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• Bridgewater court to test illegal sharing of images law

  14-08-2016 23:37 via cbc.ca
  
  Six teenage boys are scheduled to appear in Bridgewater youth court this week, in one of the country's early tests of a new law designed to combat illegal sharing of images.
  
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• Whale wars: humpbacks versus orcas focus of new study

  14-08-2016 19:00 via cbc.ca
  
  A new study in the Marine Mammal Science journal says that humpback whales will step in to defend other species from attacks by killer whales — but the reasons might surprise you.
  
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• South Sudan government to review U.N. decision on extra troops

  14-08-2016 18:04
  By Denis Dumo JUBA (Reuters) - South Sudan said on Sunday it would consider the U.N.'s decision to authorise sending extra troops to the country following an eruption of fierce fighting, softening its stance after initially rejecting the initiative. The U.N. Security Council voted to authorise an extra 4,000 troops on Friday, drawing a swift response from South Sudan's presidential spokesman who said the government would oppose the move, calling it a bid by the United Nations to take over the co
  
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• Solar storms, a cause of northern lights, nearly led to nuclear war in 1967

  14-08-2016 18:00 via cbc.ca
  
  A new research paper says a 1967 storm on the sun, which can cause spectacular aurora borealis, nearly led to a nuclear war between the West and the Soviet Union.
  
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• Brace yourselves, Brits! There's another heatwave predicted for this week

  14-08-2016 16:38
  
  Billions of litres of extra water is being readied to pump into the South.
  
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• 'There must be another solution': 3D printer fixes Yellowknife woman's broken car part

  14-08-2016 15:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Jan Fullerton is getting help from a high school robotics club in Inuvik, N.W.T., to fix her windshield wiper on her limited-edition, 1992 Toyota Celica GT-Four.
  
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• Keep it simple when choosing a sunscreen for your kid

  14-08-2016 13:00
  
  For parents swimming in a sea of sunscreen choices, look for a few key attributes.
  
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• Bangladesh tries to move stranded elephant to safari park

  14-08-2016 12:22
  NEW DELHI (AP) — A fully grown Indian elephant that washed up in a swamp in Bangladesh after being caught up in raging floodwaters has become a jumbo problem for wildlife officials on both sides of the border.
  
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• Clashes flare southwest of South Sudan's capital

  14-08-2016 09:11
  By Denis Dumo JUBA (Reuters) - Fighting flared in South Sudan late on Saturday southwest of the capital between forces loyal to the president and those backing the opposition, after clashes last month raised fears of a slide back into civil war. Steven Lodu Onseimo, the information minister for Yei region where Saturday's clashes took place, told Reuters two civilians and a soldier were killed but said the area was calm on Sunday. Witnesses had reported heavy gunfire around Yei, which lies on a
  
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• A Sixth Success! SpaceX Again Lands Rocket on a Ship at Sea

  14-08-2016 08:11
  
  SpaceX has done it again. The private spaceflight company landed its Falcon 9 rocket for the sixth time in the last eight months early Sunday morning (Aug. 14), pulling off the feat during the successful launch of the JCSAT-16 commercial communications satellite. The two-stage Falcon 9 lifted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 1:26 a.m. EDT (0526 GMT) Sunday, carrying JCSAT-16 toward a distant geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO).
  
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• Wi-fi from lasers

  14-08-2016 06:00
  
  (King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST)) New fabrication of white light makes data transfer up to 20x faster. Soon we could use normal lighting for our wireless connectivity.
  
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• See-through circuitry

  14-08-2016 06:00
  
  (King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST)) Indium tin oxide, the current material used in transparent electronics, is becoming very expensive thanks to the rarity of indium. Using atomic layer deposition, researchers demonstrate the capability of aluminum-doped zinc oxide as a powerful alternative to indium tin oxide, thereby providing a cheaper option.
  
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• Cold is the best way to catch crabs

  14-08-2016 06:00
  
  (Griffith University) New research from Griffith University has found what kind of water temperature spanner crabs like.
  
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• Cancer overtakes heart disease as the main cause of death in 12 European countries

  14-08-2016 06:00
  
  (European Society of Cardiology) Although diseases of the heart and blood vessels (cardiovascular disease, CVD) kill more people worldwide than anything else, with 17.3 million deaths globally, cancer has now overtaken CVD as the main cause of death in 12 European countries. This is according to new data on the burden of CVD in Europe for 2016 published in the European Heart Journal.
  
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