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• Using astronomy to save a species

  04-04-2018 22:25 via bbc.co.uk
  Scientists have been developing a technique to count animals that is usually used to map stars.
  
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• Scotian Shelf snow-crab fishery keeps sustainability certification

  04-04-2018 20:59 via cbc.ca
  The Marine Stewardship Council environmental sustainability certification tells shoppers the seafood is caught in an environmentally sustainable manner.
  
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• Facebook says more than 600,000 Canadians may have had data shared with Cambridge Analytica

  04-04-2018 20:55 via cbc.ca
  Facebook says an estimated 622,161 Canadians may have had their data shared with the British company Cambridge Analytica. In a conference call with reporters, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said: "We didn't take a broad enough view of what our responsibility was. And that was a huge mistake. That was my mistake."
  
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• Dozen black holes found at galactic centre

  04-04-2018 20:40 via bbc.co.uk
  A dozen black holes may lie at the centre of our galaxy, the Milky Way, researchers say.
  
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• Efforts to contain Mississippi floods may have made them worse

  04-04-2018 20:21
  
  Intensive management of the Mississippi River has increased the size of its largest floods, suggests a new study.
  
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• Zika Exposure Even after Birth May Lead to Brain Damage

  04-04-2018 20:00 via rss.sciam.com
  A monkey study heightens concerns about widespread harm from the virus-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
  
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• Watch Live Today: Scripting the "Quantum Age" with Tools Fashioned from Subatomic Particles

  04-04-2018 20:00 via rss.sciam.com
  Quantum matter researcher Rob Moore discusses how novel materials harnessing the quantum properties of atoms and electrons will define the next generation of technology-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
  
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• Video game addiction a disorder? WHO says, yes

  04-04-2018 19:44 via cbc.ca
  The WHO has said it will include "gaming disorder" in a June update to its International Classification of Diseases.
  
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• Video game addiction a disease? WHO says, yes

  04-04-2018 19:44 via cbc.ca
  The WHO has said it will include "gaming disorder" in a June update to its International Classification of Diseases.
  
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• B.C. scorpionfly discovery highlights prehistoric link between Canada and Russia

  04-04-2018 19:27 via cbc.ca
  A B.C. researcher's identification of the colourfully winged, 53 million-year-old species is another example of the countries' ancient geographical link, before the continents split apart.
  
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• Centre of Milky Way home to 10,000 black holes, study suggests

  04-04-2018 19:00 via cbc.ca
  At the centre of our galaxy lies a supermassive black hole, about 4 million times the mass of our sun. But it's not alone.
  
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• Astronomers Spy Swarms of Black Holes at Our Galaxy's Core

  04-04-2018 19:00 via rss.sciam.com
  Anticipated but never before seen, the existence of tens of thousands of these dark objects at the galactic center could have far-reaching implications for astrophysics-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
  
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• A new coronavirus is killing pigs in China

  04-04-2018 19:00
  
  Genetic evidence identifies a previously unknown coronavirus that’s causing problems in pigs.
  
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• A dozen new black holes found in Milky Way’s center

  04-04-2018 19:00
  
  Twelve small black holes spotted in the Milky Way’s center suggest thousands more in the galaxy’s inner region.
  
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• Births of endangered Suffolk punch foals celebrated

  04-04-2018 18:37 via bbc.co.uk
  Two Suffolk punch horses are being put forward for a charity's breeding programme.
  
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• This pink salmon swam further up the Mackenzie River than ever recorded

  04-04-2018 18:04 via cbc.ca
  Two pink salmon have been found near Fort Good Hope, N.W.T., 260 kilometres farther up the Mackenzie River than ever reported.
  
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• This pink salmon swam farther up the Mackenzie River than ever recorded

  04-04-2018 18:04 via cbc.ca
  Two pink salmon have been found near Fort Good Hope, N.W.T., 260 kilometres farther up the Mackenzie River than ever reported.
  
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• The fish that could: Pink salmon recorded further up Mackenzie River than ever before

  04-04-2018 18:04 via cbc.ca
  Two pink salmon have been found near Fort Good Hope, N.W.T., 260 kilometres farther up the Mackenzie River than ever reported.
  
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• Arctic jazz: bowhead whales have amazingly diverse songbook

  04-04-2018 17:49
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Bowhead whales, the black filter-feeding giants of the Arctic that can live for 200 years devouring tons of tiny marine creatures, boast another remarkable quality. Their unique underwater songs make them wonderful "jazz" artists.
  
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• New map lets Canadians see just how hot hometowns could get this century

  04-04-2018 17:00 via cbc.ca
  An ambitious new mapping project gives Canadians a chance to peer into the near future and visualize just how hot a warming climate could make their own backyards over the next 80 years.
  
