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• Silicon Valley's power brain food: Crickets

  24-08-2016 23:50
  
  For Bay Area techies attuned to the latest trends, kale is no longer cutting it and quinoa is passe. Instead, many are opting for a six-legged snack.
  
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• 'SNL' Star Leslie Jones' Personal Site Offline After Hacking

  24-08-2016 23:48 via nbcnews.com
  
  Leslie Jones' personal website has been taken offline after it appeared hackers posted her driver's license and passport and explicit photos of the actress-comedienne.
  
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• New Planet Is 'Right Next Door'

  24-08-2016 23:26 via nbcnews.com
  
  One side's too hot and one side's too cold, but this new planet would have a glowy orange sky and it's right next door.
  
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• 'Earth-like' planet found nearby

  24-08-2016 23:18 via rss.cnn.com
  
  In a discovery that has been years in the making, researchers have confirmed the existence of a rocky planet named Proxima b orbiting Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our sun, according to a new study. It is the closest exoplanet to us in the universe.
  
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• Bay Area startups developing the high-tech way to make a baby

  24-08-2016 23:10
  
  As Silicon Valley technophiles use devices to collect data on everything from how many calories they burn to their fluctuating stress levels and their posture, a group of entrepreneurs is bringing that technology somewhere new - into the bedroom.
  
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• Why Apple Might Ditch the iPhone Headphone Jack

  24-08-2016 22:51 via nbcnews.com
  
  If the speculation holds true, the next iPhone may be too skinny for the traditional headphone jack.
  
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• Augmented reality offers new way to shop for furniture

  24-08-2016 22:40
  
  Close your eyes. Can you picture that sofa you're coveting in your living room? Now, open your eyes and pull out your phone - because edgy furniture stores are giving you a tool that's more accurate than imagination.
  
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• Lyft CEO Logan Green has a plan that's far bigger than ride-hailing

  24-08-2016 22:30
  
  Logan Green applied for his first job out of college by submitting a resume and a document titled "Logan's Life Plan."
  
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• US Treasury blasts European tax probe of multinationals

  24-08-2016 22:17
  
  U.S. officials are publicly criticizing Europe's investigations into favorable tax arrangements that Apple and other multinational companies have reached with Ireland and a few other countries.
  
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• Exoplanets 101: Looking for life beyond our Solar System

  24-08-2016 22:10
  
  An Earth-like planet orbiting the star closest to our Sun, revealed Wednesday, is the most recent—and among the most stunning—in a string exoplanet discoveries going back 20 years.
  
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• Reward your ears: Five gadgets to liven up your music

  24-08-2016 22:00
  
  Open your ears. What do you hear?
  
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• Underwater expedition off California reveals sunken warship

  24-08-2016 21:59
  
  An underwater expedition along the California coast has revealed for the first time a sunken World War II-era aircraft carrier once used in atomic tests in the Pacific.
  
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• Scientific dig in weird Wyoming cave yields ice age insights

  24-08-2016 21:51
  
  Paleontologists digging at the bottom of a strange cave in northern Wyoming say they have uncovered a trove of animal bones from the last ice age this summer and have enough funding to head back at the same underground site next year to continue their search.
  
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• Do juvenile murderers deserve life without parole?

  24-08-2016 21:45
  
  The U.S. Supreme Court answered this question in two recent decisions (Miller v. Alabama, 2012; Montgomery v. Louisiana, 2016). "Rarely," the Court said, and only when developmental evidence shows that the juvenile is "irreparably corrupt." Moreover, in juvenile homicide cases, developmental evidence must now guide courts' assignment of lesser sentences than life with parole as well. In their article recently published in Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, Grisso and Kavanaugh (2016) examine se
  
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• Can one cosmic enigma help solve another? Astrophysicists argue fast radio bursts could provide clues to dark matter

  24-08-2016 21:44
  
  Astrophysicists from the Johns Hopkins University have proposed a clever new way of shedding light on the mystery of dark matter, believed to make up most of the universe.
  
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• NASA sees Lionrock strengthen into a typhoon

  24-08-2016 21:39
  
  NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite passed over Typhoon Lionrock as it strengthened to a typhoon east of Japan's Ryukyu Islands. The chain of islands stretch southwest from Kyushu to Taiwan.
  
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• Green light: Biochemists describe light-driven conversion of greenhouse gas to fuel

  24-08-2016 21:39
  
  By way of a light-driven bacterium, Utah State University biochemists are a step closer to cleanly converting harmful carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion into usable fuels. Using the phototropic bacterium Rhodopseudomonas palustris as a biocatalyst, the scientists generated methane from carbon dioxide in one enzymatic step.
  
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• Feeling the force between sand grains

  24-08-2016 21:38
  
  For the first time, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers have measured how forces move through 3D granular materials, determining how this important class of materials might pack and behave in processes throughout nature and industry.
  
