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• Tech columnist urges caution when using online dating apps

  06-11-2016 22:29 via cbc.ca
  
  With roughly 14.3 million single people in Canada and more than one third of Canadians using online dating, a tech columnist says caution is needed when looking for love on the world wide web.
  
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• Researchers seek to find Old Faithful's underground plumbing

  06-11-2016 21:50
  BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Scientists from the U.S. and Denmark are seeking to map out the plumbing system hidden inside the earth's crust that's responsible for the famous Old Faithful geyser and other hydrothermal features at Yellowstone National Park.
  
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• Giant snowballs on Russian beach

  06-11-2016 20:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A beach in Siberia has been transformed by naturally occurring giant snowballs.
  
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• Morocco sees 'no turning back' for climate pact, despite Trump

  06-11-2016 18:53
  By Alister Doyle MARRAKESH, Morocco (Reuters) - There is "no turning back" from a global accord to combat climate change, Morocco's foreign minister said on the eve of U.N. talks in Marrakesh amid fears that Donald Trump will try to pull out if he wins the U.S. presidency. The number of countries that have ratified the 2015 Paris Agreement to slow global warming by shifting from fossil fuels has risen to 100 nations in recent days, including OPEC's top oil producer Saudi Arabia, the United Natio
  
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• CSIS chief argues data was collected legally, but accepts court ruling

  06-11-2016 17:48 via cbc.ca
  
  The head of CSIS says he wants to "make it clear" that Canada's spy service was "not knowingly exceeding the scope" of its legal authority when it kept potentially revealing electronic data about people who posed no security threat over a 10-year period.
  
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• U.S. conservation group proposes buffer zone to protect orcas

  06-11-2016 17:00 via cbc.ca
  
  A Washington State organization has filed a federal petition that would create a safe foraging zone along San Juan Island to help recovery of endangered southern resident whales.
  
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• Notes from Mars 160: Making Field Sketches During an EVA

  06-11-2016 15:00
  
  The Mars Society is conducting the ambitious two-phase Mars 160 Twin Desert-Arctic Analog mission to study how seven crewmembers could live, work and perform science on a true mission to Mars. Mars 160 crewmember Annalea Beattie is chronicling the mission, which will spend 80 days at the Mars Desert Research Station in southern Utah desert before venturing far north to Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station on Devon Island, Canada in summer 2017.
  
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• Elon Musk Predicts Mid-December Return to Flight for SpaceX's Falcon 9

  06-11-2016 14:43
  
  SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk said Nov. 4 he expects the Falcon 9 rocket to return to flight in the middle of December after overcoming a problem he claimed was unprecedented in the history of spaceflight. Musk, briefly discussing the status of SpaceX during a half-hour interview on the cable news network CNBC Nov. 4, said that investigators had determined what caused the Sept. 1 pad explosion that destroyed a Falcon 9 and its satellite payload during fueling for a static-fire test.
  
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• Can a video game about WW I be both entertaining and a history lesson?

  06-11-2016 11:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Game developers have long used history as their digital playground and tweaked the facts to suit their needs - is Battlefield 1 any different?
  
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• Battlefield 1: Can a video game about WW I be both entertaining and a history lesson?

  06-11-2016 11:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Game developers have long used history as their digital playground and tweaked the facts to suit their needs - is Battlefield 1 any different?
  
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• Avian sugar daddies: How young female birds benefit from older mates

  06-11-2016 11:00 via cbc.ca
  
  A May-December romance brings reproductive benefits for young female gray jays mated to older males, according to a new Canadian study published in the journal Animal Behaviour.
  
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• Poor nutrition during pregnancy can cause early aging of baby's heart

  06-11-2016 05:00
  (The Physiological Society) New research has shown that the child of a slightly undernourished mother is more likely to suffer early aging of the heart. That's according to a new study looking at the relationship between food intake of pregnant baboons and the health of their offspring's heart.
  
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• People with low oxytocin levels suffer reduced empathy

  06-11-2016 05:00
  
  (Society for Endocrinology) People suffering medical conditions causing low levels of oxytocin perform worse on empathy tasks, according to new research presented today at the Society for Endocrinology annual conference in Brighton. The research is the first to study humans with reduced oxytocin and suggests that hormone replacement could improve the psychological well-being of those living with low levels.
  
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• Maternal B12 deficiency may increase child's risk of type 2 diabetes

  06-11-2016 05:00
  (University of Warwick) B12 deficiency during pregnancy may predispose children to metabolic problems such as type 2 diabetes, according to research presented today at the Society for Endocrinology's annual Conference in Brighton. These findings could lead to a review of current vitamin B12 requirements for pregnant women, whether through an improved diet or supplements.
  
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• Ill-treatment and working the night shift increases nurse turnover

  06-11-2016 05:00
  
  (INSEAD) Low-level unpleasantness in the workplace can have disastrous results -- but a new study shows what managers can do about it.
  
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• Brain tumor characteristics could help predict survival in people over 70

  06-11-2016 05:00
  
  (Cancer Research UK) Characteristics like seizures, location of the tumour, and pressure in the brain, give insight into length of survival and treatment options for brain tumour patients over the age of 70, according to new research* presented at the National Cancer Research Institute's (NCRI) Cancer Conference in Liverpool.
  
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