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• Nearby White Dwarf Star Helps Confirm Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity

  07-06-2017 23:52 via scitechdaily.com
  
  A Nearby white dwarf star helps confirm Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity and the history and evolution of galaxies such as our own. Albert Einstein...
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• Yale Engineers Develop New Colors for Solar Energy

  07-06-2017 23:28 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Engineers from the School of Engineering & Applied Science at Yale University have developed a solar cell that widens the choice of colors without decreasing...
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• Sea urchin protein provides insights into self-assembly of skeletal structures

  07-06-2017 23:27
  
  Calcium carbonate, or CaCO3, comprises more than 4% of the earth's crust. Its most common natural forms are chalk, limestone, and marble, produced by the sedimentation of the shells of small fossilized snails, shellfish, and coral over millions of years.
  
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• Arrest in NSA news leak fuels debate on source protection

  07-06-2017 23:10
  
  It was a major scoop for The Intercept— documents suggesting a concerted Russian effort to hack US election systems—but the online news site is drawing fire in media circles following the arrest of the alleged source of the leak.
  
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• Holistic management makes ecosystems healthier, people wealthier

  07-06-2017 23:07
  
  Economists agree that natural ecosystems store large quantities of wealth, but the challenge of measuring that wealth has prevented it from being included in typical accounting systems.
  
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• The 'obsession' that changed human history

  07-06-2017 22:40
  
  An "obsession" with the lower jaw of a long-dead human, unearthed in the 1960s at a prehistoric Moroccan campsite, led palaeoanthropologist Jean-Jacques Hublin to the discovery of a lifetime.
  
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• Meet NASA's newest class of astronauts

  07-06-2017 22:39
  
  SpaceTheir dream jobs just became a reality.
  Join us as we learn who will be the newest Americans in space, and what it took to get there. Read on.
  
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• An astronaut shares his incredible perspective of our planet

  07-06-2017 22:30
  
  EntertainmentExcerpt: Hello, is this planet Earth?
  The following images are excerpted from astronaut Tim Peake's book: 'Hello, is this planet Earth?'. Read on.
  
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• NASA picks 12 new astronauts from crush of applicants

  07-06-2017 22:29
  
  NASA chose 12 new astronauts Wednesday from its biggest pool of applicants ever, selecting seven men and five women who could one day fly aboard the nation's next generation of spacecraft.
  
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• New study shows important economic contributions of H-1B visas

  07-06-2017 22:28
  
  A new study in the INFORMS journal Management Science shows that the U.S. economy is strengthened by H-1B visa holders who fill key roles in enhancing organizations and supplementing the work of their U.S. peers. This is particularly true for trades like the U.S. audit industry that employ a large number of individuals who hold H-1B visas, and who recruit highly skilled foreign workers for specialty occupations.
  
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• For the First Time, Astronomers Measure the Mass of a Star Using General Relativity

  07-06-2017 22:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For the first time, astronomers have measured the mass of a star by observing the way its mass deforms light passing by it.It's an observation that Einstein predicted but thought could never actually happen, due to the incredibly precise alignment between distant astronomical objects it entails. But using modern observing tools, researchers recently found and tracked two distant stars as they lined up almost perfectly.
  Bent By Gravity
  Though the stars were thousands of light-years apar
  
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• Finding new homes won't help Emperor penguins cope with climate change

  07-06-2017 22:27
  
  If projections for melting Antarctic sea ice through 2100 are correct, the vanishing landscape will strip Emperor penguins of their breeding and feeding grounds and put populations at risk. But like other species that migrate to escape the wrath of climate change, can these iconic animals be spared simply by moving to new locations?
  
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• Rising sea levels will boost moderate floods in some areas, severe floods in others

  07-06-2017 22:26
  
  Rising seas are making flooding more common in coastal areas around the country. Now, a new study finds that sea-level rise will boost the occurrence of moderate rather than severe flooding in some regions of the United States, while in other areas the reverse is true.
  
