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• Saving Simba and Lula, last two survivors of Mosul zoo

  22-02-2017 23:24
  
  Simba the lion and Lula the bear are the Mosul zoo's only survivors—the other animals were killed by shelling, starved to death or ate each other during the fighting.
  
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• Low snowpacks of 2014, 2015 may become increasingly common with warmer conditions

  22-02-2017 23:01
  
  Oregon experienced very low snowpack levels in 2014 and historically low snowpack levels in 2015; now a new study suggests that these occurrences may not be anomalous in the future and could become much more common if average temperatures warm just two degrees (Celsius).
  
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• Tesla slips back into red but revenue grows (Update)

  22-02-2017 22:45
  
  Tesla reported on Wednesday that it slipped back into the red in the recently ended quarter while revenue revved, with orders for some of electric car models hitting record highs.
  
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• Tesla slips back into red but revenue grows

  22-02-2017 22:45
  
  Tesla on Wednesday slipped back into the red in the recently ended quarter while revenue revved up, with orders for some of its electric car models hitting record highs.
  
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• I.Coast hosting bid to save its last chimpanzees

  22-02-2017 22:39
  
  Ivory Coast, which has seen a 90 percent decrease in its chimpanzees in just 20 years, is to host international talks in July in a bid to save the primates.
  
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• In hot water: Climate change harms hot spots of ocean life

  22-02-2017 22:38
  
  The six ocean hot spots that teem with the biggest mix of species are also getting hit hardest by global warming and industrial fishing, a new study finds.
  
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• Scientists decipher the nanoscale architecture of a beetle's shell

  22-02-2017 22:34
  
  Beetles wear a body armor that should weigh them down—think medieval knights and turtles. In fact, those hard shells protecting delicate wings are surprisingly light, allowing even flight.
  
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• Sum of their parts: Researchers use math to foster environmental restoration

  22-02-2017 22:30
  
  The oft-quoted proverb, "Too many cooks spoil the broth," is apt wisdom for describing challenges facing policy makers, public resource managers, ag producers, industry, residents and other stakeholders in attempts to jointly tackle major environmental restoration projects. The myriad of varied interests—some conflicting; some aligning - results in a confusing tangle of authority and responsibility.
  
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• Cameras can steal data from computer hard drive LED lights: study

  22-02-2017 22:28
  
  Researchers at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) Cyber Security Research Center have demonstrated that data can be stolen from an isolated "air-gapped" computer's hard drive reading the pulses of light on the LED drive using various types of cameras and light sensors.
  
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• Serendipity uncovers borophene's potential

  22-02-2017 22:18
  
  Almost one year ago, borophene didn't even exist.
  
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• NASA spies Tropical Cyclone 08P's formation

  22-02-2017 22:14
  
  NASA's Aqua satellite spotted Tropical Cyclone 08P as it was developing in the South Pacific Ocean. Tropical Cyclone 08P, or 08P formed east of Extra-tropical cyclone Bart.
  
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• UCLA Study Shows DNA Patterns Can Unlock How Glucose Metabolism Drives Cancer

  22-02-2017 21:15 via scitechdaily.com
  
  A UCLA led study reveals that DNA patterns can unlock how glucose metabolism drives cancer. FINDINGS A UCLA-led study of DNA patterns in tumor cells...
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• When It Comes to Smartphones... Does Size Matter?

  22-02-2017 20:37 via nbcnews.com
  
  Ahead of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, a new survey reveals what Americans like in a smartphone — and what they'd give up to stay connected.
  
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• Farther from forest: 'Eye-opening' study says rural US loses forests faster than cities

  22-02-2017 20:00
  
  Americans are spending their lives farther from forests than they did at the end of the 20th century and, contrary to popular wisdom, the change is more pronounced in rural areas than in urban settings.
  
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• Simple rule predicts when an ice age ends

  22-02-2017 19:25
  
  A simple rule can accurately predict when Earth's climate warms out of an ice age, according to new research led by UCL.
  
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• 'Quartz' crystals at the Earth's core power its magnetic field

  22-02-2017 19:25
  
  The Earth's core consists mostly of a huge ball of liquid metal lying at 3000 km beneath its surface, surrounded by a mantle of hot rock. Notably, at such great depths, both the core and mantle are subject to extremely high pressures and temperatures. Furthermore, research indicates that the slow creeping flow of hot buoyant rocks—moving several centimeters per year—carries heat away from the core to the surface, resulting in a very gradual cooling of the core over geological time. H
  
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• GMC cuts size and cost of Acadia mid-size SUV for 2017

  22-02-2017 19:20
  
  GMC has given the Acadia the biggest makeover in its 10-year history, shrinking the size and the price of its best-selling SUV while making it more fuel efficient and giving it new technology.
  
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• DC-based for decades, Apollo 11 capsule to go on road trip

  22-02-2017 19:16
  
  The Apollo 11 command module, which traveled more than 950,000 miles to take Americans to the moon and back in 1969, is going on a road trip, leaving the Smithsonian for the first time in more than four decades.
  
