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• 'World's oldest wine' found in 8,000-year-old jars in Georgia

  13-11-2017 23:47 via bbc.co.uk
  Pottery found near Tbilisi shows wine-making was taking place 8,000 years ago, scientists say.
  
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• Geologists uncover Antarctica’s fossil forests

  13-11-2017 22:28
  Prehistoric polar forests were built for survival, but were not hardy enough to live in ultra-high concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide. A geologist is studying the tree fossil record in Antarctica from a mass extinction 250 million years ago, looking for clues to how greenhouse gases affected plants -- then and now.
  
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• Drinking age: oldest evidence of wine-making found near Tbilisi

  13-11-2017 22:08
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Oenophiles take note: 5980 BC was a very good year for wine.
  
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• Global carbon pollution rises after 3 straight flat years

  13-11-2017 21:51 via cbc.ca
  Global carbon pollution rose this year after three straight years when emissions of the heat-trapping gas didn't go up at all, scientists reported Monday.
  
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• World's oldest wine found at Stone Age sites in Georgia

  13-11-2017 21:44 via cbc.ca
  The oldest evidence of winemaking to date has been found at an archeological site in Georgia from the end of the Stone Age excavated by Georgian and Canadian researchers.
  
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• Philosophical critique exposes flaws in medical evidence hierarchies

  13-11-2017 20:30
  
  Rankings of research methods for validity of medical evidence suffer from logical flaws, an in-depth philosophical critique concludes.
  
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• Working on Hubble telescope for NASA a 'surreal' experience says Lakehead University grad

  13-11-2017 18:30 via cbc.ca
  Lakehead University engineering graduate Colette Lepage made her dream of working for NASA come true. She was part of the contamination control crew for the Hubble Space Telescope.
  
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• The Lord Howe stick insect is officially back from the dead

  13-11-2017 18:30
  
  New genomic sequencing confirms that stick insects discovered near Lord Howe Island are the assumed-extinct Lord Howe stick insect.
  
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• Exoplanets Lurking in Dusty Disks Reveal Their Secrets

  13-11-2017 17:30 via rss.sciam.com
  A new mathematical model suggests planets interact with these structures in complex ways
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• Venus and Jupiter conjunction: Sky-watchers witness dawn display

  13-11-2017 16:46 via bbc.co.uk
  Enthusiasts across the UK share their photos of the two brightest planets appearing together.
  
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• As Trump tries to revive coal industry, Canada pushes for a phase-out while at UN climate meeting

  13-11-2017 16:04 via cbc.ca
  The fissures in the oft-touted Canada-U.S. relationship will be more apparent than ever this week during the United Nations climate change talks in Germany as Canada pushes to phase out coal as a power source.
  
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• As Trump tries to revive coal industry, Canada pushes for a phase-out at UN climate meeting

  13-11-2017 16:04 via cbc.ca
  The fissures in the Canada-U.S. relationship will be more apparent than ever this week during the United Nations climate change talks in Germany as Canada pushes to phase out coal as a power source.
  
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• More than 15,000 scientists from 184 countries issue 'warning to humanity'

  13-11-2017 16:00 via cbc.ca
  Over 15,000 scientists around the world have issued a global warning: there needs to be change in order to save Earth.
  
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• N.L. student's message in a bottle found in France, draws scientific interest

  13-11-2017 15:41 via cbc.ca
  Devon Maher, 10, gave his father a message in a bottle to drop into the North Atlantic during a crab fishing trip in May 2016. It was found months later, on the other side of the ocean.
  
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• Newfoundland student's message in a bottle found in France, draws scientific interest

  13-11-2017 15:41 via cbc.ca
  Devon Maher, 10, gave his father a message in a bottle to drop into the North Atlantic during a crab fishing trip in May 2016. It was found months later, a world away.
  
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• Antarctica's warm underbelly revealed

  13-11-2017 15:08 via bbc.co.uk
  Scientists make the most detailed map yet of the heat rising under the ice sheet from rocks below.
  
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• Bitcoin surges $1,000 after tumbling all weekend

  13-11-2017 15:06 via cbc.ca
  Bitcoin surged on Monday, recovering more than $1,000 after losing almost a third of its value in less than four days as traders bought back into the volatile cryptocurrency.
  
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• Cholera pandemics are fueled by globe-trotting bacterial strains

  13-11-2017 13:00
  
  International cholera strains, rather than local ones, have caused raging epidemics, according to research that examined the bacteria’s DNA.
  
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• Repair or Renovate? Puerto Rico Faces Stark Power Grid Options

  13-11-2017 12:45 via rss.sciam.com
  The island wants to upgrade its infrastructure, but must first wait for the lights to come back on
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• Virtual infant BabyX prompts question: how do we feel about AI that looks so much like us?

  13-11-2017 11:00 via cbc.ca
  BabyX is a hyper-realistic screen-based simulation of an infant, but it begs the question: Is human likeness something that we want from our machine counterparts?
  
