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• Does Uber Hurt or Help Environment? Study to Investigate

  13-11-2015 23:32 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Study aims to find out if ride-hailing services such as Uber and Lyft help reduce fossil fuel emissions.
  
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• Weekly Space Hangout – Nov. 13, 2015: Daniel Stern, Project Scientist on NuSTAR

  13-11-2015 23:31 via pinterest.com
  Weekly Space Hangout – Nov. 13, 2015: Daniel Stern, Project Scientist on NuSTAR
  
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• Chrome for Android vulnerability discovered by researcher

  13-11-2015 23:09
  
  Making news this week at the MobilePwn2Own event at the PacSec conference in Tokyo: an exploit of Google's Chrome for Android—in one shot, said PacSec organizer Dragos Ruiu. Researcher Guang Gong showcased the exploit. (PacSec is a computer security event. James O'Malley in TechRadar described it as "a meeting of security experts who show off what they've discovered for the kudos.")
  
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• Tribes want protections to remain for sacred grizzly bears

  13-11-2015 23:03
  
  American Indians across the Western U.S. are challenging moves by federal wildlife officials to lift protections for grizzly bears that roam a vast wilderness centered on Yellowstone National Park, citing worries over potential trophy hunting of a species many tribes consider sacred.
  
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• Fantasy sports operators file suit to stay open in NY

  13-11-2015 23:03
  
  Fantasy sports websites DraftKings and FanDuel filed lawsuits on Friday seeking to avert a shutdown ordered by New York state officials, setting up a legal showdown.
  
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• US, Mexico sign deal on sharing satellite data directly

  13-11-2015 23:02
  
  The United States and Mexico signed a deal Friday for Mexico to capture and process land-surface imagery and data directly from a U.S.-operated satellite.
  
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• Video game lovers flock to 'Fallout 4' wasteland

  13-11-2015 23:01
  
  Action video game lovers are flocking in record numbers to the radioactive wasteland of freshly launched mega-hit "Fallout 4."
  
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• More orchestras join Google classical project

  13-11-2015 22:44
  
  Four more leading orchestras on Friday joined Google's Classical Live, a project by the Internet giant to bring more of the concert hall audience into the growing sector of streaming.
  
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• Gmail to warn when messages take unencrypted routes

  13-11-2015 22:42
  
  Google plans to ramp up security at its free email service by letting users know when messages arrive via unencrypted connections that could be prone to snooping or tampering.
  
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• Ice sculpture festival suffers from Belgian balmy weather

  13-11-2015 22:41
  
  Ice sculptures really aren't really cut out for this kind of balmy November weather.
  
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• Building with nature: Ecological design for next-generation cities

  13-11-2015 22:37
  
  The Ecological Society of America turns 100 this year, with many reflections on the achievements of the discipline and the big questions for ecologists as we embark on a new century marked by great environmental upheaval. ESA's journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment celebrates the centennial of the society with perspectives on the potential for ecological science to influence the design of the next generation cities and their infrastructure.
  
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• Pope Francis: Put Your Phone Away at the Dinner Table

  13-11-2015 22:36 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Think checking your phone at dinner is rude? You now have official papal backup.
  
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• Hired-Gun Hacking Played Key Role in JPMorgan Breach

  13-11-2015 22:22 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Law enforcement and computer security officials say outsourced cyber-crime services are most readily found on underground Russian-language forums.
  
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• Encouraging motivation to benefit others can lead to more effective teams

  13-11-2015 21:34
  
  When team members are motivated toward promoting the benefits of others, they are higher-performing and stay in their teams for a longer period, according to a new study.
  
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• How DNA and a supercomputer can help sustain honey bee populations

  13-11-2015 21:26
  
  To uncover what plants honey bees rely on, researchers from The Ohio State University are using the latest DNA sequencing technology and a supercomputer. They spent months collecting pollen from beehives and have developed a multi-locus metabarcoding approach to identify which plants, and what proportions of each, are present in pollen samples.
  
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• Chemists turn bacterial molecules into potential drug molecules

  13-11-2015 21:05
  
  Yan-Yeung Luk, associate professor of chemistry, and his research team have published their findings in ChemBioChem, explaining how they have created molecules that mimic and dominate toxic ones secreted by bacteria. The implications for the study of biology and pharmacology are said to be enormous.
  
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• Former Tropical Cyclone Kate examined by GPM, RapidScat and GOES-East

  13-11-2015 21:03
  
  NASA and NOAA recently got three different views of former tropical cyclone Kate from space. The Global Precipitation Measurement mission or GPM core satellite saw heavy rainfall as Kate was transitioning into an extra-tropical cyclone on Nov. 11. The next day, NASA's RapidScat saw the system's tropical-storm force winds, and on Nov. 13, NOAA's GOES-East satellite spotted the former tropical storm in the Northern Atlantic.
  
