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• Tesla to raise $1.15bn in stock as it begins production tests of Model 3 electric car - Daily Mail

  15-03-2017 23:28
  
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  Tesla to raise $1.15bn in stock as it begins production tests of Model 3 electric car
  Daily Mail
  Tesla said it expects to raise about $1.15 billion from a new stock and senior notes offering giving it a much-needed infusion of cash as it begins production of its much anticipated Model 3 electric car. A capital raise by Tesla has been anticipated ...
  Tesla Looks To Raise $1.15 Billion As Production Ramps Up For Model 3Tech Times
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• Tesla to sell $1B in stock and notes to increase capital

  15-03-2017 23:12
  
  Electric car and solar cell maker Tesla Inc. wants to raise over $1 billion in new capital by selling stock and five-year convertible notes.
  
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• Cascading effect: One attack led to another at Yahoo

  15-03-2017 23:10
  
  Russian hackers working with Russian spies didn't crack Yahoo security all at once.
  
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• Trump puts brakes on vehicle emission targets

  15-03-2017 22:57
  
  President Donald Trump moved to freeze future vehicle emission targets Wednesday, during a trip to the faded US automotive hub in Michigan.
  
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• There's Only One Way To Save The Great Barrier Reef: Stop Climate Change - BuzzFeed News

  15-03-2017 22:45
  
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  There's Only One Way To Save The Great Barrier Reef: Stop Climate Change
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  “We can have our fossil fuels or we can have a healthy, functioning reef, but we can't have both.” posted on Mar. 15, 2017, at 11:01 a.m.. Rob Stott. BuzzFeed News Reporter, Australia. Tweet. Tumblr. Stumble. Bookmark it ...
  To keep the Great Barrier Reef alive, the oceans must be coolerThe Verge
  Great Barrier Reef will never be as pristine as it once was: scientistsBusiness Ins
  
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• Scientists analyze dispersal of parasites by birds in the Americas

  15-03-2017 22:31
  
  Monitoring and understanding the dispersal of potentially pathological microorganisms are constant concerns for sanitary and epidemiological authorities worldwide. The risks involved are evident, given the possibility of outbreaks of emerging diseases in humans or in domestic animals and livestock.
  
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• Researchers develop groundbreaking process for creating ultra-selective separation membranes

  15-03-2017 22:27
  
  A team of researchers, led by the University of Minnesota, has developed a groundbreaking one-step, crystal growth process for making ultra-thin layers of material with molecular-sized pores. Researchers demonstrated the use of the material, called zeolite nanosheets, by making ultra-selective membranes for chemical separations.
  
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• How to conserve polar bears—and maintain subsistence harvest—under climate change

  15-03-2017 22:20
  
  Polar bears are listed as a threatened species as the ice-covered ocean they depend on for hunting and transportation becomes scarce. Changes in the Arctic Ocean are also affecting the humans who have called this area home and hunted across the landscape for thousands of years.
  
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• Eyeless catfish named for discoverer's daughter

  15-03-2017 22:18
  
  You've just discovered a unique, eyeless catfish from the murky bottoms of the Amazon River. What do you do?
  
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• Like elephants, large working proteins have small handlers

  15-03-2017 22:04
  
  A graduate student's surprise observation in fundamental experiments with small binding molecules at work in protein folding has allowed biochemists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst to develop the first firm mathematical foundation to explain cell ligands' role in promoting proper protein folding.
  
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• Researchers make discovery that could increase plant yield in wake of looming phosph

  15-03-2017 21:56
  
  Scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have pinpointed a key genetic switch that helps soil bacteria living on and inside a plant's roots harvest a vital nutrient with limited global supply. The nutrient, phosphate, makes it to the plant's roots, helping the plant increase its yield.
  
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• Watch out: Mammals shrink when Earth heats up, study says

  15-03-2017 20:54
  
  Global warming shrank certain animals in the ancient past, and scientists worry it could happen again.
  
