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January 29, 2018

Plague outbreak in Madagascar revived dread of a killer

Antananarivo (AFP) Jan 26, 2018
Most inhabitants of Madagascar thought the plague was a footnote of medical history until the disease dramatically returned last year, slaying more than 200 people. Fear and anxiety rippled across the Indian Ocean island nation. "People were afraid to come to hospital - they were afraid of catching the plague," recalled Professor Mamy Randria, head of the infectious diseases service at a hospital in the capital Antananarivo. Randria found himself on the front line of an urban war against t ... read more

Chinese officials staging 'takeover' of Tibetan Buddhist academy: HRW
Beijing (AFP) Jan 25, 2018
Chinese authorities are staging a "takeover" of the world's largest institution for Tibetan Buddhist learning, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Wednesday, the latest move to bring religion under strict Communist control. ... more

Global models offer new insights into Great Lakes mercury pollution
Washington (UPI) Jan 23, 2018
Members of the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community living on Michigan's Upper Peninsula have a fairly simple question: when is it safe to eat the fish they catch? ... more

First ICEYE-X1 Radar Image from Space Published
Helsinki, Finland (SPX) Jan 19, 2018
ICEYE has published the first radar image obtained with the ICEYE-X1 SAR satellite. The image depicts Noatak National Preserve, Alaska, on Monday Jan. 15, at 21:47 UTC. ICEYE-X1 is the world's first ... more

New hunt for flight MH370 gets under way
Kuala Lumpur (AFP) Jan 23, 2018
A new hunt for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 using high-tech underwater drones has started, officials said Tuesday, in the latest bid to solve one of the world's greatest aviation mysteries. ... more

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New Mumbai metro will beat traffic, but at what cost?
Mumbai (AFP) Jan 21, 2018
A new underground metro is expected to ease the burden on Mumbai's notoriously congested roads and railways, but not everybody in India's sprawling financial capital is happy about the multi-billion-dollar project. ... more

World Bank signs $300m loan for Nepal quake reconstruction
Kathmandu (AFP) Jan 21, 2018
The World Bank on Sunday approved a $300 million loan for Nepal as the impoverished nation struggles to raise money to rebuild almost three years after an earthquake killed thousands and flattened homes. ... more

India to buy guns worth $553 mn for border troops
New Delhi (AFP) Jan 16, 2018
India will buy more than 160,000 guns worth $553 million for troops on its disputed, high-altitude borders, the defence ministry said Tuesday. ... more

Israel says India to restart talks on missile sales
Jerusalem (AFP) Jan 17, 2018
India is to restart talks with Israel over a cancelled deal to buy anti-tank missiles, the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday. ... more

Bangladesh blacklists Chinese firm over alleged bribe
Dhaka (AFP) Jan 17, 2018
Bangladesh has blacklisted a top Chinese construction firm for allegedly trying to bribe a senior government official and stopped its work in the country. ... more

Renewables and cooling tech critical to water use in India's power sector
Abu Dhabi, UAE (SPX) Jan 17, 2018
A new policy brief co-authored by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and the World Resources Institute (WRI) finds that increasing the share of renewables, in particular solar photovo ... more

India likely to revive mega missile deal with Israel
New Delhi (AFP) Jan 12, 2018
The Indian army and the government are discussing ways to revive a $500 million order to buy Spike anti-tank guided missiles from Israel's state-owned defence contractor Rafael, military chief Bipin Rawat said Friday. ... more

India launches country's 100th satellite and 30 microsats

At least four dead in Indian chopper crash: navy
New Delhi (AFP) Jan 13, 2018
India's navy said four bodies had been recovered on Saturday after search teams located the wreckage of a helicopter that went missing earlier in the day. ... more

Champagne box-sized satellite launched to probe distant planet
Paris (AFP) Jan 12, 2018
France launched a champagne box-sized mini satellite into Earth orbit on Friday to study a mysterious, juvenile planet system in our Milky Way galaxy, mission controllers said. ... more

