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• Chicago Museum Lifts Lid on Egyptian Mummy Coffin

  08-12-2014 23:45
  Chicago museum lifts lid on coffin of 2,500-year-old Egyptian boy mummy for conservation work
  
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• Los Angeles proposes sweeping upgrades for quakes (Update)

  08-12-2014 23:40
  
  Mayor Eric Garcetti on Monday proposed spending billions of dollars to better protect Los Angeles against a devastating earthquake by strengthening thousands of vulnerable older buildings and fortifying the city's water and communications systems.
  
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• 'Eaten Alive' Watched by 4.1 Million Viewers

  08-12-2014 23:39
  Discovery's snake vs. man 'Eaten Alive' draws 4.1 million viewers; not all find it appetizing
  
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• New Horizons wakes up to greet Pluto - FanIQ

  08-12-2014 23:37 via faniq.com
  
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  New Horizons wakes up to greet Pluto
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  New Horizons has traveled 3 billion miles since its launch in 2006—the farthest any space mission has traveled to reach its target. “New Horizons is healthy and cruising quietly through deep space – nearly three billion miles from home – but its rest is nearly ...
  NASA Pluto probe awakens at edge of solar system after nine-year journeyAl Jazeera America
  Sleepy space probe New Horizons awakens for close-up with Plutowreg.com
  
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• Navy returns NASA's Orion after test flight

  08-12-2014 23:27
  
  NASA's new Orion spacecraft has returned to dry land in Southern California after a test flight that ended with a plunge in the Pacific Ocean.
  
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• Omidyar news venture pushes into 'social journalism'

  08-12-2014 23:23
  
  Internet entrepreneur Pierre Omidyar's fledgling news venture launched an online project Monday led by a journalist known for using Twitter as a reporting tool.
  
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• Microsoft says private data 'at risk' in court case

  08-12-2014 23:23
  
  Microsoft argued Monday in a court brief that an order requiring it to give US prosecutors data stored in Ireland could "put all of our private digital information at risk."
  
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• FOXSI to observe X-rays from Sun

  08-12-2014 23:21
  
  An enormous spectrum of light streams from the sun. We're most familiar with the conventional visible white light we see with our eyes from Earth, but that's just a fraction of what our closest star emits. NASA regularly watches the sun in numerous wavelengths because different wavelengths provide information about different temperatures and processes in space. Looking at all the wavelengths together helps to provide a complete picture of what's occurring on the sun over 92 million miles away -
  
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• Los Angeles Proposes Sweeping Upgrades for Quakes

  08-12-2014 23:00
  Los Angeles proposes sweeping building, water fixes for major earthquakes, but cost unclear
  
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• Navy Bringing Back NASA's Orion After Test Flight

  08-12-2014 22:55
  Navy ship bringing NASA's Orion spacecraft to shore after 1st spaceflight
  
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• Merger momentum to continue in 2015, EY says

  08-12-2014 22:50
  
  A banner year for mergers and acquisitions will be followed by more deals next year as executives grow more confident in the strength of the U.S. economy, according to the consultancy firm EY.
  
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• Insurer's Incentive: Get Fit, Get Paid a Buck a Day

  08-12-2014 22:45 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  A new health insurance company is hoping the Misfit will turn out to be a great fit for its business, and get customers a bit healthier in the process.
  
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• HuffPost launches in India, eyes China edition

  08-12-2014 22:40
  
  The Huffington Post launched an Indian version of its news website Monday, seeking to tap the country's exploding number of Internet users, and announced its next big goal was a Chinese edition.
  
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• Abandoned oil and gas wells emit 'significant' methane

  08-12-2014 22:40
  
  A significant amount of the potent greenhouse gas methane may be leaking into the atmosphere from abandoned oil and gas wells, according to a study in Pennsylvania out Monday.
  
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• Hachette tests book sales via Twitter

  08-12-2014 22:38
  
  Publishing giant Hachette said Monday it was launching a test program allowing consumers to purchase books on Twitter without leaving the messaging service.
  
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• Injectable 3D vaccines could fight cancer and infectious diseases

  08-12-2014 22:35
  
  One of the reasons cancer is so deadly is that it can evade attack from the body's immune system, which allows tumors to flourish and spread. Scientists can try to induce the immune system, known as immunotherapy, to go into attack mode to fight cancer and to build long lasting immune resistance to cancer cells. Now, researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) show a non-surgical injection of programmable
  
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• New research suggests Caribbean gorgonian corals are resistant to ocean acidification

  08-12-2014 22:33
  
  A new study on tropical shallow-water soft corals, known as gorgonians, found that the species were able to calcify and grow under elevated carbon dioxide concentrations. These results suggest that Caribbean gorgonian corals may be more resilient to the ocean acidification levels projected by the end of the 21st century than previously thought.
  
