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• Splatoon 2 Beta Starts Today, Preload Available Now - GameSpot

  24-03-2017 23:30
  
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  Splatoon 2 Beta Starts Today, Preload Available Now
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  Splatoon 2's Global Testfire starts today and will run throought the weekend. The app is available to download on Nintendo Switch now. You can grab the application from the Switch eShop, though until the event starts, booting the game up will just give ...
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• The Latest: California air regulators keep fuel standards

  24-03-2017 23:03 via abcnews.go.com
  California air regulators have voted to keep the state's tougher car-emissions standards through 2025 and further expand the market for zero-emission vehicles in years ahead
  
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• Astronomers Identify Massive 10 Billion Year Old Brown Dwarf

  24-03-2017 22:17 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Astronomers have identified a brown dwarf that was formed about 10 billion years ago and is made of gas that is around 250 times purer...
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• DNA2 Molecule Helps Repair Chromosome Rearrangements Linked to Cancer

  24-03-2017 21:04 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Researchers from Yale University have identified how the molecule DNA2 helps begin the complex process of repairing breaks in DNA that can cause chromosome rearrangements...
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• Bad breath: Study find array of bacteria when orcas exhale

  24-03-2017 20:31
  
  When the mighty orca breaks to the surface and exhales, the whale sprays an array of bacteria and fungi in its his breath, scientists said, some good, and some bad such as salmonella.
  
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• Scientists make new discovery about bird evolution

  24-03-2017 20:27
  
  In a new paper published in National Science Review, a team of scientists from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, the Shandong Tianyu Museum of Nature, and the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology (all in China) described the most exceptionally preserved fossil bird discovered to date.
  
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• Trump touts jobs commitment first made in 2015

  24-03-2017 20:20 via abcnews.go.com
  
  President Donald Trump on Friday praised a plan by cable company Charter Communications to hire 20,000 American call center workers, but the hiring initiative dates back to 2015 as part of the company's successful efforts to merge with Time Warner Cable
  
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• How Can You Keep Your Internet Searches Private?

  24-03-2017 20:18 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Trump administration just took the first step in allowing internet providers to sell your browsing habits and personal information.
  
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• Spacewalk a success for French, US astronauts

  24-03-2017 20:13
  
  A French and an American astronaut floated outside the International Space Station Friday on a successful spacewalk to upgrade the orbiting outpost for the arrival of future space crews.
  
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• Spacewalking astronauts prep station for new parking spot

  24-03-2017 19:56 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Spacewalking astronauts have prepped the International Space Station for a new parking spot
  
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• T-Mobile announces free, automatic scam call blocking - Android Police

  24-03-2017 19:53
  
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  We've all been there—an unfamiliar number appears on your caller ID and you wonder if it's a scammer offering to lower your bills by a zillion dollars or send you on a totally legit free vacation. T-Mobile subscribers are about to get a little more ...
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• This black hole is being pushed around its galaxy by gravitational waves - Washington Post

  24-03-2017 19:17
  
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  This black hole is being pushed around its galaxy by gravitational waves
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  Black holes are the big bullies of space. They're so massive that their gravity doesn't let any light escape. The biggest black holes — called “supermassive” — weigh as much as a billion suns. Looming at the center of seemingly every galaxy ...
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• Trump approves Keystone XL pipeline, hails 'great day' for jobs

  24-03-2017 19:06
  
  True to his pledge, President Donald Trump gave final approval on Friday for TransCanada to build the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline, overriding environmental concerns in favor of boosting jobs and energy supply.
  
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• Crop-destroying armyworm caterpillars spread to Uganda

  24-03-2017 19:06
  
  A plague of crop-destroying fall armyworm caterpillars has spread to East Africa where officials confirmed their presence for the first time in Uganda on Friday.
  
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• Apple: Software flaws in latest WikiLeaks docs are all fixed

  24-03-2017 19:06
  
  Apple said purported hacking vulnerabilities disclosed by WikiLeaks this week have all been fixed in recent iPhones and Mac computers.
  