India vows to handle China's 'assertiveness'
New Delhi (AFP) Jan 12, 2018
India will handle China's growing assertiveness and has stepped up patrols on their disputed border to head off more standoffs, the country's top army officer declared Friday. ... more

India steps up China border patrols, vows to handle 'assertiveness'
New Delhi (AFP) Jan 12, 2018
India will handle China's growing assertiveness and has stepped up patrols on their disputed border to head off more standoffs, the country's top army officer declared Friday. ... more

Soil freeze-thaw stimulates nitrous oxide emissions from alpine meadows
Beijing, China (SPX) Jan 10, 2018
The rising concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere lead to global warming, which is a major challenge for the sustainable development of human society. The Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau with ... more

India to launch 31 satellites on January 12
Bengaluru, India (IANS) Jan 09, 2018
India will launch 31 satellites, including earth observation spacecraft Cartosat, on January 12 instead of its earlier tentative schedule on January 10, a space official said on Monday. "The r ... more

Funding runs dry for Indian Google X Prize lunar team
New Delhi (Sputnik) Jan 11, 2018
TeamIndus - India's first private aerospace startup that is contending for the Google XPrize, has failed to garner adequate financing for its moon mission. Its inability to pay $35 million to Antrix ... more

Former Chinese military chief of staff under investigation
Beijing (AFP) Jan 9, 2018
A former chief of staff of China's military is under investigation on "suspicion of bribery", state media said Tuesday, as Xi Jinping's sweeping anti-graft crackdown claimed another top general. ... more

India to court ASEAN leaders as it seeks edge over China
New Delhi (AFP) Jan 10, 2018
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will host 10 Southeast Asian leaders as guests of honour at India's Republic Day celebrations as New Delhi seeks to blunt China's influence in the region. ... more

Netanyahu set to lead trade task force to India

China shuts Marriott website over Tibet mistake
Shanghai (AFP) Jan 12, 2018
Authorities in China have shut down Marriott's local website for a week after the US hotel giant mistakenly listed Chinese-claimed regions such as Tibet and Hong Kong as separate countries. ... more

Cyclone Berguitta threatens Mauritius, Reunion
Port Louis, Mauritius (AFP) Jan 16, 2018
A cyclone in the southwest Indian Ocean was heading on Tuesday towards the holiday paradise of Mauritius and the French island of La Reunion, government officials and weather experts said. ... more

Alpine air at work? Delhi eyes novel ways to battle smog
New Delhi (AFP) Jan 9, 2018
Political apathy over the poisonous smog choking India's capital has led many like businessman Kamal Meattle to take matters into their own hands, with an office building he says pumps air as fresh as from the Swiss Alps. ... more

China puts Tibetan language advocate on trial for subversion
Beijing (AFP) Jan 4, 2018
A Tibetan who has waged a campaign to preserve his region's ancestral language was put on trial in China for inciting separatism Thursday in a case Amnesty International denounced as "ludicrously unjust". ... more

A new family of aerodynamic configurations of hypersonic airplanes
Beijing, China (SPX) Jan 29, 2018

Hypersonic vehicles, which flight at Mach numbers lager than five (flight velocity more than 6000 km/h), will serve as a more convenient and efficient transport tool than present subsonic airplanes for long-distance journeys in future. Typically, it only takes a couple of hours from Beijing to New York. Recent interest in these vehicles has grown intensively, and various types of innovative desi ... more

+ U.S. Air Force taps general to investigate ongoing oxygen incidents

+ Harper awarded $127.9M for F-35 hangar in San Diego

+ Challenges and research for an evolving aviation system

+ NASA Tests New Alloy to Fold Wings in Flight

+ New hunt for flight MH370 gets under way

+ Norway aims for all short-haul flights 100% electric by 2040

+ Bell-Boeing receives $35 million contract to upgrade V-22 Ospreys

Plug-in vehicles not yet straining U.S. grid
Washington (UPI) Jan 24, 2018

Plug-in electric vehicles aren't yet putting a strain on the national grid, but may require upgrades to infrastructure as demand increases, a U.S. report found. The U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory looked at how plug-in electrical vehicles impact the grid, particular as more owners charge their vehicles at home. "Previous research into the amount o ... more

