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• Shipwrecks posing threat to US waters hold many unknowns

  31-10-2015 22:38
  
  Dozens of shipwrecks scattered along America's coasts are thought to be holding oil and certainly will start leaking someday as corrosion eats away at their tanks.
  
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• Honda recall affects 2016 CR-Vs over potential air bag issue

  31-10-2015 22:37
  
  Honda is recalling some 2016 CR-V SUVs to replace Takata air bags that could rupture in a crash and send metal fragments flying.
  
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• Dead comet with skull face to hurtle by Earth on Halloween

  31-10-2015 17:03
  
  A massive space rock that will shave by Earth on Halloween looks like a dead comet with a skull face, NASA said after gaining a closer look at the spooky space object.
  
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• Cassini Flyby Provides New Close-Up of Saturn’s Moon Enceladus

  31-10-2015 16:56 via scitechdaily.com
  
  A new close-up of Saturn’s moon Enceladus from the Cassini Spacecraft. This unprocessed “raw” image of Saturn’s icy, geologically active moon Enceladus was acquired by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft during its dramatic October 28, 2015 flyby in which the probe passed about 30 miles (49 kilometers) above the moon’s south polar region. The spacecraft will continue […]
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• “Skull Shaped” Asteroid 2015 TB145 Will Flyby Earth This Halloween

  31-10-2015 16:36 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Just in time for Halloween, a large space rock that bears an eerie resemblance to a skull will zip past Earth this weekend. Scientists observing asteroid 2015 TB145 with NASA’s Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, have determined that the celestial object is more than likely a dead comet that has shed its […]
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• Fishing main hurdle to Antarctic marine reserves: Australia

  31-10-2015 11:40
  
  Access to fishing was the main stumbling block to agreement on two vast marine reserves in Antarctica, the head of the Australian delegation to international talks said Saturday.
  
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• Drought pushes endangered California salmon to the brink

  31-10-2015 11:30
  
  Chinook salmon were already endangered in California's Sacramento River, but the record drought parching the western United States has brought the iconic fish even closer to extinction.
  
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• Astronomers Are Excited About the 'Halloween Asteroid'

  31-10-2015 11:23 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  An asteroid large enough to wreak continent-wide devastation will pass by the Earth. On Halloween. And astronomers could not be happier about it.
  
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• Whose fault? Self-driving vehicles in crashes studied

  31-10-2015 11:20
  
  If you are still troubled over the thought of driverless cars moving in traffic on our future highways, then you might want to move on over to stories about bats, beetles and bone findings.
  
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• Nissan unleashes its autonomous car prototype in Japan - Engadget

  31-10-2015 11:20 via
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  Nissan has begun testing its Leaf-based autonomous car prototype, not on private property, but on Japanese inner city roads and highways. To be exact, the automaker wants to put its "Piloted Drive" mode (part of its Intelligent Driving System) to the ...
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• Brazil, land of water, goes thirsty

  31-10-2015 11:20
  
  The sign—"risk of drowning"—outside one of Rio de Janeiro's freshwater reservoirs looks like a joke: there's no water here left to drown in.
  
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• Bare breasts versus race-baiting in German Facebook protest

  31-10-2015 11:10
  
  A Facebook campaign featuring a topless woman and a man holding up a racist sign has gone viral in Germany, as its creator said Friday the social network needed to rein in hate speech.
  
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• In reversal, SXSW festival plans online harassment event

  31-10-2015 11:00
  
  The SXSW Interactive technology festival said Friday that it will hold an "online harassment summit" after it was criticized for bowing to threats and canceling two panels related to video games and online harassment.
  
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• Hacker group plans to 'unhood' KKK members

  31-10-2015 10:50
  
  Hacker group Anonymous is planning to reveal the identities of up to 1,000 Ku Klux Klan members, the latest twist in an ongoing cyber-war on the white supremacist group.
  
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• Gates hoping to inspire love of STEM through genealogy

  31-10-2015 10:30
  
  Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. hopes to trigger a love for science, technology and math among American students by turning them on to searching for their family roots.
  
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• Brazil: Fire menacing isolated tribe is under control

  31-10-2015 10:24
  
  A fire that for more than a month has ravaged a region in northeast Brazil inhabited by an isolated Native American tribe has finally been contained, the authorities said.
  
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• Beverly Hills nailed for not cutting back on water use

  31-10-2015 10:24
  
  Four California cities, including upscale Beverly Hills, got slapped with fines on Friday for failing to cut back on water use as the west coast US state struggles with a historic drought.
  
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• Sumatran Rhino begins US-Asia trip to ancestral home

  31-10-2015 10:20
  
  The last Sumatran rhino in the Western Hemisphere began a journey Friday from Ohio to its ancestral southeast Asian homeland on a mission to help preserve the critically endangered species.
  
