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• Warring foxes take top photo prize

  13-10-2015 23:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A picture of a red fox standing over the bloodied body of an Arctic fox wins the prestigious 2015 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition.
  
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• Leading Astronomer Violated Sexual Harassment Policies, Investigation Finds

  13-10-2015 23:16
  
  Geoff Marcy, a leader in the field of exoplanet science, was found to have "violated campus sexual harassment policy" at the University of California, Berkeley, where he works, an investigation by the university has concluded. The investigation, conducted by the school's Title IX office, "stemmed from a number of incidents believed to have occurred between 2001 and 2010 and involved students who have since graduated," according to a statement from the university obtained by Space.com. The result
  
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• Hold On to Your Lightsabers: Here Comes 'Star Wars Rebels' Season 2

  13-10-2015 23:16
  
  You don't have to wait for December's "The Force Awakens" film to get your "Star Wars" fix — Season 2 of Disney XD's "Star Wars Rebels" premieres tomorrow! Cast members and creators previewed the twists and turns of the animated TV show's second season at a New York Comic Con panel Thursday (Oct. 8). "Star Wars Rebels" tells the backstory behind the Rebel Alliance, which was portrayed in the "Star Wars" movies (14 years after the events of "Star Wars: Episode III").
  
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• Mars' Mysterious South Pole Revealed in New Photo

  13-10-2015 23:15
  
  The swirling white dot toward the bottom of the photo, which was taken by the European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft, is the Red Planet’s south polar ice cap. In 2004, Mars Express confirmed that the south polar cap contains water ice, according to the European Space Agency (ESA). While the image was released last month, Mars Express captured it on Feb. 25, during summer in Mars' southern hemisphere.
  
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• Thirstie alcohol delivery app gets test run in Ottawa, Toronto

  13-10-2015 23:04 via cbc.ca
  
  A new alcohol delivery smartphone app called "Thirstie" is getting a test run in Toronto and Ottawa.
  
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• NASA, Israel ink space cooperation agreement

  13-10-2015 22:54
  
  NASA and the Israel Space Agency signed an agreement Tuesday to expand cooperation in civil space activities, the Israeli government said.
  
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• That familiar feeling comes from deep in the brain

  13-10-2015 22:29
  
  Knowing what’s new and what we’ve seen before is at the base of memory. A new study shows that with a flash of light, scientists can change the firing of brain cells, and make the old new again.
  
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• [Research Resource] Quantitative phosphoproteomics reveals new roles for the protein phosphatase PP6 in mitotic cells

  13-10-2015 22:04 via stke.sciencemag.org
  Proteomics and bioinformatics reveal a role for the phosphatase PP6 in opposing phosphorylation by casein kinase 2.
  
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• [Research Article] The Golgi apparatus is a functionally distinct Ca2+ store regulated by the PKA and Epac branches of the β1-adrenergic signaling pathway.

  13-10-2015 22:04 via stke.sciencemag.org
  Calcium released from the Golgi apparatus may promote receptor trafficking to the surface of cardiomyocytes.
  
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• [Research Article] Frontrunners of T cell activation: Initial, localized Ca2+ signals mediated by NAADP and the type 1 ryanodine receptor

  13-10-2015 22:04 via stke.sciencemag.org
  High-resolution imaging of live T cells characterizes the early Ca2+ signals required for T cell activation.
  
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• [Editors' Choice] Leaving a lasting impression

  13-10-2015 22:04 via stke.sciencemag.org
  Mesenchymal stem cells can use Fas delivered by exosomes to trigger long-lasting changes in epigenetic programming.
  
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• [Editors' Choice] EGFR deploys its own defense

  13-10-2015 22:04 via stke.sciencemag.org
  Activation of the tyrosine kinase receptor EGFR promotes the secretion of a metalloprotease that degrades an extracellular antagonist.
  
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• Houthi leader urges all followers to join fight against Arab coalition

  13-10-2015 21:30
  
  The leader of Yemen's Houthis urged all followers on Tuesday to head to war fronts to repel what he called invaders, a reference to an Arab coalition that intervened to overturn the rule of his Iranian-allied group over large parts of the country. The televised remarks by Abdel-Malek al-Houthi were his first in public since Yemen's government last week dismissed as a "manoeuvre" the Houthis' acceptance of a U.N.-sponsored plan to end Yemen's more than six-month-old civil war.
  
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• EDF for carbon price floor

  13-10-2015 21:16
  
  French owned energy firm EDF on Tuesday urged the adoption of a carbon price floor in the run-up to a climate warming conference in Paris, backing a government proposal to that effect for the sector in France.
  
