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• Ecological integrity to be top priority for Parks Canada: environment minister

  07-05-2018 23:34 via cbc.ca
  Protecting and conserving the natural environment is Parks Canada's main job, the federal environment minister concludes in her response to a massive public consultation on the future of Canada's national parks.
  
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• Oceanic warming threatens polar wildlife with extinction

  07-05-2018 20:47 via cbc.ca
  Rising ocean temperatures caused by climate-changing emissions could cause catastrophic loss of marine wildlife and drastic changes to ocean food webs by 2100 according to marine biologists.
  
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• New emergency alert system fails test in Quebec, subject to problems in Ontario

  07-05-2018 18:36 via cbc.ca
  Signals for a countrywide public alert system test were meant to be sent to millions of mobile phone, tablet and other device users in Quebec this morning, but no one got them. Ontario also had its problems.
  
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• Mobile phones stay silent as test of new emergency alert system in Quebec fails

  07-05-2018 18:36 via cbc.ca
  Signals for a nationwide public alert system test were meant to be sent to millions of mobile phone, tablet and other device users starting in Quebec at 9:55 a.m. ET, but no one got them.
  
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• 'We're quite frustrated': Red tape threatens growing Arctic space industry

  07-05-2018 18:16 via cbc.ca
  Years of federal bureaucratic delay may cost the North millions of dollars in investment in an emerging high-tech industry.
  
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• Tourism's carbon impact three times larger than estimated

  07-05-2018 17:01 via bbc.co.uk
  A new study says global tourism accounts for 8% of carbon emissions, far larger than previously thought.
  
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• New ideas about how stars die help solve a decades-old mystery

  07-05-2018 17:00
  
  New ideas about stellar evolution help explain why astronomers see so many bright planetary nebulae where they ought not be.
  
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• Globetrotting tourists are leaving a giant carbon footprint on the Earth

  07-05-2018 17:00
  
  Globetrotters are responsible for about 8 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions.
  
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• There are no hidden rooms in King Tut's tomb after all

  07-05-2018 16:42 via cbc.ca
  New radar scans have provided conclusive evidence that there are no hidden rooms inside King Tutankhamun's burial chamber, Egypt's antiquities ministry said Sunday, bringing a disappointing end to years of excitement over the prospect.
  
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• Lava, toxic gas spew from new fissure around Kilauea volcano

  07-05-2018 15:42 via cbc.ca
  Emergency authorities battling lava flows and gas erupting from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano told some residents to "go now" as a new fissure opened and more structures were destroyed.
  
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• Lava and toxic gas spew from new fissures after Kilauea volcano eruption in Hawaii

  07-05-2018 15:42 via cbc.ca
  Emergency authorities battling lava flows and gas erupting from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano told some residents to "go now" as a new fissure opened and more structures were destroyed.
  
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• Fossil footprints tell story of giant sloth hunt during Ice Age

  07-05-2018 15:27 via cbc.ca
  Researchers studying a trail of fossilized footprints on a remote New Mexico salt flat have determined the tracks tell the story of a group of Ice Age hunters stalking a giant sloth.
  
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• Here’s how to use DNA to find elusive sharks

  07-05-2018 13:00
  
  Hard-to-find sharks that divers and cameras miss appear in genetic traces in the ocean.
  
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• U.S. Cities Lose Tree Cover Just When They Need It Most

  07-05-2018 12:45 via rss.sciam.com
  Urbanization is on the rise; so is the urban heat island effect—a situation that is worsening with the decline of tree cover in U.S. metropolitan areas-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
  
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• InSight Diary: Mars mission emerges from the mists

  07-05-2018 11:58 via bbc.co.uk
  London scientist Tom Pike watches his experiment leave Earth on a six-month journey to Mars.
  
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• Canadian phones to get emergency alert tests this week— here's when to expect yours

  07-05-2018 11:06 via cbc.ca
  Mobile devices hooked to LTE service will sound, vibrate as emergency management officials test a new national public alert system.
  
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• Canadian phones to get emergency alert tests this week, here's when to expect yours

  07-05-2018 11:06 via cbc.ca
  Mobile devices hooked to LTE service will sound, vibrate as emergency management officials test a new national public alert system.
  
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• Women's preference for masculine faces not linked with hormones

  07-05-2018 06:00
  (Association for Psychological Science) Data from almost 600 participants show that women's perceptions of male attractiveness do not vary according to their hormone levels, in contrast with some previous research. The study findings are published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.
  
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• Women see through flashy cars and bling

  07-05-2018 06:00
  (Springer) When a man throws money around on flashy cars, people intuitively interpret this behavior as a sign that he is more interested in short-term sexual relationships than in romantic commitment. This is according to Daniel Kruger of the University of Michigan and Jessica Kruger at the University at Buffalo in the US, in a study published in Springer's journal Evolutionary Psychological Science.
  
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• Will automated vehicles take the stress out of driving? Research says 'don't count on it'

  07-05-2018 06:00
  (Human Factors and Ergonomics Society) Automated system designers take note: Attention erodes the longer the driver is not actively engaged in manual driving.
  