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• Indigenous from Amazon see Brazil nut as forest's future

  31-10-2015 10:20
  
  The creation story of the Cinta Larga people holds that they were born out of the fruit of the Brazil nut tree.
  
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• Puzzle lamps attain new dimensions with Disney Research computer design tool

  31-10-2015 10:10
  
  Puzzle lamps capture the imagination - and the eye - by combining identical, interlocking flat elements to create a wide range of shapes. An interactive design tool developed by Disney Research now makes it easier to use this approach to create ever more intricate decorations.
  
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• Everglades' alligator numbers drop after dry years

  31-10-2015 10:03
  
  Alligators and the Everglades go hand-in-hand, and as water conditions change in the greater Everglades ecosystem, gators are one of the key species that could be affected.
  
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• A Prkci gene keeps stem cells in check

  31-10-2015 10:01
  
  When it comes to stem cells, too much of a good thing isn't wonderful: producing too many new stem cells may lead to cancer; producing too few inhibits the repair and maintenance of the body.
  
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• New technique could prevent biofilms on catheters and medical implants

  31-10-2015 10:00
  
  Biofilms—mats of bacteria similar to the plaque that grows on teeth—frequently coat the surfaces of catheters, and of various medical implants and prostheses, where they can threaten lives or lead to failure of the implants. Antibiotics are impotent against biofilms. Now Jakub Kwiecinski, PhD, Tao Jin, MD, PhD, and collaborators show that coating implants with "tissue plasminogen activator" can prevent Staphylococcus aureus, the leading cause of hospital-acquired infections, from for
  
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• Researchers invent automated method for designing 3-D-printable connectors

  31-10-2015 09:56
  
  Want to mount a smartphone on your car's dashboard? On the arm of a chair? On your guitar? The choice is yours with a new method invented at Disney Research that automatically designs a custom connector that can then be produced with a 3D printer.
  
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• Mass gains of Antarctic Ice Sheet greater than losses, NASA study reports

  31-10-2015 09:55
  
  A new NASA study says that an increase in Antarctic snow accumulation that began 10,000 years ago is currently adding enough ice to the continent to outweigh the increased losses from its thinning glaciers.
  
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• Researchers use multigrid method to dramatically speed up cloth simulation

  31-10-2015 09:54
  
  Simulating the behavior of clothing and other fabrics in animated films requires animators to make tradeoffs between a realistic look and a reasonable amount of computing time. Researchers at Walt Disney Animation Studios now have developed a method that can shift the balance toward greater realism.
  
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• Arctic snow not darkening due to soot, dust, study finds

  31-10-2015 09:52
  
  For millennia, Greenland's ice sheet reflected sunlight back into space, but satellite measurements in recent years suggest the bright surface is darkening, causing solar heat to be absorbed and surface melting to accelerate. Some studies suggest this "dirty ice" or "dark snow" is caused by fallout from fossil fuel pollution and forest fires.
  
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• Research shows Cuba's Internet issues

  31-10-2015 09:51
  
  In December 2014, President Barack Obama made history by reestablishing diplomatic relations with Cuba, which included loosening its economic embargoes. Two months later, American companies like Netflix and Airbnb announced plans to expand into the once-banned island.
  
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• Extreme weather events in Chesapeake Bay give clues for future climate impacts

  31-10-2015 09:49
  
  For the millions of people who live in its expansive coastal areas, Chesapeake Bay provides an important source of income and recreational enjoyment. To protect the ecosystem and the livelihood of area residents, it is important to assess how climate variability and change will affect Chesapeake Bay's shallow water ecosystems and water quality.
  
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• Finding new worlds with a play of light and shadow

  31-10-2015 09:46
  
  Astronomers have used many different methods to discover planets beyond the solar system, but the most successful by far is transit photometry, which measures changes in a star's brightness caused by a mini-eclipse. When a planet crosses in front of its star along our line of sight, it blocks some of the star's light. If the dimming lasts for a set amount of time and occurs at regular intervals, it likely means an exoplanet is passing in front of, or transiting, the star once every orbital perio
  
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• Exxon Mobil Accused of Misleading Public on Climate Change Risks

  31-10-2015 05:00 via nytimes.com
  Environmental and social justice groups are calling for a federal investigation, claiming that the oil and gas company deceived the American public in order to protect profits.
  
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• U.S. Tech Giants May Blur National Security Boundaries in China Deals

  31-10-2015 02:04 via nytimes.com
  A growing number of companies like IBM, Cisco Systems and Microsoft have partnerships with Chinese companies with ties to the military, and experts are questioning those links.
  
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• White House Details Plan to Beef Up Feds' Cybersecurity

  31-10-2015 00:42 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  The White House announced plans on Friday to modernize the federal government's out-of-date cybersecurity practices.
  
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