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• California Regulators Restore Emissions-Cutting Fuel Rule

  25-09-2015 23:50
  California air regulators order 10 percent carbon emissions cut for all fuel sold in state
  
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• George Clooney Was Not At This Awards Show

  25-09-2015 22:50 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  The Proto Awards, the self-proclaimed 'Oscars of virtual reality' held Tuesday night in Hollywood, was not a black tie affair.
  
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• NASA sees wind shear affecting Tropical Storm Niala

  25-09-2015 22:47
  
  NASA's Aqua satellite saw wind shear was affecting newborn Tropical Storm Niala as it continued moving through the Central Atlantic Ocean.
  
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• Typhoon Dujuan gives NASA an eye-opening performance

  25-09-2015 22:46
  
  Former Tropical Storm Dujuan strengthened into a typhoon and when NASA's Terra satellite passed overhead it got a clear look at the storm's new large eye.
  
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• NASA's GPM measures meandering Tropical Depression Ida's precipitation

  25-09-2015 22:46
  
  The Global Precipitation Measurement or GPM core observatory satellite had another good view of meandering tropical storm Ida located in the central Atlantic Ocean and measured rainfall rates within the storm.
  
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• ORNL demonstrates road to supercapacitors for scrap tires

  25-09-2015 22:45
  
  Some of the 300 million tires discarded each year in the United States alone could be used in supercapacitors for vehicles and the electric grid using a technology developed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Drexel University.
  
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• BlackBerry unveils Android phone in new reboot effort

  25-09-2015 22:45
  
  BlackBerry announced plans Friday to sell an Android-powered smartphone, in the latest reboot effort from the faded star of the sector.
  
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• Study adds to evidence that viruses are alive

  25-09-2015 22:43
  
  A new analysis supports the hypothesis that viruses are living entities that share a long evolutionary history with cells, researchers report. The study offers the first reliable method for tracing viral evolution back to a time when neither viruses nor cells existed in the forms recognized today, the researchers say.
  
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• New study identifies four distinct types of millennial news consumers

  25-09-2015 22:41
  
  A new study explores the news habits of Millennials and identifies four distinct groups of news consumers. The study, a deeper analysis of a survey conducted earlier in 2015 by the Media Insight Project, finds that as it relates to their information use and the way they consume information about different topics, adults age 18 to 34 are not a monolithic group. The survey results identify the following groups of Millennials who share certain characteristics in their information consumption: the U
  
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• Extreme Pacific sea level events to double in future

  25-09-2015 22:40
  
  Many tropical Pacific island nations are struggling to adapt to gradual sea level rise stemming from warming oceans and melting ice caps. Now they may also see much more frequent extreme interannual sea level swings. The culprit is a projected behavioral change of the El Niño phenomenon and its characteristic Pacific wind response, according to recent computer modeling experiments and tide-gauge analysis by scientists Matthew Widlansky and Axel Timmermann at the International Pacific Rese
  
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• Two-million-year-old fossils reveal hearing abilities of early humans

  25-09-2015 22:39
  
  Research into human fossils dating back to approximately two million years ago reveals that the hearing pattern resembles chimpanzees, but with some slight differences in the direction of humans.
  
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• Poorly qualified workers with a migration background have income advantages in Germany

  25-09-2015 22:37
  
  They are often regarded as cases of failed integration and as social losers, but a new study conducted at the University of Cologne shows that immigrants with a low professional qualification level tend to have a higher income than workers of the same qualification level without a migration background. Very often they work in jobs they are not formally qualified for. "Employers value employees with a migration background because they tend to be ambitious, resilient and reliable," says Merlin Sch
  
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• War's greatest picture: The enduring legacy of Herbert Mason's portrait of St. Paul's Cathedral

  25-09-2015 22:36
  
  "Camera and film have become as essential in this war as guns and bullets." -National Geographic, 1944.
  
