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Pair win Nobel for unlocking mystery of sensing temperature, touch
AFP, Published on 04/10/2021
» STOCKHOLM - US scientists David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian on Monday won the Nobel Medicine Prize for discoveries on receptors for temperature and touch.
Biden to announce 'good news' on $100 billion UN climate fund
AFP, Published on 21/09/2021
» UNITED NATIONS (UNITED STATES) - US President Joe Biden is expected to announce "good news" on addressing a shortfall in a $100 billion global climate fund, a UN official said Monday following a closed-door meeting between countries on the sidelines of the general assembly.
World on 'catastrophic' path to 2.7C warming: UN chief
AFP, Published on 17/09/2021
» PARIS: A failure to slash global emissions is setting the world on a "catastrophic" path to 2.7 degrees Celsius heating, UN chief Antonio Guterres warned Friday just weeks before crunch climate talks.
Fraser-Pryce stuns Thompson-Herah with third fastest ever 100m
AFP, Published on 27/08/2021
» LAUSANNE: Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce avenged her Olympic Games defeat to Jamaican compatriot Elaine Thompson-Herah by winning the 100m at the Lausanne Diamond League meeting on Thursday in the third fastest ever time.
Covid recovery to drive all-time emissions high: IEA
AFP, Published on 20/07/2021
» PARIS: Carbon emissions are set to hit an all-time high by 2023 as just 2% of pandemic recovery finance is being spent on clean energy, the International Energy Agency said on Tuesday.
Scientists learn how otters stay hotter
AFP, Published on 09/07/2021
» WASHINGTON - Sea otters are a hardy lot.
82-year-old US pilot to fulfill spaceflight dream
AFP, Published on 02/07/2021
» WASHINGTON: Sixty years after joining a private program with the hope of one day becoming an astronaut, US pilot Wally Funk will finally see her dream come true at age 82.
The golden ear-a of audio
AFP, Published on 19/03/2021
» PARIS - Audio stimulates our brains more powerfully than video, and slots neatly into our new patterns of voracious cultural consumption -- making this a revolutionary time for aural entertainment.
Next-level lockdown: Six weeks underground in French cave
AFP, Published on 18/03/2021
» TARASCON-SUR-ARIèGE (FRANCE) - A year after France entered uncharted territory with its first coronavirus lockdown, a small group of volunteers has embarked on a more extreme confinement: nearly six weeks underground, with no notion of time, to study the effects of acute isolation.
A year in Wuhan: AFP's Guardian agency photographer of 2020
AFP, Published on 17/12/2020
» WUHAN (CHINA) - AFP's Chilean photographer Hector Retamal, based in Shanghai, has been named news agency photographer of the year by The Guardian for work including his reporting on the ordeal of people in Wuhan, the city where the Covid-19 pandemic started.