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• SpaceX Could Beat NASA Back to the Moon - Space.com

  28-02-2017 23:35 via space.com
  
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  SpaceX Could Beat NASA Back to the Moon
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  Yesterday, SpaceX announced its intention to send passengers on a crewed Dragon spacecraft, launched with a Falcon Heavy rocket, around the moon near the end of 2018. This would follow on the heels of the company's robotic and crewed flights to the ...
  NASA returns priceless bag of moon dust to Chicago-area woman after lawsuitChicago Tribune
  Elon Musk's Moon Mission Is Exciting, Audacious... and IffyTIME
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• International media unite against fake news

  28-02-2017 23:26
  
  A group of 37 French and international media outlets, supported by Google, on Tuesday launched "CrossCheck", a joint fact-checking platform aimed at detecting fake information which could affect the French presidential election.
  
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• YouTube Announces Cable-Free TV Subscription Service

  28-02-2017 23:06 via nbcnews.com
  
  YouTube is giving viewers a way to tune in live to their favorite shows, without a cable or satellite subscription.
  
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• Beyond cat videos: YouTube will offer its own pay-TV service (Update)

  28-02-2017 23:01
  
  Fed up with paying for cable the traditional way? You may soon be able to subscribe to it over the internet with ... YouTube.
  
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• Beyond cat videos: YouTube will offer cable alternative

  28-02-2017 23:01
  
  People fed up with paying for cable the traditional way will soon be able to subscribe to it from YouTube.
  
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• Frshly uses robotics and algorithms to deliver fresh, hot food to customers

  28-02-2017 22:59
  
  Six different cuisines with 30 combos all served hot within 90 seconds, and patrons need only pick, swipe and eat. That's what Frshly, a fully automated "vend-café" and the brainchild of NJIT alumnus Satish ChamyVelumani, provides to a growing number of hungry consumers on the move through India's railway system and airports. It's an offer the tech startup, established in 2013, calls "plated happiness."
  
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• Early bird special: Spring pops up super early in much of US (Update)

  28-02-2017 22:03
  
  Spring has sprung early—potentially record early—in much of the United States, bringing celebrations of shorts weather mixed with unease about a climate gone askew.
  
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• Early bird special: Spring pops up super early in much of US

  28-02-2017 22:03
  
  Spring has sprung early in much of the U.S., bringing celebrations of shorts weather mixed with unease about climate gone askew.
  
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• No fad: Niantic CEO insists Pokemon Go is still going strong

  28-02-2017 22:02
  
  Remember all those crazed Pokemon Go seekers that roamed our city streets, crowded our public parks or ventured into rural areas in search of virtual-reality pocket monsters popping up on their smartphones?
  
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• Racial, ethnic, gender bias occurs in pathway from teacher to principal

  28-02-2017 21:58
  
  A University of Texas at Arlington College of Education researcher shows in a new study that race and sex still matter when public school teachers seek to become principals.
  
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• A better way to measure the stiffness of cancer cells

  28-02-2017 21:53
  
  Biomedical engineers at Duke University have discovered a way to detect signs of cancer on a cell-by-cell basis using two lasers and a camera.
  
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• Study hints at possible change in water 'fingerprint' of comet

  28-02-2017 21:52
  
  A trip past the sun may have selectively altered the production of one form of water in a comet - an effect not seen by astronomers before, a new NASA study suggests.
  
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• YouTube TV is Google's live TV service - Engadget

  28-02-2017 21:51 via engadget.com
  
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  YouTube TV is Google's live TV service
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  After many months of rumors, YouTube has officially announced its entry into streaming live TV. YouTube TV will let you access live and recorded content from major networks, both the big broadcast players as well as some options typically found on cable.
  YouTube takes on cable with new TV serviceBBC News
  Google is going after cable with its own streaming service, YouTube TVWashington Post
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• Study finds preliminary recovery of coastal sharks in southeast US

  28-02-2017 21:51
  
  A new analysis of population trends among coastal sharks of the southeast U.S. shows that all but one of the seven species studied are increasing in abundance. The gains follow enactment of fishing regulations in the early 1990s after decades of declining shark numbers.
  
