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by Mariëtte Le Roux Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — People who wolf down their food could lose weight simply by chewing longer and pausing between bites, study results suggested Tuesday. Research involving nearly 60,000 Japanese people showed a link between eating slower or faster, and losing or gaining weight. “Changes in eating speed can affect changes in obesity, BMI and waist circumference,” a research duo from Japan’s Kyushu University wrote in the journal […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Sea level rise is accelerating and could reach 26 inches (66 centimeters) by century’s end, in line with United Nations estimates and enough to cause significant problems for coastal cities, a study said Monday. The past annual rate of sea level rise — about three millimeters (0.1 inches) per year — may more than triple to 10 millimeters per year by 2100, said the report in the Proceedings of the National Academy […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Could the International Space Station become a commercial venture run by private industry? That is the wish of the White House, which hopes to end funding for the costly program within a few years, The Washington Post reported Sunday. The US plan, the paper said, involves privatizing the ISS, a low-orbit space station piloted by the US space agency NASA and developed jointly with its Russian counterpart. The station has […]
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AFP) — Gulf metropolis Dubai, on its never-ending quest to break records, announced the opening of the “world’s new tallest hotel” Sunday, pipping another towering landmark in the city for the title. The gleaming gold 75-storey Gevora Hotel stands 356 meters, or nearly a quarter of a mile, tall. The new record-holder is within view of its predecessor, Dubai’s JW Mariott Marquis — just one meter shorter. The Gevora’s first guests […]
by Louis Genot © Agence France-Presse Rio de Janeiro, Brazil AFP Fears of spreading yellow fever are behind the illegal killing of scores of monkeys in Rio de Janeiro, complicating efforts to fight the virus, authorities say. Locals, mistakenly believing that the animals can spread yellow fever to humans, are blamed for the surge in killings. Just this year, 238 monkeys have been found dead in Rio state, compared to 602 in all of 2017, said the city […]
GANGNEUNG, South Korea (AFP) — Billionaire Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma foresees an Olympics that is better for fans and athletes and is more economical — and hopes Beijing 2022 will be the pinnacle of that vision. Ma’s e-commerce giant in January launched a multimillion-dollar partnership until 2028 with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) designed to propel the Olympics headlong into the digital era. The deal was particularly significant with the 2022 Winter Olympics taking place on Alibaba’s […]
By Caesar Vallejos Eagle News Service “It’s amazing,” Joseph Gatti, the former principal dancer with Cincinnati Ballet and Corella Ballet said about working with Filipino artists. Gatti was featured as the international guest artist who played the role of Basilio in Ballet Philippines’ (BP) staging of Don Quixote at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP). It runs from February 9-18, 2018. “This is one of the best companies I have guested for. Their encouragement […]
by Victoria Loguinova-Yakovleva Agence France Presse MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Weary of local officials dismissing the deadly smog that covers their city, citizens of Siberia’s industrial hub Krasnoyarsk decided to take action and monitor air quality themselves. But they quickly came up against those same authorities in the remote region 4,200 kilometers (2,600 miles) east of Moscow. Krasnoyarsk boasts dozens of factories as well as one of the world’s biggest aluminium plants. The natural resources […]
by Abhaya Srivastava Agence France-Presse NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — Electric cars bask in the limelight at India’s flagship auto show, where an ambitious plan to phase out polluting clunkers has manufacturers racing to lure millions of new drivers to their green vehicles. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government wants all new cars on India’s roads to be electric by 2030 to combat smog that routinely eclipses dangerous levels in the nation of 1.25 billion. Some […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — Virtual reality-based therapy combined with standard treatment reduced paranoia and anxiety in people with psychotic disorders, scientists reported Friday. In clinical trials involving 116 patients in the Netherlands, virtual reality exercises led to less fraught social interactions, a team wrote in The Lancet Psychiatry. More research is needed to confirm the long-term benefits of such technology, which gave the impression of being in an alternate reality populated by life-like avatars. Up […]
by Mariëtte Le Roux Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — Praying mantises sporting tiny 3-D glasses that were held in place with beeswax have revealed a new kind of “stereo” vision that may help improve robot sight, researchers said Thursday. With two teardrop-shaped, light-filtering lenses perched on their heads, the insects lashed out in lab experiments at images of tempting prey in a special 3-D film, a team of scientists said. Scientists then observed […]