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• Confederation Bridge adapts lamp posts to stop swaying, shearing off

  13-11-2017 11:00 via cbc.ca
  The lamp posts on the Confederation Bridge will soon have some extra weight on top, after concerns about poles being sheared away in high winds in 2015 and 2016.
  
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• First CO2 rise in four years puts pressure on Paris targets

  13-11-2017 09:30 via bbc.co.uk
  Uptick in coal use in China sees global CO2 emissions projected to rise after years of little or no growth.
  
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• Gulf Island beavers temporarily saved from euthanization

  13-11-2017 07:02 via cbc.ca
  A death sentence has been temporarily suspended for a colony of beavers living in the Gulf Islands after a group of concerned citizens threatened to take action.
  
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• Your stress and mine

  13-11-2017 06:00
  (American Friends of Tel Aviv University) A new Tel Aviv University study finds that people often project their own experiences with stress onto their colleagues and employees, causing miscommunication and, often, missed opportunities.
  
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• What can Twitter reveal about people with ADHD?

  13-11-2017 06:00
  (University of Pennsylvania) People with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder tend to tweet using words like 'hate' or 'disappointed,' messages related to lack of focus, self-regulation, intention and failure and expressions of mental, physical and emotional exhaustion, according to research from the University of Pennsylvania. Better understanding this condition can help clinicians more effectively treat patients.
  
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• VTT's solution enables compact devices for telecommunications and security camera applications at even higher frequencies

  13-11-2017 06:00
  (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland) VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed a new manufacturing technology for the integration of very high-frequency terahertz systems.
  
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• UTA's Emotional Robotics Living Lab to focus on robots as companions/caregivers

  13-11-2017 06:00
  (University of Texas at Arlington) The University of Texas at Arlington has launched a new Emotional Robotics Living Lab to investigate what our future will look like with robots and how they can be integrated into the home to provide physical and emotional support.
  
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• Urgent protection for the environment needed to safeguard human health

  13-11-2017 06:00
  (Academy of Medical Sciences (UK)) Strong messages from Dr. Samuel Myers, keynote speaker at The Academy of Medical Sciences & The Lancet International Health Lecture, on how urgent protection of the environment is needed to safeguard human health.
  
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• Urbanization may have a positive effect on the soils

  13-11-2017 06:00
  (RUDN University) Soil scientist from RUDN University (Russia) and his colleagues modeled how the expansion of the boundaries of the city of Moscow would affect the rural landscape in the next 30 years. Scientists came to an unexpected conclusion: urbanization can have a positive impact on the stocks of organic carbon in the soil. The results of the study are presented in the Journal of Cleaner Production.
  
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• UK researchers produce high grade rare earth concentrate from coal source

  13-11-2017 06:00
  (University of Kentucky) University of Kentucky researchers have produced nearly pure rare earth concentrates from Kentucky coal sources using a novel rare earth recovery process.
  
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• UD professor wins microarchitecture award

  13-11-2017 06:00
  (University of Delaware) Guang Gao, a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Delaware, has received the 2017 B. Ramakrishna (Bob) Rau Award from the IEEE Computer Society. It is awarded annually for an outstanding, innovative contribution to microarchitecture, use of novel microarchitectural techniques or compiler/architecture interfacing.
  
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• UC Davis, Leibniz Institute for Photonic Technologies partner in biophotoni

  13-11-2017 06:00
  (University of California - Davis) UC Davis and the Leibniz Institute for Photonic Technologies (Leibniz-IPHT), in Jena, Germany, have entered an agreement of cooperation to establish the Jena-Davis (JEDIS) Alliance of Excellence in Biophotonics, designed to promote North American-German cooperation on research and development in the field of biophotonics. 
  
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• Translational Research Day in Boston to highlight sensors, devices, and biomarkers in medicine

  13-11-2017 06:00
  (Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute) Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) will host Translational Research Day 2017: Sensors, Devices, and Biomarkers in Medicine, on Tuesday, November 14. The event brings together researchers, clinicians, community partners, and the public for presentations, discussions, and a digital poster session.
  
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• The hidden cost of crime: Tanzanians pay as much as 7 percent to protect money from theft

  13-11-2017 06:00
  (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) While sending money to others is often seen as the primary value arising from mobile money, a forthcoming study in the INFORMS journal Marketing Science, a leading scholarly marketing publication, shows that in developing countries, mobile money provides another important source of value -- a form of theft insurance by protecting cash from street robberies and stealing by relatives or burglars at home.
  
