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• Gold nanoparticles used to create stretchy, wearable heart monitor

  01-01-2016 21:00
  A wearable, ultra-thin and stretchable device that can provide continuous heart rate monitoring has been created by scientists using gold nanoparticles. The device was created by scientists in South Korea, who showed it could be used to reliably store heart-rate data – meaning one day it could improve personal and mobile health-monitoring systems. Current devices used by people who need continuous monitoring include watches and bands, but these are problematic as they cannot be used in cer
  
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• After Chinese email spy scandal, Microsoft changes policy on notifying customers

  01-01-2016 20:42 via cbc.ca
  
  Microsoft Corp. has agreed to change its policies and always tell email customers when it suspects there has been a government hacking attempt after widespread hacking by Chinese authorities was exposed.
  
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• One soldier, two police, 12 Kurdish militants killed in Turkey's southeast

  01-01-2016 17:23
  Two police officers, a soldier and 12 Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) fighters were killed in Turkey's southeast in the space of 48 hours in operations to push back the militant group, the army and the Dogan news agency reported on Friday. The soldier came under rocket fire on Friday in the district of Cizre, where 12 PKK militants also died in an ongoing military operation, the army said on its website. One policeman was killed in Cizre late on Thursday when he and a group of colleagues came und
  
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• Japonium or ununtrium? Japanese scientists gain right to name new element

  01-01-2016 16:12 via cbc.ca
  
  A team of Japanese scientists have met the criteria for naming a new element, the synthetic highly radioactive element 113, more than a dozen years after they began working to create it.
  
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• 4 new elements get added to periodic table

  01-01-2016 16:12 via cbc.ca
  
  Four newly discovered elements are being added to the periodic table, and Japanese scientists have met the criteria for naming one of them, the synthetic highly radioactive element 113.
  
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• Seal pup drop 'good news' for reserve

  01-01-2016 16:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The number of pups born at England's largest seal colony drops for the first time after nine years of rapid growth.
  
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• What are UFOs? New Study Aims to Find Out

  01-01-2016 15:53
  
  The group is called "UFODATA" – short for UFO Detection And TrAcking – and is based on building a network of automated surveillance stations with high-tech sensors for gathering scientific data on sightings of alleged UFOs. The aim is to move toward a scientific solution to the UFO reports by implementing an effort to gather systematic instrumented observations. UFODATA stations would measure anything unusual that comes within their range.
  
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• Time Warps and Black Holes: The Past, Present & Future of Space-Time

  01-01-2016 15:53
  
  "In physics, space-time is the mathematical model that combines space and time into a single interwoven continuum throughout the universe," Eric Davis, a physicist who works at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Austin and with the Tau Zero Foundation, told Space.com by email. Davis specializes in faster-than-light space-time and anti-gravity physics, both of which use Albert Einstein's general relativity theory field equations and quantum field theory, as well as quantum optics, to conduct l
  
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• Stargazer Spies Space Station Streaking Through Orion's Belt (Photo)

  01-01-2016 15:53
  
  Austin snapped this well-timed image on Sept. 10 from Sarnia, Ontaria, Canada. For Austin, any viewing of the space station is a special moment. "Wow! Honestly every time I see the ISS hurl across the sky I am in awe.
  
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• Astronauts Ring In New Year from Space (Video)

  01-01-2016 15:53
  
  Three of the six people living aboad the International Space Station have beamed home a special New Year's video message for the 7.3 billion people confined to Earth's surface. "I'd like to wish everyone down on our beautiful planet Earth a very happy New Year, and a fantastic 2016," British spaceflyer Tim Peake said in the 50-second video, which NASA released Monday (Dec. 28). NASA astronauts Tim Kopra and Scott Kelly also said a few words.
  
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• 'Sewing' with molten glass and maths

  01-01-2016 12:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  US researchers design a "molten glass sewing machine" by combining 3D printing of glass with a mathematical model of the looping liquid threads.
  
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• Will the CRTC really try to regulate video streaming?

  01-01-2016 11:00 via cbc.ca
  
  The CRTC is promising to do something about regulating video streaming this year, Peter Nowak writes. But having already blinked in the past when trying to deal with big international providers like Netflix, maybe don't hold your breath.
  
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• A truly Canadian problem: Who do I complain to about Netflix?

  01-01-2016 11:00 via cbc.ca
  
  The CRTC is promising some new code of conduct for the broad TV industry, including possibly video streaming, this year. But having already blinked in the past when trying to deal with big international providers like Netflix, maybe don't hold your breath.
  
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• Indian capital starts limiting cars for 2 weeks to clear air

  01-01-2016 08:38
  
  NEW DELHI (AP) — The Indian capital on Friday kicked off a sweeping plan to reduce its record-high air pollution by limiting the numbers of cars on the streets for two weeks.
  
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• Indian capital starts plan to cut pollution by limiting cars

  01-01-2016 07:22
  
  NEW DELHI (AP) — The Indian capital on Friday kicked off a sweeping plan to reduce its record-high air pollution by limiting the numbers of cars on the streets for two weeks.
  
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• Astronomers find new way to measure the pull of gravity at the surface of distant stars

  01-01-2016 06:00
  
  (University of British Columbia) Researchers have found a new way to measure the pull of gravity at the surface of a star.For distant stars with planets orbiting them, this information is key in determining whether any of those planets can harbor life.
  
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• VIDEO: Tim Peake's New Year space message

  01-01-2016 01:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  British astronaut Tim Peake delivers a New Year message from the International Space Station.
  
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