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• No, It's Not You: Here's Why the Internet Is Acting Up

  28-02-2017 21:32 via nbcnews.com
  
  There's no reason to throw your computer out the window.
  
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• SpaceX Cash-tronauts Are in For a Wild Ride to the Moon

  28-02-2017 21:05 via nbcnews.com
  
  Two mystery ticket holders will start training later this year for a trip around the moon in 2018.
  
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• Mathematician breaks down how to defend against quantum computing attacks

  28-02-2017 20:30
  
  The encryption codes that safeguard internet data today won't be secure forever.
  
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• Road salt alternatives alter aquatic ecosystems

  28-02-2017 20:27
  
  Organic additives found in road salt alternatives—such as those used in the commercial products GeoMelt and Magic Salt—act as a fertilizer to aquatic ecosystems, promoting the growth of algae and organisms that eat algae, according to new research published today in the Journal of Applied Ecology. Low levels of magnesium chloride—an alternative type of salt found in the commercial product Clear Lane - boost populations of amphipods, tiny crustaceans that feed on algae and serve
  
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• Researchers coax colloidal spheres to self-assemble into photonic crystals

  28-02-2017 20:25
  
  Colloidal particles, used in a range of technical applications including foods, inks, paints, and cosmetics, can self-assemble into a remarkable variety of densely-packed crystalline structures. For decades, though, researchers have been trying to coax colloidal spheres to arranging themselves into much more sparsely populated lattices in order to unleash potentially valuable optical properties. These structures, called photonic crystals, could increase the efficiency of lasers, further miniatur
  
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• Using a Functionalized Metal-Organic Framework Compound to Filter Heavy Hydrogen

  28-02-2017 19:06 via scitechdaily.com
  
  A team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute has developed a metal-organic framework compound that can be used to separate deuterium and tritium from...
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• Paris auction of Moroccan 'Nessie' makes waves

  28-02-2017 19:05
  
  Geologists in Morocco on Tuesday denounced the planned auction of a 66-million-year-old marine dinosaur skeleton in Paris and demanded that the remains be repatriated.
  
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• Lasers flesh out dino-bird profile

  28-02-2017 19:03
  
  A chicken-sized, feathered dinosaur that scuttled around Earth 160 million years ago is helping flesh out the missing link between land-bound animals and flying ones, scientists said Tuesday.
  
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• Mathematical theorem finds gerrymandering in PA congressional district maps

  28-02-2017 19:00
  
  Pennsylvania's congressional district maps are almost certainly the result of gerrymandering according to an analysis based on a new mathematical theorem on bias in Markov Chains developed by Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pittsburgh mathematicians. Their findings are published in the Feb. 28 online early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
  
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• Study finds gender gap at Toronto research institution

  28-02-2017 18:55
  
  A review initiated by St. Michael's Hospital found that a significant gender gap exists across all job descriptions, research disciplines and academic rankings at its research institute.
  
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• See how Zika infection changes a human cell

  28-02-2017 18:54
  
  The Zika virus taking hold of the inner organelles of human liver and neural stem cells has been captured via light and electron microscopy. In Cell Reports on February 28, researchers in Germany show how the African and Asian strains of Zika rearrange the endoplasmic reticulum and cytoskeletal architecture of host cells so that they can build factories where they make daughter viruses. The study reveals that targeting cytoskeleton dynamics could be a previously unexplored strategy to suppress Z
  
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• Cell 'stickiness' could indicate metastatic potential

  28-02-2017 18:52
  
  How strongly tumor cells adhere to the surrounding tissue could indicate the likelihood that cancer will spread to other parts of the body, according to a study published February 28 in Biophysical Journal. Using a spinning disc device, the researchers found that tumor cells characterized by weak adhesion strength are more likely to migrate and invade other tissues compared with strongly adherent cells. The study may provide a much-needed marker to identify highly metastatic cells within a broad
  
