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• Nigerian militant group urges others not to attack soldiers or kidnap people

  04-06-2016 17:06
  A militant group that has claimed responsibility for several attacks on Nigeria's oil infrastructure urged other groups on Saturday not to attack soldiers or kidnap people. The Niger Delta Avengers militant group, which says its attacks have not killed anyone, also urged a group that said it has anti-aircraft missiles not to target any aircraft. The recent spate of attacks in the Niger Delta, which is Nigeria's oil producing hub, have driven the OPEC member's crude output to a more than 20-year
  
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• UAE leader leaves country on rare trip since 2014 stroke

  04-06-2016 17:03
  The United Arab Emirates (UAE) President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahyan has left the country for a private trip abroad, state news agency WAM reported on Saturday, a rare report on the leader's movements since he suffered a stroke in 2014. The pro-Western moderniser and head of the ruling family of Abu Dhabi, the largest of the federation's seven emirates, has been president since the death of his father, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan, in 2004. For much of the past decade, Sheikh Khalifa
  
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• The Brightest Planets in June's Night Sky: How to See Them (and When)

  04-06-2016 15:03
  
  If you're up at dawn and in a sporting mood you might try to glimpse speedy Mercury, though its viewing circumstances do not particularly favor Northern Hemisphere skywatchers. It is well to the upper left of Regulus and draws noticeably away from the star this month.
  
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• Stars Take Center Stage at Bryce Canyon Astronomy Festival

  04-06-2016 15:02
  
  On the lawn of the Bryce Canyon National Park Visitor Center, kids stomped on 2-liter soda bottles, which rapidly pumped air through plastic tubes that then sent paper rockets flying sky-high. Despite its remote location, Bryce Canyon National Park is a somewhat bustling locale — it features a visitor center, a lodge, a restaurant, a general store, a horse corral, multiple picnic areas, cabins and campgrounds.
  
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• Rosetta Comet Probe Bounces Back from Glitch

  04-06-2016 15:02
  
  "We lost contact with the spacecraft on Saturday for nearly 24 hours," Patrick Martin, ESA's Rosetta mission manager, said in an update. The team eventually managed to reconnect with Rosetta, stabilize the spacecraft and get its science instruments back up and running. "It was an extremely dramatic weekend," Sylvain Lodiot, ESA's Rosetta spacecraft operations manager, said in the same update.
  
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• Museum still between a rock and a hard place over Manitou Stone

  04-06-2016 15:00 via cbc.ca
  
  There are hopes in Alberta's Indigenous community that an ancient and revered artifact from space could get a new resting place.
  
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• Inspired by Genius: How a Mathematician Found His Way

  04-06-2016 15:00 via rss.sciam.com
  
  The mathematician Ken Ono believes that the story of Srinivasa Ramanujan—mathematical savant and two-time college dropout—holds valuable lessons for how we find and reward hidden genius
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• UH Seidman Cancer Center experts to present data at 52nd ASCO Annual Meeting

  04-06-2016 06:00
  
  (University Hospitals Case Medical Center) Researchers from University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine will present data from several studies, including one that built an online tool used to estimate individualized survival for patients with newly-diagnosed glioblastoma (GBM), at American Society for Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting. Jill Barnholtz-Sloan, Ph.D., will present data from a study aimed at building and independently validating a
  
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• Hispanic and black young adult cancer patients more likely to die of their disease

  04-06-2016 06:00
  
  (University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) 'What this means is that black and Hispanic young adult patients are almost 75 percent more likely to die after being diagnosed with liver cancer than are white young adult patients,' says University of Colorado Cancer Center researcher.
  
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• As colorectal cancer rate falls, diagnosis of late-stage cancer in young patients is up

  04-06-2016 06:00
  
  (University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) University of Colorado Cancer Center study presented at the American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting 2016 finds that in patients over 50, the rate of CRC is falling at 2.5 percent per year while the rate of CRC in patients under 50 is rising at 0.8 percent per year.The increase appeared to be driven mostly by an increase in late-stage CRC in the under-50 population with an increase of 2.4 percent per year from 2003 through 2013
  
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• West Antarctic has lost 1,000 square-kilometres of sea ice

  04-06-2016 05:27 via cbc.ca
  
  Part of the Antarctic's sea ice has shrunk by about 1,000 square kilometres over the last 40 years, according to a new study.
  
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• West Antarctic has lost 1,000 square-kilometres of ice

  04-06-2016 05:27 via cbc.ca
  
  Part of the Antarctic's ice has shrunk by about 1,000 square kilometres over the last 40 years, according to a new study.
  
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• Harvard lab develops quick, portable and cheap Zika virus test

  04-06-2016 04:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Researchers at Harvard University have developed a new test for the Zika virus that could greatly improve how quickly people can find out if they're infected.
  
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• Scientists discover magma buildup under New Zealand town

  04-06-2016 02:39
  WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Scientists say they've discovered a magma buildup near a New Zealand town that explains a spate of recent earthquakes and could signal the beginnings of a new volcano — although they're not expecting an eruption anytime soon.
  
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