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• Sleep or sex? How the fruit fly decides

  28-07-2017 11:00 via Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories
  Choosing between sex or sleep presents a behavioral quandary for many species, including the fruit fly. A multi-institution team has found that, in Drosophila at least, males and females deal with these competing imperatives in fundamentally different ways, they report July 28 in the journal Nature Communications.
  
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• Researchers discover how human cells maintain the correct number of chromosomes

  28-07-2017 11:00 via Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories
  Cell division is an essential process in humans, animals and plants as dying or injured cells are replenished throughout life. Cells divide at least a billion times in the average person, usually without any problem. However, when cell division goes wrong, it can lead to a range of diseases, such as cancer, and problems with fertility and development, including babies born with the wrong number of chromosomes as in Down's syndrome.
  
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• 'Big hunt' for Russian hackers, but no obvious election link

  28-07-2017 10:00 via Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories
  Pyotr Levashov appeared to be just another comfortable member of Russia's rising middle-class—an IT entrepreneur with a taste for upmarket restaurants, Thai massages and foreign travel.
  
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• 10 hurt in freak Istanbul storm

  28-07-2017 09:58 via Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories
  At least 10 people were hurt, two of them seriously, when a violent thunderstorm struck Istanbul on Thursday, bombarding the city with hailstones the size of golfballs, local media said.
  
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• Scientists set sail to unlock secrets of 'lost continent' Zealandia

  28-07-2017 09:54 via Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories
  Scientists are attempting to unlock the secrets of the "lost continent" of Zealandia, setting sail Friday to investigate the huge underwater landmass east of Australia that has never been properly studied.
  
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• Apple axes iPod nano and shuffle

  28-07-2017 09:30 via Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories
  Touch became the last iPod standing on Thursday as Apple removed nano and shuffle stand-alone digital music players from its lineup.
  
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• Los Angeles to have fully electric bus fleet by 2030

  28-07-2017 09:25 via Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories
  Known for its bouts of heavy smog , the city of Los Angeles on Thursday announced plans to have a fleet of fully electric, zero-emissions buses by 2030.
  
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• Mainstream Model 3 holds promise—and peril—for Tesla

  28-07-2017 09:20 via Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories
  For Tesla, everything is riding on the Model 3.
  
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• Cashless: The Globalist One World Currency Will Look A Lot Like Bitcoin

  28-07-2017 07:54 via Technocracy News
  Brandon Smith is one of the first to suggest that the global banking oligarchy appears headed toward a single digital currency that resembles Bitcoin. I fully concur that this is the primary reason for removing physical cash from societies around the world. First, it forces everyone into the digital system and second, it paves the way to convert all the digital currencies into a single currency. Lastly, I fully expect that energy will be the touchstone regulator of the entire system. ⁃
  
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• Ex-Trilateral Fareed Zakaria: ‘Say Hello To A Post-America World’

  28-07-2017 07:40 via Technocracy News
  Journalist Fareed Zakaria was likely asked to resign from the Trilateral Commission after he was busted for serial plagiarism, but he is still respected by the left. Zakaria’s contention is in line with Dr. Parag Khanna’s assessment that Democracy is broken and only Technocracy can fix it. ⁃ TN EditorIn London last week, I met a Nigerian man who succinctly expressed the reaction of much of the world to the United States these days. “Your country has gone crazy,&rdquo
  
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• Phantom VIII Heralds Arrival Of The House Of Rolls-Royce - Forbes

  28-07-2017 05:52 via Sci/Tech - Google News
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  Phantom VIII Heralds Arrival Of The House Of Rolls-Royce
  Forbes
  Phantom VIII's introduction is Rolls-Royce Motor Cars' second graceful pivot toward becoming a luxury goods design house specializing in cars, The House of Rolls-Royce. The first step was development of Bespoke Studios, a formalized business unit ...
  Rolls-Royce Unveils Its Grandest Car Yet, the Phantom VIIIYahoo News
  Rolls-Royce unveils new, ultimate luxury carKPRC Houston
  New Phantom reinvents luxury at a whole new le
  
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• HPE CEO Meg Whitman just publicly took herself out of the running to be Uber's new boss - Business Insider

  28-07-2017 05:33 via Sci/Tech - Google News
  Business Insider
  HPE CEO Meg Whitman just publicly took herself out of the running to be Uber's new boss
  Business Insider
  Meg Whitman, the CEO of HPE who has been reported to be among the final candidates in the running to lead Uber, said on Thursday that she is not planning to change jobs. "I am not going anywhere," Whitman tweeted, noting that the "speculation of my ...
  Uber's Next CEO? Meg Whitman Says It Won't Be HerNew York Times
  Report: Uber Considering General Electric Chief For CEO
  
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• Alexa: The roommate I need, but am not quite sure I want

  28-07-2017 04:10 via Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories
  We were introduced at a party.
  
