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• The Latest: Gov. Kasich May Skip GOP Convention

  28-06-2016 23:48
  Don't look for Ohio Gov. John Kasich on stage at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland
  
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• Fix for getting ALL the shampoo from the bottle?

  28-06-2016 23:48 via rss.cnn.com
  
  New plastic coating could get ALL the shampoo from the bottle.
  
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• How Amazon's Dash Buttons Can Thwart Smart Shopping

  28-06-2016 23:22
  Amazon is expanding its line of one-touch ordering Dash buttons
  
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• The Latest: Gov. Kasich to Skip GOP Convention in Own State

  28-06-2016 23:06
  Don't look for Ohio Gov. John Kasich on stage at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland
  
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• Lives in the balance: Why do we hold onto potentially harmful, disease-causing mutations?

  28-06-2016 23:00
  
  The persistence of heritable disease raises an evolutionary paradox. When DNA goes awry, and a harmful mutation sprouts up that affects survival, why aren't these simply purged from a population over generations?
  
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• Social Media Accounts May Be Factored in Foreigner Visits to U.S.

  28-06-2016 22:34 via nbcnews.com
  
  Customs and Border Patrol agency issued has proposed asking some foreign visitors for their social media handles when traveling to or from the U.S.
  
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• Hulu's dance with brands

  28-06-2016 22:30
  
  Car commercials are the kind of thing that Mindy Lahiri, the titular character on "The Mindy Project," might impatiently fast-forward through or ignore while watching a bad reality-TV show. The Hulu comedy offered an alternative earlier this month for viewers of the latter mindset.
  
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• Paul Allen's giant plane takes shape in the desert, but its market is unclear

  28-06-2016 22:20
  
  In the high Mojave Desert, the airframe of Paul Allen's giant, mysterious plane for carrying rockets into space is approaching completion.
  
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• New study shows impact of man-made structures on Louisiana's coastal wetlands

  28-06-2016 22:06
  
  As Louisiana's wetlands continue to disappear at an alarming rate, a new study has pinpointed the man-made structures that disrupt the natural water flow and threaten these important ecosystems. The findings have important implications for New Orleans and other coastal cities that rely on coastal wetlands to serve as buffer from destructive extreme weather events.
  
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• New framework uses patterns to predict terrorist behavior

  28-06-2016 22:06
  
  Government agencies are having difficulty tracking potential terrorist attacks, since terrorists have developed new ways to communicate besides social media. A new framework developed by researchers at Binghamton University, State University of New York is able to predict future terrorist attacks by recognizing patterns in past attacks.
  
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• Olympic unisuits protect against polluted waters

  28-06-2016 22:00 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The U.S. Olympic rowing team will appear in seamless unisuits when they hit the bay waters of Rio de Janeiro this summer. Though many viewers will notice only the second-skin fit, these innovative suits will also be providing much-needed protection against the foul waters of Guanabara Bay. The unisuits are knitted with antimicrobial material, their designer said.
  
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• The Latest: Local Officials Support Closing Nuclear Site

  28-06-2016 21:52
  Local officials are expressing support for an agreement to close the California's last nuclear energy plant in nine years
  
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• Brexit throws spanner into EU climate policy

  28-06-2016 21:42
  
  Britain's exit from the European Union may erode the bloc's leadership role in fighting climate change and stymie crucial efforts to set more ambitious targets for cutting greenhouse gases, officials and experts said Tuesday.
  
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• Booster rocket fires in key NASA test for Mars missions

  28-06-2016 21:31
  
  NASA's fireworks came early this year with a successful rocket test in Utah.
  
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• New way out: Researchers show how stem cells exit bloodstream

  28-06-2016 21:26
  
  Researchers at North Carolina State University have discovered that therapeutic stem cells exit the bloodstream in a different manner than was previously thought. This process, dubbed angiopellosis by the researchers, has implications for improving our understanding of not only intravenous stem cell therapies, but also metastatic cancers.
  
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• Can You Hear Them Now? New Buoy Listens for Singing Whales

  28-06-2016 21:22
  Scientists have deployed a buoy off New York to monitor whales
  
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• Clinton Proposes Debt Forgiveness to Young Entrepreneurs

  28-06-2016 21:13
  
  Hillary Clinton on Tuesday proposed letting entrepreneurs defer making student loan payments in order to create jobs and stimulate growth across the country
  
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• Watch: NASA's Mars-Bound Rocket Booster Passes a Key Test

  28-06-2016 20:25
  
  The agency plans to use the rocket for future deep space missions, including a crewed trip to the Red Planet in the 2030s.
  