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• NASA sees a small tropical depression 14W

  24-08-2016 21:37
  
  Tropical Depression 14W appeared to be a small storm when NASA's Aqua satellite passed overhead early on Aug. 24.
  
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• GPM sees Tropical Depression Kay fading into history

  24-08-2016 21:37
  
  The remaining traces of rainfall in weakening Tropical Depression Kay was in a small area when the Global Precipitation Measurement mission or GPM core satellite passed overhead early on Aug. 23.
  
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• Chew on this: How we believe our meat is raised can influence how it tastes

  24-08-2016 21:35
  
  Our beliefs about how farm animals are raised can shape our meat-eating experience, according to a new study led by Lisa Feldman Barrett, University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University.
  
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• Norwegian prisons rehabilitate criminal offenders

  24-08-2016 21:34
  
  The research project "The Social Costs of incarceration" is the largest study of imprisonment and return to a normal life that has ever been conducted in Europe.
  
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• For teens, feeling safe at school means increased academic success

  24-08-2016 21:33
  
  Parents across North America are prepping their teens to head back to high school, hoping they will study hard to get straight A's. But new research shows that good grades aren't just based on smarts—high marks also depend on a student's feelings of safety.
  
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• One of the most significant Etruscan discoveries in decades names female goddess Uni

  24-08-2016 21:32
  
  Archaeologists translating a very rare inscription on an ancient Etruscan temple stone have discovered the name Uni—an important female goddess.
  
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• Parents, listen up: Children keep still during prayer

  24-08-2016 21:31
  
  Preschool-aged children, and their parents, are more likely to view the physical actions of prayer (i.e., closing eyes, folding hands) to help with reflection and communicating with God. This is according to a new study by Rebekah Richert, a psychology professor at the University of California, Riverside. The paper, titled "Folding Your Hands Helps God Hear You: Prayer and Anthropomorphism in Parents and Children," was published in Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion. The study w
  
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• Ocean acidification threatens cod recruitment in the Atlantic

  24-08-2016 21:27
  
  Increasing ocean acidification could double the mortality of newly-hatched cod larvae. This would put populations of this economically important fish species more and more under pressure if exploitation remains unchanged. For the first time ever, members of the German research network BIOACID have quantified mortality rates of cod in the western Baltic Sea and the Barents Sea under more acidified conditions which the fish may experience towards the end of the century. They integrated their resul
  
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• Movie-watching goes beyond 3D

  24-08-2016 21:25 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Movie theaters are facing competition from your couch.
  
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• Arctic gives clues on worst mass extinction of life

  24-08-2016 21:25
  
  Extreme global warming caused a severe mass extinction of life on Earth 252 million years ago. It took life up to 9 million years to recover. New study finds clues in the Arctic as to why this recovery took so long.
  
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• Whiskers help animals sense the direction of the wind

  24-08-2016 21:21
  
  Many animals appear to have an impressive ability to follow the wind to find food, avoid predators, and connect with potential mates. Until now, however, no study had examined how land mammals know the direction of the wind. New research finds that an important part of this ability lies in an animal's whiskers. The work could pave the way for the design of novel airflow measurement devices that imitate these biological sensors.
  
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• AAA: Don't trust automatic braking

  24-08-2016 21:20 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Automatic braking is a great safety feature which will soon be standard on virtually all new cars in the United States. But don't trust it to keep you out of an accident, AAA says.
  
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• Researchers plumb the secrets of tissue paper

  24-08-2016 21:18
  
  Canada's tissue manufacturers are now much closer to producing the perfect paper, thanks to new UBC research.
  
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• WISE, Fermi missions reveal a surprising blazar connection

  24-08-2016 21:14
  
  Astronomers studying distant galaxies powered by monster black holes have uncovered an unexpected link between two very different wavelengths of the light they emit, the mid-infrared and gamma rays. The discovery, which was accomplished by comparing data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, has enabled the researchers to uncover dozens of new blazar candidates.
  
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• A better way to learn if alien planets have the right stuff

  24-08-2016 21:13
  
  A new method for analyzing the chemical composition of stars may help scientists winnow the search for Earth 2.0.
  
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• Cosmic neighbors inhibit star formation, even in the early-universe

  24-08-2016 21:12
  
  The international University of California, Riverside-led SpARCS collaboration has discovered four of the most distant clusters of galaxies ever found, as they appeared when the universe was only 4 billion years old. Clusters are rare regions of the universe consisting of hundreds of galaxies containing trillions of stars, as well as hot gas and mysterious dark matter. Spectroscopic observations from the ground using the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii and the Very Large Telescope in Chile conf
  
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• Median installed price of solar in the United States fell by 5-12 percent in 2015

  24-08-2016 21:10
  
  Solar energy system pricing is at an all-time low, according to the latest editions of two recurring "state of the market" reports released today by the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).
  
