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WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States may soon expand its ban on air passengers carrying computers on board on US-bound flights, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said Wednesday. The threat of a terror group trying to blow up an aircraft mid-flight is constant, he told a Senate hearing on border security, suggesting that the current ban might not have gone far enough. “It’s real, I think it’s getting realer,” he said of the […]
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (Reuters) — Swedish scientists have discovered that the malaria parasite in infected humans sends out a signal to attract mosquitoes to feed from them and continue the cycle of infection. Together with their colleagues, Professor Ingrid Faye of the Department of Molecular Biosciences and Noushin Emami, post-doctoral researcher at the Wenner-Gren Institute at Stockholm University, discovered that the system helps the malaria parasite to spread and survive without killing the hosts. In a […]
by Richard Ingham PARIS, France (AFP) — The beast goes by the Latin monicker of Acanthaster planci, but it is known to us as the crown-of-thorns — a venomous starfish that is ravaging our precious coral reefs. One of many threats to coral, the large, spine-studded species is capable of chewing through kilometers (miles) of reefs when large numbers of it gather and spawn. In desperation, guardians of reefs in the Indian Ocean and Pacific […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — Filipino fans gathered at the Mall of Asia concert grounds last night (April 4) to sing their hearts out in the first-ever Philippine concert of the popular British rock band Coldplay. The concert was part of their “A Head Full of Dreams” Tour. Well-known TV personalities were also spotted sharing their excitement at the concert grounds as they waited for the Coldplay’s magical performance. Seen among the crowd were […]
LONDON, ENGLAND, United Kingdom (Reuters) — Scientists have found evidence of how ancient Britain separated from Europe in what they are dubbing “Brexit 1.0” – a flooding event that happened in two stages thousands of years ago. In research published in the journal Nature Communications on Tuesday (April 4), the scientists said they now have proof that the opening of the Dover Strait in the English Channel, severing the land between Britain and France, occurred […]
by Richard Ingham PARIS, France (AFP) — In a world bitterly divided into pro- and anti-Marmite factions, lovers of the tangy British spread have found support from an unexpected quarter: brain science. Experiments found that volunteers who ate a daily spoonful of the dark-brown yeast extract seemed to have higher levels of a vital neuron chemical associated with a healthy brain. The reason could lie in Marmite’s high levels of vitamin B12, the investigators say. […]
by Kerry Sheridan MIAMI, United States (AFP) — As we age, our brain shrinks, but a select group of elders known as “super-agers” lose less brain volume than regular seniors, which may help them stay sharp, researchers said Tuesday. The findings in the Journal of the American Medical Association show that super-agers, 80 and older, have a significantly thicker brain cortex than people who are aging normally. The cortex is the largest part of the […]
Reuters –National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientists gathered on Tuesday (April 4) to help usher in the final chapter of the spacecraft Cassini before it begins its “grand finale” on April 26 when it will descend to Saturn. The spacecraft, in orbit around Saturn since 2004, will make a series of dives through the 1,500-mile-wide (2,400-kilometer) gap between Saturn and its rings before crashing into the the solar system’s second largest planet. It will be the […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — Microscopic molecular vehicles piloted by chemists and physicists will line up in the world’s first nano-car race in France this month — but don’t expect to see anything with the naked eye. Teams from France, Germany, Japan, Switzerland, the United States and a joint Austrian-American group have qualified, but only four will get to compete on April 28-29, organisers of the race said Tuesday. Sponsored by France’s National Center for Scientific […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — The world’s most lethal scorpion, the death stalker, has been caught on high-speed camera for the first time lashing out with its lethal stinger, scientists reported Tuesday. A comparison of half-a-dozen scorpion species shown in ultra-slow motion revealed an unsuspected variety of strike modes, they reported in the journal Functional Ecology. The death stalker had the fastest lunge of all, with its venomous stinger snapping over its head like […]
Philippine tourist destinations were recently featured at Portugal’s biggest annual tourism fair. Portugal’s national and regional tourism boards, airline companies, hotels and resorts, tour operators, travel agencies, embassies and other members of the tourism industry joined the Bolsa De Turismo De Lisboa or BTL 2017 at the Feira Industrial De Lisboa located in Parque Das Naçoes. More than 75,000 visitors and 400 foreign tour operators from around 36 countries gathered for the event. This is […]
CHITWAN, Nepal (AFP) — Conservationists on Monday captured a rare one-horned rhinoceros in Nepal as part of an attempt to increase the number of the vulnerable animals, which are prized by wildlife poachers. Five rhinos — one male and four female — will be released into a national park in Nepal’s far west over the coming week in the hope of establishing a new breeding group. The first, a large male estimated to be around […]
