggest city Lagos and the capital Abuja, as the continent struggled to curb the spread of coronavirus.
President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered a two-week "cessation of all movements" in the key cities from 2200 GMT to ward off an explosion of cases in Africa's most populous country.
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 27, 2020 
The construction of the Russian National Space Centre on the territory of the Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center in Moscow is set to be finished in 2023, according to the Roscosmos space corporation.
"We plan to finish the construction of the National Space Center in 2023," the corporation said in the materials published on its website.
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 United Nations, United States (AFP) March 26, 2020 
China and Iran led a group of countries in a joint push Thursday for the UN to pressure Washington to lift sanctions, which they charged are hindering the global fight against COVID-19.
"We urge you to request the complete and immediate lifting of such illegal, coercive and arbitrary measures of economic pressure (...) in order to ensure the full, effective and efficient response of all memb ... more |
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