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• Researchers shed light on process of programmed mitochondrial cell death

  02-11-2016 22:32
  
  Employing a novel sensor made of graphene - a one-atom-thin layer of carbon - University of California, Irvine researchers have gained new insight into the process of programmed cell death in mitochondria, possibly opening the door to new ways of forcing cancer cells to self-destruct. They also hit a scientific jackpot of sorts by finding that an accepted paradigm of how cells create energy is only half-right.
  
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• Facebook quarterly profit soars, lifted by mobile ads (Update)

  02-11-2016 21:50
  
  Facebook on Wednesday delivered another blockbuster earnings performance, showing solid growth in mobile ad revenues as the social network expands into new services.
  
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• Facebook quarterly profit soars, lifted by mobile ads

  02-11-2016 21:50
  
  Facebook on Wednesday reported its profit more than doubled in the recently ended quarter, lifted by strong growth in mobile ad revenues.
  
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• Facebook gold streak continues in 3Q, thanks partly to video

  02-11-2016 21:39
  
  Whether it's a video clip of your friend's dog or a live stream of the presidential debates, you are likely watching more videos on Facebook than ever. And that means you're also more likely to see video ads.
  
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• Facebook gold streak continues in 3Q, boosted by video

  02-11-2016 21:39
  
  Whether it's a video clip of your friend's dog or a live stream of the presidential debates, you are likely watching more videos on Facebook than ever. And that means you're also more likely to see video ads.
  
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• Alibaba sales growth soars into the cloud

  02-11-2016 21:39
  
  Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba's sales soared 55 percent in the last quarter, thanks in part to a more than doubling of revenue from cloud computing, the company said Wednesday.
  
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• Saudis award water prize to 8 scientists

  02-11-2016 21:34
  
  Saudi Arabia awarded eight scientists the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water at a ceremony at United Nations headquarters in New York on Wednesday.
  
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• Study reveals previously unknown component of whale songs

  02-11-2016 21:33
  
  Researchers have known for decades that whales create elaborate songs, sometimes projecting their calls for miles underwater. A new study from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), however, has revealed a previously unknown element of whale songs that could aid this mode of communication, and may play a pivotal role in locating other whales in open ocean.
  
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• The pop-up effect: Why buoyant spheres don't always leap out of the water

  02-11-2016 21:32
  
  It's a common swimming pool game: Force a buoyant ball underwater and let it go. The ball springs to the surface and jumps into the air. But, submerge the ball deeper underwater and the effect is often disappointing. Contrary to our intuition, increasing the release depth often leads to a decreased pop-up height.
  
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• When corals met algae: Symbiotic relationship crucial to reef survival dates to the Triassic

  02-11-2016 21:31
  
  The mutually beneficial relationship between algae and modern corals—which provides algae with shelter, gives coral reefs their colors and supplies both organisms with nutrients—began more than 210 million years ago, according to a new study by an international team of scientists including researchers from Princeton University.
  
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• Yearning for a new phone? You might be suffering from 'comparison neglect'

  02-11-2016 21:30
  
  If you're reading this on a shiny new iPhone 7, new research suggests you might not have given your old phone its due before trading up.
  
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• Economic impact of inland waterway disruptions: Potentially billions

  02-11-2016 21:27
  
  What would happen if a lengthy disruption befell the major mode of transportation of U.S. corn and soybeans? What ramifications would that have on U.S. producers and the national economy? How would that affect U.S. competitiveness in world grain markets?
  
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• Who's Taking Election Day Off?

  02-11-2016 21:02 via nbcnews.com
  
  Some tech companies are treating Election Day like a holiday.
  
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• Professor developing super-resolution microscopy techniques

  02-11-2016 19:20
  
  For scientists developing life-saving medicines, knowing how cells interact and communicate with one another is an important part of the puzzle. The problem is, being able to see those interactions through a microscope hasn't always been possible. But now, thanks to University of New Mexico Associate Professor Keith Lidke, a new technique has opened the door to allow researchers a better view of cellular interactions.
  
