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• U.S. Navy Recruits Gut Microbes to Fight Obesity and Disease

  16-12-2015 23:00 via rss.sciam.com
  
  The military is creating “smart” E. coli to combat a variety of disorders faced by warfighters
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• Will the efforts to keep Asian carp out of the Great Lakes work?

  16-12-2015 22:41 via cbc.ca
  
  U.S. federal agencies have spent more than $300 million trying to prevent the migration of Asian carp into the Great Lakes.
  
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• Male monkeys go rouge for mating season

  16-12-2015 22:31
  
  Bright red lip color separates players from bachelors during monkey mating season.
  
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• For water bears, the glass is all full

  16-12-2015 22:08
  
  When dried, water bears turn into glass.
  
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• Facebook instant articles launches in Canada, on Android

  16-12-2015 22:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Facebook's instant articles service, which allows media firms to publish articles directly to users' news feeds, launched in Canada and on Android devices today.
  
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• 6 new African clawed frog species deepen mystery of 'lost ancestors'

  16-12-2015 21:40 via cbc.ca
  
  Six new species of clawed frog have been discovered by a Canadian-led team of researchers hunting for the mysterious "lost ancestors" of some of their cousins.
  
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• The year of the live stream: Periscope named top app of 2015

  16-12-2015 21:36 via cbc.ca
  
  Apple has named Periscope – which allows users to live-stream their life – the 'App of the Year.' Here's why 2015 was the year of the live stream.
  
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• King Tut mask returns to display in Cairo after botched epoxy fix

  16-12-2015 21:31 via cbc.ca
  
  Egypt put the famed golden burial mask of King Tutankhamun back on display at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo on Wednesday after the relic was repaired following a botched attempt to reattach the mask's beard with epoxy.
  
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• Algal toxin impairs sea lion memory

  16-12-2015 20:30
  
  California sea lions that have brain damage linked to domoic acid poisoning have impaired spatial memory, a new study finds.
  
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• In the body, cells move like flocks of birds or schools of fish

  16-12-2015 20:02
  
  Cells move in groups similarly to flocks of birds and schools of fish
  
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• Potential New Particle Shows Up at the LHC, Thrilling and Confounding Physicists

  16-12-2015 20:00 via rss.sciam.com
  
  The gigantic accelerator in Europe has produced hints of an exotic particle that defies the known laws of physics
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• Smartphone sales slow down amid better phones, contract rules

  16-12-2015 19:26 via cbc.ca
  
  If you're buying a smartphone for someone this Christmas, it won't just be the recipient who's thankful — but likely the entire industry. Smartphone sales slowed this year, and will shrink even further in the years to come, market research firm IDC reports.
  
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• Greenland ice melt speed has doubled

  16-12-2015 19:18 via cbc.ca
  
  Greenland's ice sheet melted twice as fast between 2003 and 2010 as it did from 1900 to 1983, according to the first study of Greenland ice loss over the past century that is based on observations rather than models.
  
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• North American Beaver Invasion Occupies Forests and Steppes in Southern Chile and Argentina

  16-12-2015 19:00 via rss.sciam.com
  
  Introduced from Canada in 1946, the rodents have exponentially reproduced and are expanding throughout the Southern Cone
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• Does a father’s death impact the sexual activity of his children?

  16-12-2015 18:30
  Women whose fathers died during their adolescence had slightly fewer kids, but hit puberty just like the rest
  
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• Mini microscope is a window into live muscle tissue

  16-12-2015 18:00
  
  A tiny microscope offers unprecedented views of live human muscles.
  
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• You cry, you buy: Why tear-jerking ads dominate the holiday season

  16-12-2015 17:00 via cbc.ca
  
  The heightened emotions that infuse the holiday season have helped make it prime time for marketers, and this year they seem to be finding that longer online advertisements in particular can leave even the most cold-hearted wiping away tears.
  
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• Brands see dollar signs in emotional, online holiday marketing

  16-12-2015 17:00 via cbc.ca
  
  The heightened emotions that infuse the holiday season have helped make it prime time for marketers, and this year they seem to be finding that longer online advertisements in particular can leave even the most cold-hearted wiping away tears.
  
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• Are hoverboards too dangerous for Santa?

  16-12-2015 17:00 via cbc.ca
  
  One of the toys topping holiday wish lists may just be too hot to handle. Concerns about the safety of hoverboards are making the toy more difficult to buy, travel with and even use this holiday season.
  
