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• Dwarf planet Haumea's lunar system smaller than anticipated

  16-05-2016 23:42
  
  Haumea, a dwarf planet on the edge of our solar system doesn't have the same kind of moons as its well-known cousin Pluto according to a new study. This is despite original evidence that suggested they both formed in similar giant impacts and adds to the mystery shrouding how these icy bodies formed. 
  
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• Snowden files set for wider release

  16-05-2016 23:40
  
  The full cache of secret documents from former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden is being opened to journalists and organizations willing to work with the news organization holding the archive.
  
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• UN panel says weedkiller 'unlikely' to cause cancer

  16-05-2016 23:30
  
  The controversial weedkiller glyphosate, which is used by Monsanto in its herbicide Roundup, is "unlikely" to cause cancer, a United Nations finding said Monday, in a blow to critics who have called for its ban.
  
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• Twitter to free room for links and photos: report

  16-05-2016 23:21
  
  Twitter plans to let people fire off links or pictures without eating into the 140-character limit set for posts at the one-to-many messaging service, Bloomberg reported on Monday
  
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• Companies propose deep-water wind farms off Hawaii shores (Update)

  16-05-2016 23:20
  
  Massive wind turbines could end up floating in deep ocean waters off Hawaii's shores under proposals to bring more renewable energy to the islands.
  
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• Companies propose deep-water wind farms off Hawaii shores

  16-05-2016 23:20
  
  As Hawaii pushes to meet its aggressive renewable energy goals, two companies have proposed offshore wind turbine projects for federal waters off Oahu.
  
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• Ukrainian hacker admits plotting to use stolen news releases

  16-05-2016 23:19
  
  A Ukrainian hacker pleaded guilty Monday to his role in an international scheme that used stolen unpublished news releases to make $30 million in profits.
  
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• Trump poses new mission for Mexico's diplomats

  16-05-2016 23:18
  
  After months of near silence regarding Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's "increasingly hostile" comments about Mexico, the country, through its foreign ministry, is now trying to protect its image and respond more vigorously to anti-Mexican rhetoric, according to a new issue brief from Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy.
  
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• Zoetis launching new doggy med for noise-related anxiety

  16-05-2016 23:11
  
  Fido and Spot may not have to cower under the bed this summer when fireworks and thunderstorms hit, thanks to the first prescription veterinary medicine for treating anxiety over loud noises—a widespread problem that causes property destruction, terrified dogs running away and even life-threatening injuries or euthanasia for some.
  
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• Rwanda opens pioneering methane electricity plant

  16-05-2016 23:05
  
  Rwanda formally opened a unique methane power plant Monday with hopes that it will one day provide 60 percent of the country's electricity, according to its operator.
  
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• Team defines meaningful part of maize genome

  16-05-2016 22:57
  
  Using a genetic mapping technique developed at Florida State University, FSU and Cornell University researchers have shown that a small percentage of the entire maize genome is responsible for almost half of a plant's trait diversity.
  
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• Diverse fish communities more productive and resistant to changing temperatures

  16-05-2016 22:56
  
  Fish provide protein to billions of people and are an especially critical food source in the developing world. Today marine biologists confirmed a key factor that could help them thrive through the coming decades: biodiversity. Communities with more fish species are more productive and more resilient to rising temperatures and temperature swings, according to a new study from the Smithsonian's Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network and other international institutions.
  
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• Faith and Facebook: Young social media regulars less committed to one religion

  16-05-2016 22:55
  
  Youths who use social media are more likely to develop a "pick-and-choose" approach to customize their faith—regardless of what their religious tradition teaches—than those who do not use social media, according to a Baylor University study.
  
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• MinXSS CubeSat deployed from ISS to study Sun's soft X-rays

  16-05-2016 22:54
  
  On May 16, 2016, the bread loaf-sized Miniature X-Ray Solar Spectrometer, or MinXSS, CubeSat deployed from an airlock on the International Space Station to begin its journey into space. The NASA-funded MinXSS studies emissions from the sun that can affect our communications systems.
  
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• New packaging advances prolongs veggie freshness

  16-05-2016 22:53
  
  New advances in packaging at Michigan State University can help produce stay fresh longer.
  
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• Can cybersecurity crack the undergraduate curriculum?

  16-05-2016 22:47
  
  In a time when million-dollar security breaches of major corporations regularly make headlines and complicate lives, computer science undergraduates at America's universities remain surprisingly underexposed to basic cybersecurity tactics.
  
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• Research demonstrates a new phase transition from metal to ionic conductor

  16-05-2016 22:46
  
  Fuel cells, which generate electricity from chemical reactions without harmful emissions, have the potential to power everything from cars to portable electronics, and could be cleaner and more efficient than combustion engines.
  
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• Tesla Call Cheap-Labor Allegations 'Unacceptable'

  16-05-2016 22:45 via nbcnews.com
  
  Tesla's reputation came under fire over the weekend after a report claimed the company used cheap foreign labor to build one of its new facilities.
  