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• Why Ryzen Threadripper has two mysterious chips - PCWorld

  28-07-2017 02:46 via Sci/Tech - Google News
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  Why Ryzen Threadripper has two mysterious chips
  PCWorld
  When famed overclocker der8baurer "delidded" AMD's highly anticipated Ryzen Threadripper in a video posted on Thursday, he got a surprise and spawned a mystery: Did AMD really waste two perfectly good 8-core chips to build Threadripper? The mystery ...
  The AMD Ryzen 3 1300X and Ryzen 3 1200 CPU Review: Zen on a BudgetAnandTech
  AMD Threadripper Delidded, With a Multi-Core Surprise Under the HoodExtremeTech
  AMD: We Have Lift Off
  
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• Study highlights health consequences of selectively breeding German Shepherd Dogs

  28-07-2017 02:00 via Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories
  German Shepherd Dogs (GSDs) could be predisposed to health conditions such as arthritis because of the way they have been bred in recent decades, according to a new study published in the open access journal Canine Genetics and Epidemiology.
  
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• Three species of tiny frogs discovered in Peruvian Andes

  28-07-2017 01:00 via Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories
  A University of Michigan ecologist and his colleagues have discovered three more frog species in the Peruvian Andes, raising to five the total number of new frog species the group has found in a remote protected forest since 2012.
  
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• Astrophysicists map out the light energy contained within the Milky Way

  28-07-2017 01:00 via Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories
  For the first time, a team of scientists have calculated the distribution of all light energy contained within the Milky Way, which will provide new insight into the make-up of our galaxy and how stars in spiral galaxies such as ours form. The study is published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
  
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• Nintendo Switch Eshop Adds Four New Games Today - GameSpot

  28-07-2017 00:24 via Sci/Tech - Google News
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  Nintendo Switch Eshop Adds Four New Games Today
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  Update: There's actually a fourth Nintendo Switch game now available on the Eshop that isn't in Nintendo's weekly press release on new game releases. Physical Contact: Speed is a card game that costs $5/£4.49, and while we can't say whether it's any ...
  Culinary co-op 'Overcooked' arrives on Nintendo SwitchEngadget
  Overcooked! Special Edition review – fast food gamingMetro
  Overcooked Runs At 30 FPS On Switch, Devs Loo
  
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• Romania prosecutes professors over medical diploma scam

  28-07-2017 00:07 via Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories
  Eight Romanian professors of medicine are being prosecuted for allegedly taking kickbacks to help foreign students pass their exams or get a key diploma, prosecutors said on Thursday.
  
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• Amazon sales surge, but spending bites into profit (Update)

  28-07-2017 00:07 via Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories
  Internet colossus Amazon on Thursday reported its profit shrank in the recently ended quarter despite surging sales as it poured money into growth.
  
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• Amazon sales surge, but spending bites into profit

  28-07-2017 00:07 via Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories
  Internet colossus Amazon on Thursday reported profit shrank in the recently ended quarter despite surging sales as it poured money into growth.
  
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• Amazon's Earnings Miss, but Nothing Can Stop AWS - TheStreet.com

  27-07-2017 23:56 via Sci/Tech - Google News
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  Amazon's Earnings Miss, but Nothing Can Stop AWS
  TheStreet.com
  While Amazon (AMZN) is down after hours on an earnings miss, the company's cloud computing business lived up to forecasts and extended its lead over Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) Azure and Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL) Google Cloud Platform. Jeff Bezos said in a ...
  Another strong quarter for AWS: 42 percent jump in revenue to $4.1BGeekWire
  Amazon to bolster video despite profit slumpC21Media
  Amazon Plows Ahead With High Sales a
  
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• Overwatch Doomfist Now Available In New Update; Patch Notes Released - GameSpot