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• Astronauts test high definition 4K camera in space

  13-10-2015 21:16
  Astronauts on the International Space Station inserted an effervescent tablet in a floating ball of water to test a new device that can record four times the resolution of a normal high definition camera.
  
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• First ever twin panda cubs born in Canada

  13-10-2015 21:09
  
  The first ever giant panda cubs born in Canada were announced Tuesday by the Toronto zoo.
  
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• New free music streaming service Aurous is powered by BitTorrent

  13-10-2015 20:29 via cbc.ca
  
  There's a new player in the music streaming business. And it's totally free for users — but what that means for the artists who make music isn't entirely clear yet.
  
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• Aurous targets Spotify, Apple with free music service

  13-10-2015 20:29 via cbc.ca
  
  There's a new player in the music streaming business. And it's totally free for users — but what that means for the artists who make music isn't entirely clear yet.
  
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• Elephants’ cancer-protection secret may be in the genes

  13-10-2015 19:43
  
  An extra dose of cancer-fighting genes may be the secret to elephants’ long life spans.
  
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• White House says Iran's missile test may have violated U.N. resolution

  13-10-2015 19:31
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House spokesman Josh Earnest said on Tuesday that there are "strong indications" that Iran's test of a new precision-guided ballistic missile on Sunday violated a U.N. Security Council resolution. The U.N. Security Council prohibits Iran from undertaking any activity related to ballistic missiles that could deliver a nuclear warhead, but Iranian officials have pledged to ignore the ban. (Reporting by Roberta Rampton)
  
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• Wolf hunters deployed to French Alps

  13-10-2015 19:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A team of wolf-hunters is operating in a region of the French Alps to kill wolves that are seen as a threat to livestock.
  
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• Fossil eggs reveal how warm blooded dinosaurs were

  13-10-2015 18:53 via cbc.ca
  
  Scientists have used the fossilized eggshells of dinosaurs to estimate their body temperatures — and have revealed some surprises.
  
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• Jubeir says Saudi sees no future for Bashar in Syria

  13-10-2015 18:51
  
  Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said on Tuesday that Riyadh's position on Syria had not changed, insisting that President Bashar al-Assad had no future in Syria. Asked if Saudi Arabia had changed its stance, Jubeir said: "There is no change, from the beginning of the crisis, the position of the kingdom is that Bashar is the problem in the Syria crisis. Speaking at a joint news conference with French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, Jubeir also said that it was up to Yemen's Iranian-allied
  
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• VIDEO: Tracking wolves in the French Alps

  13-10-2015 18:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Claire Marshall attempts to track wolves in the French Alps with expert tracker Troy Bennett.
  
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• Repaired SpaceX rocket to fly by early December, company says

  13-10-2015 17:37
  
  JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, expects to return a repaired and upgraded Falcon 9 rocket to flight around the start of December, a company vice president said, less than six months after one exploded shortly after liftoff.
  
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• Mars One candidate hopeful after water discovery on Mars

  13-10-2015 17:25 via cbc.ca
  
  A Hamilton man campaigning for a trip to Mars is excited by NASA’s recent announcement that Mars appears to have flowing water.
  
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• Ancient river on Mars carried rounded pebbles 30 miles, research suggests

  13-10-2015 17:00
  
  An ancient river on Mars carried rounded pebbles discovered by the American space agency Nasa's Curiosity rover a distance of some 30 miles, new research has shown.
  
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• EU lawmakers reject GM crop compromise

  13-10-2015 16:50
  
  EU lawmakers on Tuesday rejected a hard-won compromise which allows member states to decide for themselves whether or not to import Genetically Modified Organisms for use in food and animal feed.
  
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• More Kids Are Getting Ear Surgery to Avoid Being Bullied

  13-10-2015 16:40
  
  A 6-year-old boy in Salt Lake City, Utah, recently had plastic surgery to make his ears stick out less, and parents everywhere weighed in on the family's decision, perhaps without knowing all of the facts about this operation. The young boy had been bullied because of his ears — his classmates had referred to them as "elf ears," Inside Edition originally reported. In fact, this type of surgery is becoming more common, said Dr. David Staffenberg, chief of pediatric plastic surgery at NYU La
  
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• Apple releases new iMacs with Retina displays

  13-10-2015 16:33 via cbc.ca
  
  Apple is adding Retina displays to its iMacs, which will enhance the text and the image quality of photos and videos.
  
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• Hot or not: Were dinos warm-blooded?

  13-10-2015 16:20
  
  A new method to chemically analyse dinosaur egg shells has allowed scientists to gauge the extinct lizards' body temperature, researchers said on Tuesday.
  
