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A protein in mosquito spit can keep Dengue virus in check  
Mosquito saliva influences transmission of viruses to a bitten mammalian host. For example, it contains factors that dampen the host immune response and so facilitate infection. A study reports on a saliva protein with the opposite effect: D7, a protein present in Aedes aegypti saliva, binds to Dengue virus (DENV) and inhibits its transmission to human cells and mice. Antibodies against D7, which are present in humans exposed to mosquito bites, might therefore facilitate virus transmission and enhance disease severity.  
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Gemma nascosta / Hidden gem (Tower Bridge, London, United Kingdom)  

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Regno Unito, Londra, Tower Bridge, Estate 2016

Il Tower Bridge, il ponte simbolo di Londra fu costruito in stile gotico vittoriano nel 1886 su di un progetto di Horace Jones e Wolfe Barry, e fu terminato nel 1894.
Tower Bridge è costituito da due parti mobili che, in meno di un minuto, si sollevano completamente durante il passaggio di grandi navi grazie a un sistema elettronico che nel 1976 ha sostituito il vecchio impianto idraulico.
Un tempo le parti mobili si aprivano fino a 5 volte al giorno, ma oggi non vengono quasi più aperte perché le navi ormai attraccano in tutt'altra zona, più a valle, e non hanno più necessità di passare dal ponte per raggiungere le banchine.
Sul Tower Bridge sorgono le due famose torri, alte 25 m, che lo caratterizzano su foto e cartoline, e al loro interno ospitano alcune mostre e un museo: The Tower Bridge Exhibition che, attraverso percorsi interattivi, espone gli ingranaggi idraulici che hanno sollevato il ponte fino al 1976.

The Tower Bridge, symbol of London, was built in Gothic Victorian style in 1886 on a project of Wolfe Barry and Horace Jones, and was completed in 1894.
Tower Bridge is composed of two moving parts. During the passage of large ships, in less than a minute, these parts are raised completely with an electronic system that in 1976 replaced the old hydraulic system.
Once the moving parts were opened up to 5 times a day, but today are hardly opened because the ships dock is in a completely different area, further downstream
Two famous towers, 25 m tall, stand on the Tower Bridge. These towers characterize the bridge in photos and postcards and inside host some exhibits and a museum: The Tower Bridge Exhibition.

 
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Today's Youth; tomorrow's force for change  
Philosophers have always had it in for young people. Socrates complained that the young "contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up the dainties at the table, cross their legs and tyrannize over their teachers." Back in 1274, Peter the Hermit lamented that the "young people of today think of nothing but themselves." More recent intellectuals have also aimed their wit at young people: the Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw is supposed to have said that "youth is wasted on the young."

When I read these quotes it makes me wonder whether any of these enlightened men ever spent much time with young people. I wonder if they ever came into contact with the passion of youth, with its boundless hope, its selflessness and its enthusiasm.

Or perhaps the world these philosophers wrote about is simply different to ours. Mass education and better nutrition mean the current generation of young people are the smartest the world has ever seen. Average scores on intelligence tests have been rising for decades.
I can attest to this: the young people I am lucky enough to meet during the course of my work as an environmentalist and humanitarian, and ambassador for UN Environment, speak eloquently about the many challenges our world faces. In a world struggling to grapple with some of the biggest crises of any age, this should give us all cause for hope.

Yet there is still much to be done. In response to Bernard Shaw's comment about young people, some answer that "wisdom is wasted on the old." It is easy to find evidence for this: adults have overseen the rise of a number of trends that threaten our way of life - climate change, air pollution, inequality, the rapid extinction of species and the loss of biodiversity, to name just a few. This has happened on our watch, with adults at the helm.

Thankfully, there are men and women among us who are wise enough to understand the dangers that these and other threats pose. They have worked tirelessly to come up with a global call to action that seeks to tackle these threats.

Known as the Sustainable Development Goals, the objectives laid out in this rallying call for a better future, if met, will roll back the damage done to our planet, our health and our societies.

So it is essential that we pass on the collective wisdom of this plan to our children now for, as they mature and we hand them the baton, they will be the ones responsible for overseeing the success of this monumental task. The sooner they are empowered, the sooner we can start to heal our planet.

As things stand, we will leave our children with a host of environmental problems to clean up. Growing amounts of litter swill around our oceans, entangling and often killing marine animals or making it impossible for them to reproduce. Worryingly, about 20 per cent of coral reefs have been destroyed while a further quarter are at risk of imminent collapse from overfishing and other human activities.