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• Study: Companies like Volkswagen often apologize, silence stakeholders, forget the scandal

  25-09-2015 22:34
  
  Researchers have found that large corporations often try to get over their corporate irresponsibility by first asking for forgiveness and then silencing their stakeholders. They also remove traces that may act as a reminder of the scandal. If Volkswagen does what many other corporations have previously done in similar cases, it may not learn to avoid its mistakes - and it may repeat the same mistake later on.
  
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• New diversity for lager beers

  25-09-2015 22:33
  
  Unlike ales, lager beers differ little in flavor. But now, by creating new crosses among the relevant yeasts, Kevin Verstrepen, PhD, Stijn Mertens, and their collaborators have opened up new horizons of taste. The research is published in the September 25 Applied and Environmental Microbiology, a journal of the American Society for Microbiology.
  
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• Companies increase profits with multichannel shoppers

  25-09-2015 22:33
  
  Companies can increase profits by getting customers to buy through more than one channel, for example the bricks-and-mortar store and the Internet rather than the store alone. However, this strategy requires a well-honed marketing campaign that combines the right message and incentive, according to a new study being published in Marketing Science, a journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).
  
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• Plants with jobs

  25-09-2015 22:32
  
  Two University of Toronto Scarborough scientists have developed a new research framework for the agricultural sector that offers evidence-based understanding of the relationship between short-term yields, long-term sustainability and biodiversity.
  
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• Study outlines how to achieve improved airline fuel savings

  25-09-2015 22:31
  
  The airline industry has the ability to sustain significant fuel savings and greatly reduce its greenhouse emissions, according to the conclusions reached in a Virginia Tech led study for the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) for traffic in the North Atlantic oceanic airspace.
  
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• Root microbiome engineering improves plant growth

  25-09-2015 22:30
  
  Humans have been breeding crops until they're bigger and more nutritious since the early days of agriculture, but genetic manipulation isn't the only way to give plants a boost. In a review paper published on September 25 in Trends in Microbiology, two integrative biologists present how it is possible to engineer the plant soil microbiome to improve plant growth, even if the plants are genetically identical and cannot evolve. These artificially selected microbiomes, which can also be selected in
  
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• Microalgae used to clean up oil refinery wastewater in successful test facility

  25-09-2015 22:28
  
  At a Chevron oil refinery in Hawaii, researchers are growing microalgae in a 5,000-liter photobioreactor, flowing wastewater from the refinery through the reactor, and taking advantage of the algae's appetite for chemical nutrients to polish the water, removing noxious chemicals, including 90% of the ammonia-nitrogen and 97% of the phosphorus. As the microbes feed, they grow and multiply, providing a wealth of algae-based biomass for producing bioenergy and high-value biobased chemicals and spec
  
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• Stanford scientists help discover Pacific bluefin tunas' favorite feeding spots

  25-09-2015 22:27
  
  After chowing down a big meal, you might feel your belly warm as your stomach muscles and digestive organs set to work breaking your food into smaller and smaller pieces rich in nutrients. A bluefin tuna's stomach experiences a similar spike in temperature when it gulps down a mouthful of juicy sardines.
  
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• HP to use Professor Sal Stolfo's host-based defense technology for embedded devices

  25-09-2015 22:24
  
  Computer Science Professor Sal Stolfo and his former student Ang Cui PhD'15, whose cybersecurity research has discovered dozens of serious flaws, have developed Symbiote defense technology that significantly reduces the threat of embedded device malware attacks on end users and organizations. This work originated from Stolfo's laboratory at Columbia University's Engineering School and is now commercially available through his company, Red Balloon Security.
  
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• A different type of 2-D semiconductor

  25-09-2015 22:23
  
  To the growing list of two-dimensional semiconductors, such as graphene, boron nitride, and molybdenum disulfide, whose unique electronic properties make them potential successors to silicon in future devices, you can now add hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites. However, unlike the other contenders, which are covalent semiconductors, these 2D hybrid perovskites are ionic materials, which gives them special properties of their own.
  