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• Wild aurochs-like cattle reintroduced in Czech Republic

  13-10-2015 15:52
  
  MILOVICE, Czech Republic (AP) — Such an animal has not been seen on Czech territory for hundreds of years.
  
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• Toronto Zoo announces birth of twin giant pandas

  13-10-2015 15:45 via cbc.ca
  
  The Toronto Zoo has announced the first-ever giant pandas born in Canada — twins that made their way into the world this morning.
  
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• Wayne Wouters, Stephen Harper's former deputy, named to BlackBerry board

  13-10-2015 15:21 via cbc.ca
  
  A former top bureaucrat has been named a director of Waterloo-based technology company BlackBerry.
  
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• Self-driving cars to be tested on Ontario roads

  13-10-2015 15:19 via cbc.ca
  
  Ontario will be the first province in Canada to allow road tests of automated vehicles, according to Ontario Transportation Minister Steven Del Duca.
  
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• Ontario transportation minister to make announcement on self-driving cars

  13-10-2015 15:19 via cbc.ca
  
  Ontario Transportation Minister Steven Del Duca is at the University of Waterloo today to make an announcement about automated vehicles.
  
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• Beyond the Helix: 'Supercoiled' DNA Twists into Crazy Shapes

  13-10-2015 15:11
  
  "This is because the action of drug molecules relies on them recognizing a specific molecular shape — much like a key fits a particular lock," said study co-author Sarah Harris, a physicist at the University of Leeds in England. After molecular biologists James Watson and Francis Crick first published a paper on the structure of DNA in 1953, the double helix became the iconic symbol of the code of life. "When Watson and Crick described the DNA double helix, they were looking at a tiny part
  
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• Twitter to lay off 8% of workforce to save costs

  13-10-2015 15:09 via cbc.ca
  
  Twitter is laying off 336 employees, signaling CEO Jack Dorsey's resolve to slash costs while the company struggles to make money.
  
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• King Tut's mask under restoration after beard broke off

  13-10-2015 14:45 via cbc.ca
  
  The restoration of King Tutankhamun's world-famous golden mask began this weekend, over a year after the beard was accidentally broken off and hastily glued back with epoxy.
  
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• Nichelle Nichols, Uhura on 'Star Trek,' Boldly Rides NASA's Flying Observatory

  13-10-2015 13:37
  
  Uhura flies again: "Star Trek" actress Nichelle Nichols had the chance last month to ride aboard NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, a telescope-bearing Boeing 747 airplane. Nichols, best known for her role as Lt. Uhura on the original "Star Trek," joined scientists and educators on board the high-flying telescope, called SOFIA. A recent NASA video documented Nichols' SOFIA ride for Trek fans everywhere to enjoy.
  
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• How NASA and 'The Martian' Teamed Up to Inspire Students About Mars

  13-10-2015 13:37
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. ? More than 10,000 students from across the country recently participated in a digital learning network at Kennedy Space Center with NASA scientists, astronauts and cast members from the new film "The Martian."
  
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• Eavesdropping on Black Holes: Feasting Giants Sound Like Static

  13-10-2015 13:37
  
  If you could hear the stuff that swirls around black holes, superdense white dwarfs and young stars, what would it sound like? An accretion disk is acollection of matter that gathers in a disc shape around a rotating object. Scaringi and his team looked at flickering in the light emissions of galactic nuclei, black holes, young stellar objects and white dwarfs, which are the collapsed remnants of massive stars.
  
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• Fungi can help monarchs self-medicate

  13-10-2015 13:15
  
  By changing milkweed chemistry, soil microbes alter the spread of a crippling monarch parasite
  
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• A Matter of Class: 2,400-Year-Old Tombs Yield Ancient Aristocrats

  13-10-2015 13:10
  
  A 2,400-year-old underground tomb complex, containing what appears to be an aristocratic family, has been discovered near the ancient city of Soloi in northern Cyprus. The complex contains three burial chambers, two of which were intact while the third had been looted.
  
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• Air pollutants enter body through skin

  13-10-2015 13:00
  
  Although scientists have largely viewed skin as an unimportant portal to blood for toxic air pollutants, new human data show that skin can surpass lungs as a route of entry.
  
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• Ukraine should have closed air space over war zone: MH17 inquiry

  13-10-2015 12:52
  
  Kiev should have closed the air space over eastern Ukraine because of the conflict with pro-Russian separatists, the official inquiry into the MH17 air disaster found Tuesday.
  
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• Sea level rise will 'swallow Miami, New Orleans'

  13-10-2015 09:54
  
  Say goodbye to Miami and New Orleans. No matter what we do to curb global warming, these and other beloved US cities will sink below rising seas, according to a study.
  
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