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• Bee buzzes could help determine how to save their decreasing population

  07-06-2017 22:25
  
  According to recent studies, declines in wild and managed bee populations threaten the pollination of flowers in more than 85 percent of flowering plants and 75 percent of agricultural crops worldwide. Widespread and effective monitoring of bee populations could lead to better management; however, tracking bees is tricky and costly. Now, a research team led by the University of Missouri has developed an inexpensive acoustic listening system using data from small microphones in the field to monit
  
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• Indonesia makes its fishing fleet visible to the world through Global Fishing Watch

  07-06-2017 22:23
  
  This week, at the United Nation's Ocean Conference, the Republic of Indonesia becomes the first nation ever to publish Vessel Monitoring System (VMS) data revealing the location and activity of its commercial fishing fleet. The new data being made public on the Global Fishing Watch public mapping platform reveals commercial fishing in Indonesian waters and areas of the Indian Ocean where it had previously been invisible to the public and other nations.
  
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• 'Charliecloud' simplifies Big Data supercomputing

  07-06-2017 22:23
  
  At Los Alamos National Laboratory, home to more than 100 supercomputers since the dawn of the computing era, elegance and simplicity of programming are highly valued but not always achieved. In the case of a new product, dubbed "Charliecloud," a crisp 800-line code helps supercomputer users operate in the high-performance world of Big Data without burdening computer center staff with the peculiarities of their particular software needs.
  
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• Eck Industries exclusively licenses cerium-aluminum alloy co-developed by ORNL

  07-06-2017 22:19
  
  Wisconsin's Eck Industries has signed an exclusive license for the commercialization of a cerium-aluminum (Ce-Al) alloy co-developed by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory that is ideal for creating lightweight, strong components for advanced vehicles and airplanes.
  
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• New technique enables 3-D printing with paste of silicone particles in water

  07-06-2017 22:12
  
  Using the principles behind the formation of sandcastles from wet sand, North Carolina State University researchers have achieved 3-D printing of flexible and porous silicone rubber structures through a new technique that combines water with solid and liquid forms of silicone into a pasty ink that can be fed through a 3-D printer. The finding could have biomedical applications and uses in soft robotics.
  
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• Slimy, fleshy lips dripping with snot help these fish eat stinging corals

  07-06-2017 22:04
  
  AnimalsPucker up.
  Imagine having a mouth that constantly dripped with snot. Read on.
  
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• Lowe's to lay off about 125 workers, move jobs to India

  07-06-2017 21:55
  
  Home improvement retailer Lowe's says it's laying off approximately 125 information technology workers, the third round of job cuts this year.
  
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• Sleeping in on the weekend won’t actually give you heart disease

  07-06-2017 20:30
  
  HealthBut there are other reasons not to give in to "social jet lag".
  If there’s one thing you should remember when reading any piece of science news, it’s this: correlation doesn’t imply causation. Read on.
  
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• Study: India's rising temperatures are already deadly

  07-06-2017 20:25
  
  India is now two and a half times more likely to experience a deadly heat wave than a half century ago, and all it took was an increase in the average temperature of just 0.5 degrees Celsius (less than 1 degree Fahrenheit), according to a study published Wednesday.
  
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• Apple Releases Its First Show, 'Planet of the Apps'

  07-06-2017 20:16 via nbcnews.com
  
  As if being the world's most valuable company wasn't enough for Apple, they're now branching into original content with "Planet of the Apps."
  
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• Study doesn't support theory red and eastern wolves are recent hybrids, researchers argue

  07-06-2017 20:00
  
  A team led by University of Idaho researchers is calling into question a widely publicized 2016 study that concluded eastern and red wolves are not distinct species, but rather recent hybrids of gray wolves and coyotes. In a comment paper that will publish Wednesday, June 7, in the journal Science Advances, the team examines the previous study and argues that its genomic data and analyses do not definitively prove recent hybridization—but rather provide support for the genetic and evolutio
  
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• Scientists find world's oldest fossil mushroom

  07-06-2017 20:00
  
  Roughly 115 million years ago, when the ancient supercontinent Gondwana was breaking apart, a mushroom fell into a river and began an improbable journey. Its ultimate fate as a mineralized fossil preserved in limestone in northeast Brazil makes it a scientific wonder, scientists report in the journal PLOS ONE.
  