  27-07-2017 23:52 via Sci/Tech - Google News
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  Overwatch Doomfist Now Available In New Update; Patch Notes Released
  GameSpot
  Overwatch's next big update is now available, the main component of which is a new character: Doomfist. The long-awaited Offense character is now playable on PC, Xbox One, and PS4. Doomfist has been available for the past few weeks on the PC version's ...
  This is how Doomfist invades 'Overwatch'Engadget
  Overwatch Update Adding Doomfist Is Now Live on PS4, Xbox One & PCPlayStation LifeStyle
  Overwatch:
  
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• This "map" could change the way we treat cancer

  27-07-2017 23:38 via Popular Science
  
  HealthResearchers plan to use it to develop new drugs.
  Researchers developed a map that tracks what cancer cells depend on to grow. They plan to use it as a way to develop new drugs to combat cancer at its roots.
  
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• The iPod nano had a weird, amazing history - The Verge

  27-07-2017 22:26 via Sci/Tech - Google News
  The Verge
  The iPod nano had a weird, amazing history
  The Verge
  Like the iPod Classic three years before it, the iPod nano's death today was a long time coming. But years ago, before the product stalled out, lost its identity, and was made wholly unnecessary by the iPhone, it featured some of Apple's finest design ...
  Apple discontinues iPod nano and shuffle and doubles iPod touch capacities to 32GB and 128GBTechCrunch
  Now that the iPod's dead, let's kill iTunes, tooCNET
  Apple is officially kill
  
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• VW and regulators agree on fix for cars in cheating scandal

  27-07-2017 22:17 via Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories
  Volkswagen and U.S. environmental regulators announced agreement Thursday on a plan for the German automaker to fix most of the diesel cars involved in an emissions cheating scandal.
  
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• I.Coast seizes record three tonnes of pangolin scales

  27-07-2017 22:15 via Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories
  Authorities in Ivory Coast have seized a record haul of three tonnes of pangolin scales worth an estimated $82,000, in what officials on Thursday called a "massacre".
  
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• Biochemists link synthetic compound to hunger-hormone production

  27-07-2017 22:14 via Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories
  New research suggests that a man-made cousin of a small molecule found in olive oil can disrupt the hunger-signaling pathway. Researchers identified this promising new target by screening a library of roughly 1,600 small molecules for potential disruptors. Because the small molecule could influence how the body senses and utilizes energy, it has the potential to be developed into a treatment for conditions that affect energy balance, like diabetes and obesity.
  
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• DNA links male, female butterfly thought to be distinct species

  27-07-2017 22:12 via Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories
  Researchers recently discovered what was thought to be a distinct species of butterfly is actually the female of a species known to science for more than a century.
  
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• Ultracold molecules hold promise for quantum computing

  27-07-2017 21:53 via Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories
  Researchers have taken an important step toward the long-sought goal of a quantum computer, which in theory should be capable of vastly faster computations than conventional computers, for certain kinds of problems. The new work shows that collections of ultracold molecules can retain the information stored in them, for hundreds of times longer than researchers have previously achieved in these materials.
  
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• Seeing the light: Researchers seek to improve solar cell technology using new materials and nanowires

  27-07-2017 21:53 via Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories
  Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology are expanding solar cell technology using nanowires to capture more of the sun's energy and transform it into usable electricity. Comparable to ultra-thin blades of grass, nanowires added to today's conventional materials are capable of capturing more light and can be cost-effective solutions for adopting solar energy into the broader consumer market.
  
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• Future surgeons might patch you up with synthetic slug secretions

  27-07-2017 20:56 via Popular Science
  
  HealthThe adhesive is sticky even when wet with blood.
  Slugs use mucus to glue themselves in place so predators can't snatch them as easily. We might use the same idea to stick ourselves together again.
  
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• The world's water quality might be in trouble

  27-07-2017 20:31 via Popular Science
  
  EnvironmentMore precipitation, more problems.
  Increasing rains because of climate change will lead to more agricultural runoff, and more aquatic dead zones.
  
