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• Gospel of Jesus's Wife Likely a Fake, Bizarre Backstory Suggests

  19-06-2016 23:24
  
  A papyrus holding text that suggests Jesus Christ was married and whose authenticity has been a matter of intense debate since it was unveiled in 2012 is almost certainly a fake. Karen King, the Harvard professor who discovered the Gospel of Jesus's Wife and has defended its authenticity, has now conceded that the papyrus is likely a forgery and that its owner lied to her about the provenance and his own background. The concession comes after Walter Fritz, a resident of North Port, Florida,
  
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• Unmanned rocket designed for human space travel successfully launches and lands

  19-06-2016 22:53 via cbc.ca
  
  The private space company run by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has completed its fourth successful unmanned rocket launch and safe landing in West Texas using the same reusable vehicle.
  
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• Bear attacks woman running marathon in New Mexico

  19-06-2016 21:30
  VALLES CALDERA NATIONAL PRESERVE, N.M. (AP) — Wildlife officials say a bear attacked a woman running a marathon in a national preserve in northern New Mexico.
  
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• Blue Origin Aces 4th Reusable Rocket Launch (and Landing) in Live Webcast

  19-06-2016 19:43
  
  Billionaire Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launched and landed a reusable rocket for the fourth time Sunday (June 19), with the typically secretive private spaceflight company making its first-ever live webcast of a test flight during the successful mission. Blue Origin's unmanned New Shepard rocket and space capsule launched into the clear West Texas sky at 10:36 a.m. EDT (1436 GMT), carrying its crew capsule into suborbital space before both craft returned to Earth in separate landings. New Shep
  
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• French workers suspend strike at Fos-Lavera oil port - union official

  19-06-2016 19:02
  PARIS (Reuters) - French CGT union workers have suspended a four-week strike at the Fos-Lavera oil terminal in southern France, a union official told Reuters on Sunday. Hardline CGT members at France's biggest oil port terminal joined nationwide rolling protests against government labour reforms on May 23, disrupting the loading and unloading of vessels including oil, LNG and chemical tankers. CGT Union representative Pascal Galeote said workers at the port terminal would now join national days
  
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• Sting operation: Jellyfish targeted before they can multiply

  19-06-2016 16:50
  
  BRICK, N.J. (AP) — Environmental officials and waterfront homeowners in New Jersey are conducting a reverse sting operation against jellyfish in inland waterways, going after the gelatinous pests before they have a chance to grow and multiply.
  
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• Father's Day: How Astronauts Celebrate in Space — and on Earth

  19-06-2016 15:27
  
  This was Peake's first spaceflight, and thus his first re-entry and return to his family, and Kopra's second. Malenchenko, who piloted the Soyuz spacecraft for the astronauts' return, will be landing for the sixth time.
  
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• 2 ducks have been surrogate parents to 30 orphans

  19-06-2016 15:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Two ducks at the Atlantic Wildlife Institute have become surrogate parents for more than 30 orphaned ducklings at the institute.
  
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• More events needed to pin down gravitational waves backstory

  19-06-2016 13:00
  
  As more black hole collisions are found, researchers hope to piece together how and where these destructive duos form.
  
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• British astronaut Tim Peake's 'incredible experience'

  19-06-2016 11:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  British astronaut Tim Peake has said he is elated to be back on earth after six months onboard the international space station.
  
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• E3 highlights surge in women game designers

  19-06-2016 11:00 via cbc.ca
  
  At North America's largest electronic gaming show, E3, new women-designed games and a few female role models are highlighting the surge in women programmers and designers.
  
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• E3 highlights surge in female game designers

  19-06-2016 11:00 via cbc.ca
  
  At North America's largest electronic gaming show, E3, new women-designed games and a few female role models are highlighting the surge in women programmers and designers.
  
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• Solar exposure energizes muddy microbes

  19-06-2016 06:00
  
  (American Society for Microbiology) Research at the ASM Microbe research meeting in Boston presents a sediment Microbial Fuel Cell (sMFC) system for remotely investigating the physiology and ecology of electrically active microbes in submerged field sites. Depending on the depth at which device components were submerged, scientists observed variation in start-up time and electricity generation.
  
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• Clues from science past: Digitalization of analog data reveals past space weather patterns

  19-06-2016 06:00
  
  (Kyoto University) A Japanese team have digitalized magnetogram recordings taken before direct observations by satellites became available. The analog recordings, taken for 72 years since the early 20th century, provide a window onto space weather in the mid-1900s and shed light onto future patterns of plasma movement in near-earth space.
  
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• Artificial synapse rivals biological ones in energy consumption

  19-06-2016 06:00
  
  (Pohang University of Science & Technology (POSTECH)) POSTECH researchers have succeeded in fabricating an organic nanofiber electronic device that emulates not only the important working principles and energy consumption of biological synapses but also the morphology. They recently published their findings in Science Advances, a new sister journal of Science.
  
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• Ancient rocks yield hard facts on safe storage of greenhouse gas

  19-06-2016 06:00
  
  (University of Edinburgh) Natural underground reservoirs of carbon dioxide are giving scientists vital clues how best to store man-made emissions of the greenhouse gas.
  
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• Tim Peake's Long Path To Post-Orbit Recovery

  19-06-2016 05:01
  
  Sky News has been given rare access to the aerospace medical unit where Tim Peake is recovering from his six months in orbit. The British astronaut will spend up to three weeks in the German Space Agency's futuristic unit in Cologne. I was shown the minimalist apartment where Major Peake will live while doctors keep a close eye on his health and scientists use him as a guinea pig for a series of experiments.
  
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• President Obama in Yosemite: 'Climate change is a reality'

  19-06-2016 04:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  President Barack Obama draws attention to the dangers of climate change while on a visit to Yosemite National Park in California.
  
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