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• Researchers aim to disrupt egg production in dengue- and Zika-spreading mosquito

  22-02-2017 19:15
  
  The mosquito Aedes aegypti, which can spread dengue fever, chikungunya, Zika fever, and yellow fever virus, requires a blood meal to develop eggs. One way to control the spread of these diseases is to tamper with the reproductive events that follow this mosquito's blood meal.
  
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• From rocks in Colorado, evidence of a 'chaotic solar system'

  22-02-2017 19:12
  
  Plumbing a 90 million-year-old layer cake of sedimentary rock in Colorado, a team of scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Northwestern University has found evidence confirming a critical theory of how the planets in our solar system behave in their orbits around the sun.
  
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• Temperate earth-sized worlds found in extraordinarily rich planetary system (Update)

  22-02-2017 19:09
  
  Astronomers have found a system of seven Earth-sized planets just 40 light-years away. They were detected as they passed in front of their parent star, the dwarf star TRAPPIST-1. Three of them lie in the habitable zone and could harbour water, increasing the possibility that the system could play host to life. It has both the largest number of Earth-sized planets yet found and the largest number of worlds that could support liquid water.
  
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• Temperate earth-sized worlds found in extraordinarily rich planetary system

  22-02-2017 19:09
  
  Astronomers have found a system of seven Earth-sized planets just 40 light-years away. They were detected as they passed in front of their parent star, the dwarf star TRAPPIST-1. Three of them lie in the habitable zone and could harbour water, increasing the possibility that the system could play host to life. It has both the largest number of Earth-sized planets yet found and the largest number of worlds that could support liquid water.
  
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• What Google Found at Burning Man: A CEO and the Art of Flow

  22-02-2017 19:08 via nbcnews.com
  
  Facing their toughest decision yet, Larry Page and Sergey Brin turned to Burning Man as part of their process to find their new CEO, Eric Schmidt.
  
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• Scientists discover how essential methane catalyst is made

  22-02-2017 19:03
  
  New ways to convert carbon dioxide (CO2) into methane gas for energy use are a step closer after scientists discovered how bacteria make a component that facilitates the process.
  
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• Amazon resists request for Echo info in Arkansas slaying

  22-02-2017 19:02
  
  Amazon is resisting an effort by Arkansas prosecutors to obtain potential recordings from a slaying suspect's Amazon Echo smart speaker, saying authorities haven't established that their investigation is more important than a customer's privacy rights.
  
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• Study says drugs could be developed cheaper and faster

  22-02-2017 19:01
  
  Chemists at the University of Waterloo, SCIEX and Pfizer have discovered a new way to help the pharmaceutical industry identify and test new drugs, which could revolutionize drug development, and substantially reduce the cost and time drugs need to reach their market.
  
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• Scientists Develop New Cell-Analysis Method for Screening Biodiversity

  22-02-2017 18:52 via scitechdaily.com
  
  A team of researchers has created a microfluidic system for ultra-high-performance screening in double emulsion droplets. This breakthrough development can be used when studying the...
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• Cultivating cool-for-cash-crop

  22-02-2017 18:44
  
  When deciding what crops to grow during a season, growers look at several factors. Do the crops have a good yield in their area? Does the area currently have the resources—usually water—to grow that crop? Will the crop give a return on the investment? And, what are the future effects that growing that crop might have on the growers' fields?
  
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• Hidden no more: First-ever global view of transshipment in commercial fishing industry

  22-02-2017 18:42
  
  Transshipment, the transfer of goods from one boat to another, is a major pathway for illegally caught and unreported fish to enter the global seafood market. It has also been associated with drug smuggling and slave labor. Illegal in many cases, transshipment has been largely invisible and nearly impossible to manage, because it often occurs far from shore and out of sight. Until now.
  
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• HiRISE Image Shows a New Crater on a Dusty Slope of Mars

  22-02-2017 17:55 via scitechdaily.com
  
  This new HiRISE image shows a new impact site on a dusty slope of Mars. The image also shows several dark slope streaks due to...
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• Up to 600 waterfowl die in western Idaho from avian cholera

  22-02-2017 17:51
  
  An estimated 500 to 600 ducks and geese have died due to avian cholera in western Idaho.
  
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• CubeSats: Shaping possibilities in space

  22-02-2017 17:51
  
  For more than a decade, CubeSats, or small satellites, have paved the way to low-Earth orbit for commercial companies, educational institutions, and non-profit organizations. These small satellites offer opportunities to conduct scientific investigations and technology demonstrations in space in such a way that is cost-effective, timely and relatively easy to accomplish.
  
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• Science versus the 'Horatio Alger myth'

  22-02-2017 17:50
  
  In a new study published today in the journal PLOS ONE, Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists have taken a condensed matter physics concept usually applied to the way substances such as ice freeze, called "frustration," and applied it to a simple social network model of frustrated components. They show that inequality of wealth can emerge spontaneously and more equality can be gained by pure initiative.
  