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• Friday the 13th: Why Three 'Unlucky' Days in 2015?

  13-11-2015 20:25 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  It's a bad day to be a triskaidekaphobic, or a person who fears the number 13.
  
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• Sleek Valkyrie Private Plane Lets You Fly in Style

  13-11-2015 20:23 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  So you're thinking about buying yourself a private plane — but who wants a dusty old Cessna or Mooney? Anyone who's anyone is getting a Valkyrie.
  
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• Network analysis shows systemic risk in mineral markets

  13-11-2015 20:00
  
  A shortage of a rare mineral could spur global market instabilities, according to a new analysis of international commodity trade networks.
  
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• Loss of diversity near melting coastal glaciers

  13-11-2015 20:00
  
  Melting glaciers are causing a loss of species diversity among benthos in the coastal waters off the Antarctic Peninsula, impacting an entire seafloor ecosystem. This has been verified in the course of repeated research dives, the results of which were recently published by experts from Argentina, Germany and Great Britain and the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in a study in the journal Science Advances.
  
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• #FAUTwitterStudy uses 20 million tweets to understand people and real-world situations

  13-11-2015 20:00
  
  What can you tell about people and their situations from only 140 characters? Apparently, quite a lot according to a new study about Twitter just published in PLOS ONE. To date, no research has tapped the vast data from social networking sites to study situations. This new research provides insights about the psychological experience of a typical workday or week.
  
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• Japanese Hologram Pop Star Is Coming to America

  13-11-2015 19:56 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Singer Hatsune Miku is crossing the Pacific with her first U.S. and Canadian tour. Sadly, fans won't be able to get an autograph.
  
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• Cop pulls over Google self-driving car

  13-11-2015 19:54 via rss.cnn.com
  
  No driver? No ticket.
  
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• Women scientists who changed the world

  13-11-2015 19:37 via rss.cnn.com
  
  For decades, stories have gone largely untold about world-changing accomplishments by dozens of female pioneers in science, medicine and technology.
  
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• Need a Plumber? Now Google Will Do That For You, Too

  13-11-2015 19:33 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Google is partnering with IAC's HomeAdvisor to better match homeowners with contractors like plumbers, electricians or landscapers.
  
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• Parasitic fungi and the battle against coffee rust disease

  13-11-2015 19:00
  
  Coffee rust has ravaged Latin American plantations for several years, leading to reductions in annual coffee production of up to 30 percent in some countries and threatening the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of small-scale farmers in the region.
  
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• Irradiated anthrax can be sequenced—fast

  13-11-2015 19:00
  
  These days, mail addressed to selected government offices gets irradiated, in order to kill any biological agents, notably anthrax spores. The downside of this is that viable spores have been needed to identify the anthrax strain, which can be critical to treating those infected. But now Henry S. Gibbons, PhD, has shown that full sequences can quickly be determined from irradiated spores. The research is published November 13 in Applied and Environmental Microbiology, a journal of the American S
  
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• Google Self-Driving Car Gets Pulled Over

  13-11-2015 18:51 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  "We want them to feel friendly and approachable, rather than zooming scarily through neighborhood streets," the Google Self-Driving Car Project said.
  
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• Is T-Mobile's Free Video Streaming a Good Idea?

  13-11-2015 18:43 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  T-Mobile's announcement that customers can "binge on" with video streaming could actually be bad news for consumers, say Internet freedom advocates.
  
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• Watch: Bluetooth To Reach Higher Speeds and Longer Ranges

  13-11-2015 18:39
  
  In 2016, it is expected that next generation devices with Bluetooth capabilities will be immensely upgraded.
  
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• Experimental Alzheimer’s Drug J147 Shows Anti-Aging Effects

  13-11-2015 18:34 via scitechdaily.com
  
  New research from the Salk Institute shows that the experimental Alzheimer’s drug J147 has a host of unexpected anti-aging effects in animals. The Salk team expanded upon their previous development of a drug candidate, called J147, which takes a different tack by targeting Alzheimer’s major risk factor–old age. In the new work, the team showed […]
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• New Model Maps the Development of Stem Cells in the Human Body

  13-11-2015 18:14 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Using the telomeres on the chromosomes of blood cells, scientists have designed a mathematical model for mapping the development of populations of haematopoietic stem cells with advancing age. Stem cells ensure the regeneration and maintenance of the body’s tissues. Diseases like cancer can arise if they spiral out of control. In collaboration with doctors from […]
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• R.I.P. Beats: Apple to Shut Down Streaming Service

  13-11-2015 18:03 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Beats Music is not long for this world.
  