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• NASA sees Tropical Cyclone Caleb's heaviest rainfall

  24-03-2017 19:03
  
  Tropical cyclone Caleb formed on March 23 in the South Indian Ocean southwest of the Indonesian Island of Sumatra. The GPM core observatory satellite had a fairly good view of the newly formed tropical cyclone when it flew overhead and analyzed its rainfall and found the heaviest precipitation was affected by westerly winds.
  
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• NASA sees System 91P coming together east of Queensland

  24-03-2017 19:03
  
  The area of tropical low pressure designated System 91P appears to be organizing in NASA satellite imagery on March 24. Visible imagery from NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite revealed that the tropical low is consolidating and strengthening in the Coral Sea, South Pacific Ocean.
  
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• Extreme space weather: Protecting our critical infrastructure

  24-03-2017 19:02
  
  Extreme space weather has a global footprint and the potential to damage critical infrastructure on the ground and in space. A new report from the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) calls for bridging knowledge gaps and for better coordination at EU level to reduce the potential impact of space weather events.
  
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• Land-based microbes may be invading and harming coral reefs

  24-03-2017 19:01
  
  A new study suggests that coral reefs—already under existential threat from global warming—may be undergoing further damage from invading bacteria and fungi coming from land-based sources, such as outfall from sewage treatment plants and coastal inlets. The study raised the possibility that microbes from these sources are invading reefs off of the southeastern coast of Florida. The research is published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology, a journal of the American Society for
  
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• In a quantum race everyone is both a winner and a loser

  24-03-2017 19:00
  
  Our understanding of the world is mostly built on basic perceptions, such as that events follow each other in a well-defined order. Such definite orders are required in the macroscopic world, for which the laws of classical physics apply. The current work by a team of physicists from the University of Vienna is the first experimental quantification of such a superposition. It will be published in an upcoming issue of Science Advances.
  
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• New HiRISE Image Reveals Dunes of the Southern Highlands of Mars

  24-03-2017 18:50 via scitechdaily.com
  
  This newly released image from HiRISE shows sand dunes in the Southern hemisphere of Mars. Sand dunes are scattered across Mars and one of the...
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• WATCH: Facebook, Amazon, Twitter and YouTube battle it out to stream NFL games

  24-03-2017 17:43 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Starbucks will start offering the ability to text gift cards with Apple Pay and iMessage.
  
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• Correction: Dinos on Move story

  24-03-2017 17:33 via abcnews.go.com
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• Exomoons Likely Play a Significant Role in White Dwarf Pollution

  24-03-2017 16:53 via scitechdaily.com
  
  New research from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics identifies exomoons as a likely source of the apparent accretion of rocky material onto some white dwarf...
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• Would You Pay to Use Twitter?

  24-03-2017 16:25 via nbcnews.com
  
  Twitter is considering whether to build a premium version of its popular Tweetdeck interface aimed at professionals.
  
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• Fingerprint' technique spots frog populations at risk from pollution

  24-03-2017 16:05
  
  Researchers at Lancaster University have found a way to detect subtle early warning signs that reveal a frog population is at risk from pollution.
  
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• UTA quantifying coral species' disease susceptibility by examining immune traits

  24-03-2017 15:52
  
  A biologist from The University of Texas at Arlington is leading a new study aimed at quantifying how susceptible coral species are to disease by examining their immunity through a series of novel experiments and approaches.
  
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• Researchers grow a versatile diamond foil in a test reactor

  24-03-2017 15:51
  
  Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen Nürnberg (FAU) researchers have come a step closer to their goal of providing large diamond foils for practical applications. In a test reactor, they have succeeded in producing the world's largest diamond foil with a diameter of 28 centimetres. Diamond foils can be used as ultimate wear protection in industrial applications and for research into thermoelectric power generation - an emerging market.
  
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• Twitter eyes paid 'premium' service for power users

  24-03-2017 15:30
  
  Twitter confirmed Friday it is considering a paid subscription service that would give frequent users more tools to use the social network for marketing, journalism and other fields.
  
