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• Xperia XZ Review: Battery and Display Impress, Camera Does Not - Tom's Guide

  18-11-2016 22:54 via tomsguide.com
  
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  Xperia XZ Review: Battery and Display Impress, Camera Does Not
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  The Sony Xperia XZ has a beautiful display, better-than-average battery life and effective image stabilization, but it doesn't live up to the company's promise of a smartphone camera that produces blur-free images. 7/10. Very good. $649.99 Amazon ...
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• Old teeth, new stories: How one archaeologist created a prehistoric GPS for tracking ancient humans

  18-11-2016 22:28
  
  Where's the best place to start when retracing the life of a person who lived 4,000 years ago? Turns out, it's simple—you start at the beginning.
  
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• NASA nears finish line of annual study of changing Antarctic ice

  18-11-2016 22:24
  
  Operation IceBridge, NASA's airborne survey of changes in polar ice, is closing in on the end of its eighth consecutive Antarctic deployment, and will likely tie its 2012 campaign record for the most research flights carried out during a single Antarctic season.
  
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• WATCH: NASA's Peggy Whitson Becomes Oldest Woman in Space

  18-11-2016 22:23 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Whitson's multiple records reflect a distinguished career as an astronaut.
  
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• The Next Global Arms Race: Perfecting Artificial Intelligence

  18-11-2016 22:21 via nbcnews.com
  
  Echoing the 1960s space race, countries are using brains over brawn to flex their national strength. But the implications could be disastrous.
  
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• Newfound spider species masquerades as a dried-up leaf

  18-11-2016 22:00
  
  In the animal kingdom, sometimes the best survival strategy is to pretend to be something you're not — either to ambush unsuspecting prey or to convince predators that you're not very tasty
  
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• Famed Texas Heart Surgeon Denton Cooley Died at 96

  18-11-2016 21:40 via abcnews.go.com
  Famed heart surgeon Denton Cooley, who implanted the world's first artificial heart, has died
  
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• Zika virus 'no longer an emergency' - WHO - BBC News

  18-11-2016 21:31 via bbc.com
  
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  Zika virus 'no longer an emergency' - WHO
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  The mosquito-borne Zika virus will no longer be treated as an international medical emergency, the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared. By lifting its nine-month-old declaration, the UN's health agency is acknowledging that Zika is here to stay.
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• Will the Future of Tech be a 'Disaster' Under Trump?

  18-11-2016 21:15 via nbcnews.com
  
  Donald Trump will play a part in everything from innovation and space exploration to policies governing this platform he likes to call "the cyber."
  
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• New Image of Ceres from NASA’s Dawn Spacecraft

  18-11-2016 21:06 via scitechdaily.com
  NASA’s Dawn Spacecraft views the shadowy, cratered terrain of Ceres in a dramatic new view of the dwarf planet. Dawn snapped this image on October 16, from its fifth science orbit, in which the angle of the sun was different from that in previous orbits. Dawn was about 920 miles (1,480 kilometers) above Ceres when […]
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• 'Freeze-frame' proteins show how cancer evolves: Researchers capture elusive clues about cells' path to cancer

  18-11-2016 21:05
  
  Scientists from Rice University, Baylor College of Medicine and other institutions are using synthetic biology to capture elusive, short-lived snippets of DNA that healthy cells produce on their way to becoming cancerous.
  
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• New Horizons Reveals an Ocean Beneath Pluto’s Heart-Shaped Basin

  18-11-2016 20:54 via scitechdaily.com
  New data from NASA’s New Horizons Mission reveals evidence of any icy, slushy ocean beneath Pluto’s heart-shaped basin. Beneath Pluto’s “heart” lies a cold, slushy ocean of water ice, according to data from NASA’s New Horizons mission. In a paper published today in the journal Nature, the New Horizons team, including researchers from MIT, reports […]
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• California Zoo's Lion Cub Romps, Naps and Needs a Name

  18-11-2016 20:44 via abcnews.go.com
  
  A zoo in central California is showing off a new lion cub and asking visitors to choose his name
  
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• Six virtual reality experiences that don't cost too much

  18-11-2016 20:40
  
  Virtual reality, what's up with that? If you are curious about this highly buzzed high-tech form of entertainment but don't feel like plunking down $1,000 or more on sophisticated hardware, just visit one of a slew of amusement-park-type rides popping up around the world.
  
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• Is the EcoHelmet the Answer to Bike Sharing's Biggest Problem?

  18-11-2016 20:30 via nbcnews.com
  
  Bike sharing programs in big cities are great except that studies have shown most riders don't wear helmets. In an effort to make riding safer, Pratt Institute student Isis Schiffer has won the U.S. James Dyson award for her design of the EcoHelmet, a helmet made from recycled paper that fits in your pocket.
  
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• New research in Malawi will help to secure raw materials for green technologies

  18-11-2016 20:27
  
  Pioneering new insights into why high concentrations of some of the most rare and desirable natural elements - vital for the production of vital environmental, digital and security technologies - have been revealed.
  
