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• France doubts UK would develop own satnav rival to Galileo

  04-06-2018 23:46
  PARIS (Reuters) - France does not think Britain will launch a rival to the European Union's Galileo satellite navigation system, according to minutes from a meeting between a cabinet minister and lawmakers.
  
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• Small asteroid on collision course with Earth discovered only hours before impact

  04-06-2018 22:29 via cbc.ca
  An asteroid on a collision course with Earth broke up after entering the atmosphere over southern Africa on Saturday just eight hours after it was discovered.
  
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• Apple's unveils 'do not disturb' mode, augmented reality measuring tool

  04-06-2018 20:46 via cbc.ca
  Apple has introduced new controls for limiting how much time customers spend on their devices, along with an augmented reality tool that lets you measure real-life objects with your device's camera.
  
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• Apple unveils 'do not disturb' mode, augmented reality measuring tool

  04-06-2018 20:46 via cbc.ca
  Apple has introduced new controls for limiting how much time customers spend on their devices, along with an augmented reality tool that lets you measure real-life objects with your device's camera.
  
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• Apple expands 'do not disturb' options, cracks down on Facebook tracking

  04-06-2018 20:46 via cbc.ca
  Apple will offer more ways for people to limit the time they spend on iPhones while introducing features designed to make its products even more indispensable. And it's taking a swipe at Facebook's ability to track users online.
  
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• Carbon 'bubble' could cost global economy trillions

  04-06-2018 18:18 via bbc.co.uk
  Technology and energy efficiency could see a rapid fall in demand for fossil fuels even without new climate policies.
  
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• Microsoft paying $7.5B US for GitHub

  04-06-2018 16:40 via cbc.ca
  Microsoft says it's paying $7.5 billion US in stock for the popular GitHub, a platform where software developers can go to host and review each other's code.
  
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• Take a virtual trip to an alien world

  04-06-2018 16:00
  
  NASA’s Exoplanet Travel Bureau website lets you view what alien landscapes might look like.
  
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• Facebook fends off New York Times claims over data access

  04-06-2018 14:24 via cbc.ca
  Facebook Inc. on Sunday rejected claims by the New York Times that it had allowed Apple and other major device makers 'deep' access to users' personal data saying any such links were tightly controlled and largely subject to users' consent.
  
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• ‘Outbreak’ puts the life cycle of an epidemic on display

  04-06-2018 13:00
  
  At the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, the exhibit “Outbreak” highlights how infectious diseases shape our world.
  
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• There's an "Inverse Piano" in Your Head

  04-06-2018 12:45 via rss.sciam.com
  A Kavli Prize–winning scientist details the magic of transforming vibrations into sound in the inner ear-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
  
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• Does Jurassic Park make scientific sense?

  04-06-2018 11:46 via bbc.co.uk
  How were the dinosaurs of Jurassic Park created, and what have we learned about them since?
  
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• Zero plastic waste goals for Canada shared by environmentalists, industry

  04-06-2018 10:00 via cbc.ca
  Canadian environmental groups and the Canadian plastics industry are both calling for ambitious national targets to boost recycling and eliminate litter from plastic packaging and single-use plastics like plastic bags and cutlery within the next decade or so.
  
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• Industry wants zero plastic packaging in Canada's landfills by 2040

  04-06-2018 10:00 via cbc.ca
  The Canadian plastics industry aims to make all plastic packaging recyclable or 'recoverable' by 2030 and actually diverted from landfill by 2040. Meanwhile, environmental groups say they want to eliminate litter from single-use plastics like bags, bottles and cutlery by 2025.
  
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• Canada-wide rules to cut plastic waste proposed by 33 environmental groups

  04-06-2018 10:00 via cbc.ca
  Canada should ban hard-to-recycle plastics and require single-use plastic to contain 75 per cent recycled content, says a group of 33 environmental and civil society groups that aim to eliminate plastic waste by 2030.
  
