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• WATCH: When the Moon Photobombs Planet Earth

  12-07-2016 23:44
  
  A NASA camera captured a view of the moon as it moved past the sunlit side of Earth.
  
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• WATCH: Pokemon Go Mania Drives Players Outdoors

  12-07-2016 23:41
  
  New game gives players the chance to catch Pokemon in the real world.
  
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• Catch 'em All! What is Driving the Pokémon Go Craze?

  12-07-2016 23:11 via nbcnews.com
  
  The new mobile Nintendo game has currently more daily users than Twitter. What is so great about Pokémon Go?
  
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• The telltale heart of chordate evolution: Study shows model organism making do with less

  12-07-2016 23:00
  
  A new study led by researchers of the University of Barcelona and the Biodiversity Research Institute (IRBio), published in the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution, proves once more that evolution does not always imply more complexity or more genes in living beings.
  
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• Black hole makes material wobble around it

  12-07-2016 22:58
  
  The European Space Agency's orbiting X-ray observatory, XMM-Newton, has proved the existence of a "gravitational vortex" around a black hole. The discovery, aided by NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) mission, solves a mystery that has eluded astronomers for more than 30 years, and will allow them to map the behavior of matter very close to black holes. It could also open the door to future investigations of Albert Einstein's general relativity.
  
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• Tesla won't disable Autopilot despite accidents: report

  12-07-2016 22:54
  
  Tesla does not plan to disable the Autopilot self-driving function in its cars despite accidents possibly linked to it, founder Elon Musk told The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday.
  
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• How to play Pokemon Go

  12-07-2016 22:53
  
  Pokemon Go mania has players armed with smartphones hunting streets, parks, rivers, landmarks and other sites to capture monsters and gather supplies.
  
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• Newly discovered features of collagen may help shed light on disease processes

  12-07-2016 22:52
  
  Scientists at the National Institutes of Health are reporting new, unexpected details about the fundamental structure of collagen, the most abundant protein in the human body. In lab experiments, they demonstrated that collagen, once viewed as inert, forms structures that regulate how certain enzymes break down and remodel body tissue. The finding of this regulatory system provides a molecular view of the potential role of physical forces at work in heart disease, cancer, arthritis, and other di
  
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• US holds potential to produce billion tons of biomass, support bioeconomy

  12-07-2016 22:48
  
  The 2016 Billion-Ton Report, jointly released by the U.S. Department of Energy and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, concludes that the United States has the potential to sustainably produce at least 1 billion dry tons of nonfood biomass resources annually by 2040.
  
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• Driverless car can fight where soldiers can't

  12-07-2016 22:30 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Sikorsky have created an autonomous vehicle that works alongside an autonomous helicopter to assist with dangerous and complicated military operations.
  
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• Holocaust Museum Tells Visitors: Stop Playing Pokemon Go

  12-07-2016 22:20 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., has asked players of the viral game Pokémon Go to turn it off and put away their phones.
  
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• Shedding the fat: ONR explores ways to trim software bloat, improve security

  12-07-2016 21:58
  
  Have you ever upgraded your software program or app, only to find it didn't seem to perform as well as the older version? The problem most likely was caused by software bloat, a condition where updated software runs slower because of repetitive code, requiring more memory—and becoming more vulnerable to cyber attacks.
  
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• Judge tosses lawsuit over NYC's payphone-turned-Wi-Fi plan

  12-07-2016 21:49
  
  A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging New York City's push to turn payphones into Wi-Fi hotspots.
  
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• Rare 'Frankenstein' galaxy discovered

  12-07-2016 21:48 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Since its discovery in the 1960s, astronomers believed that in a relatively quiet suburb of our universe 250 million light-years away, there lived a boring little galaxy named UGC 1382 that was otherwise unremarkable -- apart from being a system of millions of stars, gas and dust being held together by gravity. It is one of 12,921 listed in the Uppsala General Catalogue of Galaxies, or UGC.
  
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• Video: How to grow a glowing flower—the chemistry of fluorescence

  12-07-2016 21:47
  
  If you have ever seen objects "glow" under a black light, you're familiar with fluorescence. But have you ever wondered why some materials fluoresce while others don't?
  
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• Here's How Companies Are Using Pokemon Go to Sell

  12-07-2016 21:46 via nbcnews.com
  
  It's not just players who are enjoying Pokémon Go. Businesses are finding a way to use the game to lure in customers,too.
  
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• NASA eyes first-ever carbon-nanotube mirrors for CubeSat telescope

  12-07-2016 21:45
  
  A lightweight telescope that a team of NASA scientists and engineers is developing specifically for CubeSat scientific investigations could become the first to carry a mirror made of carbon nanotubes in an epoxy resin.
  
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• Study identifies 'book deserts'—poor neighborhoods lacking children's books—across country

  12-07-2016 20:47
  
  A study led by NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development finds a startling scarcity of children's books in low-income neighborhoods in Detroit, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles.
  