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• NASA analyzes heavy rainfall over Hispaniola

  18-11-2016 20:26
  
  Slow moving frontal systems draped over Hispaniola and a tropical wave recently caused heavy rainfall that led to wide spread flooding over the northern Dominican Republic. NASA analyzed that heavy rainfall using data from satellites.
  
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• New method helps identify antibiotics in mass spectrometry datasets

  18-11-2016 20:24
  
  An international team of computer scientists has for the first time developed a method to find antibiotics hidden in huge but still unexplored mass spectrometry datasets. They detailed their new method, called DEREPLICATOR, in the Oct. 31 issue of Nature Chemical Biology.
  
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• New understanding of metastability clears path for next-generation materials

  18-11-2016 20:23
  
  They say diamonds are forever, but diamonds in fact are a metastable form of carbon that will slowly but eventually transform into graphite, another form of carbon. Being able to design and synthesize other long-lived, thermodynamically metastable materials could be a potential gold mine for materials designers, but until now, scientists lacked a rational understanding of them.
  
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• Aliens are everywhere, says Ivy League professor

  18-11-2016 20:17
  
  Alien life is behind the mysteries of the universe, according to a radical new theory.
  
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• Sweden Launches 'Mansplaining' Hotline; Men Call to Complain

  18-11-2016 20:12 via nbcnews.com
  
  Sweden's new "mansplaining" hotline is dividing the nation, with some wanting to learn how to avoid it and others calling the initiative sexist.
  
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• Protein points cells in the right direction for migrations in developing tissues

  18-11-2016 20:00
  
  The stretching and growth of skin tissue during embryonic development in animals requires a novel signaling pathway involving CDC-42 GTPase to direct the movement of cells during migrations, report Elise Walck-Shannon and Jeff Hardin of the University of Wisconsin, Madison and colleagues, in a study published November 18 in PLOS Genetics.
  
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• This App Wants to Help You Not Die While Taking a Selfie

  18-11-2016 19:58 via nbcnews.com
  
  People have fallen off mountains, tumbled into rivers, crashed airplanes and been struck by trains while taking selfies. Could an app prevent it?
  
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• Selfies Can Be Deadly. This App Wants to Help

  18-11-2016 19:58 via nbcnews.com
  
  People have fallen off mountains, tumbled into rivers, crashed airplanes and been struck by trains while taking selfies. Could an app prevent it?
  
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• Do Community Factors Affect Your Weight?

  18-11-2016 19:16 via scitechdaily.com
  A newly published study from Yale University shows that community-level factors may be associated with reduced adult obesity rates in counties within states that have a high adult obesity rate. Adult obesity rates in the United States have reached epidemic proportions, with one in four people considered obese. Yet, obesity rates vary considerably across states […]
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• Dinosaur-killing asteroid's crater yields new clues

  18-11-2016 19:04
  
  About 65 million years ago, a huge asteroid slammed into the Earth.
  
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• Precut salad may encourage growth of Salmonella

  18-11-2016 19:00
  
  A new study from the University of Leicester shows that small amounts of damage to salad leaves in bagged salads encourage the presence of Salmonella enterica. Juices released from damaged leaves also enhance the pathogen's ability to attach to the salad's plastic container. The research is published November 18th in Applied and Environmental Microbiology, a journal of the American Society for Microbiology.
  
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• No Change in Global Star Formation Process

  18-11-2016 18:57 via scitechdaily.com
  New research of the gas content in galaxies so distant their light has been traveling for about ten billion years suggests that the processes converting gas into stars is about the same back then as in the local universe. The first stars appeared about one hundred million years after the big bang, and ever since […]
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• 'I Want to Live': UK Girl Gets Wish to Be Frozen After Death

  18-11-2016 18:28 via abcnews.go.com
  The dying teenage girl's instructions were simple and direct: She did not want to be buried, but to be frozen _ with the hope she can continue her life in the future when cancer is cured
  
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• Windows 10 preview pushes Command Prompt into the shadows, Paint 3D into the spotlight - PCWorld

  18-11-2016 17:58 via pcworld.com
  
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  Build 14971 says goodbye to the classic paint program and puts PowerShell up front instead of the command prompt. Ian Paul By Ian Paul. | Follow. Contributor, PCWorld | Nov 18, 2016 8:58 AM PT ...
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• Fin24.com | Top 5 smartphones for under R300 a month

  18-11-2016 17:54
  
  Electronics manufacturers have made a push for entry-level devices to enter the market at a cheaper cost while packing them with premium features.
  
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• UK 'space junk' project highlights threat to missions

  18-11-2016 17:30
  
  The mass of "space junk" orbiting the Earth poses a serious threat to future exploration, a British scientist said on Friday at the launch of a project to raise awareness of the issue.
  
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• NY Times sees rise in subscriptions after election

  18-11-2016 17:12
  
  The New York Times reported a spike in subscriptions since the November 8 election, despite being called "fools" by president-elect Donald Trump for its coverage.
  
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• How to outsmart fake news in your Facebook feed

  18-11-2016 16:34 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Fake news is actually really easy to spot -- if you know how. Consider this your New Media Literacy Guide.
  