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• OSIRIS-REx asteroid search tests instruments, science team

  24-03-2017 15:30
  
  During an almost two-week search, NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission team activated the spacecraft's MapCam imager and scanned part of the surrounding space for elusive Earth-Trojan asteroids—objects that scientists believe may exist in one of the stable regions that co-orbits the sun with Earth. Although no Earth-Trojans were discovered, the spacecraft's camera operated flawlessly and demonstrated that it could image objects two magnitudes dimmer than originally expected.
  
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• Why do guillemot chicks leap from the nest before they can fly?

  24-03-2017 15:24
  
  It looks like a spooky suicide when small, fluffy guillemot chicks leap from the cliffs and fall several hundred metres towards the sea - long before they are fully fledged. But researchers have now discovered that there is good reason behind this seeming madness.
  
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• Geologist for Shell says company hid Nigeria spill dangers

  24-03-2017 15:16
  
  Royal Dutch Shell's Nigeria subsidiary "fiercely opposed" environmental testing and is concealing data showing thousands of Nigerians are exposed to health hazards from a stalled cleanup of the worst oil spills in the West African nation's history, according to a German geologist contracted by the Dutch-British multinational.
  
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• Parallel computation provides deeper insight into brain function

  24-03-2017 14:42
  
  Unlike experimental neuroscientists who deal with real-life neurons, computational neuroscientists use model simulations to investigate how the brain functions. While many computational neuroscientists use simplified mathematical models of neurons, researchers in the Computational Neuroscience Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) develop software that models neurons to the detail of molecular interactions with the goal of eliciting new insights into
  
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• Predatory lizard enters Brazil clandestinely

  24-03-2017 14:41
  
  It all began with a photograph of a lizard posted on Facebook in August 2015 by the Brazilian Herpetology group. It was a strange lizard that had been observed in a residential area near the Port of Santos, São Paulo State, by Ricardo Samelo, a biology student at the Santos Coast campus of the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP).
  
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• New lab-on-a-chip platform seeks to improve pathogen detection

  24-03-2017 14:41
  
  Nuclear amplification testing is commonly used for pathogen detection; however, the process is currently manually intensive and complex, and requires dedicated equipment. This prevents its use in some settings, and pathogen detection in individual samples.
  
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• Image: Rome captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2A satellite

  24-03-2017 14:40
  
  Rome and its surroundings are pictured in this image from the Copernicus Sentinel-2A satellite, captured on 17 January 2016.
  
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• Novel oil spill cleanup technology successfully tested

  24-03-2017 14:39
  
  Tests conducted last week of a novel technology that can greatly accelerate the combustion of crude oil floating on water demonstrated its potential to become an effective tool for minimizing the environmental impact of future oil spills. Called the Flame Refluxer, the technology, developed by fire protection engineering researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) with funding from the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), could make it possible to burn off spilled oil
  
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• Study into who is least afraid of death

  24-03-2017 14:37
  
  A new study examines all robust, available data on how fearful we are of what happens once we shuffle off this mortal coil.They find that atheists are among those least afraid of dying... and, perhaps not surprisingly, the very religious.
  
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• Chance find has big implications for water treatment's costs and carbon footprint

  24-03-2017 14:36
  
  A type of bacteria accidentally discovered during research supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) could fundamentally re-shape efforts to cut the huge amount of electricity consumed during wastewater clean-up.
  
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• Steep rise of the Bernese Alps

  24-03-2017 14:35
  
  The striking north face of the Bernese Alps is the result of a steep rise of rocks from the depths following a collision of two tectonic plates. This steep rise gives new insight into the final stage of mountain building and provides important knowledge with regard to active natural hazards and geothermal energy. The results from researchers at the University of Bern and ETH Zürich are being published in Scientific Reports.
  