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• Study shows using oat hulls for power has considerable benefits to the environment and human health

  25-09-2015 22:20
  
  Biomass burning sometimes gets a bad rap. That's because many associate the burning of living and dead vegetation with human-caused fires and clearing of land that release unhealthy particles and gases that spur global warming.
  
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• Deep-diving whales could hold answer for synthetic blood

  25-09-2015 22:17
  
  The ultra-stable properties of the proteins that allow deep-diving whales to remain active while holding their breath for up to two hours could help Rice University biochemist John Olson and his colleagues finish a 20-year quest to create lifesaving synthetic blood for human trauma patients.
  
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• Simulation of chiral edge states in a quantum system

  25-09-2015 22:12
  
  Researchers in Florence and Innsbruck have simulated a physical phenomenon in an atomic quantum gas that can also be observed at the edge of some condensed matter systems: chiral currents. The scientists have published the experiment, which will open new doors for the study of exotic states in condensed matter, in the journal Science.
  
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• Researchers' model helps predict consumer spending

  25-09-2015 22:08
  
  When a business wants to predict consumer expenditures at a competing firm, the task can be difficult.
  
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• Biggest moon myths for the 'supermoon' total lunar eclipse

  25-09-2015 21:57
  
  Sunday's rare "supermoon" total lunar eclipse has prompted greater discussion of the moon — and those discussions sometimes involve persistent lunar myths.
  
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• Scientists discover new system for human genome editing

  25-09-2015 19:56
  
  A team including the scientist who first harnessed the revolutionary CRISPR-Cas9 system for mammalian genome editing has now identified a different CRISPR system with the potential for even simpler and more precise genome engineering.
  
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• Development of trust in B2B relationships calls for common goals

  25-09-2015 19:48
  
  The development of trust in business-to-business relationships calls for goal congruence, according to a recent University of Eastern Finland and Cranfield University study shedding new light on power symmetry in business-to-business relationships. However, power does not play as key a role in the development of trust as previously thought.
  
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• US and China agree to stop cyber-theft for profit

  25-09-2015 19:46
  
  The United States and China have agreed not to conduct or condone cyber attacks on each other's private sector for commercial gain, US President Barack Obama and his counterpart Xi Jinping said Friday.
  
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• Yeast Protein Reveals Clues to How Alzheimer’s Forms

  25-09-2015 19:19 via scitechdaily.com
  
  In a newly published study, biologists from MIT detail how a yeast protein may lead to anti-amyloid therapeutic opportunities. Fibrous protein clumps known as amyloids are most often associated with diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease, where they form characteristic plaques in the brain. Scientists first described amyloids about 150 years ago; they have since been […]
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• BlackBerry Confirms Priv, an Android-Powered Smartphone

  25-09-2015 18:42 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  BlackBerry will debut an Android smartphone with a sliding keyboard and an emphasis on privacy, the company's CEO confirmed on Friday.
  
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• Yale Researchers Develop a New Platform to View Metabolism

  25-09-2015 18:39 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Scientists from Yale University have developed a new platform to view metabolism, taking a very big step forward in terms of understanding how metabolism interfaces with function in the cell. Metabolism is essential for the maintenance of life, in organisms ranging from yeast to humans. To deepen understanding of metabolism and its role in diseases […]
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• New Horizons Reveals the Rich Color Variations of Pluto

  25-09-2015 18:30 via scitechdaily.com
  
  New Horizons gives astronomers a better view of the rich color variations of Pluto. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Pluto on July 14, 2015. The image combines blue, red and infrared images taken by the Ralph/Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera (MVIC). Pluto’s surface sports a remarkable range of subtle colors, […]
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• New Horizons Reveals ‘Snakeskin’ Pluto Image and More

  25-09-2015 18:16 via scitechdaily.com
  
  NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft continues to deliver data to astronomers, revealing new images and much more about the dwarf planet Pluto. The newest high-resolution images of Pluto from NASA’s New Horizons are both dazzling and mystifying, revealing a multitude of previously unseen topographic and compositional details. The image above — showing an area near the […]
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• 100% sexy and ... 100% electric

  25-09-2015 18:08 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Evidence of pressing global issues, the clear, dominating themes at this year's IAA motorshow in Frankfurt were the digitization of mobility (automated and connected driving) and alternative power sources (electric and hybrid motors).
  