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• Vulnerable countries pledge to go all-renewables, with help

  18-11-2016 16:27
  
  More than 40 developing nations on the front lines of climate change have pledged to pursue 100 percent renewable energy.
  
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• Diaphragm much older than expected

  18-11-2016 16:26
  
  The diaphragm is unique to mammals and our most important respiratory muscle. Scientists at the University of Bonn and the Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig examined breathing in extinct caseids and came to the surprising conclusion that the diaphragm evolved about 50 million years earlier than previously assumed. The study just appeared in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.
  
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• An Archimedes' screw for groups of quantum particles

  18-11-2016 16:25
  
  Anyone who has tried to lead a group of tourists through a busy city knows the problem. How do you keep the group together when they are constantly jostled, held up and distracted by the hubbub around them?
  
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• Researchers turn waste gas into road-ready diesel fuel

  18-11-2016 16:19
  
  Climate change is one of the most serious threats facing the world today. With the effectuation of the Paris Agreement, there has been a rising interest on carbon capture and utilization (CCU).
  
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• Novel catalyst design opens possibility to hydrogen vehicle

  18-11-2016 16:18
  
  A new research, affiliated with UNIST has presented a novel strategy for non-precious metal catalyst that can replace rare and expensive platinum(Pt)-based catalyst, currently used in hydrogen fuel cell.
  
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• Further decrease in the use of broad-spectrum antibiotics in Austrian dairy cows is necessary: study

  18-11-2016 16:17
  
  Today's European Antibiotic Awareness Day demonstrates the necessity of the responsible use of antimicrobial substances in both humans and animals to prevent the development of antibiotic resistance. With this in mind, the Institute of Veterinary Public Health at the Vetmeduni Vienna published a study on the use of antibiotics on Austrian dairy farms earlier this year. Although dairy cattle are less frequently treated with antibiotics than pigs and poultry, the use of broad-spectrum antibiotics
  
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• Bacteria communicate to ramp up collective immune response to viral threats

  18-11-2016 16:09
  
  Bacteria can boost their own immune systems by "talking" to each other, surprising new research from New Zealand's University of Otago shows.
  
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• Today's Energy System Could Blow Paris Climate Goals

  18-11-2016 15:57 via abcnews.go.com
  
  A growing body of evidence shows that the power plants, buildings, cars, trucks, ships and planes in use today are likely to emit enough CO2 for the world to miss the targets of the Paris Agreement
  
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• Novel study shows 'cocktail' of soil bacteria can protect rice plants from deadly forces

  18-11-2016 15:10
  
  University of Delaware student Jonathon Cottone knows the tell-tale signs that rice plants are getting sick: the yellowing leaves, the faint football-shaped lesions.
  
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• Revealed: Winners of the 'Oscars of watches'

  18-11-2016 15:07 via rss.cnn.com
  
  It's the prize giving ceremony that everyone's on time for.
  
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• Characteristics of a metabolon producing the defense compound dhurrin in sorghum revealed

  18-11-2016 14:40
  
  (Phys.org)—An international team of researchers has uncovered the mechanism by which the sorghum plant uses the compound dhurrin to ward off pests and herbivores. In their paper published in the journal Science, the team describes their study, their results and the possible impact of their findings on the field of metabolon research. Mehran Dastmalchi and Peter Facchini with the University of Calgary offer a perspective piece on the work done by the team in the same journal issue, calling
  
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• Danish bishop's 300-year-old poo offers whiff of history

  18-11-2016 14:36
  
  A 300-year-old lump of faeces from a Danish bishop has shown researchers that he had a cosmopolitan diet that included grapes, figs and pepper, a Danish archaeologist said on Friday.
  
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• Storing carbon dioxide underground by turning it into rock

  18-11-2016 14:34
  
  In November, the Paris Climate Agreement goes into effect to reduce global carbon emissions. To achieve the set targets, experts say capturing and storing carbon must be part of the solution. Several projects throughout the world are trying to make that happen. Now, a study on one of those endeavors, reported in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology Letters, has found that within two years, carbon dioxide (CO2) injected into basalt transformed into solid rock.
  
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• ESA's new Mars orbiter prepares for first science

  18-11-2016 14:32
  
  The ExoMars orbiter is preparing to make its first scientific observations at Mars during two orbits of the planet starting next week.
  
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• Pragmatic scenario for transitioning the publication system towards open access

  18-11-2016 14:30
  
  A study has developed scenarios for transitioning Switzerland's scientific publication system towards Open Access (OA). It recommends a model that proposes a pragmatic and flexible way of making publicly funded research freely available at no charge and with no delay. The study was initiated by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) in collaboration with the funding programme 'Scientific Information' (SUC P-2) run by swissuniversities.
  
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• Poison dart frog neurotoxin synthesized

  18-11-2016 14:30
  
  (Phys.org)—A small team of researchers from Stanford University has synthesized the neurotoxin present in the skin of the poison dart frog. In their paper published in the journal Science, the team describes how they accomplished this feat, the steps involved and what they found when they also synthesized a mirror image of it.
  
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