On land, we are destroying forests in ever more inventive ways. These forests provide us with the air we breathe, the water we drink and much of the food we eat. Protecting these forests can help the 1.6 billion people who depend on them for their livelihoods to adapt to climate change. These are vital resources that are quietly vanishing.
To make matters worse, of the 8,300 known wildlife species, eight per cent are already extinct and a further 22 per cent are at risk of extinction. The blame for much of this lies firmly at the feet of humanity: we are degrading the forests where these animals live, we are polluting our oceans and destroying the coral reefs where they thrive, and we are failing to stop the illegal trafficking and killing of wildlife.

The Sustainable Development Goals seek to reverse this damage. They call for urgent action to end the poaching and trafficking of wildlife in all its forms. Elephants and rhinos have become the sad symbols of the slaughter visited on animals by profit-chasing humans, but there are hundreds of other species - helmeted hornbills, sea turtles, tigers, great apes and my favorite the pangolin - that are threatened with extinction as a result of human greed and uninformed consumption.

Young people can play a major role in ending this senseless killing. Armed with both passion and knowledge about the wider repercussions of the illegal trade in wildlife - the devastation it reaps on local economies, the savage loss of the very ecosystems humanity relies on to thrive -, young people can demand change. They can urge governments to crack down on the illegal trade, they can push for greater enforcement of the ban on illegal wildlife products, they can demand protection for vital habitats and ecosystems, they can change the traditional belief systems that lie at the heart of some of the most egregious killing. Once empowered with knowledge, this generation will have the best shot yet at reversing some of the most worrying environmental trends.

That is why I believe in the power of young people to make the changes we need to see in the world. Given the necessary tools, they are our great big hope at fighting back against so many of today's ills. If they are to succeed, it is vital that they understand what the Sustainable Development Goals stand for and that they learn how to use these goals to bring about the change the world so desperately needs.

That's why I will host a Lesson Plan as part of the World's Largest Lesson - an astonishing global effort to educate the world's youth about the goals set out in the 2030 Agenda. I will lend my voice to help teachers inform them about Life Under Water (Goal 14) and Life on Land (Goal 15): why ecosystems matter, why biodiversity matters, what happens when we unsustainably use and illegally kill our wildlife.

I hope that through the course of these lessons, which last year reached millions of schools across 160 countries, we can foster their inherent love of the only planet we have and ensure that they never let go of this love as they leave their studies behind.

This world is an awesome place but it needs fresh eyes to defend it. These defenders already walk among us: they are the youth of today; tomorrow's force for change.


This post is part of a series produced by The Huffington Post to mark the occasion of the one-year anniversary of the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs, or, officially, "Transforming Our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development"). The SDGs represent an historic agreement -- a wide-ranging roadmap to sustainability covering 17 goals and 169 targets -- but stakeholders must also be held accountable for their commitments. To see all the posts in the series, visit here.

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Yes, computing genetic ancestors is super accurate  

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Remnants of extinct monkeys are hiding inside you, along with those of lizards, jellyfish and other animals. Your DNA is built upon gene fragments from primal ancestors. Now National Science Foundation-funded researchers have made it more likely that ancestral genes, along with ancestral proteins, can be confidently identified and reconstructed. They have benchmarked a vital tool that would seem nearly impossible to benchmark. The newly won confidence in the tool could also help scientists use ancient gene sequences to synthesize better proteins to battle diseases.

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Eerie fog on runway  

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A McChord Air Force Base crewmember poses in front of a U.S. Air Force Base C-17A Globemaster jet out of McChord AFB, Washington, parked during sunrise at Pegasus Runway, McMurdo Station, Ross Island, Antarctica. McMurdo is one of three U.S. research stations on Antarctica. The National Science Foundation operates them all. In addition to maintaining three U.S. research stations on the continent, the National Science Foundation's U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP) supports research projects in an array of scientific disciplines, including for example, aeronomy and astrophysics, biology and medicine, geology and geophysics, glaciology, and ocean and climate systems. Outreach such as the Antarctic Artists and Writers program and education programs are also supported. For more information about USAP, visit the program's website here.

Image credit: Major Steve Mortensen/McChord AFB, National Science Foundation

 
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Plant diversity alleviates the effects of flooding on crops  
In grasslands, growing plants in higher diversity fields may help alleviate the negative impacts of flooding. This finding may extend to how we grow important food crops. In a long-term biodiversity experiment in central Germany, researchers found that single plant species (monocultures) were less able to cope with flooding compared with species grown in mixtures totalling 16 species.  
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Rosetta probe's final death dive planned for just after last call next Friday night  

Tune in at 10:40PM UTC next Friday for a 'controlled crash'

The European Space Agency (ESA) has held an hour-long hangout to explain what's likely to happen when its Rosetta spacecraft touches down on Comet 67p.…

 
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Untitled by Drew Hopper

Young Indian girl walks down a narrow street in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Website Follow my other social platforms: Facebook Instagram Twitter DeviantART Flickr For image licensing or print enquiries, please contact me at: drew@drewhopperphotography.com

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