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• Methionine could be key to improving pregnancy rate in dairy cattle

  16-05-2016 22:30
  
  Research at the University of Illinois has shown that adding methionine to the diets of Holstein cows during the prepartum and postpartum periods may impact the preimplantation embryo in a way that enhances its capacity for survival.
  
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• The 'Echoverse': A new way to think about brand-consumer interactions

  16-05-2016 22:29
  
  Most studies of the interactions between companies and consumers look at one piece of the puzzle: Advertising or social media or news coverage or "consumer sentiment" as measured in surveys. A new study from researchers at the University of Maryland, University of Tennessee and Massey University examines how messages about brands across various channels interact in a complex set of feedback loops the authors call the "echoverse." And the study offers advice for managers on navigating this new co
  
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• Strains of E. coli resistant to one antibiotic can protect other bacteria growing nearby

  16-05-2016 22:28
  
  A new study from MIT finds that two strains of bacteria that are each resistant to one antibiotic can protect each other in an environment containing both drugs.
  
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• Hacker Admits Plotting to Use Stolen News Releases

  16-05-2016 22:04 via nbcnews.com
  
  The U.S. attorney's office said that from 2010 to 2015, the group gained access to more than 150,000 press releases.
  
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• Study offers new answer to why Earth's atmosphere became oxygenated

  16-05-2016 21:58
  
  Earth scientists from Rice University, Yale University and the University of Tokyo are offering a new answer to the long-standing question of how our planet acquired its oxygenated atmosphere.
  
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• Canadian astronaut to join ISS in 2018

  16-05-2016 21:42
  
  Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques will travel to the International Space Station (ISS) for a six-month mission in late 2018, Science Minister Navdeep Bains announced Monday.
  
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• Trojan horses for hospital bugs

  16-05-2016 21:00
  
  Staphylococcus aureus is a bacterium that is frequently found on the human skin and in the nose where it usually behaves inconspicuously. However, once inside the body, it can have life-threatening consequences such as abscesses, sepsis, pneumonia or myocarditis. How the pathogen manages to perform its disastrous work is still largely in the dark despite intensive research. Scientists from the Universities of Oxford and Würzburg have now unravelled an equally puzzling phenomenon. They prese
  
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• Scientists create novel 'liquid wire' material inspired by spiders' capture silk

  16-05-2016 21:00
  
  Why doesn't a spider's web sag in the wind or catapult flies back out like a trampoline? The answer, according to new research by an international team of scientists, lies in the physics behind a 'hybrid' material produced by spiders for their webs.
  
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• Iron fertilization won't work in much of Pacific, says study

  16-05-2016 21:00
  
  Over the past half-million years, the equatorial Pacific Ocean has seen five spikes in the amount of iron-laden dust blown in from the continents. In theory, those bursts should have turbo-charged the growth of the ocean's carbon-capturing algae - algae need iron to grow - but a new study shows that the excess iron had little to no effect.
  
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• Watch: Meet the USS Zumwalt, U.S. Navy's Newest Destroyer

  16-05-2016 20:03 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The U.S. Navy will soon take charge of its newest warship: the USS Zumwalt. The ship will be the largest and most technologically sophisticated destroyer in the Navy's fleet.
  
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• Facebook CEO to meet with Glenn Beck, other conservatives

  16-05-2016 19:16
  
  Radio host Glenn Beck and American Enterprise Institute president Arthur Brooks are some of the conservative leaders Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to meet with this week.
  
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• Theorists smooth the way to modeling quantum friction

  16-05-2016 19:05
  
  Theoretical chemists at Princeton University have pioneered a strategy for modeling quantum friction, or how a particle's environment drags on it, a vexing problem in quantum mechanics since the birth of the field. The study was published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.
  
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• Cooling cows efficiently with water spray

  16-05-2016 19:04
  
  Dairies use intermittent sprinkler systems to cool cows in warm weather, but little experimental work has been done to determine how much water is needed to achieve beneficial effects. A group of dairy scientists conducted a study at the University of California, Davis, to examine the effects of using low-flow sprinkler systems that cut water use for this purpose by nearly 75%. Their research is published in the current issue (June 2016) of the Journal of Dairy Science.
  
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• World's richest source of oceanographic data now operational at Rutgers

  16-05-2016 18:31
  
  The data center for the pioneering Ocean Observatories Initiative, which collects and shares data from more than 800 sophisticated instruments and a transmission network across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, is now operating at Rutgers University.
  
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• ISS completes 100,000th orbit of Earth: mission control

  16-05-2016 18:31
  
  The International Space Station, the space laboratory that showcases cooperation between Russia and the United States, on Monday orbited Earth for the 100,000th time, Russian mission control said.
  
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• International Space Station makes 100,000th orbit of Earth

  16-05-2016 18:31
  
  One-hundred-thousand laps around Earth, and the International Space Station is still sailing right along.
  
