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by Dessy Sagita Agence France-Presse JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — Indonesia summoned the British ambassador Friday after a cruise ship on a voyage organised by a London-based company smashed into coral reefs in a popular tourist spot and caused extensive damage. Raja Ampat in eastern Indonesia is one of the most biodiverse marine habitats on Earth, and attracts intrepid travellers and divers to its palm-fringed islands surrounded by coral and fish. The accident happened this month […]
(Reuters) — A team of Swedish researchers from the University of Agricultural Sciences and the Karolinska Institute has discovered a way to artificially create one of the strongest, most tensile natural substances known to man – spider silk. Stronger than steel, weight for weight, spider silk also possesses properties which make it ideal for a wide variety of medical uses, but previous attempts to use captive spiders or to make it artificially have not produced […]
(Eagle News) — The world-famous Keukenhof spring garden is known for its inspirational display of color and its horticultural precision.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AFP) — The first naturally fluorescent frog was discovered recently in Argentina — almost by chance, a member of the team of researchers told AFP Thursday. Argentine and Brazilian scientists at the Bernardino Rivadaiva Natural Sciences Museum made the discovery while studying the metabolic origin of pigments in a tree-frog species common to South America. Under normal light the frog’s translucent skin is a muted yellowish-brown color with red dots, but when […]
HERZLIYA, Israel (Reuters) — Orbiting the earth at more than 500 kilometers (300 miles) per hour, a tiny satellite with a laboratory shrunk to the size of a tissue box is helping scientists carry out experiments that take gravity out of the equation. It was launched into orbit last month by India’s national space agency. Dubbed DIDO, the mini-lab was constructed by Swiss-Israeli firm SpacePharma, a Swiss-Israeli company, which on Thursday (March 16) announced that […]
Today’s teens are digital natives— a generation of children that has grown up with video games, computers, touch-screen tablets, mobile phones and virtual reality. Even if their brains have adapted to this ultra-high-tech environment, they might still find it harder to resist impulsive behavior and to engage in free and independent thinking because of these digital devices. https://youtu.be/hgYbQJm9dSM
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — A common gene variant has been discovered in about one-third of the population that may explain why some people’s brains age faster than others, United States researchers said Wednesday. The gene, known as TMEM106B, accelerates normal brain aging in older people by up to 12 years, said the report in the journal Cell Systems. The gene generally starts to affect people around 65, particularly in the frontal cortex, which is responsible for higher […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — Australia’s Great Barrier Reef may never recover from last year’s warming-driven coral bleaching, said a study Wednesday that called for urgent action in the face of ineffective conservation efforts. Record-high temperatures in 2015 and 2016 drove an unprecedented bleaching episode, which occurs when stressed corals expel the algae that live in their tissue and provide them with food. Bleached coral is more susceptible to disease, and without sufficient time to recover […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — Law topped the list of fields that provide the highest salaries to fresh graduates, this based on an online platform for job seekers. Jobstreet Philippines country manager Philip Gioca said based on their survey conducted in the last quarter of 2016 until February 2017, fresh graduates or new hires in in the legal field get a monthly average of P27, 124. The survey was sent out to 644 respondents (employers and companies) who […]
by Kerry SHERIDAN Agence France Presse MIAMI, United States (AFP) — An unproven stem cell therapy that involves extracting a patient’s fat tissue and injecting it into the eyes has caused three United States women to go blind, a report said Wednesday. The women, aged between 72 and 88, were treated in Florida in 2015 for a progressive eye disease called macular degeneration, said the report in the New England Journal of Medicine. They thought they […]
PARIS, France (Reuters) — A rare Tintin drawing by Belgian cartoonist Herge from the ‘Tintin in America’ edition will soon be up for grabs at a Paris auction, and is estimated to fetch between 600,000 and 700,000 euros. Following an unexpected record sale of an original Tintin comic book drawing last November, which fetched 1.55 million euros, the Paris auction house Artcurial is set to hold a new auction of the rare drawing on April […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Almost six million Adelie penguins are living in East Antarctica, more than double the number previously thought, scientists said Wednesday in findings that have implications for conservation. Research by an Australian, French and Japanese team used aerial and ground surveys, tagging and resighting data and automated camera images over several breeding seasons, which allowed them to come up with the new figure. They focused on a 5,000 kilometre (3,100 mile) stretch of […]