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• How one astronomer uses art to understand science

  25-09-2015 17:00
  
  Lucianne Walkowicz is about to ride her bike 300 miles to convince people that science is approachable and creative.
  
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• Spinning ring on a table found to behave more like a boomerang than a coin

  25-09-2015 16:50
  
  (Phys.org)—A trio of researchers, two with the University of California, the third with Sharif University of Technology, in Iran, has found that a common ring, such as is worn on the finger, spins differently on a tabletop than does a coin. In their paper published in Physical Review Letters, Mir Abbas Jalali, MiladSarebangholi and Reza Alam describe their tests and observations and offer a theory on why a spinning ring behaves the way it does.
  
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• Integrating technology in the classroom

  25-09-2015 16:50
  
  Studies show that students succeed with digital learning, but making the transition from text book to tablet has its challenges.
  
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• New device to reduce wind turbine noise and increase efficiency

  25-09-2015 16:40
  
  Noise pollution is a big public concern associated with operating wind turbines. A group of European scientists claims to have found a solution to this problem, assembling an innovative device on the blades. They are collaborating with a European project called Windtrust, which aims to reduce the cost of wind energy generation by further improving the reliability of key components of the turbine.
  
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• Putting the Future in a Little Black Box

  25-09-2015 16:36 via nytimes.com
  Formula One's electronic control unit, used by every team to control all of the racing car's electronic processes, is also helping change how road cars run.
  
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• New hybrid solar panel roof slashes energy bills

  25-09-2015 16:30
  
  Scientists at Brunel University London have designed a new hybrid roofing system which could halve energy bills in new homes.
  
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• Demo plants show potential of algae as sustainable energy source

  25-09-2015 16:30
  
  The BIOFAT project – which runs until April 2016 – has confirmed algae's potential as a sustainable source of biofuel and bio-products with low greenhouse gas emissions. Pilot-scale processing facilities, each one-half hectare in size, were constructed in Italy and Portugal, and a scaled-up 10-hectare demonstration facility is currently being finalised.
  
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• Marine archaeologists excavate Greek Antikythera shipwreck

  25-09-2015 16:20
  
  Archaeologists excavating the famous ancient Greek shipwreck that yielded the Antikythera mechanism have recovered more than 50 items including a bronze armrest (possibly part of a throne), remains of a bone flute, fine glassware, luxury ceramics, a pawn from an ancient board game, and several elements of the ship itself.
  
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• Generational shift in Scottish housing aspirations

  25-09-2015 16:20
  
  An emerging gap between the housing aspirations of younger and older households is highlighted in a new report commissioned by the Scottish Government published today (Friday 25 September).
  
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• iPhone 6s Hits Stores Amid Apple Growth Questions

  25-09-2015 16:18 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Scenes of fans camped outside some of the world's biggest Apple stores can only mean one thing -- a new product from the U.S. tech giant.
  
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• Businesses happier to show green credentials than social conscience

  25-09-2015 16:10
  
  Big business is better at thinking green than acting with a social conscience, according to a Scottish research project.
  
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• Rigidity transition and cell migration in biological tissues

  25-09-2015 16:00
  
  (Phys.org)—Cell migration is an intrinsic feature of multicellular organisms, enabling such processes as embryo development, wound healing, and immune responses. These activities require cells to move freely within tissues. Eukaryotic organisms develop from densely layered tissue types, and the dynamics of cell migration within and between tissues are explored both biomechanically and as complex physics problems, not only to understand proper cell function, but also to illuminate the conse
  
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• Facebook rebrands free Internet service, expands

  25-09-2015 16:00
  
  Facebook has changed the name of its program offering free Internet to developing countries to "Free Basics" and added more services.
  
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