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• Government transparency limited when it comes to America's conserved private lands

  25-05-2017 23:09
  
  American taxpayers spend millions of dollars each year to conserve privately owned lands. These lands provide public benefits like timber, water quality protection and food. Yet, information about conserved private lands—including where they are and what protections are in place—can be hard to find, impeding the effectiveness of conservation efforts and taxpayer investments.
  
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• Dear, Harvard: 10 memorable quotes from Zuckerberg's speech

  25-05-2017 23:03
  
  10 excerpts from Facebook CEO Zuckerberg's Harvard speech
  
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• Astronomers Review First Science Results from NASA’s Juno Mission

  25-05-2017 22:52 via scitechdaily.com
  
  The first science results from NASA’s Juno Mission are in and they portray Jupiter as a complex, gigantic, and turbulent world. The planet has Earth-sized...
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• Astronomers Watch as Collapsing Star Turns Into a Black Hole

  25-05-2017 22:32 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Using data from the Large Binocular Telescope and NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, astronomers watched as a dying star was likely reborn as a...
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• Zuckerberg urges Harvard grads to build a world of 'purpose'

  25-05-2017 22:27
  
  Facebook's CEO returned to Harvard Thursday, telling graduates that it is up to their generation to create a purpose for today's world, to care about others, to fight inequality and strengthen the global community.
  
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• Tiny shells indicate big changes to global carbon cycle

  25-05-2017 22:16
  
  Experiments with tiny, shelled organisms in the ocean suggest big changes to the global carbon cycle are underway, according to a study from the University of California, Davis.
  
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• The 'ideal' teacher? It's all in your mind

  25-05-2017 22:06
  
  Two Concordia researchers are turning to Reddit for a more accurate picture of public perceptions of teachers and teaching.
  
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• First Juno science results supported by University of Leicester's Jupiter 'forecast'

  25-05-2017 22:03
  
  New observations about the extreme conditions of Jupiter's weather and magnetic fields by University of Leicester astronomers have contributed to the revelations and insights coming from the first close passes of Jupiter by NASA's Juno mission, announced today (25 May).
  
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• Jupiter's complex transient auroras

  25-05-2017 21:58
  
  Combined observations from three spacecraft show that Jupiter's brightest auroral features recorded to date are powered by both the volcanic moon Io and interaction with the solar wind.
  
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• Research could bring 'drastically' higher resolution to your TV and smartphone

  25-05-2017 21:57
  
  Researchers at the University of Central Florida have developed a new color changing surface tunable through electrical voltage - a breakthrough that could lead to three times the resolution for televisions, smartphones and other devices.
  
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• The Big One is going to happen, no matter how much you want to deny it, California scientists say

  25-05-2017 21:40
  
  Fear of earthquakes is part of life in California. But people experience this anxiety in different ways. For some, the fear prompts them to take steps to protect themselves: strapping down heavy furniture, securing kitchen cabinets and retrofitting homes and apartments.
  
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• Fin24.com | Zuckerberg returns to Harvard, and Boston wishes he never left

  25-05-2017 21:17
  
  Mark Zuckerberg, one of Harvard University’s most famous dropouts, is returning to campus to deliver a commencement address and finally get a degree.
  
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• Lost for words? How to search online with your smartphone camera

  25-05-2017 20:40
  
  On the hunt for new shoes? Racking your brain for a recipe idea? When you're trying to find information, typing out words in a search bar is probably the first thought that comes to mind.
  
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• Wild horses could be sold for slaughter in Trump budget plan

  25-05-2017 20:03
  
  Advocates for wild horses say President Donald Trump is giving in to ranchers and rural communities who don't want the animals competing for space on land in the U.S. West
  
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• US nuclear regulators greatly underestimate potential for nuclear disaster, researchers say

  25-05-2017 20:00
  
  The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) relied on faulty analysis to justify its refusal to adopt a critical measure for protecting Americans from the occurrence of a catastrophic nuclear-waste fire at any one of dozens of reactor sites around the country, according to an article in the May 26 issue of Science magazine. Fallout from such a fire could be considerably larger than the radioactive emissions from the 2011 Fukushima accident in Japan.
  
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• Researchers drill deep to understand why the Sumatra earthquake was so severe

  25-05-2017 20:00
  
  An international team of scientists has found evidence suggesting the dehydration of minerals deep below the ocean floor influenced the severity of the Sumatra earthquake, which took place on December 26, 2004.
  