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• Humans settled earlier in Australia's remote outback

  02-11-2016 19:17
  
  Humans started to settle inland Australia 10,000 years earlier than previously believed, scientists said Thursday, after discovering thousands of artefacts and bones in a rock shelter in the remote outback.
  
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• Apple's New Emojis Include a Creepy Clown and... Harambe?

  02-11-2016 19:16 via nbcnews.com
  
  Apple is out with new emoji we never knew we needed until now.
  
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• Fuel from sewage is the future—and it's closer than you think

  02-11-2016 19:14
  
  It may sound like science fiction, but wastewater treatment plants across the United States may one day turn ordinary sewage into biocrude oil, thanks to new research at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
  
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• French particle accelerator to embark on 'exotic' quest

  02-11-2016 19:06
  
  Long thought to be the smallest building blocks of all matter, we now know atoms are themselves composed of electrons spinning around a nucleus made of protons and neutrons.
  
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• Lithium ion extraction

  02-11-2016 19:05
  
  The increasing usage of lithium for batteries or high-performance metals requires improved extraction techniques of lithium from primary sources such as salt lake brines. Chinese scientists have now designed a solid composite membrane that combines the mimicking of the chemical selection process in biological ion channels with molecular sieve technology. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, they report the effective and fast separation of lithium ions from brines with that membrane.
  
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• New US Robotics Roadmap calls for increased regulations, education and research

  02-11-2016 19:04
  
  A new U.S. Robotics Roadmap released Oct. 31 calls for better policy frameworks to safely integrate new technologies, such as self-driving cars and commercial drones, into everyday life. The document also advocates for increased research efforts in the field of human-robot interaction to develop intelligent machines that will empower people to stay in their homes as they age. It calls for increased education efforts in the STEM fields from elementary school to adult learners
  
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• Supercomputer comes up with a profile of dark matter: Standard Model extension predicts properties of candidate particle

  02-11-2016 19:00
  
  In the search for the mysterious dark matter, physicists have used elaborate computer calculations to come up with an outline of the particles of this unknown form of matter. To do this, the scientists extended the successful Standard Model of particle physics which allowed them, among other things, to predict the mass of so-called axions, promising candidates for dark matter. The German-Hungarian team of researchers led by Professor Zoltán Fodor of the University of Wuppertal, Eötv&
  
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• Middle Stone Age ochre processing tools reveal cultural and behavioural complexity

  02-11-2016 19:00
  
  Middle Stone Age humans in East Africa may have employed varied techniques to process ochre for functional and symbolic uses, according to a study published November 2, 2016 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Daniela Rosso from the University of Bordeaux, France, and colleagues.
  
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• How the African striped mouse got its stripes

  02-11-2016 19:00
  
  A gene called Alx3 blocks the differentiation of pigment-producing cells in the skin of the African striped mouse, thus generating the mouse's characteristic light-colored stripes, a new study shows. The same gene also determines the stripe pattern of North American chipmunks, and the similar stripe patterns evolved independently in these two groups of animals, researchers report in this week's issue of Nature.
  
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• For the first time physicists observed and quantified tiny nanoparticle crossing lipid membrane

  02-11-2016 19:00
  
  Nanomaterials have invaded most of products used in our daily life. They are found everywhere: from cosmetics (creams, toothpastes, and shampoo), food components (sugar, or salt), clothes, buildings cement, paints, car tires, oil, electronic products (smartphones, screen), energy, pharmaceutics (drugs, medical imaging).
  
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• Engineers develop new magnetic ink to print self-healing devices that heal in record time

  02-11-2016 19:00
  
  A team of engineers at the University of California San Diego has developed a magnetic ink that can be used to make self-healing batteries, electrochemical sensors and wearable, textile-based electrical circuits.
  