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• The anatomy of a cosmic snake reveals the structure of distant galaxies

  13-11-2017 06:00
  (Université de Genève) We have a fair understanding of star formation, from the interstellar matter to the diffuse clouds whose gravitational contraction gives birth to stars. But observations of distant galaxies have questioned this picture, the size and mass of these distant stellar nurseries exceeding that of their local counterparts. Astrophysicists from the universities of Geneva and Zurich have tackled this inconsistency and found the first answers thanks to the observation o
  
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• Supercomputing speeds up deep learning training

  13-11-2017 06:00
  (University of Texas at Austin, Texas Advanced Computing Center) Researchers from UC Berkeley, UC Davis and TACC used Stampede2 to complete a 100-epoch ImageNet deep neural network training in 11 minutes -- the fastest time recorded to date. Using 1600 Skylake processors they also bested Facebook's prior results by finishing a 90-epoch ImageNet training with ResNet-50 in 32 minutes. Given TACC's large user base and huge capacity, this capability will have a major impact across all fields of scie
  
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• Study explores how Scotland and Northern Ireland can fulfil aspirations post-Brexit

  13-11-2017 06:00
  (University of East Anglia) Significant changes to both the current UK and European Union (EU) constitutional frameworks are 'almost unavoidable' in order to accommodate the very different aspirations of Scotland and Northern Ireland post-Brexit.
  
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• Some Latinos believe science may negatively impact their kids' faith

  13-11-2017 06:00
  (Rice University) More than one-third of Latinos interviewed in a recent study believe science education may have a negative impact on the religious faith of their children.
  
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• Sex poses little risk of triggering sudden cardiac arrest

  13-11-2017 06:00
  (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center) Worried whether your heart health is strong enough for sex? A new study may lay your fears to rest: The risk that sex would trigger a sudden cardiac arrest is exceedingly small.
  
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• Scientists to brief UNFCCC's Patricia Espinosa on climate tipping points

  13-11-2017 06:00
  (Future Earth) The Earth statement will be officially launched at a briefing event with the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Patricia Espinosa. Organized by Future Earth and the Earth League.
  
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• Scalable clusters make HPC R&D easy as Raspberry Pi

  13-11-2017 06:00
  (DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory) A quest to help the systems software community work on very large supercomputers without having to actually test on them has spawned an affordable, scalable system using thousands of inexpensive Raspberry Pi nodes.
  
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• Researchers put new spin on old technique to engineer better absorptive materials

  13-11-2017 06:00
  (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) A team of University of Illinois bioengineers has taken a new look at an old tool to help characterize a class of materials called metal organic frameworks -- MOFs for short. MOFs are used to detect, purify and store gases, and could help solve some of the world's most challenging energy, environmental and pharmaceutical challenges -- they can even pull water molecules straight from the air to provide relief from drought.
  
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• Researchers fold a protein within a protein

  13-11-2017 06:00
  (National University of Singapore, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine) A research team led by a clinician scientist at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, has demonstrated it is possible to fold a protein within an engineered protein shell. This is a fundamental breakthrough in synthetic biology with significant applications in the biologics and pharmaceutical sectors.
  
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• Researchers create largest, longest multiphysics earthquake simulation to date

  13-11-2017 06:00
  (Gauss Centre for Supercomputing) A multi-disciplinary team of researchers from LMU and TUM in Munich simulated the largest, longest multiphysics earthquake simulation to date at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre. Its work is up for best paper at SC17.
  
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• Printing a better actuator, actually

  13-11-2017 06:00
  (University of Pittsburgh) The NSF awarded Markus Chmielus, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and materials science at Pitt's Swanson School of Engineering, $296,169 to research how magnetically-enhanced binder jet printing affects the microstructure and properties of magnetic shape-memory alloys. Dr. Steven Ludwick, who works at motion-control product manufacturer Aerotech in Pittsburgh, Pa., is Co-principal Investigator.
  
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• PPPL honors Grierson and Greenough for distinguished research and engineering achievements

  13-11-2017 06:00
  (DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory) Article describes 2017 Kaul Prize and Distinguished Engineering Fellow awards.
  
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• Photopolymerization-triggered molecular motion for flexible liquid crystal display

  13-11-2017 06:00
  (Tokyo Institute of Technology) Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) and McGill University have developed a new dye-free photoalignment method that enables 2-D patterns of liquid crystals in one step by guiding nonpolarized light temporally and spatially on the photopolymerization process.This new method provides a pathway for the simple creation of highly functional organic materials such as flexible liquid crystal devices.
  
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• People will desire something even more if you increase their focus on it

  13-11-2017 06:00
  (Case Western Reserve University) The relationship between desire and attention was long thought to only work in one direction: When a person desires something, they focus their attention on it.
  
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• Parental Medicaid expansion translates into preventive care for their children

  13-11-2017 06:00
  (University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences) When low-income parents enroll in Medicaid through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) state expansion program, their children have considerably better odds of receiving annual preventive care pediatrician visits. This 'spillover effect' demonstrates that the potential benefits of Medicaid expansion extend beyond the newly covered adults.
  
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• NTU Singapore teams up with GERI to enhance well-being of elderly

  13-11-2017 06:00
  (Nanyang Technological University) Community and home-based care, health systems and applications and the psycho-social well-being of older adults will be among key areas of joint research by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and the Geriatric Education and Research Institute (GERI) to help Singapore better manage the demands of being a rapidly ageing society.
  
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