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• Study: Stopping global warming only way to save coral reefs

  15-03-2017 20:49
  
  Reducing pollution and curbing overfishing won't prevent the severe bleaching that is killing coral at catastrophic rates, according to a study of Australia's Great Barrier Reef. In the end, researchers say, the only way to save the world's coral from heat-induced bleaching is with a war on global warming.
  
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• Q&A: Change to fuel economy standards could impact consumers

  15-03-2017 20:49
  
  President Donald Trump plans to re-examine federal fuel economy requirements for new cars and trucks.
  
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• Why CEOs of failing companies jump ship... or don't

  15-03-2017 20:42
  
  It's a common scenario in the corporate world. A company begins to fail, and before long the CEO is out the door. Sometimes the person is asked to go, but other times it's a voluntary move—a decision that may be driven largely by the executive's so-called "social capital," according to a new study led by the University of Arizona.
  
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• YouTube users be aware: Your viewing habits can be tracked

  15-03-2017 20:39
  
  Despite YouTube's attempts to safeguard user anonymity, intelligence agencies, hackers and online advertising companies can still determine which videos a user is watching, according to Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) research.
  
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• If You're Playing Zelda, Try Fast Traveling Less - Kotaku

  15-03-2017 20:33
  
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  If You're Playing Zelda, Try Fast Traveling Less
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  So you've been playing Breath of the Wild for more than a week. You've made some decent progress. You've finished some of the story and unlocked most of the map. It's only natural that you'd start fast traveling. Advertisement. A few days ago I noticed ...
  Key lessons developers can take away from Breath of the WildGamasutra
  Game review: 'Zelda' changes radically, but fans will adore itReading Eagle
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• From the butterfly's wing to the tornado: Predicting turbulence

  15-03-2017 20:33
  
  An old adage holds that the flap of a butterfly's wing in Brazil can trigger a tornado in Texas weeks later. Though chaos theory says it's basically impossible to compute exactly how that might happen, scientists have made advances in applying math to predict the phenomenon behind it called turbulence.
  
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• Team finds new way that bacteria lay siege to neighboring cells by hijacking two factors involved in protein synthesis

  15-03-2017 20:32
  
  So they can't use smartphones or WiFi, but bacteria have evolved some seriously complex strategies to communicate with one another. And the resulting interactions are a delicate balance of cooperation and, in some cases, competition.
  
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• Switch Stock And Sellouts Could Be A Problem For Nintendo - Forbes

  15-03-2017 20:20
  
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  Switch Stock And Sellouts Could Be A Problem For Nintendo
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  As anyone could have expected, it's more or less impossible to find a Nintendo Switch right now. The console just saw a successful launch with estimates up at 1.5 million sold, which seems to be more of a measure of how many consoles Nintendo made than ...
  With Switch, Nintendo Strengthens The Case For Two-Piece ControllersGame Revolution
  'Created by elves riding unicorns': readers on the Nintendo SwitchThe Guardian
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• Mass Effect: Andromeda's Early Access Period Starts Early, It Seems - GameSpot

  15-03-2017 19:51
  
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  Mass Effect: Andromeda's Early Access Period Starts Early, It Seems
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  Mass Effect: Andromeda isn't officially slated to arrive until March 21, but EA/Origin Access subscribers on Xbox One and PC can play early, with EA saying the pre-release period will begin on March 16. As it turns out, the Origin Access trial on PC is ...
  Mass Effect: Andromeda Easter egg says we owe everything to SpaceXPolygon
  According To A 'Mass Effect: Andromeda' Easter Egg, We Have SpaceX To Thank For In
  
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• Fin24.com | Grindrod Bank breaks silence on social grants fiasco

  15-03-2017 19:32
  
  Grindrod Bank, which provides banking services for South Africa’s social grants, has spoken out publicly for the first time on the controversy around the welfare system.
  
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• Shape-shifting plankton: How plankton cope with turbulence

  15-03-2017 19:00
  
  Microscopic marine plankton are not helplessly adrift in the ocean. They can perceive cues that indicate turbulence, rapidly respond to regulate their behaviour and actively adapt. ETH researchers have demonstrated for the first time how they do this .
  