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• Quantum dots print tiniest inkjet image

  16-12-2015 16:19 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Researchers use quantum dots to create what has been classed as the world's smallest inkjet-printed picture.
  
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• Facebook makes changes to 'real names' policy after complaints

  16-12-2015 15:42 via cbc.ca
  
  Facebook is making changes to a policy requiring people to use their real names, after complaints that it causes people from certain communities, such as individuals with aboriginal names, to have their accounts suspended.
  
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• Updated: Budget agreement boosts U.S. science

  16-12-2015 15:00
  NIH leads the pack as Congress hikes basic research at several agencies
  
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• Budget agreement boosts U.S. science

  16-12-2015 15:00
  
  NIH leads the pack as Congress hikes basic research at several agencies
  
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• Fossil found on B.C. beach identified as new species of flightless bird

  16-12-2015 14:32 via cbc.ca
  
  A family out for a stroll on southern Vancouver Island stumbled upon the extraordinary fossilized remains of a 25-million-year-old flightless bird that has created a flap in the world of paleontology.
  
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• In Chile, world's astronomy hub, scientists fear loss of dark skies

  16-12-2015 14:26
  
  CERRO LAS CAMPANAS, Chile (Reuters) - When some of the world's leading astronomers scaled a frosty, Chilean peak in mid-November to break ground on a state-of-the-art, $1 billion telescope, they were stunned by an unexpectedly hazy glow.
  
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• EU 'breached law' on chemicals rules

  16-12-2015 14:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The European Court of Justice rules the European Commission breached EU law over the potentially harmful "endocrine disruptor" chemicals.
  
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• Polar bears travel further on ice

  16-12-2015 12:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Polar bears are working harder just to stay in one place, as the Arctic sea-ice on which they hunt drifts away.
  
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• VIDEO: How fracking could change national parks

  16-12-2015 12:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Claire Marshall explains how fracking could be done in national parks.
  
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• ‘Hot Jupiters’ spotted forming close to their suns

  16-12-2015 12:00
  
  Astronomers spy several solar systems in the making
  
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• By 2100, Spokane could be the new Napa

  16-12-2015 11:45
  
  Climate change may be a boon to Washington state vineyards
  
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• The Paris agreement versus the Canadian passion for cheap gas: Don Pittis

  16-12-2015 11:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Some great research shows that people care more about gas prices than the cost of things that affect us much more. But now Canadians face a new disconnect. Rational or not, saving the world means paying more for gas and that is going to make some people unhappy, Don Pittis writes.
  
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• How to see a supernova twice

  16-12-2015 11:00
  
  Gravitational lensing gives astronomers an almost-instant replay of stellar explosion
  
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• Hospital anaesthetic carbon capture cuts greenhouse gas emissions

  16-12-2015 11:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Cambridge company Class 1 says it's says its solved a problem that has plagued hospital rooms for decades: what to do with anaesthetic gas after its used.
  
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• Earth’s lakes are warming faster than its air

  16-12-2015 10:45
  
  First-ever global survey reveals summer lake temperatures rising at an alarming rate
  
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• NIH releases first agency-wide strategic plan in 2 decades

  16-12-2015 10:15
  
  Document formally ends support for 10% set-aside for AIDS research, promises to heed disease burden
  
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• Xi Jinping calls for international body to regulate internet use

  16-12-2015 09:28 via cbc.ca
  
  Chinese President Xi Jinping called for governments to co-operate in regulating Internet use, stepping up efforts to promote controls that activists complain stifle free expression.
  
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• Physicists find new evidence for helium ‘rain’ on Saturn

  16-12-2015 09:15
  
  High-pressure laser experiments may explain Saturn’s surprising brightness
  
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• Video: First-of-its-kind movie shows mouse developing from a single cell

  16-12-2015 07:00
  
  Study reveals when cell fates start to diverge
  
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• Why do chronically lonely teens stay lonely?

  16-12-2015 06:00
  
  (Duke University) For chronically lonely adolescents, even the rare invitation to a social event is likely to be met with suspicion: 'It's not that I'm worthy, I just got lucky,' they'll tell themselves. And when not included in a gathering of peers, the chronically lonely teen will attribute it to some personal flaw. Chronically lonely individuals may respond to social situations in ways that perpetuate rather than reduce their loneliness, the researchers said.
  