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• Researchers develop magnetic switch to turn on and off a strange quantum property

  25-05-2017 20:00
  
  When a ballerina pirouettes, twirling a full revolution, she looks just as she did when she started. But for electrons and other subatomic particles, which follow the rules of quantum theory, that's not necessarily so. When an electron moves around a closed path, ending up where it began, its physical state may or may not be the same as when it left.
  
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• Mountain honey bees have ancient adaptation for high-altitude foraging

  25-05-2017 20:00
  
  Mountain-dwelling East African honey bees have distinct genetic variations compared to their savannah relatives that likely help them to survive at high altitudes, report Martin Hasselmann of the University of Hohenheim, Germany, Matthew Webster of Uppsala University, Sweden, and colleagues May 25th, 2017, in PLOS Genetics.
  
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• Juno mission to Jupiter delivers first science results

  25-05-2017 20:00
  
  NASA's Juno mission, led by Southwest Research Institute's Dr. Scott Bolton, is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about Jupiter specifically, and gas giants in general, according to a pair of Science papers released today. The Juno spacecraft has been in orbit around Jupiter since July 2016, passing within 3,000 miles of the equatorial cloudtops.
  
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• How to protect your data from cyberattacks

  25-05-2017 19:40
  
  The malware attack known as WannaCry (or Wcrypt) has quickly become one of the worst cyberattacks in recent memory. But the damage could've been prevented.
  
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• Collapsing star gives birth to a black hole

  25-05-2017 19:31
  
  Astronomers have watched as a massive, dying star was likely reborn as a black hole. It took the combined power of the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT), and NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes to go looking for remnants of the vanquished star, only to find that it disappeared out of sight.
  
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• Survey finds US honeybee losses improve from horrible to bad

  25-05-2017 19:04
  
  A survey of US beekeepers finds some hope for the nation's troubled honeybees
  
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• New approach predicts threats to rainforests

  25-05-2017 19:03
  
  With rain forests at risk the world over, a new collaboration is equipping conservationists with the tools to predict and plan for future forest loss.
  
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• Landscape-scale erosion instabilities in the northern Gabilan Mesa, California

  25-05-2017 19:02
  
  If you ever fly from L.A. to San Francisco, California, you may notice the Gabilan Mesa off to the east as you begin your descent into San Francisco International Airport. If you look carefully, you might notice two strange things: a series of bleach-white scars, where rock outcrops disrupt the smooth, grassy hillslopes, and a strong asymmetry in the orientation of tributaries, with many flowing south and few flowing north.
  
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• Uber Overcharges Riders By Millions, Suit Says

  25-05-2017 18:38 via nbcnews.com
  
  Uber is skimming over $7.4 million per month from passengers in New York City alone, according to a class action lawsuit filed Wednesday.
  
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• Russia's disinformation efforts hit 39 countries: researchers

  25-05-2017 18:35
  
  Russia's campaign of cyberespionage and disinformation has targeted hundreds of individuals and organizations from at least 39 countries along with the United Nations and NATO, researchers said Thursday.
  
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• Expect above-average Atlantic hurricane season, US forecasters say

  25-05-2017 18:35
  
  The Atlantic ocean could see another above-average hurricane season this year, with 11-17 big storms and as many as nine hurricanes, US forecasters said Thursday.
  
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• In fruit fly and human genetics, timing is everything

  25-05-2017 18:34
  
  Every animal starts as a clump of cells, which over time multiply and mature into many different types of cells, tissues, and organs. This is fundamental biology. Yet, the details of this process remain largely mysterious. Now, scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have begun to unravel an important part of that mystery.
  
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• Expressing genetic interactions through music

  25-05-2017 18:25
  
  An artistic collaboration between musician and sound producer Max Cooper, respected visual artist Andy Lomas and researchers from the Babraham Institute in Cambridge has produced an emotive new way for anyone to experience the elegance and complexity of DNA organisation. The five-track Chromos EP, available from May 26th on digital download, captures the microscopic elegance of gene organisation using moving, evocative soundscapes.
  
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• Venture capitalist spends time browsing Nextdoor

  25-05-2017 18:20
  
  The lauded Silicon Valley venture capitalist Bill Gurley who, along with his partners at Benchmark, was an early investor in companies such as Instagram, Uber, Stitch Fix and Snap Inc., spent a recent afternoon scrolling through the neighborhood social network, Nextdoor, studying the ways people use the service.
  