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• Team proposes new model for snake venom evolution

  08-12-2014 22:30
  
  Technology that can map out the genes at work in a snake or lizard's mouth has, in many cases, changed the way scientists define an animal as venomous. If oral glands show expression of some of the 20 gene families associated with "venom toxins," that species gets the venomous label.
  
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• Oil spill Israel's 'biggest ecological disaster'

  08-12-2014 22:30
  
  A pipeline leak in southern Israel last week has caused the country's biggest environmental disaster, an energy expert said Monday, after estimates of the size of the spillage were raised.
  
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• NASA catches three days of Typhoon Hagupit's motion over Philippines

  08-12-2014 22:22
  
  NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites flew over Typhoon Hagupit from Dec. 6 through Dec. 8 and the MODIS instrument that flies aboard both satellites provided images of the storm as it moved through the country.
  
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• Re-thinking Southern California earthquake scenarios in Coachella Valley, San Andreas Fault

  08-12-2014 22:20
  
  New three-dimensional (3D) numerical modeling that captures far more geometric complexity of an active fault segment in southern California than any other, suggests that the overall earthquake hazard for towns on the west side of the Coachella Valley such as Palm Springs and Palm Desert may be slightly lower than previously believed.
  
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• Final week of climate talks start with new draft text

  08-12-2014 22:20
  
  Negotiators pored over draft outlines for a UN pact to curb global warming on Monday, hoping for a breakthrough ahead of the arrival in Lima of ministers and the UN chief.
  
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• Public servants are individually motivated to help environment

  08-12-2014 22:19
  
  New University of Georgia research shows that while on the job, public servants contribute not just to mandated sustainability but also to discretionary eco-friendly initiatives of their own.
  
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• World record for compact 'tabletop' particle accelerator

  08-12-2014 22:19
  
  Using one of the most powerful lasers in the world, researchers have accelerated subatomic particles to the highest energies ever recorded from a compact accelerator.
  
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• Einstein to Curie: Ignore the haters

  08-12-2014 22:11
  
  Even history’s greatest minds need reminding that “haters gonna hate,” at least according to a recently digitized letter from Albert Einstein to Marie Curie.
  
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• Judges hear arguments over NSA surveillance (Update)

  08-12-2014 22:10
  
  A federal appeals court heard arguments Monday in an Idaho woman's challenge to the National Security Agency's bulk collection of phone records—the third time in recent months that appeals courts around the country have considered the controversial counterterrorism program.
  
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• Judges hear arguments over NSA surveillance

  08-12-2014 22:10
  
  A federal appeals court is considering an Idaho woman's challenge to the National Security Agency's bulk collection of phone records.
  
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• Scientists re-create what may be life's first spark

  08-12-2014 22:10
  
  Scientists in a lab used a powerful laser to re-create what might have been the original spark of life on Earth.
  
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• White House focuses on computer science in schools

  08-12-2014 22:05
  
  Smartphones and laptops have become essential tools for today's teenagers. But learning how these devices work has often taken a backseat to other priorities in U.S. schools.
  
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• Curiosity rover finds clues to how water helped shape Martian landscape

  08-12-2014 22:03
  
  (Phys.org)—Observations by NASA's Curiosity Rover indicate Mars' Mount Sharp was built by sediments deposited in a large lake bed over tens of millions of years.
  
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• Feds: Don't Blame California Drought on Warming

  08-12-2014 22:03
  NOAA throws cold water on idea that climate change is to blame on California's record drought
  
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• Mars' Gale Crater once held massive lake, NASA says - The Verge

  08-12-2014 21:08 via theverge.com
  
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  Mars' Gale Crater once held massive lake, NASA says
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  Gale Crater, the landing site of the Mars Curiosity rover, has long been hypothesized to have once held a large standing body of water. In a teleconference this afternoon, NASA announced new scientific findings which support that claim and also suggest that ...
  Mars' Mount Sharp: Curiosity rover offers clues to mysterySan Jose Mercury News
  NASA Mars Curiosity Rover Discovers New Evidence Of A Lake On MarsCTA Ne
  
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• Hummingbird's hover surprisingly easy to hack

  08-12-2014 21:00
  
  Hummingbirds' remarkable ability to hover in place is highly contingent on the tiny bird having a completely stationary visual field, according to University of British Columbia research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
  
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• New cheap NFC sensor can transmit information on hazardous chemicals, food spoilage to smartphone

  08-12-2014 21:00
  
  MIT chemists have devised a new way to wirelessly detect hazardous gases and environmental pollutants, using a simple sensor that can be read by a smartphone.
  