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• Chemical delivery array with millisecond neurotransmitter release developed

  02-11-2016 19:00
  
  Our nerve and muscle cells send signals to each other using ions and molecules. Certain substances, such as the neurotransmitter GABA (gamma aminobutyric acid), are important signal substances throughout the central nervous system. Eighteen months ago, researchers at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics demonstrated an ion pump which researchers at the Karolinska Institutet could use to reduce the sensation of pain in awake, freely-moving rats. The ion pump delivered GABA directly to the rat&ac
  
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• Altered bacterial behavior in space may result from reduced extracellular transport

  02-11-2016 19:00
  
  Reduced extracellular transport of molecules may explain changes in bacterial behavior in space, according to a study published November 2, 2016 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Luis Zea from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and colleagues.
  
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• Gawker Pays $31M to Settle Hulk Hogan Sex Tape Suit

  02-11-2016 18:56 via nbcnews.com
  
  Former Gawker CEO Nick Denton said in a blog post that the media company is settling its case with Hulk Hogan.
  
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• Gawker's shell settles with Hulk Hogan for $31 million

  02-11-2016 18:30
  
  The shell of Gawker has settled with Hulk Hogan for $31 million, ending a years-long fight that led to the media company's bankruptcy, the shutdown of Gawker.com and the sale of Gawker's other sites to Spanish-language broadcaster Univision.
  
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• Venerable elm tree finally succumbs to Dutch elm disease

  02-11-2016 18:29
  
  A venerable old elm tree that's believed to be the largest of its kind in New England has finally succumbed to Dutch elm disease in the Vermont town of Charlotte.
  
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• Microsoft adds new chat-based service for workers

  02-11-2016 18:29
  
  Taking a cue from competing online services like Slack, which let workers chat and share information on the job, Microsoft is adding a new program called "Teams" to its Office 365 suite of internet productivity software.
  
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• Global change, ecosystem services and human well being: An assessment for Europe

  02-11-2016 18:29
  
  Highly dependent on the different aspects of global change, variations in ecosystem services supply can also have direct impacts on human well being. A new article published in the open access journal One Ecosystem assesses the relationships between climate and land use change and ecosystem services supply in Europe, to pave the way on research connecting them to adaptation and human well being in a changing world.
  
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• Lenovo has launched the first fully capable AR smartphone - Business Insider

  02-11-2016 18:22 via businessinsider.com
  
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  Lenovo has launched the first fully capable AR smartphone
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  Chinese smartphone maker Lenovo will begin shipping the first smartphone housing Google's Tango technology, according to Engadget. Google launched 35 Tango apps alongside the launch of Lenovo's new handset. With Tango, a Lenovo phone can ...
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• Dell Announces Black Friday Bundles For Xbox One And PS4 - Forbes

  02-11-2016 18:03 via forbes.com
  
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  Dell Announces Black Friday Bundles For Xbox One And PS4
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  Yes, Black Friday isn't until the end of the month, but all the major retailers in the country have already begun prepping for the biggest shopping day of the year. It's bound to be a good year for video games: not only do we have new stock on the Xbox ...
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• MIT Engineers Design a New Weapon Against Bacteria

  02-11-2016 17:58 via scitechdaily.com
  
  An international team of engineers has developed an antimicrobial peptide that can destroy many types of bacteria, including some that are resistant to most antibiotics. Over the past few decades, many bacteria have become resistant to existing antibiotics, and few new drugs have emerged. A recent study from a U.K. commission on antimicrobial resistance estimated […]
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• Deer and elk farmers on the front lines of battle against chronic wasting disease

  02-11-2016 17:56
  
  The effort to manage a fatal brain disease in deer and elk is taking significant steps forward thanks to a partnership between researchers, government experts, and American deer and elk farmers.
  
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• Microsoft goes after Slack with new Teams service - PCWorld

  02-11-2016 17:54 via pcworld.com
  
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  Microsoft goes after Slack with new Teams service
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  Workplace collaboration has become increasingly focused on chat in the past couple of years, and Microsoft is jumping into the new space with both feet, launching a new product it calls Teams. Teams allows groups within a company to divide into ...
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• Close galactic encounter leaves 'nearly naked' supermassive black hole

  02-11-2016 17:52
  
  Astronomers using the super-sharp radio vision of the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) have found the shredded remains of a galaxy that passed through a larger galaxy, leaving only the smaller galaxy's nearly-naked supermassive black hole to emerge and speed away at more than 2,000 miles per second.
  
