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• Dolly the sheep's cloned sisters in good health despite age

  27-07-2016 23:59 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Though growing old, Dolly's sheep siblings are no worse for wear. Debbie, Denise, Dianna and Daisy, clones all derived from the same cell line as the first cloned mammal, show no signs of long-term health issues, according to research published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications. The clones are, in fact, in vigorous good condition despite the fact that they range in age from 7 to 9, or about 60 to 70 in human years.
  
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• Dolly the sheep's cloned sisters in good health

  27-07-2016 23:59 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Though growing old, Dolly's sheep siblings are no worse for wear. Debbie, Denise, Dianna and Daisy, clones all derived from the same cell line as the first cloned mammal, show no signs of long-term health issues, according to research published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications. The clones are, in fact, in vigorous good condition despite the fact that they range in age from 7 to 9, or about 60 to 70 in human years.
  
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• New 'Notebook Air' looks an awful lot like a MacBook

  27-07-2016 23:39 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Chinese gadget maker Xiaomi has unveiled its first-ever laptop -- a sleek machine with solid performance specs and an attractive price.
  
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• Summer skies light up for Delta Aquarids meteors

  27-07-2016 23:20 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The night sky is lighting up this summer.
  
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• Carbon-financed cookstove fails to deliver hoped-for benefits in the field

  27-07-2016 23:19
  
  Replacing traditional cooking fires and stoves in the developing world with "cleaner" stoves is a potential strategy to reduce household air pollution that worsens climate change and is a leading global killer.
  
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• Astronomers gain new insight into magnetic field of Sun and its kin

  27-07-2016 23:08
  
  Astronomers have used data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to make a discovery that may have profound implications for understanding how the magnetic field in the Sun and stars like it are generated.
  
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• Loneliest young star seen by Spitzer and WISE

  27-07-2016 22:58
  
  Alone on the cosmic road, far from any known celestial object, a young, independent star is going through a tremendous growth spurt.
  
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• Apple sells its billionth iPhone

  27-07-2016 22:54 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Apple announced the sale of its billionth iPhone on Wednesday, nine years after the smartphone first went on sale.
  
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• Researchers seeing more sharks up and down the East Coast

  27-07-2016 22:36
  
  It's shark season on the East Coast.
  
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• Regulators to revisit saving southern New England's lobsters

  27-07-2016 22:36
  
  Regulators are taking another look at potential strategies to revitalize southern New England's lobster population, which scientists say has sunk to its lowest levels on record.
  
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• Forests, species on four continents threatened by palm oil expansion

  27-07-2016 22:33
  
  As palm oil production expands from Southeast Asia into tropical regions of the Americas and Africa, vulnerable forests and species on four continents face increased risk of loss, a new Duke University-led study finds.
  
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• Facebook quarterly profit surges 186% to $2 bn

  27-07-2016 22:33
  
  Facebook said Wednesday its profit leapt 186 percent from a year ago to $2 billion, as the world's biggest social network blasted past most analyst forecasts for the second quarter.
  
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• US military bases at risk from sea level rise: study

  27-07-2016 22:30
  
  US military bases along the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico will be increasingly vulnerable to floods and power-packed storms as the planet warms, researchers said Wednesday.
  
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• Scientists find new antibiotic right under our noses

  27-07-2016 22:28
  
  Scientists hunting for ways to treat hard-to-beat bacterial infections have found a new antibiotic hiding right under our noses.
  
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• NASA sees Tropical Storm Mirinae approaching landfall

  27-07-2016 22:14
  
  Tropical Storm Mirinae was moving through the Gulf of Tonkin early on July 27 when NASA's Aqua satellite passed overhead. Forecasters expect Mirinae to make landfall in northeastern Vietnam later in the day.
  
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• NASA sees compact Tropical Storm Frank weakening

  27-07-2016 22:14
  
  Infrared data from NASA showed that cloud top temperatures in Hurricane Frank were warming, an indication that Hurricane Frank was getting weaker.
  
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• IMERG shows Darby's rainfall over the Hawaiian Islands

  27-07-2016 22:14
  
  Most of the Hawaiian Islands were spared serious damage from Tropical Storm Darby. NASA estimated the rainfall left behind from the storm and found more than a foot and half fell north of Oahu.
  
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• Even thinking about marriage gets young people to straighten up

  27-07-2016 22:12
  
  You don't have to get married to settle down and leave behind your wild ways - you just have to expect to get married soon.
  
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• Researchers use the North Atlantic Oscillation as a predictive tool for managing an iconic fishery

  27-07-2016 22:10
  
  In recent decades, the plight of Atlantic cod off the coast of New England has been front-page news. Since the 1980s in particular, the once-seemingly inexhaustible stocks of Gadus morhua—one of the most important fisheries in North America—have declined dramatically.
  