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• Guatemala volcano eruption leaves at least 25 dead

  04-06-2018 06:36 via cbc.ca
  Authorities in Guatemala say 18 more people have been confirmed killed by a volcanic eruption, raising the death toll to 25.
  
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• Guatemala volcano death toll reaches at least 62

  04-06-2018 06:36 via cbc.ca
  Rescuers have pulled at least 10 people alive from ash drifts and mud flows that poured down the slopes of Guatemala's erupting Volcano of Fire, but officials said at least 62 people were dead.
  
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• Guatemala volcano death toll reaches at least 33, expected to rise

  04-06-2018 06:36 via cbc.ca
  Rescuers have pulled at least 10 people alive from ash drifts and mud flows that poured down the slopes of Guatemala's erupting Volcano of Fire, but officials said at least 33 people were dead and the toll was expected to rise.
  
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• Wireless system can power devices inside the body

  04-06-2018 06:00
  (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) MIT researchers have developed a new way to power and communicate with devices implanted deep within the human body. Such devices could be used to deliver drugs, monitor conditions inside the body, or treat disease by stimulating the brain with electricity or light.
  
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• Wayne State professor receives NSF CAREER award for vaccine adjuvant research

  04-06-2018 06:00
  (Wayne State University - Office of the Vice President for Research) Haipeng Liu, Ph.D., assistant professor of chemical engineering at Wayne State University, received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation to fund his research on vaccine adjuvants that can improve the treatment and care of cancer patients.
  
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• Try togetherness: Study promotes cooperative weed management to curb herbicide resistance

  04-06-2018 06:00
  (University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences) In the fight against herbicide resistance, farmers are working with a shrinking toolkit. Waterhemp, a weedy nemesis of corn and soybean farmers, has developed resistance to multiple herbicide modes of action, often in the same plant. Even farmers using the latest recommendations for tank mixtures are fighting an uphill battle, with long-distance movement of pollen and seeds bringing the potential for new types
  
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• Trauma from parents' youth linked to poorer health, asthma in their own children

  04-06-2018 06:00
  (Drexel University) A Drexel University study found that for each type of adverse childhood experience a parent went through, their children had 19 percent higher odds of poorer health.
  
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• The Haas School of Business partners with Ripple to speed innovation in blockchain and cryptocurrency

  04-06-2018 06:00
  (University of California - Berkeley Haas School of Business) Berkeley Haas will receive a multi-year, multi-million-dollar gift from Ripple to build on the school's leadership in advancing understanding of how these technologies are transforming multiple industries, and in educating leaders who will bring them to market.
  
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• Thank the moon for Earth's lengthening day

  04-06-2018 06:00
  (University of Wisconsin-Madison) A new study that reconstructs the deep history of our planet's relationship to the moon shows that 1.4 billion years ago, a day on Earth lasted just over 18 hours. This is at least in part because the moon was closer and changed the way the Earth spun around its axis.
  
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• Study suggests Earth could have supported continental crust, life earlier than thought

  04-06-2018 06:00
  (University of Chicago) The early Earth might have been habitable much earlier than thought, according to new research from a group led by University of Chicago scientists.
  
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• Study links screen time to insomnia symptoms and depressive symptoms in adolescents

  04-06-2018 06:00
  (American Academy of Sleep Medicine) Preliminary results from a new study indicate that greater amounts of daily screen time are associated with more insomnia symptoms and shorter sleep duration among adolescents.
  
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• Study: Exercise mitigates genetic effects of obesity later in life

  04-06-2018 06:00
  (University at Buffalo) A new study suggests, for the first time in women over age 70, that working up a sweat can reduce the influence one's genes have on obesity.
  
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• Sleep paralysis and hallucinations are prevalent in student athletes

  04-06-2018 06:00
  (American Academy of Sleep Medicine) Pilot data from a recent study suggest that sleep paralysis and dream-like hallucinations as you are falling asleep or waking up are widespread in student athletes and are independently associated with symptoms of depression.
  