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• New Observations of the Vast Pillar-Like Structures within the Carina Nebula

  02-11-2016 17:44 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Using the MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers reveal new observations of vast pillar-like structures within the Carina Nebula. The different pillars analyzed by an international team seem to be pillars of destruction — in contrast to the name of the iconic Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula, which are of similar […]
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• Uber takes its app down new road with redesign

  02-11-2016 17:27
  
  Uber is taking its ride-hailing app down a new road in an effort to make it smarter, simpler and more fun to use.
  
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• NY Times sees digital gains, but profit evaporates

  02-11-2016 17:27
  
  The New York Times Co. saw profits evaporate in the third quarter due to one-time costs and a steep drop in print advertising revenues, results showed Wednesday.
  
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• Obama says Army Corps examining Dakota oil pipeline route

  02-11-2016 17:26
  
  President Barack Obama says the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is examining whether the four-state Dakota Access oil pipeline can be rerouted in southern North Dakota to alleviate the concerns of American Indians.
  
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• Start-ups use chemistry to tackle challenges from roll-up TVs to neglected diseases

  02-11-2016 17:25
  
  The term "start-up" can bring to mind thoughts of economic bubbles and busts. But out of many company starts, a few will go on to succeed and even flourish. For the second year, Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), the weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society, places its bets on young companies in the field of chemistry that may beat the odds in its "10 Start-ups to Watch" feature.
  
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• Volvo replaces stodgy S80 with sleek S90 luxury sedan

  02-11-2016 17:23
  
  Volvo has replaced its stodgy S80 sedan with the sleek, elegant and quiet S90, which has industry-first safety features designed to reduce or mitigate collisions with deer and other large animals.
  
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• Safety chief: Honda must do more to fix dangerous air bags

  02-11-2016 17:23
  
  The U.S. government's top auto safety regulator says Honda must do more to make sure 300,000 cars with highly dangerous Takata air bag inflators are repaired.
  
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• Antimicrobial peptides can kill strains resistant to existing antibiotics

  02-11-2016 17:22
  
  Over the past few decades, many bacteria have become resistant to existing antibiotics, and few new drugs have emerged. A recent study from a U.K. commission on antimicrobial resistance estimated that by 2050, antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections will kill 10 million people per year, if no new drugs are developed.
  
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• New research will create a 21st-century tally of biodiversity in Southwest Pacific

  02-11-2016 17:21
  
  The Solomon Islands in the southwest Pacific are best known as a locale for some of the most intense fighting of the Second World War, including the bloody Battle of Guadalcanal. But for nearly a century, the rich biodiversity of the islands has been instrumental to the study of evolution, including research by noted scientists Ernst Mayr and Jared Diamond.
  
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• US average fuel economy at record high of 24.8 mpg

  02-11-2016 17:10
  
  Fuel economy is at a record high as new technology helps vehicles lose weight and drive more efficiently.
  
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• Lighting type affects ground beef color

  02-11-2016 17:09
  
  Ground beef is a very popular protein option at the grocery store. In fact, in terms of volume, 64% of total beef purchased is ground beef. When choosing a package of ground beef from the retail case, consumers rely heavily on the color of the meat to make their decision. The most desirable color is bright, cherry red. Once the meat changes to a brownish color, consumers tend to leave it, resulting in discounted meat and a total loss to retail stores of over $1 billion dollars annually.
  
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• Uber just streamlined the hell out of its app - The Verge

  02-11-2016 17:00 via theverge.com
  
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  Uber just streamlined the hell out of its app
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  Uber is rolling out a major redesign of its app today — the most significant update since 2012. The changes, which are only for users and not drivers, are supposed to offer a much cleaner interface, less confusion around which service to request, and ...
  Uber Redesigns Its Ride-Hailing AppFortune
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