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• Kestrels' strategies for flight and hunting vary with the weather

  07-06-2017 20:00
  
  Kestrels adapt their flight and hunting strategies to weather conditions, including solar radiation, wind speed, and air temperature, according to a study published June 7, 2017 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Jesús Hernández-Pliego from Estación Biológica de Doñana, Spain, and colleagues.
  
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• Female Steller sea lions tend to breed near their birthplace

  07-06-2017 20:00
  
  Female Steller sea lions tend to breed at or near the rookery where they were born, according to a study published June 7, 2017 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Kelly Hastings from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, USA, and colleagues.
  
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• Air traffic privatization plan hits turbulence in Congress

  07-06-2017 19:58
  
  President Donald Trump's plan to privatize the nation's air traffic control system is running into bipartisan opposition in Congress, where Republicans fret that it could raise costs for air travelers and hurt small airports.
  
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• Discovery in Morocco alters history of Homo sapiens

  07-06-2017 19:53
  
  The bones are about 300,000 years old.
  
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• Study reveals that green incentives could actually be increasing CO2 emissions

  07-06-2017 19:46
  
  Globally, from China and Germany to the United States, electric vehicle (EV) subsidies have been championed as an effective strategy to boost production of renewable technology and reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG).
  
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• Watch live as NASA announces its newest class of astronauts

  07-06-2017 19:45
  
  SpaceTheir dream jobs are about to become a reality.
  Join us as we learn who will be the newest Americans in space, and what it took to get there. Read on.
  
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• New Research Supports the Idea That We Live in a Void

  07-06-2017 19:13 via scitechdaily.com
  
  New research firms up the idea that we exist in one of the voids in the structure of the cosmos and helps ease the apparent...
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• Hidden tricks you didn't know your Android phone could do

  07-06-2017 19:11
  
  DIY10 tips to master your Google-powered device.
  Rocking an Android phone? We show you how to customize the interface, improve security, tweak app settings, make your handset easier to use, and more.
  
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• Oldest Homo sapiens fossils discovered in Morocco - Washington Post

  07-06-2017 19:05
  
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  Oldest Homo sapiens fossils discovered in Morocco
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  Bones found in a cave in Morocco add 100,000 years to the history of modern human fossils. These bones are from “early anatomically modern” humans — our own species, Homo sapiens, with a mixture of modern and primitive traits, an international team of ...
  Oldest Fossils of Homo Sapiens Found in Morocco, Altering History of Our SpeciesNew York Times
  Earliest fossil evidence of Homo sapiens fo
  
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• Scientists discover the oldest Homo sapiens fossils at Jebel Irhoud, Morocco

  07-06-2017 19:00
  
  An international research team led by Jean-Jacques Hublin of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig, Germany) and Abdelouahed Ben-Ncer of the National Institute for Archaeology and Heritage (INSAP, Rabat, Morocco) uncovered fossil bones of Homo sapiens along with stone tools and animal bones at Jebel Irhoud, Morocco. The finds are dated to about 300 thousand years ago and represent the oldest securely dated fossil evidence of our own species. This date is 100 thousand ye
  
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• Scientists discover a 2-D magnet

  07-06-2017 19:00
  
  Magnetic materials form the basis of technologies that play increasingly pivotal roles in our lives today, including sensing and hard-disk data storage. But as our innovative dreams conjure wishes for ever-smaller and faster devices, researchers are seeking new magnetic materials that are more compact, more efficient and can be controlled using precise, reliable methods.
  
