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• Road salt threatening health of freshwater lakes, study finds

  10-04-2017 23:04 via cbc.ca
  
  A new study of 371 lakes in eastern North America shows that they're getting saltier because of salt used to melt winter snow and ice.
  
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• Cell Therapy 2.0: Reprogramming the Brain's Own Cells for Parkinson's Treatment

  10-04-2017 22:00 via rss.sciam.com
  
  In a major breakthrough researchers show it is possible to make dopamine cells from astrocytes, accelerating traditional stem cell procedures and improving disease symptoms
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• $1.3B in new money and new thinking needed, Dr. David Naylor's science review concludes

  10-04-2017 20:35 via cbc.ca
  A blue-ribbon panel charged with reviewing the state of science in Canada for the first time in 40 years says the system urgently needs new money — but also new thinking.
  
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• 2nd year of mass coral bleaching means part of Great Barrier Reef could die

  10-04-2017 19:25 via cbc.ca
  
  Australia's Great Barrier Reef has faced a second mass coral bleaching event in just 12 months, which scientists fear could cause kill part of the world's largest living structure.
  
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• U.S., Russian crew lands after six-month stay on space station

  10-04-2017 17:51
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - A U.S. astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts made a parachute landing in Kazakhstan on Monday, wrapping up a nearly six-month mission aboard the International Space Station, a NASA TV broadcast showed.
  
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• Bedbugs bugged prehistoric humans, too

  10-04-2017 15:00
  
  Scientists have found the oldest known specimens of bedbug relatives in an Oregon cave system where ancient humans once lived.
  
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• Iceland magma drilling project may revive giant UK power cable link

  10-04-2017 13:41
  
  LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists will study the possibility of producing geothermal energy from magma for the first time, in a $100 million project in Iceland, which if successful could produce up to 10 times more energy than from a conventional well.
  
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• Scientists seek early signs of autism

  10-04-2017 13:00
  
  The search for autism biomarkers, in the blood and the brain, is heating up.
  
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• Legendary Climate Scientist Likes a GOP Proposal on Global Warming

  10-04-2017 12:45 via rss.sciam.com
  
  James Hansen, the “father of climate change awareness,” wants the same carbon fee–and-dividend strategy proposed by Republicans
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• Government isn't a tech startup — but it's trying to learn to code like one

  10-04-2017 11:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Paying a parking ticket or changing your address might be easier, more accessible, and actually kind of fun if transformed by a little of Canada's digital know-how.
  
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• The Forecaster's Dilemma: Evaluating forecasts of extreme events

  10-04-2017 06:00
  
  (Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS)) Accurate predictions of extreme events do not necessarily indicate the scientific superiority of the forecaster or the forecast method from which they originate. The way forecast evaluation is conducted in the media can thus pose a dilemma.
  
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• NASA's MAVEN reveals Mars has metal in its atmosphere

  10-04-2017 06:00
  
  (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) Mars has electrically charged metal atoms (ions) high in its atmosphere, according to new results from NASA's MAVEN spacecraft. The metal ions can reveal previously invisible activity in the mysterious electrically charged upper atmosphere (ionosphere) of Mars.
  
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• NASA sees new Tropical Cyclone Cook moving past New Caledonia

  10-04-2017 06:00
  
  (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) Tropical Cyclone Cook formed in the Southern Pacific Ocean and on Sunday, April 9, 2017, and moved across the island of New Caledonia in the South Pacific Ocean on early on April 10. NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP Satellite passed over Cook as it was making landfall.
  
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• NASA catches Tropical Cyclone Ernie being blown apart

  10-04-2017 06:00
  
  (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) NASA's Aqua satellite provided a birds-eye view of Tropical Cyclone Ernie as it was being battered by strong vertical wind shear and torn apart.
  
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• Long ago and far away, an average galaxy

  10-04-2017 06:00
  
  (University of California - Davis) Using a giant galaxy cluster as a cosmic-scale lens, astronomers have discovered a galaxy from the early universe that they think is 'typical' of its time. This could help astronomers better understand the Epoch of Reionization when the first galaxies appeared.
  
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• Hubble spots auroras on Uranus

  10-04-2017 06:00
  
  (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) This is a composite image of Uranus by Voyager 2 and two different observations made by Hubble -- one for the ring and one for the auroras.
  
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