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• Videos reveal birds, bats and bugs near Ivanpah solar project power towers

  27-07-2016 22:05
  
  Video surveillance is the most effective method for detecting animals flying around solar power towers, according to a study of various techniques by the U.S. Geological Survey and its partners at the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System facility in southeastern California.
  
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• Survey of 31 years of video games shows a decline in sexualized female characters

  27-07-2016 22:01
  
  At a time when the video game industry has come under scrutiny for its low level of female employment and how women are depicted in its products, a new Indiana University study finds that sexualization of female primary game characters actually may be less than before.
  
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• How sole-source LEDs impact growth of Brassica microgreens

  27-07-2016 21:59
  
  Microgreens and baby greens are a relatively new specialty crop seen in many upscale markets and restaurants. Favored by chefs and consumers, microgreens are used to enhance the flavor, color, and texture of foods, and some species have the added benefit of high concentrations of health-promoting phytochemicals. As consumer demand for these specialty crops increases, commercial greenhouse growers are becoming more interested in producing microgreens for market, and scientists are working to find
  
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• New model may help solve the mystery of how lithium stabilizes moods

  27-07-2016 21:58
  
  New measurements may have lifted the veil on the vexingly elusive interactions through which lithium can moderate the manic highs and debilitating lows experienced by people who suffer from bipolar disorder—about 2.6 percent of Americans, according to the National Institute of Mental Health.
  
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• Transformations to granular zircon revealed: Meteor Crater, Arizona

  27-07-2016 21:54
  
  Having been reported in lunar samples returned by Apollo astronauts, meteorites, impact glass, and at a number of meteorite craters on Earth, granular zircon is the most unusual and enigmatic type of zircon known. The mechanisms and transformations that form this distinctive granular zircon have, until now, remained speculative because it has not been produced in shock experiments.
  
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• Satellite tracks the remnants of Tropical Storm Georgette

  27-07-2016 21:52
  
  Tropical Storm Georgette faded fast in the Eastern Pacific and NOAA's GOES-West satellite captured an image of the remnant clouds.
  
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• Water resilience that flows: Open source technologies keep an eye on the water flow

  27-07-2016 21:51
  
  Communities around the world are familiar with the devastation brought on by floods and droughts. Scientists are concerned that, in light of global climate change, these events will only become more frequent and intense. Water variability, at its worst, can threaten the lives and well-beings of countless people. Sadly, humans cannot control the weather to protect themselves. But according to Silja Hund, a researcher at the University of British Columbia, communities can build resilience to water
  
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• Dislike! How to Survive Election 2016 on Facebook

  27-07-2016 20:16 via nbcnews.com
  
  In this contentious election cycle, one incendiary political post on Facebook can have the potential to turn friends into foes.
  
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• Two new highly adorned spiky ant species discovered in New Guinea

  27-07-2016 20:00
  
  The distinctive dorsal spines found on two new species of highly adorned Pheidole ants may help to support the ants' massive heads, according to a study published July 27, 2016 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Eli Sarnat, Georg Fischer and Evan Economo from the Okinawa Institute of Science & Technology Graduate University, Japan.
  
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• Should the gray wolf keep its endangered species protection? New genomic research provides the scientific answer

  27-07-2016 20:00
  
  Research by UCLA biologists published today in the journal Science Advances presents strong evidence that the scientific reason advanced by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to remove the gray wolf from protection under the Endangered Species Act is incorrect.
  
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• Serendipitous observation may lead to more efficient solar cells and new gas sensors

  27-07-2016 20:00
  
  While investigating perovskite crystals, University of Groningen scientists made an observation that could make perovskite solar cells more efficient. It could also lead to new sensors for oxygen and water vapor. The results were published online by the journal Science Advances on 27 July.
  
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• Morphology suggests an endangered goby in southern California is a new species

  27-07-2016 20:00
  
  An endangered fish along the coast of California—the tidewater goby—may actually be two species rather than one, according a study published July 27, 2016 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Camm Swift from the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, US, and colleagues.
  
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• Frog reproduction in created ponds may be affected by disease and food availability

  27-07-2016 20:00
  
  Food availability and disease in created habitats may affect the reproductive output of reintroduced frogs, according to a study published July 27, 2016 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Kaya Klop-Toker from the University of Newcastle, Australia, and colleagues.
  
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• Owner of ClintonKaine.com wants $90,000

  27-07-2016 19:16 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A lawyer and artist in Washington D.C. hopes to gain tens of thousands of dollars from a prescient decision he made years ago.
  
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• Mysterious undersea orb caught on camera

  27-07-2016 19:13 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Scientists from the E/V Nautilus research vessel were stumped when they spotted a strange purple blob on the ocean floor off the coast of California.
  
