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UB women's basketball wins MAC title, earns NCAA berth Buffalo News The University at Buffalo women's basketball team collected the MAC Tournament championship trophy on Saturday in Cleveland

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (UPDATED) – New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said her office received a "manifesto" from the gunman suspected of killing 50 people in two Christchurch mosques minutes before Friday's attack.

Womens basketball: Longest active NCAA tournament streaks NCAA.com Here are longest active appearance streaks in the NCAA women's basketball tournament, featuring Tennessee, Stanford, UConn, Notr

Beijing (AFP) March 15, 2019
China will not let the the world's second-largest economy "slip out of a reasonable range", Premier Li Keqiang said Friday, as he pledged support in the face of "new downward pressure". Leaders are ready to cut interest rate cuts and further open up the vast economy, he said, after data showed industrial output softened during the first two months of the year to a multi-year low while the c

Shenzhen, China (SPX) Mar 15, 2019
RoboSense, a leader in LiDAR perception technology solutions and CES 2019 Innovation Award Honoree, has provided cold-resistant all-weather LiDAR for the world's first autonomous driving shuttle bus for all weather conditions - GACHA. GACHA is equipped with RoboSense's advanced cold-resistant 16-beam mechanical LiDAR environment perception system to operate vehicles in harsh winter and other sev

Berlin (AFP) March 15, 2019
Lawmakers in Germany moved Friday to make bans on older diesel vehicles in city centres less likely, angering environmentalists by backing off strict EU-wide pollution thresholds. The upper house confirmed a Bundestag (lower house) vote to henceforth deem "disproportionate" driving bans in cities that only slightly exceed air pollution limits. In practice it will give cities above the Eu

San Francisco (AFP) March 15, 2019
In San Francisco, far from the picturesque, winding streets in the hills, a glistening skyscraper represents how the country's tech titans have transformed the city - and made it one of the world's most expensive places to live. The figures are mind-boggling: average monthly rent for a two-room apartment in the city by the bay now runs to $3,700, the highest in the United States. And

Hawthorne, United States (AFP) March 15, 2019
Tesla introduced a new electric sports utility vehicle slightly bigger and more expensive than its Model 3, pitched as an electric car for the masses. Tesla chief executive Elon Musk showed off the "Model Y" late Thursday at the company's design studio in the southern California city of Hawthorne, and the company began taking orders online. The all-electric Model Y has a starting price o

Mumbai (AFP) March 15, 2019
A group of more than 100 experts sounded a pre-election alarm Friday over Indian economic data, accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government of tweaking or burying unwelcoming numbers. Modi is vulnerable over his economic record in the polls starting on April 11, in particular a failure to meet promises to create enough jobs for the million Indians entering the labour market each month

San Francisco (AFP) March 15, 2019
US smartphone chip titan Qualcomm said Friday it won a $31 million verdict in its multifront war with Apple over patented technology used in iPhones. A jury in a federal court in Southern California ordered that Apple pay Qualcomm for patent infringement for chips used on iPhone 7, 8 and X models. The damages were tabulated from July 6, 2017 through the end of the trial, according to a Q

Raleigh NC (SPX) Mar 15, 2019
North Carolina State University researchers have developed a microfluidic system for synthesizing perovskite quantum dots across the entire spectrum of visible light. The system drastically reduces manufacturing costs, can be tuned on demand to any color and allows for real-time process monitoring to ensure quality control. Over the last two decades, colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals, k

Boston MA (SPX) Mar 15, 2019
A new way of measuring atomic-scale magnetic fields with great precision, not only up and down but sideways as well, has been developed by researchers at MIT. The new tool could be useful in applications as diverse as mapping the electrical impulses inside a firing neuron, characterizing new magnetic materials, and probing exotic quantum physical phenomena. The new approach is described in

Munster, Germany (SPX) Mar 15, 2019
One of the greatest global challenges is the efficient use of renewable sources in order to meet the increasing demand for energy and feedstock chemicals in the future. In this context, biomass is a promising alternative to existing fossil sources such as coal or oil. Cellulose plays a decisive role here because it accounts for the largest fraction of the natural carbon storage. These rese