+ NREL research determines integration of plug-in electric vehicles

+ Peugeot plans electric versions of all cars by 2025

+ California wants 5 million 'green' cars on roads by 2030

+ Tesla founder Musk will only be paid if firm meets goals

+ China considers tech center for alternative energy vehicles

+ Daimler struggling with European emissions standards

+ At Detroit auto show, future high tech is present

State utilities called to pass U.S. tax benefits to consumers
Washington (UPI) Jan 24, 2018

U.S. consumers should be the ones sharing in the corporate tax breaks for utility companies outlined in the federal code reform, state energy agencies said. President Donald Trump signed into law a sweeping overhaul of the federal tax code in late December, extending temporary relief to American taxpayers and permanent breaks for corporations, with oil, gas and utility companies sharing ... more

+ Magnetic liquids improve energy efficiency of buildings

+ US energy watchdog rejects plan to subsidize coal, nuclear sectors

+ U.S. utility regulator ponders grid reliability

+ U.S. blizzard to test gas, electric markets

+ 'Virtual gold' may glitter, but mining it can be really dirty

+ Science for a resilient EU power grid

+ Alaskan microgrids offer energy resilience and independence

20 percent more trees in megacities would mean cleaner air and water, lower carbon and energy use
New York NY (SPX) Jan 29, 2018

Planting 20 percent more trees in our megacities would double the benefits of urban forests, like pollution reduction, carbon sequestration and energy reduction, according to a study in Ecological Modelling. The authors of the study, which was carried out at Parthenope University of Naples in Italy, say city planners, residents and other stakeholders should start looking within cities for natura ... more

+ Coupling experiments to theory to build a better battery

+ Hazardous contamination found around lead battery recycling plants in 7 African countries

+ Graphene girders doubles life of lithium batteries

+ A new approach to rechargeable batteries

+ Siberian chemists have improved hydrogen sensors

+ Using electricity to switch magnetism

+ New, greener fuel cells move step closer to reality

Thorium reactors may dispose of enormous amounts of weapons-grade plutonium
Tomsk, Russia (SPX) Jan 23, 2018

Scientists from the School of Nuclear Science and Engineering of Tomsk Polytechnic University are developing a technology enabling the creation of high-temperature gas-cool low-power reactors with thorium fuel. TPU scientists propose to burn weapons-grade plutonium in these units, converting it into power and thermal energy. Thermal energy generated at thorium reactors may be used in hydro ... more

+ USA: Framatome to acquire Instrumentation and Control nuclear business of Schneider Electric

+ Framatome continues ramping up production at its Le Creusot site

+ Framatome nuclear fuel contract with CNNC

+ Framatome pursues the industrial and technological adventure of the nuclear energy business

+ Struggling Westinghouse Electric sold to Brookfield for $4.6 bn

+ Russia to build nuclear power plant in Sudan

+ Dominion Energy to buy troubled SCANA and shuttered nuclear projects

A new architecture for miniaturization of atomic clocks
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 25, 2018

A research group that includes Motoaki Hara, Senior Researcher at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT, President: Hideyuki Tokuda, Ph.D.), developed a simple miniaturized atomic clock system, which does not require a complicated frequency multiplication, as an outcome of a collaboration with Professor Takahito Ono of Tohoku University (President: Susumu Sato ... more

+ Black hole jets account for three highest-energy particles in the universe

+ First evidence of winds outside black holes throughout their mealtimes

+ DARPA Program Aims to Extend Lifetime of Quantum Systems

+ Scientists get better numbers on what happens when electrons get wet

+ Watchmakers hope to make Chinese market tick

+ Odd behavior of star reveals lonely black hole hiding in giant star cluster

+ A look into the fourth dimension

Trump trade crackdown gathering steam, China a target
Washington (AFP) Jan 23, 2018