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• Controlling ice formation

  24-03-2017 14:30
  
  (Phys.org)—Researchers have demonstrated that ice crystals will grow along straight lines in a controlled way on microgrooved surfaces. Compared to the random formation of ice crystals on smooth surfaces, the ice on the microgrooved surfaces forms more slowly and melts more quickly, which could lead to improved anti-icing and deicing methods. Ice formation is currently a major problem in a wide variety of areas, including solar panels, refrigeration systems, power transmission systems, and
  
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• The surprising discovery of a new class of pulsating X-ray stars

  24-03-2017 14:10
  
  A surprising new class of X-ray pulsating variable stars has been discovered by a team of American and Canadian astronomers led by Villanova University's Scott Engle and Edward Guinan.Part of the Villanova Secret Lives of Cepheids program, the new X-ray observations, obtained by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and published Thursday, March 23rd in the Astrophysical Journal, reveal that the bright prototype of Classical Cepheids, d Cephei, is a periodic pulsed X-ray source.
  
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• Rocks that tell our industrial history

  24-03-2017 14:05
  
  Researchers in the UPV/EHU's Department of Analytical Chemistry have published a study in which they analyse cemented sand formations that contain industrial waste produced as a result of metallurgical activities. These beachrocks bear witness to the impact of industrial development and its influence on the coastal environment.
  
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• Big data approach to predict protein structure

  24-03-2017 14:04
  
  Nothing works without proteins in the body, they are the molecular all-rounders in our cells. If they do not work properly, severe diseases, such as Alzheimer's, may result. To develop methods to repair malfunctioning proteins, their structure has to be known. Using a big data approach, researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have now developed a method to predict protein structures.
  
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• IT researchers break anonymity of gene databases

  24-03-2017 14:02
  
  DNA profiles can reveal a number of details about individuals, and even about their family members. There are laws in place that regulate the trade of gene data, which has become much simpler and cheaper to analyze today. However, these laws do not apply to an equally relevant type of genetic data, so-called microRNAs, even though these can also point to serious diseases. This means that anonymity needs to be strictly maintained in microRNA studies as well. Researchers from the Research Center f
  
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• Manipulating plant enzymes could protect crops from flooding

  24-03-2017 14:01
  
  Scientists have long understood how oxygen deprivation can affect animals and even bacteria, but until recently very little was known about how plants react to hypoxia (low oxygen). A new research collaboration between Oxford University and the Leibniz Institute for Plant Biochemistry, published this week in Nature Communications, has answered some of these questions and shed light on how understanding these reactions could improve food security. Dr Emily Flashman, the lead author of the study a
  
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• Curiosity captures gravity wave shaped clouds on Mars

  24-03-2017 14:00
  
  This week, from March 20th to 24th, the 48th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference will be taking place in The Woodlands, Texas. Every year, this conference brings together international specialists in the fields of geology, geochemistry, geophysics, and astronomy to present the latest findings in planetary science. One of the highlights of the conference so far has been a presentation about Mars' weather patterns.
  
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• Creating materials in a novel way by 3-D printing bacteria

  24-03-2017 14:00
  
  (Phys.org)—A team of researchers at Delft University of Technology has developed a means for 3-D printing a gel containing bacteria onto a base to create materials in a novel way. In their paper published in the journal ACS Synthetic Biology, the team describes their technique and how they used it to simulate a process for creating small graphene samples.
  
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• Game-changing balloon technology enables near-global flight

  24-03-2017 13:58
  
  After over 20 years of tests and development, NASA's Balloon Program team is on the cusp of expanding the envelope in high-altitude, heavylift ballooning with its super pressure balloon (SPB) technology. SMD technology investments that enabled development of SPB, the first totally new balloon design in more than 60 years, include improved film and evolution in the balloon design and fabrication. The pumpkin-shaped, football stadium-size balloon is made from 22-acres of polyethylene film—a
  
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• The physics that stops a bullet also makes your car more fuel efficient

  24-03-2017 13:50
  
  You don't need to stand in front of a rifle to see the same physics of resistance in action – you can see it through everyday activities like riding your bike, or hopping in your car, or less everyday activities like going on a return trip to space.
  
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