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• Astronomers Reveal the Rotation of the Hot Gas Around the Milky Way

  27-07-2016 19:12 via scitechdaily.com
  
  A team of astronomers has discovered that the hot gas in the halo of the Milky Way galaxy is spinning in the same direction and at comparable speed as the galaxy’s disk, which contains our stars, planets, gas, and dust. This new knowledge sheds light on how individual atoms have assembled into stars, planets, and […]
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• Star's intense radiation beams whip neighboring red dwarf

  27-07-2016 19:00
  
  New research from the University of Warwick finds a new type of exotic binary star, in which a rapidly-spinning burnt-out stellar remnant called a white dwarf sweeps powerful beams of particles and radiation over its nearby companion star, causing it to pulse across almost the entire electromagnetic spectrum from the ultraviolet to radio.
  
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• Researchers Investigate the Lack of Large Impact Craters on Ceres

  27-07-2016 19:00 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Ceres’ lack of giant impact basins presents a puzzle to scientists. They expected to observe more large craters on the dwarf planet than have been found by NASA’s Dawn mission. Researchers are investigating a variety of processes that might have caused the appearance of the largest basins to be softened or erased over time. Ceres […]
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• Jupiter's great red spot heats planet's upper atmosphere

  27-07-2016 19:00
  
  Researchers from Boston University's (BU) Center for Space Physics report today in Nature that Jupiter's Great Red Spot may provide the mysterious source of energy required to heat the planet's upper atmosphere to the unusually high values observed.
  
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• Building with flexible blocks

  27-07-2016 19:00
  
  On an apparently normal cube a pattern of hollows and bulges appears when the cube is compressed. Physicists from Dutch FOM Institute AMOLF and Leiden University together with colleagues from Tel Aviv University have developed a method to design such three-dimensional structures and to construct these using simple building blocks. This paves the way for the use of 'machine materials' in, for example, prostheses and wearable technology. The researchers will publish their findings on 28 July 2016
  
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• Comey: Conversations About Encryption Issue Still Needed

  27-07-2016 18:14
  FBI Director James Comey says conversations still need to be held about encryption before tragedy forces US officials to deal with the issue
  
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• Democrats Fear October Surprise of More Hacked Emails

  27-07-2016 18:13 via nbcnews.com
  
  Both cyber experts and party officials fear a major leak just before Election Day.
  
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• Name and Shame? Obama Points to Russia on DNC Email Hacking

  27-07-2016 18:05
  Obama's decision to identify Russia as almost certainly the culprit in DNC hacking fits his administration's new penchant for openly blaming foreign governments for such break-ins
  
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• And now it's Comcast vs. the wait for the cable guy

  27-07-2016 18:04
  
  Did you hear the one about the cable company that's actually improving customer service? The punchline: Comcast and its rivals say it's no joke.
  
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• Tuned gels reveal molecules that drive stem cell differentiation

  27-07-2016 18:00
  
  By monitoring stem cell differentiation on gels that mimic the stiffness and nanofibrous structure of biological tissue, researchers have identified the specific molecules that stem cells use when selecting bone and cartilage fates. When fed to standard stem cell cultures, these molecules (mostly lipid and cholesterol metabolites) were then found to guide stem cells to generate desired cell types. The study, which shows how new biomaterials can take the guesswork out of identifying factors that
  
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• Conservation scientists call for global strategy to halt threatened animal extinctions

  27-07-2016 18:00
  
  Aiming to stop the looming extinction of large wild-animal species across the globe, a group of international conservation scientists has issued a call for actions to halt further declines.
  
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• Comcast Profit Slips Due to Fewer Box-Office Hits

  27-07-2016 17:59
  Comcast's 2Q profit slips due to fewer movie hits at the multiplex
  
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• ALS-Related Gene Found With Help From Ice Bucket Challenge

  27-07-2016 17:48
  Researchers are crediting money raised through the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge for the discovery of a gene's connection to the progressive disease
  
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• Atlantic flights disrupted by Iceland air traffic glitch

  27-07-2016 17:46
  
  Iceland's airport authority says the country briefly closed its airspace to flights because of a technical problem at its air traffic control center.
  
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• 2016 Ford Edge lauded for reliability, powerful engines

  27-07-2016 17:46
  
  For 2016, Ford stocks its Edge SUV with more technology, including an adaptive steering feature and park assist that can handle even perpendicular spaces.
  
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• What Hack? DNC Email Scandal Barely Causes Stir in Russia

  27-07-2016 17:31 via nbcnews.com
  
  The theft of 20,000 emails from the Democratic National Committee has barely registered a ripple in Russia.
  
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