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• Earth scientists untangle the curious landscape of China's Tarim Basin using a model simulation of ancient events

  24-08-2016 21:08
  
  Sometimes the answers to our most persistent questions are found in the most unexpected places. Just ask Douglas Burbank.
  
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• New electrical energy storage material shows its power

  24-08-2016 21:06
  
  A powerful new material developed by Northwestern University chemist William Dichtel and his research team could one day speed up the charging process of electric cars and help increase their driving range.
  
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• Post-disaster optimization technique capable of analyzing entire cities

  24-08-2016 21:03
  
  Some problems, says Paolo Bocchini, cannot be solved through intuition.
  
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• NASA's GPM observes Tropical Storm Gaston's development

  24-08-2016 21:00
  
  The Global Precipitation Measurement mission or GPM core satellite provided scientists with a look at rainfall rates and cloud heights within Tropical Storm Gaston as it continued to intensify in the Atlantic Ocean.
  
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• Calcium channel blockers caught in the act at atomic level

  24-08-2016 21:00
  
  An atomic level analysis has revealed how two classes of calcium channel blockers, widely prescribed for heart disease patients, produce separate therapeutic effects through their actions at different sites on the calcium channel molecule.
  
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• Spherical tokamak as model for next steps in fusion energy

  24-08-2016 20:57
  
  Among the top puzzles in the development of fusion energy is the best shape for the magnetic facility—or "bottle"—that will provide the next steps in the development of fusion reactors. Leading candidates include spherical tokamaks, compact machines that are shaped like cored apples, compared with the doughnut-like shape of conventional tokamaks. The spherical design produces high-pressure plasmas—essential ingredients for fusion reactions—with relatively low and cost-eff
  
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• Astronaut breaks US record: 521 days in space and counting

  24-08-2016 20:57
  
  Astronaut Jeffrey Williams has a new record for NASA under his space belt.
  
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• Bio-inspired tire design: Where the rubber meets the road

  24-08-2016 20:56
  
  The fascination with the ability of geckos to scamper up smooth walls and hang upside down from improbable surfaces has entranced scientists at least as far back as Aristotle, who noted the reptile's remarkable feats in his History of Animals.
  
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• New Reserach Reveals How Zika Virus Causes Fetal Brain Damage

  24-08-2016 20:47 via scitechdaily.com
  
  In a newly published study, researchers from Yale University report that infection by the Zika virus diverts a key protein necessary for neural cell division in the developing human fetus, thereby causing the birth defect microcephaly. The findings suggest that Zika virus might be susceptible to existing antiviral drugs that may prevent disruption to the […]
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• NASA Telescopes Reveal a Surprising Blazar Connection

  24-08-2016 20:39 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Using data from from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, astronomers studying distant galaxies powered by monster black holes have uncovered an unexpected link between two very different wavelengths of the light they emit, the mid-infrared and gamma rays. The discovery has enabled the researchers to uncover dozens of new […]
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• Mutually helpful species become competitors in benign environments

  24-08-2016 20:00
  
  Nature abounds with examples of mutualistic relationships. Think of bees pollinating flowers whose nectar nourishes the bees, or clownfish that fight off predators of anemones that in turn provide habitats for the clownfish. Each species benefits the other, and together their chances of survival are better than if they lived apart.
  
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• More than a few good men: Study finds counterintuitive outcomes of gender imbalance

  24-08-2016 20:00
  
  Contrary to traditional expectations of unbalanced sex ratios, places with more men than women do not typically experience higher rates of family and social instability, according to a University of Utah study. The study, published today in PLOS ONE by anthropologists Ryan Schacht and Karen Kramer, finds instead that surpluses of men are associated with higher levels of marriage, relationship commitment and paternal involvement, a contrast to prevailing theories that an abundance of single men l
  
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• Interactive, open source visualizations of nocturnal bird migrations in near real-time

  24-08-2016 20:00
  
  New flow visualizations using data from weather radar networks depict nocturnal bird migrations, according to a study published August 24, 2016 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Judy Shamoun-Baranes from University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and colleagues.
  
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• Golden eagles may be more abundant in undeveloped, elevated landscapes

  24-08-2016 20:00
  
  Golden eagles may be more abundant in elevated, undeveloped landscapes with high wind speeds, according to a study published August 24, 2016 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Ryan Nielson from Western EcoSystems Technology, Inc., USA, and colleagues.
  
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• Climate change: Trade liberalization could buffer economic losses in agriculture

  24-08-2016 20:00
  
  Global warming could create substantial economic damage in agriculture, a new study conducted by a team of scientists of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research finds. Around the globe, climate change threatens agricultural productivity, forcing up food prices. While financial gains and losses differ between consumers and producers across the regions, bottom line is that consumers in general will likely have to pay more for the same basket of food. As the additional expenditure for con
  
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