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• Great white shark follows police off Australian coast

  04-04-2018 16:46 via bbc.co.uk
  They were patrolling off the South Australian coast when they noticed something behind them.
  
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• Island emus’ size related to size of island homes

  04-04-2018 15:51
  Emus that lived isolated on Australia’s offshore islands until the 19th century, including Kangaroo Island, King Island and Tasmania, were smaller versions of their larger mainland relatives – and their overall body size correlated to the size of the islands they inhabited.
  
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• Toronto's odds of becoming Amazon's new home could be increasing, one tweet at a time

  04-04-2018 15:43 via cbc.ca
  The quick-to-tweet American president's recent flurry of posts attacking Amazon.com raises the political stakes in the tech titan's consideration of Toronto, the only non-American city on the short list, for its second headquarters.
  
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• Arctic jazz: Bowhead whales improvise when singing, study says

  04-04-2018 14:46 via cbc.ca
  Scientists eavesdropping on bowhead whales in the Arctic have found that they're more prolific and downright jazzier than other whales.
  
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• When deciding whether to bank your baby’s umbilical cord blood, consider these caveats

  04-04-2018 13:00
  
  Despite all the excitement, the cells found in cord blood may not be as useful as advertised.
  
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• Urban Bungle: Atlanta Cyber Attack Puts Other Cities on Notice

  04-04-2018 12:45 via rss.sciam.com
  The city has spent the past two weeks restoring online services disrupted by ransomware that held encrypted data hostage-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
  
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• Dog survives fire, gets hyperbaric chamber treatment in Ottawa

  04-04-2018 12:41 via cbc.ca
  A mixed terrier named Ginger is being treated in a hyperbaric chamber after surviving a fire that killed two other pets and destroyed the family home in Maxville, north of Cornwall, Ont., all while the dog's owner was in hospital having a baby.
  
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• Nearly a third of Canadians don't believe humans, industry 'mostly' cause climate change: poll

  04-04-2018 11:00 via cbc.ca
  Nearly a third of Canadians say they're not convinced that climate change is being caused by human and industrial activity, according to a newly released Abacus Data poll.
  
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• Developing nations to study ways to dim sunshine, slow warming

  04-04-2018 10:46
  OSLO (Reuters) - Scientists in developing nations plan to step up research into dimming sunshine to curb climate change, hoping to judge if a man-made chemical sunshade would be less risky than a harmful rise in global temperatures.
  
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• Arctic lake's ecosystem changes after 1 degree of warming, study shows

  04-04-2018 10:00 via cbc.ca
  Climate change could be altering northern ecosystems more quickly and profoundly than anyone surmised, suggests a study that focused on a large Arctic lake.
  
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• Suspected YouTube shooter 'hated' the company, father says

  04-04-2018 08:13 via cbc.ca
  A woman suspected of shooting three people at YouTube headquarters before killing herself was furious with the company because it had stopped paying her for videos she posted on the platform, her father says.
  
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• Police work on theory YouTube shooter motivated by grudge against company

  04-04-2018 08:13 via cbc.ca
  Police in San Bruno, Calif., said Wednesday they are working with YouTube to investigate how a woman who was not an employee of the company was able to enter a courtyard and shoot and injure three people before fatally shooting herself.
  
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• Who's smarter in the classroom -- men or women?

  04-04-2018 06:00
  (Arizona State University) A first-of-its-kind study by researchers at Arizona State University shows that in the college biology classroom, men perceive themselves as smarter, even when compared to women whose grades prove they are just as smart. The study, published April 4 in the journal Advances in Physiology Education, shows that gender greatly impacts students' perceptions of their own intelligence, particularly when they compare themselves to others.
  
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• What lies beneath: 'Cognitive' GPR could vastly speed urban construction

  04-04-2018 06:00
  (University of Vermont) Technology being developed by the universities of Vermont and Tennessee uses ground-penetrating radar integrated with photogrammetry and augmented reality apps to provide a view of buried infrastructure six to 12 feet underground at construction sites, vastly speeding the site inspection process.
  
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• Visually appealing solar modules as architectural elements in building facades

  04-04-2018 06:00
  (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland) VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Metropolia University of Applied Sciences together with the industrial partners are investigating opportunities to extend integration of visually attractive solar modules into architecture of building facades. Also, the commercialization routes based on the circular economy are being explored.
  
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• UTHealth finds unprecedented psychological distress months after Harvey

  04-04-2018 06:00
  (University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston) Four months after Hurricane Harvey soaked the Houston area and displaced more than a third of the population, an alarming 52 percent of Harris County residents said they were still struggling to recover, according to a new report from The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) School of Public Health.
  