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• Female deer disperse farther than males, present disease-control challenge

  28-06-2016 20:21
  
  Fewer female white-tailed deer disperse than males, but when they do, they typically travel more than twice as far, taking much more convoluted paths and covering larger areas, according to researchers in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences.
  
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• See and sort: Developing novel techniques to visualize uncultured microbial cell activity

  28-06-2016 20:16
  
  Many uncultured microbes play unknown roles in regulating Earth's biogeochemical processes; everything from regulating plant health to driving nutrient cycles in both terrestrial and marine environments, processes that can impact global climate. While researchers are harnessing multiple approaches to identify these microbes, referred to as "microbial dark matter," and determine what they're doing, most techniques don't allow them to do both at once.
  
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• Study shows how the protein controls the development of fruit fly wings

  28-06-2016 20:08
  
  How do the cells in a human embryo know where they are located in the body and how they should develop? Why do certain cells form a finger while others do not? Freiburg biologists have explained the mechanisms that control these steps by showing why veins form at particular points in the wing of a fruit fly. The protein Pentagone spreads a particular signal in the wing that tells the cells how to behave.
  
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• Google brings Earth into better focus

  28-06-2016 20:08
  
  Google's free online mapping service is bringing the world into better focus with an updated version of Earth that takes advantage of photos from a US Landsat 8 satellite.
  
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• Pipelines affect health, fitness of salmon, study finds

  28-06-2016 20:06
  
  Pipelines carrying crude oil to ports in British Columbia may spell bad news for salmon, according to a new University of Guelph-led study.
  
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• Engineers to use cyborg insects as biorobotic sensing machines

  28-06-2016 20:05
  
  A team of engineers from Washington University in St. Louis is looking to capitalize on the sense of smell in locusts to create new biorobotic sensing systems that could be used in homeland security applications.
  
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• The Latest: Clinton Says Nothing New in Benghazi Report

  28-06-2016 19:51
  Hillary Rodham Clinton says the House Benghazi committee found nothing different than previous investigations into the 2012 attack that killed four American diplomats
  
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• NASA's Mars-Bound Rocket Booster Passes a Key Test

  28-06-2016 19:36
  
  The heavy duty rocket will one day carry humans to Mars.
  
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• Hubble reveals stellar fireworks in 'skyrocket' galaxy

  28-06-2016 19:36
  
  Fireworks shows are not just confined to Earth's skies. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular fireworks display in a small, nearby galaxy, which resembles a July 4th skyrocket.
  
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• Google faces new EU anti-trust charges: sources

  28-06-2016 19:28
  
  Google faces fresh EU anti-competition charges, this time targeting the search engine giant's advertising business, sources close to the matter told AFP on Tuesday.
  
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• 'Bugs' on the subway: Monitoring the microbial environment to improve public health

  28-06-2016 19:26
  
  The trillions of microbes that transfer from people to surfaces could provide an early warning system for the emergence of public health threats such as a flu outbreak or a rise in antibiotic resistance, according to a study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The researchers took to the Boston subway system to find out what kinds of bugs people across the city are passing around—and how they might help preserve or disrupt our health.
  
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• Boston subway system covered in microbes, but they're not harmful

  28-06-2016 19:26
  
  Boston's subway system, known as the T, might be just as bacteria-laden as you'd expect but organisms found there are largely from normal human skin and incapable of causing disease, according to a study published June 28 in mSystems, an open access journal of the American Society for Microbiology.
  
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• Veils, headscarves may improve observers' ability to judge truthfulness, study finds

  28-06-2016 19:25
  
  Contrary to the opinions of some courts, it is easier to determine the truthfulness of a woman wearing a headscarf or even a veil that leaves only her eyes exposed than a woman wearing no head covering at all, according to research published by the American Psychological Association.
  
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• Hubble Image Reveals ‘Stellar Fireworks’ in Kiso 5639

  28-06-2016 19:25 via scitechdaily.com
  
  New research shows that a stellar fireworks show is lighting up one end of galaxy Kiso 5639. Astronomers suggest that the frenzied star birth is sparked by intergalactic gas raining on one end of the galaxy as it drifts through space. Fireworks shows are not just confined to Earth’s skies. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has […]
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• Fin24.com | Here’s how hackers hit African organisations

  28-06-2016 19:24
  
  Government departments and ministries as well as telecommunications, manufacturing and financial companies are the most targeted sectors for cyber attacks in South Africa and Nigeria.
  
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• NASA sees wind shear affecting Tropical Cyclone 02A

  28-06-2016 19:23
  
  Tropical Cyclone 02A made its way west across the Arabian Sea and NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the storm when it was just off the coast of Oman. Infrared data showed the storm was beginning to elongate from wind shear.
  