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• SensTek licenses pH sensor developed by UTA faculty member

  04-06-2018 06:00
  (University of Texas at Arlington) California startup SensTek has licensed pH sensor technology linked to two issued patents developed by University of Texas at Arlington electrical engineering professor J.C. Chiao.
  
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• Rutgers-led research could lead to more efficient electronics

  04-06-2018 06:00
  (Rutgers University) A Rutgers-led team of physicists has demonstrated a way to conduct electricity between transistors without energy loss, opening the door to low-power electronics and, potentially, quantum computing that would be far faster than today's computers. Their findings, which involved using a special mix of materials with magnetic and insulator properties, are published online in Nature Physics.
  
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• Resolving molecule information in dynamic lipid membrane with metasurfaces

  04-06-2018 06:00
  (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) Researchers at EPFL (Switzerland) and their colleagues from the USA introduce a mid-infrared biosensor based on a novel multi-resonant metasurface, which, for the first time, is able to distinguish multiple analytes in heterogeneous biological samples non-destructively, in real-time and with high sensitivity.
  
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• Proxies who watch advanced care planning video more likely to withhold feeding tubes

  04-06-2018 06:00
  (Hebrew SeniorLife Institute for Aging Research) Researchers from Hebrew SeniorLife's Institute for Aging Research (IFAR) and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have discovered that nursing home residents with advanced dementia are more likely to have advance directives that indicate they did should not get feeding tubes after their proxies viewed a 12-minute video on advance care planning.
  
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• Preschool program preps kids for academic success through elementary school

  04-06-2018 06:00
  (Penn State) A program that helps low-income parents prepare their children for school has benefits that extend beyond kindergarten and into into third grade, including performing better academically, acquiring better social emotional skills and needing fewer additional school services.
  
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• Preschool and school-age irritability predict reward-related brain function

  04-06-2018 06:00
  (Elsevier) Preschool irritability and concurrent irritability were uniquely associated with aberrant patterns of reward-related brain connectivity, highlighting the importance of developmental timing of irritability for brain function, finds a study published in the June 2018 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP).
  
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• Pitt's David Vorp named Fellow of the American Heart Association

  04-06-2018 06:00
  (University of Pittsburgh) David A. Vorp, Associate Dean for Research and John A. Swanson Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering, was named a Fellow of the American Heart Association (FAHA) in recognition of his innovative and sustained contributions in scholarship, education, and volunteer service to the organization. Vorp's election was conferred by the Council on Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology (ATVB) recognizing his work in
  
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• Physicists use terahertz flashes to uncover state of matter hidden by superconductivity

  04-06-2018 06:00
  (Iowa State University) A research team led by Jigang Wang of Iowa State University and the Ames Laboratory has developed a new quantum switching scheme that gives them access to new and hidden states of matter. If researchers can learn to control the hidden state, further stabilize it and determine whether it's suitable for quantum logic operations, it could allow researchers to use it for quantum computing and other practical functions. The journal Nature Materials has just published a paper a
  
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• On the origins of agriculture, researchers uncover new clues

  04-06-2018 06:00
  (Colorado State University) Researchers have uncovered evidence that underscores one long-debated theory: that agriculture arose out of moments of surplus, when environmental conditions were improving, and populations lived in greater densities.
  
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• Non-pharmacologic approaches improve outcomes for infants with neonatal abstinence syndrome

  04-06-2018 06:00
  (Boston Medical Center) A quality improvement (QI) initiative at Boston Medical Center that focused on using non-pharmacologic approaches to care for infants with neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) yielded positive short-term outcomes for both the mothers and infants. The results, published in the Journal of Perinatology, showed a decrease in medication use, length of stay, and health care costs.
  
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• NIST atomic clock comparison confirms key assumptions of 'Einstein's elevator'

  04-06-2018 06:00
  (National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)) By comparing different types of remote atomic clocks, physicists at the National Institute of Standardsand Technology (NIST) have performed the most accurate test ever of a key principle underlying AlbertEinstein's famous theory of general relativity, which describes how gravity relates to space and time.
  