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• US power sector carbon emissions intensity drops to lowest on record

  04-04-2018 06:00
  (College of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University) Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems (MHPS) and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) today announced the release of the 2018 Carnegie Mellon Power Sector Carbon Index, at CMU Energy Week, hosted by the Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation. The Index tracks the environmental performance of US power producers and compares current emissions to more than two decades of historical data collected nationwide.This release marks the one-year anniver
  
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• Updated ASTRO guideline for palliative lung RT recommends concurrent chemo for some stage III pts

  04-04-2018 06:00
  (American Society for Radiation Oncology) The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) today issued an update to its clinical guideline for the use of palliative-intent radiation therapy for patients with incurable non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Reflecting new evidence from randomized clinical trials, the guideline now recommends the addition of concurrent chemotherapy to radiation therapy for certain patients with incurable stage III NSCLC, including those who are able to tolerate c
  
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• Tuning in to magnetic ink

  04-04-2018 06:00
  (King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST)) A new ink containing iron-oxide nanoparticles can be turned into fully printed and versatile components for cellular networks.
  
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• TrueBrainConnect: Predicting brain disorders

  04-04-2018 06:00
  (Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin) Hosted by Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, the TrueBrainConnect project aims to systematically study connections between different areas of the brain, and hopes to draw conclusions regarding potential disease patterns. A team of researchers, led by Dr. Stefan Haufe -- a computer scientist and expert in the field of machine learning -- are hoping to produce complex models capable of predicting different mental states. Their researc
  
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• Treating vision loss

  04-04-2018 06:00
  (University of California - Santa Barbara) Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) affects more than 1.75 million individuals in the United States. Because the population is aging, that number will increase to almost 3 million by 2020. Between 80 and 90 percent of cases in this country are the dry version of the condition, for which no effective treatment exists.
  
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• Tough situation after giving birth for women with type-1 diabetes

  04-04-2018 06:00
  (University of Gothenburg) Holding a newborn baby -- and, at the same time, dealing with a blood sugar level that is fluctuating like never before. For some women with type-1 diabetes, the situation right after giving birth is overwhelming, and they need more support, according to research at Sahlgrenska Academy.
  
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• Study shows how moms' brains are hard-wired to gather young

  04-04-2018 06:00
  (NYU Langone Health / NYU School of Medicine) A mother's 'basic instinct' to grab her wandering offspring and return them to the nest depends on a specific set of brain cell signals, a new study in mice finds.
  
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• Study: Get moving to get happier

  04-04-2018 06:00
  (University of Michigan) Physical activity has long been known to reduce depression and anxiety, and is commonly prescribed to prevent or cure negative mental health conditions.
  
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• Smart ink adds new dimensions to 3-D printing

  04-04-2018 06:00
  (Dartmouth College) New smart ink turns 3-D-printed structures into objects that can change shape and color.
  
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• Shaping behavior, not changing minds, more effective in boosting vaccination rates

  04-04-2018 06:00
  (University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) A comprehensive review of scientific literature surrounding the psychology of vaccinations has shown that shaping behavior rather than trying to change minds is far more effective at persuading people to get immunized.
  
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• Self-healing metal oxides could protect against corrosion

  04-04-2018 06:00
  (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Researchers find a solid protective coating material that can flow like a liquid to repair any cracks that develop.
  
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• Satellites, supercomputers, and machine learning provide real-time crop type data

  04-04-2018 06:00
  (University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences) Corn and soybean fields look similar from space -- at least they used to. But now, scientists have proven a new technique for distinguishing the two crops using satellite data and the processing power of supercomputers.
  
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• 'Rockoons' may soon make launching satellites into space more accessible

  04-04-2018 06:00
  (Purdue University) A Purdue University-affiliated startup is seeking to open up access to space for microsatellite companies by modernizing a launch technique first used in the 1950s. Leo Aerospace LLC plans to use 'rockoons,' or high-altitude balloons, that launch rockets into suborbital and orbital flights. Suborbital launches are frequently used by researchers who need access to zero gravity or vacuums for experiment, while orbital flights are used by satellites.
  
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• Robotics takes mass spec to the third dimension for forensics, pharma applications

  04-04-2018 06:00
  (American Chemical Society) Within the past decade, many advancements have been made in the 3-D market from printing to movies. Now scientists report in ACS' Analytical Chemistry that by combining a robotic arm and mass spectrometry, they can analyze the surface of irregularly shaped 3-D objects, potentially opening up new branches of forensics and pharmaceutics.
  
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