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• Mummy DNA unveils the history of ancient Egyptian hookups

  31-05-2017 22:30
  
  A study of DNA extracted from Egyptian mummies untangles ancient ancestry and attempts to resolve quality issues.
  
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• Spacecraft on hottest mission to the sun named after living solar wind researcher

  31-05-2017 22:12 via cbc.ca
  
  The Parker Solar Probe, named after the astrophysicist who predicted the existence of a solar wind nearly six decades ago, will speed toward the sun at almost 700,000 km/h and hit temperatures of more than 1,300 C.
  
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• Some topics call for science reporting from many angles

  31-05-2017 22:00
  There’s heartbreak in this issue. Science News investigates different facets of the ongoing opioid epidemic in the United States.
  
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• Readers puzzled by proton's properties

  31-05-2017 21:45
  Readers sent feedback on under-ice greenhouses in the Arctic, the Martian atmosphere and more.
  
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• For babies exposed to opioids in the womb, parents may be the best medicine

  31-05-2017 21:30
  
  A surge in opioid-exposed newborns has U.S. doctors revamping treatments and focusing on families.
  
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• Genome of ancient Egyptian mummy analyzed

  31-05-2017 20:04 via cbc.ca
  
  An international team of scientists are the first to analyze the ancient Egyptian genome, and they a surprising finding.
  
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• Ask the Experts: Alaska's Bogoslof Volcano Erupted Again--Why Was It So Hard to Predict?

  31-05-2017 20:00 via rss.sciam.com
  
  An island volcano blew up last Saturday. A volcanologist explains why the location is difficult to monitor
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• Antarctic ice crack takes major turn

  31-05-2017 19:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  One of the biggest icebergs ever seen is a step closer to forming on the edge of the Larsen C shelf.
  
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• Nasa renames Sun skimming mission

  31-05-2017 19:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The space agency re-brands its mission to "touch the Sun" after a living scientist.
  
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• Homing In on the Brain's "Cuddling" Circuitry

  31-05-2017 19:00 via rss.sciam.com
  
  Stimulating bonding among voles could offer insights into human coupling
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• Three Mile Island owner threatens to close ill-fated plant

  31-05-2017 17:46 via cbc.ca
  
  Three Mile Island's owner, Exelon Corp., says plant that was the site of a terrifying partial meltdown in 1979 will close in 2019 unless Pennsylvania comes to its financial rescue.
  
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• Exxon shareholders approve measure on climate-change report

  31-05-2017 16:52 via cbc.ca
  
  Exxon Mobil shareholders Wednesday pushed the company to report and disclose whether regulations designed to reduce climate change will hurt the oil giant's business.
  
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• Researchers stumble onto a new role for breast cancer drug

  31-05-2017 15:00
  
  At first, ophthalmologist Xu Wang thought her experiment had failed. But instead, she revealed a new role for the breast cancer drug tamoxifen — protection from eye injury.
  
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• Trump will announce on Thursday whether he's taking U.S. out of Paris climate deal

  31-05-2017 14:58 via cbc.ca
  
  U.S. President Donald Trump has decided to follow through on a campaign pledge to pull the United States out of a global pact to fight climate change, a source who was briefed on the decision tells Reuters. Trump says he will announce his official decision on Thursday afternoon.
  
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• Is the U.S. Education System Producing a Society of “Smart Fools”?

  31-05-2017 14:30 via rss.sciam.com
  
  One distinguished psychologist explains why he believes this is so and how to reverse course
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• Peru’s plenty brought ancient human migration to a crawl

  31-05-2017 13:00
  
  Ancient Americans reached Peru 15,000 years ago and stayed put, excavations suggest.
  
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• Electric Brain Stimulation Offers Binge-Eating Clue

  31-05-2017 12:45 via rss.sciam.com
  
  A neural circuit seems to control compulsive food consumption
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• Roadkill rescue

  31-05-2017 12:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  One of the world's worst hotspots for roadkill in Canada is helped by a project that cuts animal deaths by almost 90%.
  
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• Peek into your genes: NASA 1-year mission investigators identify links to vision problems

  31-05-2017 06:00
  
  (NASA/Johnson Space Center) Coinciding with May -- Healthy Vision Month, NASA's One-Year Mission investigators are peering into their new findings to help address astronaut vision issues.
  
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• NASA's Apollo-era test chamber now James Webb Space Telescope ready

  31-05-2017 06:00
  
  (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) NASA's 'Chamber A,' an enormous thermal vacuum testing chamber housed at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, is now ready to conduct final optical testing on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (Webb telescope), the largest space observatory ever.
  
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• NASA sees formation of Tropical Depression Two-E in Eastern Pacific Ocean

  31-05-2017 06:00
  
  (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) The second tropical depression of the Eastern Pacific Ocean hurricane season formed near southwestern Mexico. NASA and NOAA satellites provided infrared and visible imagery of the strengthening storm.
  
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• NASA sees Cyclone Mora still packing punch after landfall

  31-05-2017 06:00
  
  (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) Satellite data showed heavy rain and high cloud tops in Tropical Cyclone Mora after the storm came ashore in Bangladesh.
  
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• NASA orbiter finds new evidence of frost on moon's surface

  31-05-2017 06:00
  
  (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) Scientists using data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, have identified bright areas in craters near the moon's south pole that are cold enough to have frost present on the surface.
  
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• In a cosmic hit-and-run, icy Saturn moon may have flipped

  31-05-2017 06:00
  
  (Cornell University) Enceladus -- a large icy, oceanic moon of Saturn -- may have flipped, the possible victim of an out-of-this-world wallop. While combing through data collected by NASA's Cassini mission during flybys of Enceladus, astronomers from Cornell University, the University of Texas and NASA have found the first evidence that the moon's axis has reoriented, according to new research published in Icarus.
  
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• Hitoshi Murayama named one of the 100 influencers in the world

  31-05-2017 06:00
  
  (Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe) Hitoshi Murayama has been named a Genius Contributor for a project celebrating the 100th anniversary of the publication of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, reports the Einstein Legacy Project on May 31.
  
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• Giant ringed planet likely cause of mysterious eclipses

  31-05-2017 06:00
  
  (University of Warwick) A giant gas planet -- up to fifty times the mass of Jupiter, encircled by a ring of dust -- is likely hurtling around a star more than a thousand light years away from Earth, according to new research by an international team of astronomers, led by the University of Warwick.
  
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