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• Fermi Discovers Possible Dark Matter in Andromeda Galaxy

  22-02-2017 17:41 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Using NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, a team of astronomers has discovered a signal at the center of the neighboring Andromeda galaxy that could indicate...
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• Snap's IPO builds an 'impregnable fortress' where only the founders have power

  22-02-2017 17:30
  
  The founders of Snap Inc. want to take the company public. But that doesn't mean they want to run a public company.
  
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• High court ruling limits international reach of patent laws

  22-02-2017 17:28
  
  The Supreme Court has sided with California-based Life Technologies Corp. in a patent infringement case that limits the international reach of U.S. patent laws.
  
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• New Apple headquarters to have theater named for Steve Jobs

  22-02-2017 17:27
  
  Apple has announced that its new headquarters will open for employees in the spring and will include a theater named for its late co-founder, Steve Jobs.
  
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• Apple 'spaceship' headquarters readies for boarding (Update)

  22-02-2017 17:27
  
  Apple on Wednesday announced that workers will start boarding its futuristic new "spaceship" campus in Silicon Valley in April, fulfilling a vision set out by late founder Steve Jobs.
  
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• Russia military acknowledges new branch: info warfare troops

  22-02-2017 17:25
  
  Along with a steady flow of new missiles, planes and tanks, Russia's defense minister said Wednesday his nation also has built up its muscle by forming a new branch of the military—information warfare troops.
  
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• Social information from friends, experts could help reduce uncertainty in crowdfunding

  22-02-2017 17:24
  
  Social information gathered from friends and experts, depending on the complexity of the product, can decrease uncertainty in crowdfunding campaigns, according to research from Binghamton University, State University of New York.
  
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• Critters, plants and waste offer a more sustainable supply of catalysts

  22-02-2017 17:24
  
  From earthworm guts to mining waste, scientists are exploring a wide range of new sources of catalysts that could help us make medicines, fuels and electronics in a more sustainable way. The cover story in Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), the weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society, reports on the search.
  
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• Researchers gain insight into a physical phenomenon that leads to earthquakes

  22-02-2017 17:23
  
  Scientists have gotten better at predicting where earthquakes will occur, but they're still in the dark about when they will strike and how devastating they will be.
  
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• The genetics behind being Not Like Daddy

  22-02-2017 17:21
  
  A common strategy to create high-yielding plants is hybrid breeding - crossing two different inbred lines to obtain characteristics superior to each parent. However, getting the inbred lines in the first place can be a hassle. Inbred lines consist of genetically uniform individuals and are created through numerous generations of self-crossing. In maize, the use of so-called "haploid inducers" provides a short cut to this cumbersome procedure, allowing to produce inbred lines in just one generati
  
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• Historic cultural records inform scientific perspectives on woodland uses

  22-02-2017 17:21
  
  Scientists at the University of York and University College Cork have investigated how cultural records dating back 300 years could help improve understanding of the ways in which science interprets the many uses of woodland areas.
  
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• Birds of a feather mob together

  22-02-2017 17:17
  
  Dive bombing a much larger bird isn't just a courageous act by often smaller bird species to keep predators at bay. It also gives male birds the chance to show off their physical qualities in order to impress females. This is according to a study in Springer's journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology on predator mobbing behavior of birds where potential prey approach and harass would-be predators such as owls. The study was led by Filipe Cunha of the University of Zurich in Switzerland and th
  
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• NASA spies Tropical Cyclone Bart's end

  22-02-2017 17:14
  
  NASA's Aqua satellite spotted Tropical Cyclone Bart as it was transitioning into an extra-tropical cyclone in the South Pacific Ocean.
  
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• Uncertainty perception drives public's trust, mistrust of science

  22-02-2017 17:12
  
  Many policies—from medicine to terrorism—depend on how the general public accepts and understands scientific evidence. People view different branches of sciences as having different amounts of uncertainty, which may not reflect the actual uncertainty of the field. Yet public perceptions determine action, allocation of funding resources and the direction of public policies. It is therefore necessary to understand perceptions of uncertainty and the influences that political affiliation
  
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• Antimicrobial substances identified in Komodo dragon blood

  22-02-2017 17:11
  
  In a land where survival is precarious, Komodo dragons thrive despite being exposed to scads of bacteria that would kill less hardy creatures. Now in a study published in the Journal of Proteome Research, scientists report that they have detected antimicrobial protein fragments in the lizard's blood that appear to help them resist deadly infections. The discovery could lead to the development of new drugs capable of combating bacteria that have become resistant to antibiotics.
  
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• Widely accepted vision for agriculture may be inaccurate, misleading

  22-02-2017 17:10
  
  "Food production must double by 2050 to feed the world's growing population." This truism has been repeated so often in recent years that it has become widely accepted among academics, policymakers and farmers, but now researchers are challenging this assertion and suggesting a new vision for the future of agriculture.
  
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• Smog may force FIFA U-17 World Cup out of Delhi

  22-02-2017 17:06
  
  FIFA could pull Under-17 World Cup matches out of New Delhi because of concerns over air quality in the world's most polluted capital city, the tournament director said.
  
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