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• Scientists mobilize as bleaching resumes on Great Barrier Reef

  15-03-2017 19:00
  
  Coral researchers are remobilising to conduct aerial and underwater surveys along the Great Barrier Reef and elsewhere in Australia as coral bleaching reappears for the second year in a row. The decision coincides with the release today of a study in the prestigious journal Nature warning the Reef's resilience is rapidly waning.
  
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• Recovery after 'great dying' was slowed by more extinctions

  15-03-2017 19:00
  
  Researchers studying marine fossil beds in Italy have found that the world's worst mass extinction was followed by two other extinction events, a conclusion that could explain why it took ecosystems around the globe millions of years to recover.
  
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• Marine recovery after mass extinction was likely delayed by further biotic crises

  15-03-2017 19:00
  
  Biotic crises during the Triassic period may have delayed marine recovery after a mass extinction during the late Permian, according to a study published March 15, 2017 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by William Foster from University of Texas, Austin, USA, and colleagues.
  
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• Fossil or inorganic structure? Scientists dig into early life forms

  15-03-2017 19:00
  
  An international team of researchers discovered that inorganic chemicals can self-organize into complex structures that mimic primitive life on Earth.
  
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• Flower-rich habitats increase survival of bumblebee families

  15-03-2017 19:00
  
  New research led by the UK's Centre for Ecology & Hydrology has revealed for the first time that flower-rich habitats are key to enhancing the survival of bumblebee families between years.
  
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• Dark matter less influential in galaxies in early universe

  15-03-2017 19:00
  
  New observations indicate that massive, star-forming galaxies during the peak epoch of galaxy formation, 10 billion years ago, were dominated by baryonic or 'normal' matter. This is in stark contrast to present-day galaxies, where the effects of mysterious dark matter seem to be much greater. This surprising result was obtained using ESO's Very Large Telescope and suggests that dark matter was less influential in the early universe than it is today.
  
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• China's severe winter haze tied to effects of global climate change

  15-03-2017 19:00
  
  China's severe winter air pollution problems may be worsened by changes in atmospheric circulation prompted by Arctic sea ice loss and increased Eurasian snowfall - both caused by global climate change.
  
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• Renault's entire management implicated in pollution test fraud: probe

  15-03-2017 18:43
  
  Renault has used "fraudulent strategies" for over 25 years to cheat on pollution tests for diesel and petrol engines with the knowledge of top management, according to a report by French fraud investigators obtained Wednesday by AFP.
  
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• Wildly stronger sunflowers

  15-03-2017 18:42
  
  Beauty and utility in one bright package, sunflowers are one of just a few commercial crops with origins in the United States.
  
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• Cassini Spacecraft Made Its Final Close Approach to Saturn’s Moon Mimas

  15-03-2017 18:39 via scitechdaily.com
  
  This image is from NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft as it made its final close approach to Saturn’s moon Mimas. In its season of “lasts,” NASA’s Cassini...
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• Scientists Discover a New Way to Tune Electronic Energy Levels

  15-03-2017 18:35 via scitechdaily.com
  
  A team of researchers has discovered new way of using laser light to tune electronic energy levels in two-dimensional films of crystal. Faster, more efficient...
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• NASA’s Van Allen Probes Uncover Relativistic Electrons

  15-03-2017 18:25 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Since their discovery at the dawn of the Space Age, Earth’s radiation belts continue to reveal new complex structures and behaviors. This visualization shows how...
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• Climate change is making people sick: US doctors

  15-03-2017 18:20
  
  From rising levels of air pollution to increased water contamination and a widening range for disease-carrying mosquitoes, climate change is making people sick, a coalition of 11 US medical groups said Wednesday.
  
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• US launches probe after hoverboard fire kills two-year-old

  15-03-2017 18:12
  
  A US safety agency said Wednesday it had launched an investigation into a hoverboard fire that killed a two-year-old girl, the first fatality involving the personal transport devices.
  