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• Why people become more prone to distraction with age

  07-05-2018 06:00
  (University of Southern California) The locus coeruleus is a nucleus that controls attention, memory and alertness, but a USC-led study shows that it seems to weaken in later years.
  
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• What will happen when our sun dies?

  07-05-2018 06:00
  (University of Manchester) Scientists agree the sun will die in approximately 10 billion years, but they weren't sure what would happen next...until now. A team of international astronomers, including Professor Albert Zijlstra from the University of Manchester, predict it will turn into a massive ring of luminous, interstellar gas and dust, known as a planetary nebula.
  
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• Vulnerable communities may be adversely affected by the transition to cleaner energy

  07-05-2018 06:00
  (Indiana University) Indiana University researchers have developed a method for identifying communities that may be negatively affected by clean energy policies that hasten the move from fossil fuels to more environmentally friendly solutions.
  
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• UTSA receives $1 million grant to increase student success and diversity

  07-05-2018 06:00
  (University of Texas at San Antonio) The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) has received a nearly $1 million, five-year grant from the National Science Foundation to increase diversity and student success in computer science. Led by Turgay Korkmaz, UTSA associate professor of computer science, and Larry Clark, a computer science lecturer, the program will support high-achieving, low-income students and engage underrepresented female and minority students by offering 62 undergraduate schol
  
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• Tufts CTSI receives $56 Million NIH Clinical and Translational Science Award

  07-05-2018 06:00
  (Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute) Tufts University and Tufts Medical Center today announced that the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences has named Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) a recipient of the 2018 Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA). This award, Tufts CTSI's third since 2008, provides more than $56 million in federal funding to support the Institute's local, regional, and national res
  
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• Transistor fabrication onto curved surface means turn toward better diabetes therapy

  07-05-2018 06:00
  (Oregon State University) Transparent transistors fabricated onto the sharp curves of a tiny glass tube are paving the way toward a therapeutic advance for the nearly 10 percent of the US population who have diabetes.
  
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• Toxicity and other health risks of electronic tobacco heating system

  07-05-2018 06:00
  (Kazan Federal University) As the researchers concluded, ETHS use does not present new risks for adult smokers in comparison with smokers of standard cigarettes.
  
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• Towards smart and green shipping

  07-05-2018 06:00
  (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland) INTENS, a VTT-coordinated Finnish research-industry collaborative consortium, has jointly committed over €13 million in the next three years.
  
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• This self-driving car could one day take you on a real road trip

  07-05-2018 06:00
  
  Most autonomous cars are city drivers. This one’s made for cross-country road trips.
  
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• The NUP/UPNA designs 2 antennas for lighter, more economic communications satellites

  07-05-2018 06:00
  (Elhuyar Fundazioa) A telecommunications engineer at the NUP/UPNA-Public University of Navarre has designed two antenna prototypes for communications satellites; they offer more lightweight solutions, are less bulky than the ones used conventionally and constitute considerable savings for the space industry, which has already expressed an interest in them. The ESA-European Space Agency, among others, has collaborated in her work.
  
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• Study finds better measures than a person's occupation to predict long-term earnings

  07-05-2018 06:00
  (University of Kansas) In a new study, researchers found that a person's cross-sectional annual earnings taken at one point in time have greater predictive power of his or her 20-year long-term earnings, ahead of occupation-based classifications.
  
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• Study: Alcohol-related cirrhosis patients are sicker, costlier and often female

  07-05-2018 06:00
  (Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) A new review by Michigan Medicine finds that women drinkers are disproportionately affected in alcohol-related cirrhosis cases. Why -- and what's next.
  
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• Study adds new evidence that infants track others' mental states

  07-05-2018 06:00
  (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) A brain-imaging study offers new support for the idea that infants can accurately track other people's beliefs. When 7-month-old infants in the study viewed videos of an actor who saw -- or failed to see -- an object being moved to a new location, activity in a brain region known to play a role in processing others' beliefs changed in the infants just as it did in adults watching the same videos.
  
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• Social context matters in spread of disease

  07-05-2018 06:00
  (Rice University) 'Patient zero' isn't entirely to blame when an infection takes root in a population. According to Rice University scientists, social context in the community has a lot to do with how a disease spreads.
  
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• Self-driving cars for country roads

  07-05-2018 06:00
  (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, CSAIL ) Uber's recent self-driving car fatality underscores the fact that the technology is still not ready for widespread adoption. One reason is that there aren't many places where self-driving cars can actually drive. Companies like Google only test their fleets in major cities where they've spent countless hours meticulously labeling the exact 3D positions of lanes, curbs, off-ramps and stop signs.
  
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• Scientists make strong, super-tough carbon sheets at low temperature

  07-05-2018 06:00
  (University of Texas at Dallas) An international research team led by scientists at Beihang University in China and The University of Texas at Dallas has developed high-strength, super-tough sheets of carbon that can be inexpensively fabricated at low temperatures. The team made the sheets by chemically stitching together platelets of graphitic carbon, which is similar to the graphite found in the soft lead of an ordinary pencil.
  