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• Fermi Mission Reveals Hints of Gamma-Ray Cycle in Active Galaxy PG 1553+113

  13-11-2015 17:44 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Using NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, a team of astronomers has discovered hints of periodic changes in brightness in blazar PG 1553+113, whose emissions are powered by a supersized black hole. If confirmed, the discovery would mark the first years-long cyclic gamma-ray emission ever detected from any galaxy, which could provide new insights into physical […]
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• New Curiosity Image Shows ‘Garden City’ Site on Mount Sharp

  13-11-2015 17:29 via scitechdaily.com
  
  This new image from NASA’s Curiosity Rover shows the the “Garden City” site and surroundings on Mount Sharp. This view from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover shows a site with a network of prominent mineral veins below a cap rock ridge on lower Mount Sharp. Researchers used the rover in March […]
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• Ford First to Test Out Driverless Car in This Fake Town

  13-11-2015 17:15 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  It's an old-school American automaker, not Google or Apple, that is first to try out a fully self-driving car at a 32-acre fake city.
  
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• 'Uber get out,' say protesting Uruguay taxi drivers

  13-11-2015 17:12
  
  Taxi drivers blocked a central street in Montevideo on Friday to prevent ride-sharing service Uber from training new drivers as it seeks to roll out service in Uruguay.
  
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• Super environmentally friendly: the 'fool's gold battery'

  13-11-2015 17:12
  
  High-performance lithium ion batteries face a major problem: Lithium will eventually start to run out as batteries are deployed in electric cars and stationary storage units. Researchers from Empa and ETH Zurich have now discovered an alternative: the "fool's gold battery". It consists of iron, sulfur, sodium and magnesium – all elements that are in plentiful supply. This means that giant storage batteries could be built on the cheap and used stationary in buildings or next to power plants
  
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• Really, what is the internet of things?

  13-11-2015 17:08
  
  The Internet of Things, IoT, the cloud, big data...buzzwords for the modern age. But, asks Won Kim, Jaehyuk Choi and colleagues in the Department of Software at Gachon University, in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea: Is the IoT actually anything new and how does it work? Writing in the International Journal of Web and Grid Services, the team offer some answers and a high-level view of the IoT from the perspective of its architecture.
  
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• WT1190F: Space Junk Burns Up in Earth's Atmosphere

  13-11-2015 16:48 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  A mysterious piece of space junk entered Earth's atmosphere early Friday morning, burning up over the Indian Ocean.
  
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• Volkswagen brand sales dip in wake of scandal

  13-11-2015 16:37
  
  Volkswagen's flagship brand saw global auto sales fall 5.3 percent in October in the wake of a scandal over cars equipped with software that let them cheat on U.S. diesel emissions tests.
  
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• Five things to know about Apple's new iPad Pro

  13-11-2015 16:37
  
  The first thing you need to know about Apple's iPad Pro is that it's, well, giant.
  
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• Apple fading out Beats streaming music brand

  13-11-2015 16:37
  
  Apple is ending the Beats streaming music service on November 30 as it seeks to bring users to its newly launched Apple Music.
  
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• Sea ice plays a pivotal role in the Arctic methane cycle

  13-11-2015 16:26
  
  The ice-covered Arctic Ocean is a more important factor concerning the concentration of the greenhouse gas methane in the atmosphere than previously assumed. Experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) report on the newly discovered interactions between the atmosphere, sea ice and the ocean in a recent online study in the journal Nature's Scientific Reports.
  
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• Coming to a field near you? The 'body farms' where human remains decompose in the name of science

  13-11-2015 16:10
  
  Imagine your dead grandmother lying in an open field, being attacked by vultures. It's a horrifying thought and may seem like the ultimate indignity. But, assuming she is an "inmate" at one of the human taphonomy facilities around the world, she could be making an invaluable contribution to the advancement of forensic science.
  
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• If we over-invest in the social media bubble, what happens when it bursts?

  13-11-2015 16:00
  
  It's an investment billions of us make every day – not a financial one, but an investment of time and effort into expressing our opinions on things we are sympathetic to, and those we detest. We pay respect, and expect a return – in terms of "likes" on a recently posted selfie.
  
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• Rosetta and Philae—one year since landing on a comet

  13-11-2015 15:50
  
  One year since Philae made its historic landing on a comet, mission teams remain hopeful for renewed contact with the lander, while also looking ahead to next year's grand finale: making a controlled impact of the Rosetta orbiter on the comet.
  
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• Photons on a chip set new paths for secure communications

  13-11-2015 15:45
  
  RMIT research has helped crack the code to ultra-secure telecommunications of the future in an international research project that could also expedite the advent of quantum computing.
  
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• Scientist at work: Searching for tiny neutrinos in the South Pole's thick ice

  13-11-2015 15:40
  
  Standing at the South Pole is the next-best thing to being on another planet. If you walk a few hundred yards away from the buildings that make up the National Science Foundation's research station, you see a featureless plain of snow and ice, most likely empty of living creatures larger than microbes for hundreds of miles. With nothing but snow for sound waves to echo off, there's an eerie silence. It's easy to get lost in reverie, contemplating the stark landscape. But then you remember that y
  
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