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• Alberta teens detained for Pokemon Go U.S. border crossing

  23-07-2016 21:30 via cbc.ca
  
  U.S. Border Patrol officials say two Canadian teenagers were briefly apprehended after they accidentally crossed the U.S. border into Montana while playing the game "Pokemon Go."
  
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• Garage sale app brings thrifting into the 21st century

  23-07-2016 18:00 via cbc.ca
  
  An Alberta man has developed an app that uses smartphone location services to point shoppers to the closest garage sale.
  
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• What the dog smelled: The science and mystery of cadaver dogs

  23-07-2016 15:00 via cbc.ca
  
  They can catch a whiff of human remains under 30 metres of water or buried in a mine shaft, and can tell the difference between, say, a dead raccoon and a dead hiker. And yet scientists still aren't 100 per cent sure how cadaver dogs manage to do this and the training community is still figuring out how to train them most effectively.
  
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• Extreme unplugging: B.C. families paddle Mackenzie River to get kids away from screens

  23-07-2016 15:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Two young families from Vancouver found an extreme way to get their kids to unplug this summer — paddling 1,800 kilometres up the Mackenzie River. 'If I was at home, they’d be on the iPad,' says Kevin Vallely.
  
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• China completes world's largest amphibious aircraft: Xinhua

  23-07-2016 14:34
  
  SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China has completed production of the world's largest amphibious aircraft after seven years of work, which it plans to use to perform marine rescue missions and fight forest fires, the Xinhua news agency reported.
  
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• Mummy Hair Points to a Low-Stress Life in Ancient South America

  23-07-2016 14:00 via rss.sciam.com
  
  Scant cortisol levels in mummified locks change ideas about pre-Hispanic Chile natives
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• Afghan Hazara minority protest in Kabul over power line route

  23-07-2016 11:36
  By Mirwais Harooni KABUL (Reuters) - Thousands of people from Afghanistan's Hazara minority demonstrated in the capital Kabul on Saturday to demand changes to the route of a planned multi-million dollar power transmission line. The demonstrators are demanding the 500 kV transmission line from Turkmenistan to Kabul be rerouted through two provinces with large Hazara populations, an option the government says would cost millions and delay the badly needed project by years. "The people you see have
  
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• Members of Afghan Hazara minority protest in Kabul over power line route

  23-07-2016 08:49
  By Mirwais Harooni KABUL (Reuters) - Thousands of people from Afghanistan's Hazara minority demonstrated in the capital Kabul on Saturday to demand changes to the route of a planned multi-million dollar power transmission line. The demonstrators are demanding that the 500 kV transmission line from Turkmenistan to Kabul be rerouted through two provinces with large Hazara populations, an option the government says would cost millions and delay the badly needed project by years. Waving Afghan flags
  
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• Floods kill 78 across China, 91 missing, 400,000 evacuated

  23-07-2016 07:01
  
  BEIJING (AP) — At least 78 people have been killed and another 91 are missing across China after a round of torrential rains swept through the country earlier this week, flooding streams, triggering landslides and destroying houses.
  
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• Marvel's Rocket Raccoon and Groot Star on Space Station Mission Patch

  23-07-2016 06:55
  
  Rocket Raccoon and Groot are headed to the International Space Station. "We're really excited to take this on because we really like the whole idea of doing something for the space station," said Darren Sanchez, a Marvel Custom Solutions project manager and editor.
  
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• Russian balloonist circling globe crosses Australian coast

  23-07-2016 06:10
  
  CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A 65-year-old Russian adventurer reached the Australian coast on Saturday and was within a few hours of setting a new record for flying solo nonstop around the world, an official said.
  
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• UA organic semiconductor research could boost electronics

  23-07-2016 06:00
  
  (University of Arizona College of Engineering) A team of UA researchers in engineering and chemistry has received $590,000 from the National Science Foundation to enhance the effectiveness of organic semiconductors for making ultrathin and flexible optoelectronics like OLED displays for TVs and mobile phones.
  
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• Quantitating the complete human proteome

  23-07-2016 06:00
  
  (Institute for Systems Biology) Institute for Systems Biology scientists collaborate with ETH Zurich to develop the Human SRMAtlas, a compendium of mass spectrometry assays for any human protein. ISB releases protein assay parameters freely to the scientific community for the ability to assay any human protein without restriction. Through the use of the ISB Human SRMAtlas, biomarker candidates, wellness markers and protein networks can be quickly evaluated to provide quantitative results on dise
  
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• Rare bog butterfly flutters back from brink

  23-07-2016 02:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A small bog in Lancashire is once again home to a rare species of butterfly, for the first time in 100 years.
  
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• Russian balloonist soon to circumnavigate globe in 11 days

  23-07-2016 02:29
  
  CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An official says a 65-year-old Russian adventurer is drifting in a balloon in fair weather hours before he is expected to land in the Australian Outback and set a record for flying solo nonstop around the world.
  
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