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• Scientists from Samara Polytech developed Oceanologist robot

  07-05-2018 06:00
  (Samara Polytech (Samara State Technical University)) The unique project of Samara Polytech will be very useful for the World Ocean studying. With the help of these robots it is possible to carry out reconnaissance of the underwater situation around the oil platforms, to control the volume and composition of bio resources, to study the minerals deposits, to notify of emergency situations.
  
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• Re­search­ers teach ro­bots to touch

  07-05-2018 06:00
  (University of Helsinki) Touching and grasping objects are surprisingly complex processes, an area where contemporary robots are still clumsy. Principal investigator Jukka Häkkinen, Ph.D., and post-doctoral researcher Jussi Hakala, D.Sc. (Tech), have developed an imaging method for measuring human touch.
  
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• Reflecting on possessions can curb people's impulse buying

  07-05-2018 06:00
  (Rice University) Consumers who reflected on their recently used personal belongings experienced less desire for an unexpectedly encountered product, were less likely to buy impulsively and expressed a lower willingness to pay for new products, according to a new paper by marketing and consumer behavior experts at Rice University.
  
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• Providing clinicians feedback on their Opioid prescribing data alters future prescribing

  07-05-2018 06:00
  (Society for Academic Emergency Medicine) Asking emergency department (ED) providers to self-identify their opioid prescribing practices and then providing them with timely, clinically relevant, individualized, and actionable feedback on their actual opioid prescribing data, significantly decreases future opioid prescribing among providers who underestimate their baseline prescribing.
  
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• Protecting confidentiality in genomic studies

  07-05-2018 06:00
  (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) MIT and Stanford researchers have developed a system for protecting the privacy of people who contribute genomic data to biomedical studies. The cryptographic system could enable 'crowdsourced' genomics studies involving as many as a million genomes.
  
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• PolyU endeavors in disaster management and disaster risk reduction

  07-05-2018 06:00
  (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University ) In the past decade after the devastated 5.12 Wenchuan Earthquake in Sichuan, academics and students from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) have been working on a series of inter-disciplinary projects to help enhance the resilience of the affected communities.
  
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• Planetary waves similar to those that control weather on Earth discovered on Sun

  07-05-2018 06:00
  (Rubenstein Associates, Inc.) An international team of scientists, led by Laurent Gizon, co-principal investigator of the Center for Space Science at NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), have discovered planetary waves of vorticity on and inside the Sun similar to those that significantly influence weather on Earth.
  
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• Pioneering new 3D cancer model to speed new treatments

  07-05-2018 06:00
  (University of Virginia Health System) A new 3D cancer model that can mimic the complex nature and behavior of a real tumor will accelerate the development of new and better cancer treatments.
  
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• Parenting concerns create challenges for mothers with advanced cancer and dependent children

  07-05-2018 06:00
  (Wiley) A new study indicates that parenting concerns are associated with poor health-related quality of life among women with metastatic cancer who are parents of dependent children.
  
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• Nursing home residents with advanced dementia have lower mortality rate with hip surgery

  07-05-2018 06:00
  (Hebrew SeniorLife Institute for Aging Research) Researchers from Hebrew SeniorLife's Institute for Aging Research and Brown University have conducted the first study to examine outcomes in nursing home residents with advanced dementia and hip fracture. They discovered that advanced dementia residents have a lower mortality rate after 6 months, if they undergo surgical repair. Those advanced dementia patients managed with surgery also reported less pain and fewer pressure ulcers than those whose
  
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• Novel solution to a GPS blind spot for safer and smarter driving experience

  07-05-2018 06:00
  (The University of Hong Kong) HKU offers a novel solution to this long existing vehicle navigation problem since GPS was used over 20 years ago by instantly identifying whether a vehicle has entered a flyover or is still on the ground level.
  
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• New study links strong pupillary light reflex in infancy to later autism diagnosis

  07-05-2018 06:00
  (Uppsala University) A new study published in Nature Communications shows that infants who are later diagnosed with autism react more strongly to sudden changes in light. This finding provides support for the view that sensory processing plays an important role in the development of the disorder.
  
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• New software, HyperTools, transforms complex data into visualizable shapes

  07-05-2018 06:00
  (Dartmouth College) Every dataset in the observable universe has a fundamental geometry or shape to it, but that structure can be highly complicated. To make it easier to visualize complicated datasets, a Dartmouth research team has created HyperTools -- an open-source software package that leverages a suite of mathematical techniques to gain intuitions about high-dimensional datasets through the underlying geometric structures they reflect.
  
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• New research training group investigates autarkic fiber composites

  07-05-2018 06:00
  (Technische Universität Dresden) The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved the new Research Training Group 2430 'Interactive Fibre-Elastomer Composites' at TU Dresden in cooperation with the Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden.
  
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