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• Researchers identify protein target to halt citrus tree disease

  07-06-2017 19:00
  
  University of Florida researchers may have come a step closer to finding a treatment for a disease called Huanglongbing, or citrus greening, that has been decimating citrus trees in the state. In work published this week in mSphere, an open access journal from the American Society for Microbiology, the investigators describe identifying a small protein from one bacterium living in Asian citrus psyllids—the flying insects that spread the disease as they feed on the trees—that can "cro
  
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• Meet The New Oldest Homo Sapiens — Our Species Evolved Much Earlier Than Thought

  07-06-2017 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For decades, based on both the fossil record and, more recently, paleogenomic modeling, researchers have generally put the start date for Homo sapiens around 200,000 years ago. A trove of fossil and artefact finds from Morocco, however, pushes the age of our species back — way back. The new findings have implications far beyond how many candles to put on our collective birthday cake.In 2004, when researchers revisited the previously excavated early hominin site of Jebel Irhoud, about
  
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• How your iPhone could know when you’re in a moving car

  07-06-2017 18:58
  
  TechnologyA new iOS 11 feature aims to curb distracted driving
  On Monday, Apple announced a slew of news at its Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, Calif., including a new safety feature coming to the next version of its…
  
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• The 4 Big Discoveries Underpinning Our Knowledge of the Universe

  07-06-2017 18:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For many, science is nothing more than that class you were required to take in school. However, whether you realize it or not, science is all around us, and it impacts every aspect of our lives. And, the stories behind key scientific discoveries, though not commonly known, are truly inspiring.
  So, if you want a quick refresher on how the universe works, focus on these four fascinating discoveries and the history behind them:
  Energy Is Always Conserved
  By 1609, Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) h
  
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• Hubble Telescope Views Universe’s Brightest Galaxies

  07-06-2017 18:49 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Using gravitational lensing, Hubble has captured unique close-up views of the universe’s brightest infrared galaxies – which are as much as 10,000 times more luminous...
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• Why whales are back in New York City

  07-06-2017 18:46
  
  EnvironmentThe Cetaceans are back in town.
  Cleaner water ways and more fish have once again made New York City appeal to humpback whales. Read on.
  
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• MIT gets $140 million donation from anonymous alumnus

  07-06-2017 18:26
  
  The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is getting a $140 million donation from a former student.
  
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• Altruism changing Western society

  07-06-2017 18:26
  
  Altruism based on individual values is changing Western society. People in Western countries have seen a rise in individualism for quite some time, and this in turn helps to create generations of people with altruistic mindsets. Christian Welzel, Chief Research Fellow in the Laboratory for Comparative Social Research (HSE and Leuphana University of Lüneburg), teamed up with researchers from the University of Lausanne to conduct a study showing the connection between emancipative values and
  
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• Waste not, want not: Byproduct of ethanol industry makes suitable cattle feed supplement

  07-06-2017 18:24
  
  Making a living raising cattle isn't as simple as just buying a herd and turning it out to pasture. Cattle require specific diets to maintain proper nutrition and weight gain. And how to do this in the most effective and efficient way possible has interested both ranchers and researchers for generations.
  
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• Seeing inside coral

  07-06-2017 18:18
  
  Coral reefs sustain marine life all over the world and protect its vulnerable coastlines. But the reefs are increasingly endangered, mainly because of pollution and rising ocean temperatures. Scientists, including American University's Kiho Kim are racing the clock to assess the true extent of the damage before it becomes irreversible. Today, new technologies are making it possible to see inside coral, to examine the skeleton cores for devastation caused by humans.
  
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• Climate change misconceptions common among teachers, study finds

  07-06-2017 18:18
  
  Recent studies have shown that misconceptions about climate change and the scientific studies that have addressed climate change are pervasive among the U.S. public. Now, a new study by Benjamin Herman, assistant professor in the Department of Learning, Teaching and Curriculum in the University of Missouri College of Education, shows that many secondary school science teachers also possess several of these same misconceptions.
  
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