President Donald Trump begins 2018 making good on his aggressive "America First" trade agenda, with China as a primary target. As he prepares to mingle this week with global leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, a traditional cheerleader of free trade, Trump has again ruffled feathers from Beijing to Berlin after imposing steep tariffs on imported washing machines and so ... more

+ US 'erred' in supporting WTO membership for China, Russia: USTR

+ Trump angers China, South Korea with new trade tariffs

+ China economy rebounds in 2017 with 6.9% growth

+ China economy beat expectations in 2017: AFP survey

+ Juncker says would like Britain to rejoin EU after Brexit

+ Bangladesh blacklists Chinese firm over alleged bribe

+ Trump tells Xi US trade deficit with China 'not sustainable': W.House

'Warthogs' to join air campaign in Afghanistan this month
Washington (UPI) Jan 23, 2018

A squadron of Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II "Warthogs" has joined the fight against the Taliban and Islamic State militants in Afghanistan for targeting of revenue sources and counter-terrorism operations, the Air Force announced on Tuesday. The U.S. Air Forces Central Command said the ground attack aircraft arrived in the region on Jan. 19 to provide additional options for gro ... more

+ Turkey strikes Kurdish militants in Iraq 'planning attack'

+ Afrin urges Syria to intervene to stop Turkish planes overhead

+ Erdogan vows no let-up in Syria campaign as US tensions rise

+ Haqqani militant killed by drone strike in Pakistan: officials

+ Report: Pentagon skirted U.S. law on human rights abuses in Afghanistan

+ Pentagon funded Afghan units accused of rights abuses: report

+ Terrified children, empty streets in Syria's Afrin as Turkey attacks

Temp targets will be missed within decades unless emissions reversed
Southampton UK (SPX) Jan 25, 2018

New projections by researchers from the Universities of Southampton and Liverpool, and the Australian National University in Canberra, could be the catalyst the world has sought to determine how best to meet its obligations to reduce carbon emissions and better manage global warming as defined by the Paris Agreement. In their latest paper, published in the February issue of Nature Geoscien ... more

+ Cape Town now faces dry taps by April 12

+ Dimming the Sun to cool Earth could ravage wildlife: study

+ Long-Term Warming Trend Continued in 2017: NASA, NOAA

+ Future climate change revealed by current climate variations

+ Release of ancient methane due to changing climate kept in check by ocean waters

+ Pentagon strategy drops climate change as a security threat

+ Worst-case global warming scenarios not credible: study

CIA: North Korea intent on building reliable nuclear arsenal
Washington (AFP) Jan 23, 2018

CIA Director Mike Pompeo said Tuesday that North Korea is intent on developing a reliable arsenal of nuclear weapons to threaten America, not just "a showpiece" to preserve Kim Jong-Un's regime. "Kim Jong-Un will not rest with a single successful test," Pompeo said in a speech at the American Enterprise Institute. "The logical next step would be to develop an arsenal of weapons that is n ... more

+ S. Korea urges North to talk before military drills restart

+ US will 'never allow' Iran to have a nuclear weapon: Pence

+ Defector soldier 'committed murder in North': report

+ UN Security Council to inspect 'Iranian-made' missile debris

+ New tactical nukes in US arsenal raise risks, experts warn

+ China's doorway to N. Korea feels sanctions pinch

+ Nuclear N.Korea 'immediate challenge' of our time: Kissinger

Chinese officials staging 'takeover' of Tibetan Buddhist academy: HRW
Beijing (AFP) Jan 25, 2018

Chinese authorities are staging a "takeover" of the world's largest institution for Tibetan Buddhist learning, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Wednesday, the latest move to bring religion under strict Communist control. The monastic encampment of Larung Gar was once home to more than 10,000 devotees, their self-built red wooden homes sprawled across a valley in a remote corner of the southwest ... more