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• Animal training techniques teach robots new tricks

  16-05-2016 18:30
  
  Researchers at Washington State University are using ideas from animal training to help non-expert users teach robots how to do desired tasks.
  
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• No, presidential candidates don't usually dodge tough questions: Study analyzed 14 presidential debates

  16-05-2016 18:27
  
  Nearly everybody thinks that presidential candidates routinely dodge hard-hitting questions, providing evasive answers to simple questions.
  
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• Why is female sexuality more flexible than male sexuality?

  16-05-2016 18:26
  
  A new evolutionary theory argues that women may have been evolutionarily designed to be sexually fluid—changing their sexual desires and identities from lesbian, to bisexual, to heterosexual and back again—in order to allow them to have sex with their co-wives in polygynous marriages, therefore reducing conflict and tension inherent in such marriages while at the same time successfully reproducing with their husbands in heterosexual unions.
  
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• Astronomers Reveal the Secret Life of the Orion Nebula

  16-05-2016 18:10 via scitechdaily.com
  
  A team of astronomers reveal how the interplay of magnetic fields and gravitation in the gas cloud lead to the birth of new stars. Space bears witness to a constant stream of star births. And whole star clusters are often formed at the same time – and within a comparatively short period. Amelia Stutz and […]
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• Hunting for hidden life on worlds orbiting old, red stars

  16-05-2016 18:00
  
  All throughout the universe, there are stars in varying phases and ages. The oldest detected Kepler planets (exoplanets found using NASA's Kepler telescope) are about 11 billion years old, and the planetary diversity suggests that around other stars, such initially frozen worlds could be the size of Earth and could even provide habitable conditions once the star becomes older. Astronomers usually looked at middle-aged stars like our sun, but to find habitable worlds, one needs to look around sta
  
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• New Evidence That Diet and Gut Microbes Can Influence Brain Inflammation

  16-05-2016 17:59 via scitechdaily.com
  
  A newly discovered link between deficits in gut flora and brain inflammation may lead researchers to learn more about its impact on multiple sclerosis. A team of investigators at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) has found evidence that suggests that bacteria living in the gut may remotely influence the activity of cells in the […]
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• Overpasses and underpasses for migrating animals may reduce collisions with automobiles

  16-05-2016 17:51
  
  In the western United States, mule deer and pronghorn (animals that are similar to antelopes) undergo annual migrations that place them and drivers at risk for collisions when the animals cross busy roadways. A new study evaluated overpasses and underpasses as alternative routes for the animals during migration.
  
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• Israeli divers uncover trove of shipwrecked Roman treasure

  16-05-2016 17:50
  
  Israeli archeologists say two divers have made the country's biggest discovery of Roman-era artifacts in three decades.
  
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• Can fluids from fracking escape into groundwater

  16-05-2016 17:49
  
  A new study looks at how fluids related to hydraulic fracturing or "fracking" can escape into aquifers via nearby leaky abandoned wells.
  
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• NASA Invests in Next Stage of Visionary Technology Development

  16-05-2016 17:47 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Using a peer-review process that evaluated innovativeness and technical viability, NASA has selected eight technology proposals for investment that have the potential to transform future aerospace missions, introduce new capabilities, and significantly improve current approaches to building and operating aerospace systems. Awards under Phase II of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program can be […]
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• Self-healing, flexible electronic material restores functions after many breaks

  16-05-2016 17:43
  
  Electronic materials have been a major stumbling block for the advance of flexible electronics because existing materials do not function well after breaking and healing. A new electronic material created by an international team, however, can heal all its functions automatically even after breaking multiple times. This material could improve the durability of wearable electronics.
  
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• Watch: Frustration Among iTunes Users

  16-05-2016 17:40 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Users of Apple's iTunes complain music was deleted from their account without permission.
  
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• Detroit's automakers, sensing a threat, embrace mobility

  16-05-2016 17:37
  
  For Detroit, the days of simply making cars are over.
  
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• Study reveals how differences in male and female brains emerge

  16-05-2016 17:36
  
  Nematode worms may not be from Mars or Venus, but they do have sex-specific circuits in their brains that cause the males and females to act differently. According to new research published in Nature, scientists have determined how these sexually dimorphic (occurring in either males or females) connections arise in the worm nervous system. The research was funded by the NIH's National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS).
  
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• Study: Police more likely than others to say they are blind to racial differences

  16-05-2016 17:36
  
  A new study reveals that police recruits and experienced officers are more likely than others to subscribe to colorblind racial beliefs—the notion that they - and people in general—see no differences among people from different racial groups and treat everyone the same.
  
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• Cassini Image of Saturn’s Rings and Its Moon Prometheus

  16-05-2016 17:35 via scitechdaily.com
  
  NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft views Saturn’s Rings and its neighboring moon Prometheus. Most planetary rings appear to be shaped, at least in part, by moons orbiting their planets, but nowhere is that more evident than in Saturn’s F ring. Filled with kinks, jets, strands and gores, the F ring has been sculpted by its two neighboring […]
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