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• NASA Scientists Reveal a New Mode of Ice Loss in Greenland

  25-05-2017 18:15 via scitechdaily.com
  
  A new NASA study published in Geophysical Research Letters reveals that during Greenland’s hottest summers on record, 2010 and 2012, the ice in Rink Glacier...
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• Kansas City nonprofit taps into an innovative idea to solve global water crisis

  25-05-2017 18:10
  
  Kansas City native Gary White has been chasing clean water and rudimentary toilets for more than 30 years. You see, much of the world's poorest populations live without them even now.
  
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• While Barnes & Nobles close, Amazon is opening real live bookstores

  25-05-2017 18:00
  
  A luxury shopping complex on New York's Columbus Circle opens to a new tenant Thursday: Amazon.
  
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• New species of bus-sized fossil marine reptile unearthed in Russia

  25-05-2017 18:00
  
  A new species of a fossil pliosaur (large predatory marine reptile from the 'age of dinosaur') has been found in Russia and profoundly change how we understand the evolution of the group, says an international team of scientists.
  
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• Ancient DNA evidence shows hunter-gatherers and farmers were intimately linked

  25-05-2017 18:00
  
  In human history, the transition from hunting and gathering to farming is a significant one. As such, hunter-gatherers and farmers are usually thought about as two entirely different sets of people. But researchers reporting new ancient DNA evidence in Current Biology on May 25 show that in the area we now recognize as Romania, at least, hunter-gatherers and farmers were living side by side, intermixing with each other, and having children.
  
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• Cassini Views Saturn’s Dramatic Transition from Winter to Summer

  25-05-2017 17:58 via scitechdaily.com
  
  NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft views the Saturnian solstice, which occurs about every 15 Earth years as the planet and its entourage slowly orbit the sun. NASA’s...
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• Qatar hack, bloody Bahrain raid follow Trump's Mideast trip

  25-05-2017 17:53
  
  Qatar's isolation after an alleged hack and a bloody Bahrain raid follow Trump's Mideast trip
  
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• NASA's Mars 2020 Rover Looks Right at Home on the Red Planet

  25-05-2017 16:42 via nbcnews.com
  
  NASA has unveiled some cool new concept art for its next Red Planet robot, the Mars 2020 rover, and it looks awesome.
  
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• Some Uber and Lyft Riders Are Already Ditching Their Own Cars

  25-05-2017 13:46 via nbcnews.com
  
  The fast adoption of ride service technology bodes well for self-driving car technology, a big area of investment for many companies.
  
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• Fin24.com | Alphabet machine beats world's top Go Player in a victory for AI

  25-05-2017 13:17
  
  A machine built by Alphabet has officially defeated the world’s top-ranked player of the ancient board-game Go, showing artificial intelligence’s ability to master to beat human endeavour.
  
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• Fin24.com | Behind the Naspers share surge

  25-05-2017 11:50
  
  The Naspers share price has breached R2 800 for the first this week, causing investors to ask what is driving this surge and whether the share is over-valued.
  
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• WATCH: Raising funds on Facebook

  25-05-2017 11:45
  
  Facebook expands its personal fundraising feature to allow more users help friends and those in need.
  
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• Fin24.com | PICS: Inside LG's heart and Seoul

  25-05-2017 08:44
  
  South Korean electronics manufacturer LG's biggest store stocks its latest products, with some earmarked for the South African market. Here are some of them.
  
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• Fin24.com | Net1 founder Belamant to quit after SASSA controversy

  25-05-2017 08:40
  
  Net1 founder Serge Belamant will retire early after a storm of controversy over a contract it holds in SAto distribute billions of rands of welfare payments to 17 million people.
  
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• Fin24.com | Cwele: Data costs still too high

  25-05-2017 08:25
  
  Telecommunications and Postal Services Minister Siyabonga Cwele said the price of data in South Africa remains “sticky”, suggesting lack of competition in the industry.
  
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• WATCH: How obsessive gamers can quit playing

  25-05-2017 03:27
  
  Cam Adair, founder of "Game Quitters," says finding alternate activities is key for people hoping to stop playing video games.
  
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• Gene Study Shows Zika's Stealthy Spread

  25-05-2017 00:44 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Zika virus was spreading inBrazil for as long as a year before anyone noticed, and for weeks and months in places such as Miami, studies show.
  
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• Former Playmate Gets Probation, Graffiti Cleanup in 'Body Shaming' Case

  25-05-2017 00:26 via nbcnews.com
  
  Former Playmate Dani Mathers, 30, pleaded no contest to settle a criminal case for taking a photo of a nude woman at a gym and posting it online.
  
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