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• NFL teams play better during night games thanks to circadian advantages

  04-06-2018 06:00
  (American Academy of Sleep Medicine) Pilot data from a recent study suggest that NFL teams have better performance during night games versus afternoon games due to advantages from circadian rhythms.
  
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• New nanoparticles help to detect serious scarring of wounds

  04-06-2018 06:00
  (Nanyang Technological University) A new way of seeing when heavy wound scars are forming, and providing doctors the chance to intervene, has been developed by scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and Northwestern University in the United States.
  
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• New mechanisms discovered to separate air

  04-06-2018 06:00
  (Shinshu University) Unlike the windows of your house, nanoscale holes in graphene (named as 'nanowindows') can selectively choose which type of air molecules can pass through.Scientists from Shinshu University and PSL University, France, theoretically proved concerted motion of the nanowindow-rim to selectively allow molecules to pass, in an energy-efficiently and fast way. This brings up new possibilities to create an advanced molecular separation membrane technology.
  
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• New invention safely transports unknown, deep-dwelling fishes to the ocean's surface

  04-06-2018 06:00
  (California Academy of Sciences) Strange and beautiful fishes from the ocean's deep and lesser-known twilight zone reefs are hitching a ride to the surface thanks to the newly invented SubCAS (or Submersible Chamber for Ascending Specimens). This ingenious pressurized chamber, engineered by the scientists-turned-inventors at the California Academy of Sciences and the Monterey Bay Aquarium, stretches two feet long and is used by scientific divers to collect and safely surface charismatic reef res
  
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• New algorithm fuses quality and quantity in satellite imagery

  04-06-2018 06:00
  (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Using a new algorithm, University of Illinois researchers may have found the solution to an age-old dilemma plaguing satellite imagery -- whether to sacrifice high spatial resolution in the interest of generating images more frequently, or vice versa. The team's new tool eliminates this trade-off by fusing high-resolution and high-frequency satellite data into one integrated product, and can generate 30-meter daily continuous images going back to the
  
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• New algorithm enhances ptychographic image reconstruction

  04-06-2018 06:00
  (DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Researchers from Berkeley Lab's Computational Research Division, the University of Texas at Dallas and Tianjin Normal University have developed an algorithmic model that enhances the image reconstruction capabilities of an algorithmic framework and computer software used to reconstruct millions of phases of ptychographic image data per second.
  
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• NASA spots tropical depression 05W approaching China's Hainan Island

  04-06-2018 06:00
  (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) In July of 2016, Tropical Cyclone 05W was approaching Hainan Island, China. Now, two years later in 2018, another storm, also the fifth of the year in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean, Tropical Cyclone 05W is again approaching Hainan Island.
  
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• MIT researchers devise new way to make light interact with matter

  04-06-2018 06:00
  (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Researchers at MIT and Technion have devised a new way to make light interact with matter. Reducing the wavelength of light could allow it to be absorbed or emitted by a semiconductor, their study suggests.
  
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• Medicaid expansion produces significant health benefits, study finds

  04-06-2018 06:00
  (Indiana University) The first peer-reviewed comprehensive analysis of the effects of Medicaid expansion paints a picture of significant improvements in various health outcomes consistent with the original goals of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.
  
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• Massive AI Twitter probe draws heat map of entrepreneurial personality

  04-06-2018 06:00
  (Queensland University of Technology) A QUT-led study using artificial intelligence has proved a Twitter-based personality estimate is as successful in predicting local differences in actual entrepreneurial activity as regional personality data collected by means of millions of standard personality tests.
  
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• International corrosion society elects first Sandia fellow

  04-06-2018 06:00
  (DOE/Sandia National Laboratories) Sandia National Laboratories materials scientist David Enos has been elected a fellow of NACE International, the chief professional society for corrosion engineering. He is the first Sandia employee to receive the honor.
  
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