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• Samsung Galaxy S8 Rumors: What to Believe - Gizmodo

  28-02-2017 18:38 via gizmodo.com
  
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  Samsung has dominated the Android phone market for at least a half-decade, but the Galaxy Note 7 debacle last year lost the company goodwill with customers after its phones exploded in pants, hotel rooms, airplanes, and elsewhere. Advertisement. Now ...
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  You can't buy a fully-specced LG G6 because of dumb reasonsBGR
  Android Enters Year 10 at Mobile World CongressPC Magazine
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• Astronomers Discover the Brightest Pulsar to Date, NGC 5907 ULX

  28-02-2017 18:23 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Using the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton satellite and NASA’s NuSTAR, astronomers have discovered the brightest pulsar to date. There’s a new record holder for brightest...
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• New Curiosity Images Show Sand Moving One Day to Next on Mars

  28-02-2017 18:07 via scitechdaily.com
  
  NASA’s Curiosity Rover views sand moving one day to the next on the surface of Mars. This pair of images shows effects of one Martian...
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• NASA Study Shows Change in Water ‘Fingerprint’ of Comet Lovejoy

  28-02-2017 17:56 via scitechdaily.com
  
  A new study suggests that a trip past the sun may have selectively altered the production of one form of water in a comet. Astronomers...
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• US approves 3 types of genetically engineered potatoes (Update)

  28-02-2017 17:52
  
  Three types of potatoes genetically engineered to resist the pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine are safe for the environment and safe to eat, federal officials have announced.
  
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• US approves 3 types of genetically engineered potatoes

  28-02-2017 17:52
  
  U.S. officials say three types of potatoes genetically engineered to resist the pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine are safe for the environment and safe to eat.
  
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• Male poison frogs become cannibals after taking over territories

  28-02-2017 17:51
  
  Systematic 'infanticide' of unrelated young occurs in several animal species. For carnivores and primates, infanticidal actions are mainly sexually motivated. A study in Scientific Reports by researchers of Vetmeduni Vienna has shown for the first time that also male poison frogs selectively eat other males' offspring—after having taken over their rivals' territories. They were thus able to demonstrate that even simple decision rules can mediate a complex behavioral pattern such as parenta
  
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• Open Science Prize goes to software tool for tracking viral outbreaks

  28-02-2017 17:49
  
  After three rounds of competition—one of which involved a public vote—a software tool developed by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Basel to track Zika, Ebola and other viral disease outbreaks in real time has won the first-ever international Open Science Prize.
  
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• Frogs have unique ability to see color in the dark

  28-02-2017 17:47
  
  The night vision of frogs and toads appears to be superior to that of all other animals. They have the ability to see colour even when it is so dark that humans are not able to see anything at all. This has been shown in a new study by researchers from Lund University in Sweden.
  
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• Miniature organisms in the sand play big role in our ocean

  28-02-2017 17:44
  
  The small organisms that slip unnoticed through sand play an important role in keeping our oceans healthy and productive, according to a Florida State University researcher.
  
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• First direct measurements of Pacific seabed sediments reveal strong methane source

  28-02-2017 17:44
  
  Researchers from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) have discovered a major source of an important greenhouse gas in the Tropical Pacific Ocean for the first time.
  
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• Netflix CEO: co-workers were affected by Trump travel ban

  28-02-2017 17:39
  
  Netflix employees were personally affected by U.S. President Donald Trump's attempt to ban people entering from seven Muslim countries, the company's CEO said Tuesday.
  