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• VU archaeologists discover location of historic battle fought by Caesar in Dutch riverarea

  16-12-2015 06:00
  
  (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Archaeologist Nico Roymans from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam announced a unique discovery: the location where the Roman general and statesman Julius Caesar massacred two Germanic tribes 55 BC. The location of this battle, which Caesar wrote about in detail in Book IV of his De Bello Gallico, was unknown to date. It is the earliest known battle on Dutch soil. The conclusions are based on a combination of historical, archaeological, and geochemical data.
  
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• VTT has published the first map of Finnish science: Finnish science has become diverse

  16-12-2015 06:00
  
  (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland) VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd. has analyzed changes in the Finnish research system in 1995-2011 and published, for the first time, a map of Finnish science.
  
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• UTSA professor's new study explores the mind of a cyberterrorist

  16-12-2015 06:00
  
  (University of Texas at San Antonio) A new study by Max Kilger, director of Data Analytics Programs at The University of Texas at San Antonio College of Business, is delving into an aspect of cybersecurity rarely explored before now: the human component. Kilger recently represented UTSA, which is home to the nation's top cybersecurity program, at a North Atlantic Treaty Organization training facility in Ankara, Turkey. There, he stressed the importance of understanding that cyberterrorists are d
  
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• USF geologists focus on mineral for clues to beginning of biological life on earth

  16-12-2015 06:00
  
  (University of South Florida (USF Innovation)) New research by University of South Florida geologists has found that in Earth's beginning, meteorites striking the planet to provide light may have carried within them an extraterrestrial mineral that, as it corroded in water on Earth, could have provided the essential chemical spark leading to the birth of biological life.
  
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• USF faculty members elected as Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors

  16-12-2015 06:00
  
  (University of South Florida (USF Innovation)) University of South Florida professors Selim A. Chacour, David M. Eddy, Dean F. Martin, and G. Douglas Letson have been named 2015 Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors. Chacour and Eddy are in the Institute for Advanced Discovery & Innovation, Martin is in the College of Arts and Sciences and Letson holds appointments at both Moffitt Cancer Center and USF.
  
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• University of Hawai's data visualization expert to build the top system in the nation

  16-12-2015 06:00
  
  (University of Hawaii at Manoa) The University of Hawai'i at Mānoa will be home to the best data visualization system in the United States, thanks to a major research infrastructure grant from the National Science Foundation.
  
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• University of Hawaii's data visualization expert to build the top system in the nation

  16-12-2015 06:00
  
  (University of Hawaii at Manoa) The University of Hawai'i at Mānoa will be home to the best data visualization system in the United States, thanks to a major research infrastructure grant from the National Science Foundation.
  
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• University of Arizona researchers developing brain-mapping technology

  16-12-2015 06:00
  
  (University of Arizona College of Engineering) Researchers at the University of Arizona have received $1.15 million from the National Institutes of Health to develop a noninvasive brain-scanning technology that could produce images far superior to those obtained with the most commonly used systems -- electroencephalography and functional magnetic resonance imaging. The technique, which incorporates sound waves to measure electrical activity in neural tissue, could improve diagnosis and treatment
  
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• UK and Singapore collaborating to address cyber threats

  16-12-2015 06:00
  
  (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) Six new joint research projects will see UK and Singapore-based researchers collaborating to develop new solutions that will enhance the resilience of systems and infrastructure to cyber attacks. The UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and Singapore's National Research Foundation today announced the results of a joint £2.4 million ($5.1 million) research call, which will fund the projects over the next three years.
  
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• To stop cancer's spread, take out its communication channels

  16-12-2015 06:00
  
  (Brigham and Women's Hospital) A study by researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital, published in Nature Communications, offers a new view of how cancer cells extend their reach, co-opting and transforming normal cells through 'metastatic hijacking.' The researchers also find that in pre-clinical models, pharmacological intervention can prevent this hijacking from occurring, pointing to new therapeutic targets for preventing cancer cells from spreading.
  
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• Time-resolved measurement of the anomalous velocity

  16-12-2015 06:00
  
  (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)) At the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesansstalt, researchers have detected the anomalous velocity in a semiconductor made of GaAs with a sub-picosecond time resolution. Their results which are published in the present issue of the renowned journal Physical Review Letters give new insight into the microscopic origins of the anomalous velocity. And they open a new area of research for studying important physical effects on ultrafast time scales.
  
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