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• Christmas in July? Amazon's 'Prime Day' is back

  12-07-2016 20:42
  
  Shoppers are scooping up deals on everything from electronics to pantry items during Amazon's second annual "Prime Day" sales bonanza.
  
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• Oculus boosts Rift VR gear availability

  12-07-2016 20:41
  
  Oculus on Tuesday announced it is ramping up availability of its Rift virtual reality gear and planning a major conference in October for developers making software for it.
  
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• Novel advancements in radiation tolerance of HEMTs

  12-07-2016 20:31
  
  When it comes to putting technology in space, size and mass are prime considerations. High-power gallium nitride-based high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) are appealing in this regard because they have the potential to replace bulkier, less efficient transistors, and are also more tolerant of the harsh radiation environment of space. Compared to similar aluminum gallium arsenide/gallium arsenide HEMTs, the gallium nitride-based HEMTs are ten times more tolerant of radiation-induced displa
  
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• Engineered 'sand' may help cool electronic devices

  12-07-2016 20:29
  
  Baratunde Cola would like to put sand into your computer. Not beach sand, but silicon dioxide nanoparticles coated with a high dielectric constant polymer to inexpensively provide improved cooling for increasingly power-hungry electronic devices.
  
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• A New Design Strategy for Better Lithium Oxygen Batteries

  12-07-2016 19:28 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Yale researchers have devised a method that brings marketable Li-O2 batteries closer to reality, improving both the batteries’ performance and the ability to study them. In recent years, lithium-oxygen batteries have intrigued researchers with their potential. They can store at least two to three times the energy as lithium-ion batteries can, which are the current standard […]
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• Longest study of Great Lakes region birds finds populations holding steady

  12-07-2016 19:24
  
  A new USDA Forest Service report documenting an unprecedented effort to inventory birds in the western Great Lakes region and analyze changes in bird populations over the past quarter of a century found that across a trio of national forests, most birds are doing well in terms of both species diversity and population.
  
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• Breeding plants with more beneficial bacteria to feed the world won't be simple, study says

  12-07-2016 19:23
  
  With the human population expected to climb from 7.4 billion to more than 11 billion people by 2100, some scientists hope that manipulating the plant microbiome could open up new ways to meet the growing demand for food.
  
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• Mantis shrimp roll their eyes to improve their vision

  12-07-2016 19:21
  
  Imagine rolling your eyes to help you see more clearly. Although it wouldn't work for humans, new research published today in Nature Communications has shown mantis shrimp use eye rotations to enhance their polarization vision.
  
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• Top news outlets see more risks than benefits in employees' use of social media

  12-07-2016 19:18
  
  Realizing the risks of social media, major news organizations have created guidelines for employees regarding how to use these outlets, separate from the companies' existing codes of conduct. Little scholarly attention has been paid to the guidelines so far.
  
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• Tiny microchips enable extreme science

  12-07-2016 19:17
  
  As NASA spacecraft explore deeper into space, onboard computer electronics must not only be smaller and faster, but also be prepared for extreme conditions. A prime example is shown in these images: a family of Application Specific Integrated Circuits, or ASICs, microchips specifically designed to measure the particles in space - the very stuff that can create radiation hazards for satellite computers.
  
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• Team builds high-tech test track to improve crop performance

  12-07-2016 19:15
  
  Automakers torture test their cars on special tracks that simulate real driving conditions. Germany's automakers have their fabled Nurburgring track. GM has its Desert Proving Ground in California. Now Michigan State University has DEPI - Dynamic Environmental Photosynthetic Imaging - to test-drive plants so scientists and plant breeders can make them work better and produce more.
  
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• Pokemon GO users get naked

  12-07-2016 19:15 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Call it the Rated R version of Pokemon Go.
  
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• Dwarf planet found beyond Pluto

  12-07-2016 19:15 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A new dwarf planet has been discovered in the icy realms of space beyond Neptune, researchers said Monday.
  
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• DNA origami lights up a microscopic glowing Van Gogh

  12-07-2016 19:14
  
  Using folded DNA to precisely place glowing molecules within microscopic light resonators, researchers at Caltech have created one of the world's smallest reproductions of Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night. The reproduction and the technique used to create it are described in a paper published in the advance online edition of the journal Nature on July 11.
  
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• NASA sees Hurricane Celia headed for Central Pacific

  12-07-2016 19:12
  
  The Suomi NPP and Aqua satellites captured visible and infrared data on Hurricane Celia as it continues to head west toward the Central Pacific Ocean.
  
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• Researchers blur the line between classical and quantum physics by connecting chaos and entanglement

  12-07-2016 19:10
  
  Using a small quantum system consisting of three superconducting qubits, researchers at UC Santa Barbara and Google have uncovered a link between aspects of classical and quantum physics thought to be unrelated: classical chaos and quantum entanglement. Their findings suggest that it would be possible to use controllable quantum systems to investigate certain fundamental aspects of nature.
  