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• 'Frozen' and 'Serial' top Apple best-of-2014 lists

  08-12-2014 20:56 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Weary parents, doomed to hear "Let it Go" on a loop until the end of time, made the "Frozen" soundtrack the most downloaded album of the year on iTunes.
  
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• Mars Mountain May Have Formed From Big, Wet Lake

  08-12-2014 20:49
  Mars mountain may have formed from lake; wet climate possibly lasted million years
  
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• 原创作品：游戏UI作品——功能图标，徽章

  08-12-2014 20:23 via pinterest.com
  
  原创作品：游戏UI作品——功能图标，徽章...
  
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• What You Need to Know About the Sony Hacks

  08-12-2014 20:13
  
  When it comes to hacks, Sony isn't having the best month.
  
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• Meet the New Horizon

  08-12-2014 19:26 via pinterest.com
  
  Meet the New Horizons Team in a Live Google+ Hangout!
  
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• Dead Orca Was Pregnant With Full-Term Fetus

  08-12-2014 19:13
  Puget Sound orca found dead was pregnant; someone removed teeth after it died
  
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• Tinder for business?

  08-12-2014 19:10 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The jobs market has failed and businesses are pouring resources down the drain -- could big data matchmaking transform recruitment?
  
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• Underground cities: the future of business

  08-12-2014 19:03 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Cities are getting crowded -- where's the next place to go? Underground
  
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• 5 ways virtual reality can transform business

  08-12-2014 19:00 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Take your meeting on the beach and train in the jungle. Virtual tech is transforming business
  
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• Is music licensing company Loudr pitch perfect?

  08-12-2014 19:00 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Sing for your supper? How to cash in from hit cover songs
  
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• Researchers offer new insights into predicting future droughts in California

  08-12-2014 19:00
  
  According to a new NOAA-sponsored study, natural oceanic and atmospheric patterns are the primary drivers behind California's ongoing drought. A high pressure ridge off the West Coast (typical of historic droughts) prevailed for three winters, blocking important wet season storms, with ocean surface temperature patterns making such a ridge much more likely. Typically, the winter season in California provides the state with a majority of its annual snow and rainfall that replenish water supplies
  
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• Team visualized DNA double-strand break process for the first time

  08-12-2014 18:46
  
  Scientists from the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), led by Guillermo Montoya, have developed a method for producing biological crystals that has allowed scientists to observe —for the first time— DNA double chain breaks. They have also developed a computer simulation that makes this process, which lasts in the order of millionths of a second, visible to the human eye. The study is published today by the journal Nature Structural & Molecular Biology.
  
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• World Record in Solar Efficiency, Over 40% of Sunlight Converted into Electricity

  08-12-2014 18:44 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Researchers from the University of New South Wales have set world record in solar energy efficiency, converting over 40% of the sunlight hitting a solar system into electricity. The world-beating efficiency was achieved in outdoor tests in Sydney, before being independently confirmed by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) at their outdoor test facility in […]
  The post World Record in Solar Efficiency, Over 40% of Sunlight Converted into Electricity appeared first on SciT
  
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• Photos: Orphaned Orangutan Finds New Home

  08-12-2014 18:35
  
  Absolutely adorable baby animals!
  
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• Samsung Galaxy A5 Now Available in Russia - The Horn

  08-12-2014 18:32 via gazelle.com
  
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  Samsung Galaxy A5 Now Available in Russia
  The Horn
  After launching in China last month, the all-metal Samsung Galaxy A5 is making its European debut. According to Sammobile, the Galaxy A5, Samsung's “premium budget” device, has just launched in Russia. Pricing and Specs. The Samsung Galaxy A5 will ...
  
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• Commentary calls for new 'science of climate diversity'

  08-12-2014 18:25
  
  There is cloud hanging over climate science, but one Cornell University expert on communication and environmental issues says he knows how to help clear the air.
  
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