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• US charges two Russian spies over massive Yahoo cyberattack

  15-03-2017 18:11
  
  Two Russian intelligence agents and two "criminal hackers" were indicted Wednesday over the theft of 500 million Yahoo accounts in one of the largest cyberattacks in history.
  
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• US charges two Russian spies in massive Yahoo cyberattack (Update)

  15-03-2017 18:11
  
  Two Russian intelligence agents and a duo of hackers were indicted Wednesday over a data breach that compromised 500 million Yahoo accounts in one of the largest cyberattacks in history.
  
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• When proteins court each other, the dance moves matter

  15-03-2017 18:10
  
  At every moment inside the human body, a carefully choreographed dance is being performed.
  
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• Researchers develop automatic security tests for complex systems

  15-03-2017 18:09
  
  These tests produce millions of valid program inputs within minutes. In this manner the researchers can automatically extract the required information from the program they are examining. They will present further details at the Cebit computer fair in Hannover in Hall 6, Stand C47.
  
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• NASA spots sub-tropical storm 11S still swirling

  15-03-2017 18:07
  
  Once a tropical storm, now a sub-tropical storm, the remnants of the tropical low pressure area formerly known as 11S was spotted by NASA's Aqua satellite, still spinning in the Southern Indian Ocean.
  
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• Soft coral exhibit strikingly different patterns of connectivity around British Isles

  15-03-2017 18:06
  
  The evolution of land animals has been shaped by barriers such as oceans and mountains which have divided them and sent them down different genetic paths.
  
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• Relativistic electrons uncovered with NASA's Van Allen Probes

  15-03-2017 18:06
  
  Earth's radiation belts, two doughnut-shaped regions of charged particles encircling our planet, were discovered more than 50 years ago, but their behavior is still not completely understood. Now, new observations from NASA's Van Allen Probes mission show that the fastest, most energetic electrons in the inner radiation belt are not present as much of the time as previously thought. The results are presented in a paper in the Journal of Geophysical Research and show that there typically isn't as
  
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• Astronomers Discover a Massive Outburst in a Star-Forming Cloud

  15-03-2017 18:05 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary outburst in the massive protostellar system NGC6334I-MM1. The outburst, apparently triggered by an avalanche of star-forming gas crashing onto the...
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• Researchers mapped interactions of key group of human proteins, the protein phosphatases

  15-03-2017 18:04
  
  Coordinated activities of protein kinases and protein phosphatases ensure phosphorylation homeostasis and amplitude of signaling response, and understandably its imbalance is linked to diseases, such as cancer. Unlike with protein kinases, the current knowledge of protein phosphatase functions and especially on their formed interactions and complexes remains fragmentary.
  
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• Visualizing debris disk 'roller derby' to understand planetary system evolution

  15-03-2017 18:03
  
  When planets first begin to form, the aftermath of the process leaves a ring of rocky and icy material that's rotating and colliding around the young central star like a celestial roller derby. Analogs to our own Solar System's Kuiper Belt, these disks of debris left over from planet formation can be detected by astronomers and studied to help understand the processes that create planetary systems.
  
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• Driving on the Roads of the Future Will Be a Real Trip

  15-03-2017 17:58 via nbcnews.com
  
  In the near future, autonomous cars will be able to communicate their movements with each other over short distances, interact with traffic lights and other transportation infrastructure, fully take over driving responsibilities, and navigate stormy weather, busy intersections, and unpredictable drivers with ease.
  
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• Russian Spies Charged in Massive Yahoo Email Hack

  15-03-2017 17:30 via nbcnews.com
  
  Justice Department officials announced indictments against four suspects in hacking attacks on Yahoo, including two Russian intelligence officials.
  
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• Changing temperatures and precipitation may affect living skin of drylands

  15-03-2017 17:23
  
  Arid and semiarid ecosystems are expected to experience significant changes in temperature and precipitation patterns, which may affect soil organisms in ways that cause surfaces to become lighter in color and thus reflect more sunlight, according to a new U.S. Geological Survey study.
  
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