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• Astronomers Measure the Intrinsic Shape of the Milky Way’s Black Hole

  28-06-2016 19:12 via scitechdaily.com
  
  A newly published study details how astronomers successfully measured the intrinsic shape of Sagittarius A* at 3.5-mm wavelength. At the heart of our galaxy’s center is Sgr A*, a supermassive black hole containing about four million solar-masses of material. Sgr A* is relatively faint, unlike the supermassive black holes in some other galaxies. This is […]
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• The Latest: Trump to Highlight Opposition to Trade Deals

  28-06-2016 19:02
  Republican Donald Trump is highlighting his opposition to the country's trade deals and painting Hillary Clinton as a champion of the kind of globalization that has pushed manufacturing jobs overseas
  
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• Google Offers New Way for Users to Manage Ads, Personal Data

  28-06-2016 19:01
  Google is trying to make it easier for you to manage the vast pool of information that it collects about your online activities across phones, computers and other devices
  
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• Facebook Knows Where You've Been and Is Using It to Suggest Friends

  28-06-2016 17:52
  
  If that guy who popped up in your Facebook "people you may know" section looks familiar, it may be because you've recently crossed paths.
  
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• New model predicts once-mysterious chemical reactions

  28-06-2016 17:48
  
  A team of researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory and Curtin University in Australia developed a theoretical model to forecast the fundamental chemical reactions involving molecular hydrogen (H2), which after many decades and attempts by scientists had remained largely unpredicted and unsolved.
  
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• NASA tests deep space rocket booster ahead of 2018 mission

  28-06-2016 17:41
  
  NASA on Tuesday performed its second and last test-fire of a rocket booster for the Space Launch System (SLS), a powerful engine that may one day launch astronauts to Mars, the US space agency said.
  
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• Developers of fortified food staple awarded World Food Prize

  28-06-2016 17:41
  
  Four scientists credited with creating food that's fortified with essential nutrients and vitamins and has helped an estimated 10 million people avoid starvation and disease were awarded this year's World Food Prize on Tuesday.
  
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• Taylor Swift Fans in China Are Betting on Her Relationships

  28-06-2016 17:40 via nbcnews.com
  
  Thanks to Taobao, China's biggest online marketplace, 'Swifties' can now purchase 'breakup insurance.'
  
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• Engineers create a soft motor that could power versatile soft robots

  28-06-2016 17:39
  
  A small, squishy vehicle equipped with soft wheels rolls over rough terrain and runs under water.
  
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• Monkey Study Finds Zika Infection Lasts Longer in Pregnancy

  28-06-2016 17:22
  Researchers infected pregnant monkeys with the Zika virus to learn how it harms developing fetuses _ and in a highly unusual twist, the public can get a real-time peek at the findings
  
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• Science groups to Congress: Climate change is real threat

  28-06-2016 17:11
  
  Thirty-one of the country's top science organizations are telling Congress that global warming is a real problem and something needs to be done about it.
  
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• Video: Sparklers in super slow-motion

  28-06-2016 17:10
  
  As Independence Day approaches, people across the country are getting ready to celebrate with fireworks. Sparklers are a classic crowd-pleaser, and this week Reactions looks at the chemistry of these July 4th mainstays in super slow-motion.
  
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• Animals 'inherit' their social network from their mothers, study shows

  28-06-2016 17:10
  
  Dolphins, lizards and hyenas may not be on Facebook or Twitter, but, as social species, their social networks influence every pivotal aspect of their lives: finding a mate, reproducing, becoming ill or surviving.
  
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• Video privacy software lets you select what others can see

  28-06-2016 17:00
  
  Camera-equipped smartphones, laptops and other devices make it possible to share ideas and images with anyone, anywhere, often in real-time. But in our cameras-everywhere culture, the risk of accidentally leaking sensitive information is growing.
  
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• Tiniest imperfections make big impacts in nano-patterned materials

  28-06-2016 17:00
  
  A research team at Clarkson University reports an interesting conclusion that could have major impacts on the future of nano-manufacturing. Their analysis for a model of the process of random sequential adsorption (RSA) shows that even a small imprecision in the position of the lattice landing sites can dramatically affect the density of the permanently formed deposit.
  
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• Insurance causes costs of services to rise

  28-06-2016 16:59
  
  Dishonesty not only damages relation between human beings, it can also have a devastating effect on the economy. Scientists from the University of Cologne and the University of Innsbruck in Austria have now found out that in markets for credence goods—markets that require a high degree of trust—there are also strong incentives for dishonest behavior.
  
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