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• Which type of cell to become: Decision through indecision

  27-07-2017 20:00 via Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories
  From the moment of fertilization, building a human body involves a series of choices where cells generated by cell division must elect which of the myriad types of cell they will become. How does this decision occur? New research from Alice Moussy and colleagues of the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Genethon and ENSLyon in France suggests that fate decision is not a unique programmed event, as was believed, but the outcome of a very dynamic process. The study, publishing July 27 in the open a
  
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• Sticky when wet: Strong adhesive for wound healing

  27-07-2017 20:00 via Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories
  Anyone who has ever tried to put on a Band-Aid when their skin is damp knows that it can be frustrating. Wet skin isn't the only challenge for medical adhesives - the human body is full of blood, serum, and other fluids that complicate the repair of numerous internal injuries. Many of the adhesive products used today are toxic to cells, inflexible when they dry, and do not bind strongly to biological tissue. A team of researchers from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and
  
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• Secrets of the amazing tardigrades revealed by their DNA

  27-07-2017 20:00 via Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories
  New genome sequences shed light on both the origins of the tardigrades (also known as water bears or moss piglets), and the genes that underlie their extraordinary ability to survive in extreme conditions. A team of researchers led by Mark Blaxter and Kazuharu Arakawa from the universities of Edinburgh, Scotland and Keio, Japan respectively, have carefully stitched together the DNA code for two tardigrade species, and their results are presented in an article publishing 27 July in the open acces
  
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• Scientists solve longstanding biological mystery of DNA organization

  27-07-2017 20:00 via Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories
  Stretched out, the DNA from all the cells in our body would reach Pluto. So how does each tiny cell pack a two-meter length of DNA into its nucleus, which is just one-thousandth of a millimeter across?
  
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• Projected precipitation increases are bad news for water quality

  27-07-2017 20:00 via Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories
  If climate change is not curbed, increased precipitation could substantially overload U.S. waterways with excess nitrogen, according to a new study from Carnegie's Eva Sinha and Anna Michalak and Princeton University's Venkatramani Balaji published by Science. Excess nutrient pollution increases the likelihood of events that severely impair water quality. The study found that impacts will be especially strong in the Midwest and Northeast.
  
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• New method promises easier nanoscale manufacturing

  27-07-2017 20:00 via Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories
  Scientists at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory have discovered a new way to precisely pattern nanomaterials that could open a new path to the next generation of everyday electronic devices.
  
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• Fundamental breakthrough in the future of designing materials

  27-07-2017 20:00 via Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories
  A team of researchers from AMBER centre based in Trinity College Dublin, have made a breakthrough in the area of material design - one that challenges the commonly held view on how the fundamental building blocks of matter come together to form materials.
  
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• Bronze Age Iberia received fewer steppe invaders than the rest of Europe

  27-07-2017 20:00 via Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories
  The genomes of individuals who lived on the Iberian Peninsula in the Bronze Age had minor genetic input from Steppe invaders, suggesting that these migrations played a smaller role in the genetic makeup and culture of Iberian people, compared to other parts of Europe. Daniel Bradley and Rui Martiniano of Trinity College Dublin, in Ireland, and Ana Maria Silva of University of Coimbra, Portugal, report these findings July 27, 2017 in PLOS Genetics.
  
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• A new picture emerges on the origins of photosynthesis in a sun-loving bacteria

  27-07-2017 20:00 via Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories
  Every day, enough sunlight hits the Earth to power the planet many times over—if only we could more efficiently capture all the energy.
  
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• Scientists know how to make mice angry—but mice know how to keep their cool

  27-07-2017 19:22 via Popular Science
  
  AnimalsThe first rule of mouse fight club.
  Scientists have found a cluster of neurons that trigger aggression in mice. But their living environment determines how aggressive they really are.
  
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• Apple ordered to pay $506M in Wisconsin patent infringement

  27-07-2017 19:05 via Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories
  A judge has ordered computer-maker Apple Inc. to pay more than $506 million in a patent infringement case brought by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation after the two sides agreed on final damages.
  
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• In US first, scientists edit genes of human embryos (Update)

  27-07-2017 19:03 via Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories
  For the first time in the United States, scientists have edited the genes of human embryos, a controversial step toward someday helping babies avoid inherited diseases.
  
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• In US first, scientists edit genes of human embryos

  27-07-2017 19:03 via Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories
  For the first time in the United States, scientists have edited the genes of human embryos, a controversial step toward someday helping babies avoid inherited diseases.
  
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• When forest creatures have a problem, they call an engineer

  27-07-2017 19:02 via Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories
  Charlotte the spider saved a pig's life through clever marketing. The Cat in the Hat rescued children from a dull day indoors with magical powers of destruction and repair. Roxy the Fox, a newcomer to the pantheon of can-do critters, tapped coveted STEM skills to secure new foraging territory for her forest community.
  
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