News tagged with south america

German scientists launch quest to remote Tristan da Cunha

A team of German scientists on Tuesday launched an expedition to the remote British archipelago of Tristan da Cunha, in a bid to uncover secrets linked to the ancient supercontinent Gondwana.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

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Brazil proposes South American broadband network

Brazil on Tuesday proposed the creation of a fiber optic broadband connection network linking all South American countries to bring down the cost of Internet and cellular phone access.

Technology / Telecom

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Brussels greenlights natural Latin American sweetener

Brussels gave its green light Monday to the use of the age-old natural South American sweetener, stevia, in foods and drinks across the European Union.

Medicine & Health / Other

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iPhone 4S making frenzied debut in 15 new markets

Apple's new iPhone 4S made glitzy and chaotic debuts in three new Asian markets on Friday, with customers and profiteers queuing for up to a week to get their hands on the popular gadget.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

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'Sabre-toothed squirrel': First known mammalian skull from Late Cretaceous discovered in South America

Paleontologist Guillermo Rougier, Ph.D., professor of anatomical sciences and neurobiology at the University of Louisville, and his team have reported their discovery of two skulls from the first known mammal ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

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Latest BlackBerry woes caused by email backlog

Three days of BlackBerry outages that spread to North America on Wednesday are being caused by a backlog of emails from Europe, the system's under-pressure owners said.

Technology / Telecom

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Oldest fossil rodents in South America confirms animals from Africa

In a literal walk through time along the Ucayali River near Contamana, Peru, a team of researchers found rodent fossils at least 41 million years old – by far the oldest on the South American continent.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

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New view of Vesta mountain from Dawn mission

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows a mountain three times as high as Mt. Everest, amidst the topography in the south polar region of the giant asteroid Vesta.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

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NASA: Satellite fell in south Pacific, not Canada

That dead NASA satellite fell into what might be the ideal spot - part of the south Pacific Ocean about as far from large land masses as you can get, U.S. space officials said Tuesday.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Young people having more unprotected sex: study

The number of young people having unprotected sex in the West has risen sharply over the past two years, a survey said Monday, with health professionals concerned the safe sex message is falling on deaf ears.

Medicine & Health / Health

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What's so unique about the tropics? 'Less than we thought'

(PhysOrg.com) -- The temperate forests of Canada or Northern Europe may have much more in common with the tropical rainforests of Southeast Asia or South America than commonly believed, according to a research ...

Biology / Ecology

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Mysterious fossils provide new clues to insect evolution

German scientists at the Stuttgart Natural History Museum were leading in the discovery of a new insect order from the Lower Cretaceous of South America. The spectacular fossils were named Coxoplectoptera by the ...

Biology / Evolution

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Stanford climate scientists forecast permanently hotter summers

The tropics and much of the Northern Hemisphere are likely to experience an irreversible rise in summer temperatures within the next 20 to 60 years if atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations continue to increase, according ...

Space & Earth / Environment

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Study traces global red imported fire ant invasions to Southern US

Red imported fire ant invasions around the globe in recent years can now be traced to the southern U.S., where the nuisance insect gained a foothold in the 1930s, new University of Florida research has found.

Biology / Plants & Animals

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Cute! White lioness bears 3 cubs in Argentina

(AP) -- Zookeepers in Buenos Aires showed off triplets Wednesday - three white cubs born to a pair of white lions imported from South Africa.

Biology / Plants & Animals

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