+ EU envoy urges China to release Swedish book publisher

+ Leading Hong Kong democracy activist banned from vote

+ China's #MeToo movement emerges, testing censors' limits

+ Anger over second 'snatching' of bookseller in China

+ Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong released on bail

+ China to enshrine Xi's name in state constitution

Suicide bomber kills four Malian soldiers
Bamako (AFP) Jan 28, 2018

A suicide bomber killed four Malian soldiers on Sunday, the army said, in the second deadly attack this weekend in the country's troubled north. Mali's deteriorating security situation is of growing concern as Al-Qaeda-linked groups mount increasingly ferocious attacks on domestic and foreign forces. "A terrorist suicide bomber was destroyed this morning, Sunday, January 28, 2018, in Men ... more

+ Two customs officers killed in Mali 'jihadist' attack

+ Somali forces kill boys in anti-Shabaab operation: US

+ US calls for South Sudan arms embargo after failed truce

+ S.Africa in 'new era', likely next president tells Davos

+ Seven Niger troops killed in Boko Haram attack

+ Search on for kidnapped Americans and Canadians in Nigeria

+ Sahel defence ministers in Paris in push for 'G5' force

Australia taps Elbit Systems for Blue Force Tracker
Washington (UPI) Jan 25, 2018

Australia has awarded a contract to Elbit Systems for services in support of the Battle Management System Command and Control, or BMS C2 system. The deal, announced Thursday by Elbit Systems, is valued at $150 million under the terms of a five-year base period, with built-in options to extend the contract up to seven years if exercised. The BMS C2, or what is known in the U.S. mi ... more

+ New BAE bridging system tested with weight of Main Battle Tank

+ NIOA awarded $100M for 155mm Howitzer ammo for Australian army

+ Navy contracts with BAE Systems for four more Mk 45 guns

+ Parachute training suspended after Marine killed in Arizona accident

+ Dyncorp to provide aviation field services to U.S. Army in Germany, Iraq, Afghanistan

+ Army researchers make explosive discovery

+ India to buy guns worth $553 mn for border troops

Navy's newest Littoral Combat Ship stuck in Canada
Washington (UPI) Jan 22, 2018

The $440-million-dollar USS Little Rock, the Navy's newest Freedom-variant littoral combat ship, has been iced-in since Christmas Eve on the St. Lawrence Seaway in Canada - and is not expected to get moving until spring. The USS Little Rock was commissioned in Buffalo, N.Y., on Dec. 16., with plans to travel to its home port at Mayport Naval Station in Florida the next day. The departu ... more

+ China invited to take part in major US-led naval exercise

+ British Royal Navy accepts first River Class offshore patrol vessel from BAE

+ U.S. aircraft carrier set to visit Vietnam for first time since Vietnam War

+ Leonardo delivers upgraded ship to Royal Bahrain Navy

+ Navy cruiser USS Cape St. George to get $35M in upgrades

+ UNIST provides new insights into underwater adhesives

+ General Dynamics awarded $33M contract for USS Nimitz upgrade

Microbes may help astronauts transform human waste into food
University Park PA (SPX) Jan 29, 2018

Human waste may one day be a valuable resource for astronauts on deep-space missions. Now, a Penn State research team has shown that it is possible to rapidly break down solid and liquid waste to grow food with a series of microbial reactors, while simultaneously minimizing pathogen growth. "We envisioned and tested the concept of simultaneously treating astronauts' waste with microbes whi ... more

+ Two US spacewalkers replace latching end of robotic arm

+ Space, the final frontier -- for nightclubs

+ Orion Spacecraft Recovery Rehearsal Underway

+ Italy's First Female Astronaut: 'No Room for Conflicts in Space'

+ Looking up a century ago, a vision of the future of space exploration

+ Explorer 1: The Beginning of American Space Science

+ S. Korea's Chinese tourist slump endures despite pledges

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