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• Children and youth learning English require better support for academic success

  28-02-2017 17:37
  
  Despite their potential, many English learners (ELs)—who account for more than 9 percent of K-12 enrollment in the U.S.—lag behind their English-speaking monolingual peers in educational achievement, in part because schools do not provide adequate instruction and social-emotional support to acquire English proficiency or access to academic subjects at the appropriate grade level, says a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Moreover, early car
  
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• Study finds police use out of court resolutions in over 5,000 domestic abuse cases

  28-02-2017 17:35
  
  A study published in the British Journal of Criminology investigated the nature and extent of UK police use of 'out of court resolutions' in cases of domestic abuse and found that many forces are potentially putting lives at risk. The researchers call for an immediate stop to street level resolutions in cases of domestic abuse involving partners or ex-partners.
  
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• Breakthrough research for testing and arranging vertical axis wind turbines

  28-02-2017 17:34
  
  The sight of propeller-like rotating blades positioned high up the pole of a tall horizontal-axis wind turbine (HAWT) may be familiar to many. Often grouped in wind farms, HAWTs provide significant amounts of energy for local communities. One drawback to HAWTs is the large space they take up, needing to be placed far apart from each other. If placed too close together, the turbulence and wind velocity deficit caused by one HAWT can make a neighboring HAWT output much less power.
  
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• Do cells have exotic vibrational properties?

  28-02-2017 17:31
  
  A little-understood biological property that appears to allow cell components to store energy on their outer edges is the possible key to developing a new class of materials and devices to collect, store and manage energy for a variety of applications, a team of researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and Yeshiva University has proposed.
  
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• Video: The farm of the future?

  28-02-2017 17:30
  
  There's a new trend in agriculture called vertical farming. As humans learned to farm, we arranged plants outside in horizontal fields, and invented irrigation and fertilizer to grow bumper crops.
  
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• Optical generation of ultrasound via photoacoustic effect

  28-02-2017 17:29
  
  Limitations of the piezoelectric array technologies conventionally used for ultrasonics inspired a group of University College London researchers to explore an alternative mechanism for generating ultrasound via light, also known as the photoacoustic effect. Coupling this with 3-D printing, the group was able to generate sounds fields with specific shapes for potential use in biological cell manipulation and drug delivery.
  
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• Exploring the mysteries of supercooled water

  28-02-2017 17:27
  
  There are few things more central to life on earth than water. It dominates the physical landscape, covering much of the planet as oceans. It's also a major component of the human body, comprising, for example, more than 70% of the mass of a newborn baby.
  
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• Apple's iPhone 8 will do the unthinkable - BGR

  28-02-2017 16:58 via bgr.com
  
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  Apple's iPhone 8 will do the unthinkable
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  There are so many things that come to mind when you think of Apple as a company. It was a pioneer in the personal computing space, the iPod was a total game-changer, it reinvented smartphones in 2007 with the original iPhone, and its laptops and ...
  Supply constraints will limit OLED to just 'iPhone 8,' benefitting Apple in long run - reportAppleInsider (press release) (blog)
  iPhone 8: New Unexpected Rumor Claims An Impactful Change Is ComingForb
  
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• Here's why NFL is Adding Microchips to its Footballs

  28-02-2017 16:09 via profootballtalk.nbcsports.com
  
  The NFL plans to put microchips in every football during the 2017 season, but the chips will not be used to help the officials.
  
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• OneWeb, Intelsat merge to advance satellite internet

  28-02-2017 16:00
  
  Satellite telecom firms OneWeb and Intelsat announced plans Tuesday to merge, and a fresh $1.7 billion investment from Japan's SoftBank to advance an ambitious "internet in the sky" plan.
  
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• Declining Arctic sea ice influences European weather—but isn't a cause of colder winters

  28-02-2017 15:58
  
  The dramatic loss of Arctic sea ice through climate change is unlikely to lead to more severe winter weather across Northern Europe, new research has shown.
  
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• Using Google to map our ecosystem

  28-02-2017 15:54
  
  Researchers in the Singapore-ETH Centre's Future Cities Laboratory developed a method to quantify ecosystem services of street trees. Using nearly 100,000 images from Google Street View, the study helps further understanding on how green spaces contribute to urban sustainability.
  
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