Bukit Lawiang, Malaysia (AFP) March 15, 2019
Test tubes holding plants line shelves in a Malaysian laboratory, the heart of a breeding programme for dwarf palm oil trees which scientists hope will cut costs and limit the environmental damage caused by the controversial industry. Palm oil has become a key ingredient in everyday goods from biofuels to chocolate, leading to a production boom in the world's top two growers, Indonesia and M

Mona, West Indies (SPX) Mar 15, 2019
After hurricanes Irma and Maria tore through the Caribbean in 2017, devastating dozens of islands - including billionaire Richard Branson's private isle, Necker Island - Branson called for a "Caribbean Marshall Plan." He wanted world powers and global financial institutions to unite to protect the Caribbean against the effects of climate change. That hasn't happened. So Branson and h

Austin TX (SPX) Mar 15, 2019
Access to clean water remains one of the biggest challenges facing humankind. A breakthrough by engineers at The University of Texas at Austin may offer a new solution through solar-powered technology that absorbs moisture from the air and returns it as clean, usable water. The breakthrough, described in a recent issue of the journal Advanced Materials, could be used in disaster situations

Idaho Falls ID (SPX) Mar 15, 2019
Researchers have examined a method to extract rare-earth elements from mining waste that could provide the world with a reliable supply of the valuable materials. The research, led by Idaho National Laboratory and Rutgers University with support from the Critical Materials Institute, is online and in an upcoming issue of the Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics. Rare-earth elements (RE

New Glarus wins first boys basketball state title Channel3000.com - WISC-TV3 Fourth-seeded New Glarus (26-2) won the Division 4 championship with a 67-62 victory over Lourdes Academy in the 2019 Stat

Purdue basketball's young bench took first postseason steps in loss to Minnesota Journal & Courier The Boilermakers sprinkled pivotal bench performances throughout their Big Ten championship run.

Atlanta GA (SPX) Mar 11, 2019
An ultra-low power hybrid chip inspired by the brain could help give palm-sized robots the ability to collaborate and learn from their experiences. Combined with new generations of low-power motors and sensors, the new application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) - which operates on milliwatts of power - could help intelligent swarm robots operate for hours instead of minutes. To conserv

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 14, 2019
Researchers have spotted the formation sites of planets around a young star resembling our Sun. Two rings of dust around the star, at distances comparable to the asteroid belt and the orbit of Neptune in our solar system, suggest that we are witnessing the formation of a planetary system similar to our own. The solar system is thought to have formed from a cloud of cosmic gas and dust 4.6

Jerusalem (SPX) Mar 14, 2019
Under the direction of Mobileye founder Amnon Shashua, a research group at Hebrew University of Jerusalem's School of Engineering and Computer Science has proven that artificial intelligence (AI) can help us understand the world on an infinitesimally small scale called quantum physics phenomena. Quantum physics phenomena is one of the hottest topics in contemporary physics. It looks at how

Moscow, Russia (SPX) Mar 14, 2019
Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology teamed up with colleagues from the U.S. and Switzerland and returned the state of a quantum computer a fraction of a second into the past. They also calculated the probability that an electron in empty interstellar space will spontaneously travel back into its recent past. The study comes out March 13 in Scientific Reports. "T

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 14, 2019
A team of astronomers has discovered 83 quasars powered by supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in the early universe. This increases the number of black holes known at that epoch considerably, and reveals, for the first time, how common SMBHs were early in the universe's history. Supermassive black holes are found at the centers of galaxies, and have masses millions or even billions of times

Washington (UPI) Mar 13, 2019
Scientists have uncovered new evidence that a cosmic impact sparked wildfires and triggered a period of global climate change at the end of the Pleistocene epoch some 13,000 years ago. Previously, researchers had only found evidence of the period of climatic change known as the Younger Dryas, or YDB, in the Northern Hemisphere. New findings, however, suggest the Southern Hemisphere also