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• Suomi NPP satellite sees depression becoming Tropical Storm Darby

  12-07-2016 19:08
  
  The Suomi NPP satellite captured a visible image of Tropical Storm Darby as it was developing in the Eastern Pacific Ocean.
  
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• Tesla confirms another Autopilot accident

  12-07-2016 19:06 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Another Tesla Model X crashed while in Autopilot mode over the weekend, this time in Montana, the third serious accident apparently tied to the self-driving feature.
  
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• Feds: Warner Bros. agrees to settle charges it misled gamers

  12-07-2016 19:06
  
  The Federal Trade Commission says Warner Bros. has agreed to settle charges that it deceived consumers by not properly disclosing that it paid those with big followings on YouTube and social media to promote a video game.
  
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• Dutch hospital's appeal: No more Pokemon hunting!

  12-07-2016 19:03
  
  A Dutch hospital issued an appeal Tuesday to over-zealous fans of augmented reality game Pokemon Go not to "hunt" the fictitious monsters in the building after several mobile-clutching players ventured into restricted areas.
  
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• Ashley Madison tries to ditch the affairs business

  12-07-2016 18:28 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The controversial online dating service is trying to make itself over as a dating site, instead of a hotbed of infidelity, fembots and hackers. The push comes nearly a year after a security breach upended the lives of customers and their families and derailed its plans for a public offering.
  
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• Fin24.com | Anonymous ‘hacks’ Armscor website

  12-07-2016 18:16
  
  Hacktivists claiming to be linked to Anonymous have breached the website of South African government owned arms supplier Armscor.
  
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• Relatives of Palestinian Attack Victims Sue Facebook for $1Bn

  12-07-2016 17:06 via nbcnews.com
  
  A group of Israelis and Americans filed a lawsuit for $1 billion from Facebook for allegedly facilitating deadly militant attacks on their loved ones.
  
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• Security Fail in Pokemon Go Means It Could 'Pikachu'

  12-07-2016 17:04 via nbcnews.com
  
  Pokemon Go players may have unwittingly given the game's developers access to everything on their Google account, from documents to photos to emails.
  
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• First-of-its-kind survey debunks notion of monolithic youth vote

  12-07-2016 17:02
  
  Issues surrounding race and ethnicity are driving factors in the voting calculus of many young people of color and a majority of all young people believe the U.S. is a long way from achieving racial equality, according to a first-of-its-kind GenForward survey from the Black Youth Project at the University of Chicago with The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
  
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• Researchers develop novel microscope to study the underwater world

  12-07-2016 17:00
  
  A new microscopic imaging system is revealing a never-before-seen view of the underwater world. Researchers from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego have designed and built a diver-operated underwater microscope to study millimeter-scale processes as they naturally occur on the seafloor.
  
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• Mathematical models explain east-west asymmetry of jet lag recovery

  12-07-2016 17:00
  
  Travelers frequently report experiencing a significantly slower jet lag recovery after an eastward vs. westward flight. While some are quick to dismiss this complaint as being "all in their head," new research suggests it may be caused by the oscillation of a certain type of brain cells.
  
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• Extending terahertz technology to obtain highly accurate thickness of automotive paint

  12-07-2016 17:00
  
  Now automotive body paint jobs get a major boost from the rapidly emerging field of terahertz (THz) technology used to improve the precision and quality control of layered paint coatings.
  
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• Digs uncover buildings in Cyprus' 11,000-year-old village

  12-07-2016 16:57
  
  Recent archaeological digs have uncovered more than 20 round buildings in what is believed to be Cyprus' earliest known village, dating as far back as the 9th century B.C., the east Mediterranean island's Department of Antiquities said Tuesday.
  
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• Gecko clearance sale

  12-07-2016 16:56
  
  A gecko for your terrarium? Or a tortoise? Or would you rather have a snake? Reptiles are exceedingly popular as pets, trade is booming. Between 2004 and 2014, official imports to the EU came to just under 21 million live specimens, more than six million of these ended up on the German market. These also include a large number of representatives of threatened species that can be sold at extremely high profits. Some collectors are quite willing to pay prices of several thousand euros for such rar
  
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• IMERG finds Typhoon Nepartak dropped almost 20 inches of rain

  12-07-2016 16:55
  
  Nepartak was a powerful category four tropical typhoon when it hit Taiwan last week but weakened to a tropical storm as it moved into the Taiwan Strait. NASA calculated the heavy rainfall the typhoon brought to Taiwan and China before it dissipated over southeastern China.
  
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• Workplace climate, not women's 'nature,' responsible for gender-based job stress

  12-07-2016 16:36
  
  Social scientists have long known that women working in numerically male-dominated occupations like physics and firefighting report experiencing workplace stress, but men who work in numerically female-dominated occupations like nursing and child care do not.
  
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